Pretenders

What's happening to this series? Time to get a new episode director and script writer. Like the critic that knows art when he sees it, I know crap when I see it.

Last week was enjoyable, but this week's script was totally lame. Fink and Lucas O'Connor's take on POI is too light. This week reminded me of one of the execrable 'Lone Gunmen' (the 'X-Files' spin off) episodes.

Another thing the show's doing that's really bugging me is they're changing Shaw's personality. Who said they could do that? Shaw is not supposed to be a comic. Her interactions with others are supposed to be funny due to her dysfunctional personality - she isn't supposed to be a comedienne. She's supposed to be an emotionless killer.

It's one of my favorite episodes, for several reasons.

First, I love the awkwardness and clumsiness of Walter Deng, the actual number. Second, the way he speaks, showing his adoration of Reese.

Hilarious, when he says: "How do you do this with your voice".....outstanding. There are so many other lines that have inspired me. For example, when Reese brought him to safety at the 8th precinct and it dawned on Walter where the man in the suit might be.

In the end he even managed to get a smile out of John when he recognized that the man in the suit had never left.

The resemblance to the "Avengers" was also never out of place. In the contrary, it was a lot of fun, very well placed. I enjoyed it.

The Machine delivers the number of the insurance agent Walter Dang and Shaw is hired by his company to protect him. Out of the blue, Walter leaves the office and goes to a hotel in Washington Heights were a truck driver Abel Mindler committed suicide a couple of days ago. Reese follows him and he goes to the airport to see the supervisor Banks Van Hess posing of Det. Jack Forge. However, he is surprised by masked men that killed Van Hess a few moments ago, but Reese saves him. He brings Walter to the police station to protect him. Soon Shaw learns that Abel and Van Hess were smuggling very dangerous weapons and Abel hid a truck full of weapons when he learned what he was transporting. Reese looks an old acquaintance to help him to retrieve the guns. Meanwhile, Finch travels to Hong Kong to give a lecture for 500 persons, and he meets Beth Bridges, who owns a promising startup of artificial intelligence and needs resources to expand her business.

"Pretenders" is another funny and entertaining episode of "Person of Interest". Finch is really a mastermind and the theft and retrieval of his and Beth's laptops is hilarious. Elias again saves the day for Reese, helping him in the exact moment he needed. Walter Dang, a.k.a. Det Jack Forge, is a funny guy that in the end, conquers the woman he loves. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Pretenders"