What I’m Watching: Person of Interest

Person of Interest: Season 1, Episode 15 “Blue Code” (B+)

This show has established itself enough now that it can skip over the exposition and just introduce the case of the week with Reese already in as the group’s driver. This episode featured a few recognizable faces in its criminal crew, including Robert John Burke, who played Father Mickey Gavin on “Rescue Me,” as Fusco’s new HR contact within the police force. Finding out that a number or a target who initially appears to be a villain is actually a good guy working to bring down the bad guys is always a shock, and this episode pulled that off very well, with Reese doing his best to help without giving away what he knew. Being able to shoot someone, or graze them, in just the right place, is a truly useful skill, and both Reese and Finch utilized the two detectives on their “payroll” to great effect in this hour. It was interesting to see them come face-to-face before Fusco broke into the undercover room, and I have feeling that, given the way things just played out, Carter is going to end up trying to take down Fusco, not knowing that he’s actually working undercover for the same man she is. Fusco nearly bravely bit the bullet, and now he’s going to have the chance to prove that he’s a good, honest cop once and for all. The flashbacks to Reese almost talking to his ex-wife weren’t entirely effective, but a good parallel can always be good for something, in this case helping Reese to empathize with the guy he’s trying to save.