While Shaw is abducted by Root, Finch and Reese get the number of Timothy Sloan , an estate investigator. Finch goes undercover as Sloan’s assistant while Reese continues investigating Shaw’s whereabouts.

Reese and Finch get the number of Hayden Price , a hypnotherapist. Finch, who poses as Hayden’s patient, learns that Hayden is a con man who hypnotizes his patients into giving him their security information, which allows him to enter their bank accounts and steal from them. One of his patients, Sven Vanger (Carsten […]

Finch receives 38 numbers, all members of HR. Carter intercepts a drug delivery of the Russian mob, causing leader Peter Yogorov to suspect HR. Carter starts a war between HR and the Russians by firing sniper shots at HR leader Alonzo Quinn, who blames the Russians.

Reese and Carter are crossing town to deliver Alonzo Quinn to the FBI. Simmons alerts HR and several criminal groups of Reese’s identity, limiting their means of movement. The two fight their way to, and break into, the city morgue.

Flashbacks illuminate Finch’s dealing with survivor’s guilt, Reese’s time doing wetwork, Shaw’s former life as a technically excellent surgeon but completely indifferent to the people she helped, and Fusco’s recounting of exacting vigilante justice to a crook that slipped through the system .

Person of Interest S03E11, Reese leaves the team and heads for Colorado, where his father had lived. The Machine provides a new number to Harold, who at first is reluctant, but eventually accepts it on Root’s insistence. The number belongs to Arthur Claypool , Harold’s close friend during his days at MIT.

Control holds Harold, Shaw and Arthur captive. She orders Shaw killed, but Root enters, guns blazing, and frees the trio. Root herself is shot and captured by Control, who tortures her, demanding access to the Machine. Control destroys the hearing in Root’s right ear and threatens to make her completely deaf and blind.