Summary: The next POI is a girl named Monica who works for a big company, Rylatech. Finch goes undercover as a worker to investigate. Reese looks into Shaw and runs into her. Shaw leaves him and later runs into Finch, inquiring on information for Root. She takes the information Finch has and leaves. Finch and Reese realize that Monica has been set up and is fired. They discover that China has been using the company to gain intel on USA. However, the case becomes public and suddenly all of the enemies vanish. Decima Technologies were actually the ones behind Rylatech and used China as a scapegoat. Carter asks Fusco to look in on Beecher. After Beecher inquires with Elias about how Quinn knew Szymanski was guilty, Fusco realizes he is innocent. Quinn realizes Beecher is a problem and has him killed.
The Good: This episode felt important. There were several big developments regarding HR/Elias, Shaw and Decima Technologies and all of the storylines were fairly interesting. It gave the episode a sense of importance to aid a rather dull POI story (see: The Bad). The scenes with Shaw were excellent as expected. I am invested in her character after "Relevance", so I was ecstatic to see her again. Her scenes with Reese and Finch were both very good and her apparent motivation to go after Root is pretty exciting, and adds yet another important background story to build up for the end of the season. The HR storyline was much better in this episode. The more time we spend with them, the more dangerous they are going to seem, and the more of a threat they become. Having Quinn be responsible for the death of Beecher is a really smart move. Now Carter has a personal reason to shut down HR, which makes their storyline resonate more emotionally and helps make up for the shallow depth of Quinn's character. I also enjoyed the scenes with Elias since it reminds us that he will come in conflict with HR soon since they are both opposing forces now. I was very pleased by the return of Decima Technologies at the end. Apparently they were secretly surveilling all of USA using Rylatech, which is a huge development. This company is dangerous, powerful, smart and a threat to the Machine, if John Nolan's character means what I think he means. Furthermore, he has a red box around him which means he is a threat. The POI storyline had some really fun moments. I loved Finch trying to cook up some clever plan to get the hard drive only for Reese to just pickpocket it. A great moment of comedy in the episode. I was also pleased by the episode's use of Bear. There was some nice comedy surrounding him, and he was used in a really clever way for the plot. The Bad: Monica's story was really dull. It was hard to care about her character and the plot completely overshadowed any of the attempts at character development in this story. There just wasn't much substance to the story being told. They attempted to get more with the conversation between Martin and Monica at the end. Unfortunately, the scene was inorganic and forced with generic dialogue. It ended up being an unoriginal villainous monologue scene and it didn't do anything for me. The Unknown: Why did Martin kill himself? What was the agreement with him and the Decima Technologies guy? Why did they have this agreement? Was it a failsafe for Decima to ensure they aren't discovered? It seems so since the guy called immediately after Rylatech was in danger of being compromised. Also, Decima Technologies are targeting the Machine aren't they? The virus that Stanton uploaded was created by them, which is pretty big evidence, but also we see a red box around the Decima guy, signifying a threat. I presume the larger operation he mentioned is referring to the Machine. Best Moment: Shaw and Finch stole the show once again. Great scene between them with an interesting dynamic. Character of the Episode: There wasn't a particular stand out this week so I'll give it to Shaw again for having a big presence. Conclusion: This was a strong episode. The POI story wasn't great, but outside of that there was some really exciting set-up and pay-off for a lot of different storylines. Score: 65
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