Summary: Fermin is a taxi driver who is trying to get his family to New York. He need $40 thousand to do so. He gets involved with shady business with an Estonian mob so Reese and Finch have to save him. They do so successfully and Fermin is reunited with his family. HR wants to get back in Elias' good graces so Fusco is sent on a mission to kill the only remaining mafia don. But it's a trap and Fusco's partner is killed. Elias wants nothing to do with HR. Simmons is angry and gives Carter an anonymous tip about what happened to Davidson.
The Good: Thankfully, the stories this season have been much more creative than the last season. A taxi driver is a creative new POI and it allows for there to be unlimited potential for mystery considering how many people the driver could be involved with. This allowed the first half of the episode to have a fun element of mystery to it. The Bad: Most of this episode was pretty uninspired though. After we find out everything surrounding Fermin, the episode loses all intrigue and ends up being generic and completely uninteresting. I found it hard to care about the story towards the end of the episode and there wasn't anything presented to get me back into it. I also have to add on that having an associate of the POI die has become the norm for this show and is completely predictable now. The moment that Reese and Fermin went to see Aziz, I knew he would be dead when they arrived. One thing that happened in this episode is that it dawned on me why most of these episodes fail to be anywhere near special. I've realized that for most "Person of Interest" episodes, I enjoy the build-up more than I enjoy the pay-off. This episode is a perfect example of this. I was much more engaged in the episode when Fermin was a total blank slate and we had to discover what he was involved in. It was interesting to learn more about him and I was always intrigued to find out where the threat comes from. However, once the mystery is clear, I know that all the climax of the episode entails is an action setpiece which is much weaker than the mystery which propels the first half of these episodes. This episode was weaker than usual because the climactic action scene was quite poor. It underwhelmed and I didn't realize we had seen the climax until after it was over. One of the episode's worst aspects was Fermin himself. The actor playing him did a pretty poor job and did a bad job of getting me to sympathize with him. The performance was flat and not emotive, making him one of the weakest POIs so far. Another issue was the pacing of this episode. It felt ridiculously inconsistent and that took me out of the experience. The beginning of the episode was very slow, and after the episode it feels pointless. The Estonian mob wasn't introduced until the halfway mark of the episode, so nearly everything before that feels needless. As a result of a slow and meandering beginning, the middle of the episode was totally rushed and the climax fell flat. I think the problem with the unsatisfying final two acts of the story came from the pacing issues of the episode. The HR storyline was underwhelming too. The biggest problem was how repetitive it felt. We have seen Fusco trying and failing to escape HR before, so to see him do it again was pretty redundant. His overall story only inched forward from this episode and it didn't even do so in a satisfying manner. The big cliffhanger really didn't feel like a big deal. The show is trying to drive a wedge between Fusco and Carter by making us think that Carter will condemn Fusco for killing Davidson. But this drama is totally meaningless because we know that Reese was there when Fusco killed Davidson and could easily explain the situation away. The Unknown: Apparently the Carter and Beecher date has become a storyline. I initially thought it would be a one-off thing to help with the theme of the last episode, but it seems to be an ongoing storyline. I wonder what the pay-off would be because I expect it won't be as simple as just giving Carter a boyfriend. Best Moment: The taxi ride with Fermin and Finch was a pretty good scene. Character of the Episode: Finch. Conclusion: This was the worst episode in a while. Almost nothing about this worked and this was a pretty big disappointment from the mostly consistent season 2. Score: 49
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