What I’m Watching: Person of Interest

Person of Interest: Season 1, Episode 11 “Super” (B+)

I’m excited that Carter looking into Finch’s background means that we get some flashbacks to his time spent with Brett Cullen’s Ingram when the machine was just beginning to be built and Finch was starting to realize its capabilities and why it couldn’t ever fall into the wrong hands. I do love when characters are brutally honest after plenty of lying, and while Finch didn’t exactly spell everything out for Carter, the fact that he sat down with her and gave her a clue about someone that had a number was a positive step in their relationship. Tasking Fusco with planting Reese’s prints to throw Snow off of his trail was also smart, and it leaves them free to pursue the case of the week. It was a lot of fun to see the roles reversed and have each person train the other about what his job should be, highlighted by Reese’s suggestion, implemented in the field later by Finch, that he poke his target in the eye. Reese getting stir crazy was expected, and I do have to say that I never knew crutches could be used so well in combat, both to start fires and to fight assailants. It’s always good to see a friendly face, and that’s one reason I knew that David Zayas, seen regularly as Angel Batista on “Dexter,” couldn’t be a bad guy. This show does do a good job of being ambiguous with more than few legitimate suspects so that it’s difficult to figure out just who the bad guy is.