What I’m Watching: Person of Interest

Person of Interest: Season 2, Episode 14 “One Percent” (B+)

This show has always attracted top-notch ensemble players with lengthy television resumes, and it was great to see Jimmi Simpson, who starred on “Breakout Kings” but really made an impression on me in the TV movie “Virtuality,” as one-percenter Logan Pierce. Reese has worked with difficult numbers before, but never one so adept at losing his tail and interested in the people who are trying hard to protect him. Reese raising the bid to ten million simply to get his attention was bold, and he didn’t even bother to collect the expensive prize that Finch would certainly have been less devastated to see him secure. Finch did a great job of tracking Pierce by posing as his dry cleaner, but it took Reese taking out his Mossad bodyguard to really get him to listen. As has been the case in the past with some other eccentric numbers, there was more than one person trying to kill Pierce, though it didn’t take Reese too long to stop them. Pierce’s transformation to subway rider was a nice epilogue. It was interesting to see how the machine first came about, with Nathan coming to Finch on September 11th and then, eight years later, acting on information the machine gave him to protect a victim. I hope to see more of that soon, and it’s also both intriguing and disheartening to hear Carter tell Fusco that she won’t cover for him if she discovers his involvement in illegal activities. Fusco really needs to ask for help before he finds himself in serious trouble.