As Finch tries to readjust to life after his kidnapping, establishing a bond with Reese’s attack dog Bear, Reese poses as a bodyguard to get close to Sophia Campos , the spoiled daughter of the Brazilian consul in New York.

The Machine produces two numbers belonging to a married couple who own a publishing house.

Fusco is hired by HR leadership to obstruct any investigation into a planned murder, which happens to be the current POI: Caroline Turing, PhD , a therapist with a powerful client list.

Root interrogates Weeks for the location of the Machine. She allows Finch to help him escape and pretends to be subdued. Denton then turns on Finch, but Root kills Denton after he reveals the Machine’s location.

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. […]

Finch takes a wounded Reese to the morgue, where he pays a morgue assistant to suture Reese’s wounds. While Reese is in a wheelchair, Finch rents an apartment for him.