So it took me 4 years to accept what’s about to happen and continue to review this show LOL. But I do want to finish this project of mine even if nobody reads it.
Last we checked, Simmons predicted (or hoped) the Man in the Suit would die tonight. Carter and John have Alonzo Quinn but they still need to get him into custody, and every single criminal and cop – same thing! – is looking to kill them and save the king of the pigs. So, what will they do? Make me cry, is what they do.
I have watched the whole show before, so SPOILERS MIGHT HAPPEN. Big spoilers will be blanked out but references and irrelevant spoilers are going to be out in the open.
We open on another previously on, and right to Simmons and what last happened at the shitty judge’s house. Simmons sees that the judge is a coward (as Zoe Morgan once said, “if you’re going to do something wrong, do it right” and that means no taking backsies, asshole) and would probably testify against them, so he shoots him too. He also orders his men to shoot to kill when it comes to John. Say what you will about that fucking asshole Simmons, but he sure is consistent.
Harold gets what sounds like a lot of numbers, and Reese and Carter are taking Quinn to the feds via subway (for some reason?).They talk about the collossal mess they’re in.
John: What is it about you, Joss, that makes you want to do everything on your own?
Joss: What is it about you, John, that makes you want to save everybody else’s life but your own?
She says this just in time for Harold to contact John to reveal who his new numbers are: all kinds of different aliases for one person, John “Mr Congeniality” (bless you, Fusco, never change) Reese. HR put a bounty on his head, which Elias and his crew have been kind enough to pass on. But nobody else is.
Frankly I’m surprised it’s taking this long for his number to come up.
Quinn steps on John’s phone so Harry can’t find them. Shaw points out he could just ask the machine, or more specifically, Root. Harold doesn’t want to, which starts to get on my nerves. Your fucking hangups about Root can wait until after our favorite broody boy is out of danger, dontcha think? Anyway.
He goes visit Root, who eerily guesses that John’s number has come up. She tells Harold that while she doesn’t care about him much, Harry obviously does, so she offers to help John. Harold says no. She also mentions that John isn’t Harold’s first “helper monkey”, and asks him how many has he gone through. Which is unsettling for Harold to hear, and for us as well.
Harold also tells Root his theory about her speaking to the Machine: that she somehow altered the code. Little does he know, the Machine has altered Root’s “code” (of ethics, or at least methodology) more than the other way around.
John and Carter switch to getting to the feds by hijacking an ambulance, and just when HR spots them in it, Fusco shoots at them and the ambulance is able to bully its way into Manhattan. Unfortunately for Fusco, Simmons notices this, knocks him out and takes him.
Finch retasks Shaw to help Fusco out instead of heading to help Reese. In the meantime, Simmons and his helpers start punching Lionel and trying to get info off him, like about the key that Carter gave him. He won’t say shit, so Simmons starts breaking his fingers. Then Simmons mentions Fusco’s kid, and tells one of his lackeys to go bump him off. Shaw tries to get a lead on where he is, with no much luck. Is our poor bb Fusco gonna die? Is his kid? This episode is so stressful, even now rewatching a 100th time.
John and Carter are only a few blocks from the feds but the city is full of assholes trying to kill them, so they break into a building: the morgue. So that’s not creepy or ominous. Simmons and his dudes learn where they are, and send in a bunch of them to kill them. Oh no, now these bbs could die too. John sends Carter to get supplies, and slips out of their hideaway through the vents. He’ll draw them out and kill as many as he can, while Carter takes Quinn to jail. Fucking John and his self-sacrificial shenanigans. Every season he has to pull this shit. It’s not good for the heart (mine, I mean), he should knock it off.
Carter and Reese discuss their closest calls. I love that they could both probably mention a thousand missions where they could’ve died, but Carter’s closest call? Childbirth. And John’s? When he was about to off himself before the pilot. And then an infuriating and unnecessary moment: he tells Joss that what stopped him was meeting her, and then kisses her. Now, in interviews, Caviezel says that the kiss was unscripted but felt right, and so I am officially calling it as a thing that didn’t happen. It is stupid and I will not allow it. In any case, HR goes in and so they get ready to roll.
Finch gets ready to leave the library to go help them somehow, and Root once again offers to help. Harry says no, again. And I hate him for it, every single time I watch this fucking episode. Root tells him she hopes someday he can trust her, and that she’s so very sorry for his loss. Fucking rude, Root. I love you, but that’s rude, even if true. Will it be true??
Now, a scene that makes me cry every single one of the thousand times I’ve watched this episode: Fusco is about to listen in as an HR dude is about to off his kid. He tells Lee (the son) to close his eyes, that it’s all gonna be okay, and he hears a shot. He is sobbing and then on the phone he hears a familiar voice: Shaw. She tells him that his son is fine, that he figured they’d wanna take the kid so she stops them, ’cause that’s what he would’ve wanted. Of course, that means that she cannot save Fusco. Oh my wife. What a heartbreakingly decent choice.
This doesn’t change the fact, of course, that this other dude’s about to kill Fusco, and just as he is about to, Fusco mentions that since they broke most of his fingers, it wasn’t that big of a deal for him to break his own thumb. He unties himself! And they struggle and fight some, and then Fusco grabs him from behind and chokes him with all his might. Kevin Chapman is such a stellar actor in this scene, you can see he is choking him with all the anger about almost losing his kid, his fucking eyes look like they’re about to pop off his head. Heck yea, Fusco!
Back at the morgue, John starts shooting bad guys, and he is doing pretty well, but one of the cops shoot him near the armpit, relatively good (or bad, for us). Meanwhile, Finch has entered the building and tells Carter she can leave with Quinn safely now. She takes him to the FBI headquarters. Finally! Now the only baddie they gotta catch is Simmons, but at least the big boss is behind bars.
Well that was a close call, a good episode with a relatively happy ending, right? Wrong. Fusco meets up with Shaw and they share a look, a “grateful beyond words look from Lionel”, and a “Im uncomfortable with vulnerable moments but I gotchoo” look from Sameen.Carter is a detective again! And tells Finch she figures they have some sort of supercomputer where they get the numbers – which is close enough, I guess – and catches up with John. Finch is about to meet with them, and the phone starts ringing.
Fucking Simmons comes out of nowhere and takes a shot at Reese but misses. Then takes a shot at Carter. And the entire fanbase gets extremely unlucky. Carter starts bleeding out fast, John can’t do anything. Finch just stands there, while the fucking phone – with Carter’s number, no doubt – rings, the soundtrack to all our hopes and dreams being shat on.
Now you know why it took me four years. I got no witty additions, no further analysis. I got nothing. What a great episode, but fuck, what a fucking knife straight to my heart.
Next episode is a relatively satisfying epilogue for this goddamn mess, though. I promise you, your now broken heart will appreciate it.
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