In 2010, Harold was working with Dillinger , an ex-Blackwater mercenary who performed the same duties currently performed by Reese. Their current number is Daniel Casey , a hacker who tests computer security systems.

Reese takes the case of Zoe Morgan , a professional fixer who uses her influence and her connections to powerful people to perform favors for her own clients.

The machine gives the numbers of Sameen Shaw , a government assassin, and Michael Cole , a computer specialist working for Special Counsel .

Reese and Finch are confused when the Machine names a six-month-old child, Leila Smith, as the latest POI. Reese and Finch turn into overly protective parents—with an arsenal at their disposal—as they investigate her origins.

In a series of flashbacks to Shaw’s childhood it is revealed she was in a car with her father when he was killed in a wreck, but that she showed a shocking lack of emotion over it. In the present, after Shaw saves another number, Finch begins expressing concern about Shaw’s callous treatment of them. […]