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Nov 9, 2019 · Person Of Interest: Root's Shock Death Explained. By Padraig Cotter. Published Nov 9, 2019. Link copied to clipboard. Here's Root's shocking Person Of Interest season 5 exit explained. Person Of Interest was created by Jonathan Nolan, the brother of filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
- Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman discuss how they decided on different characters' fates.
- Person of Interest: Series Finale Photos
By Eric Goldman
Updated: Jun 22, 2016 6:34 am
Posted: Jun 22, 2016 6:31 am
Warning: Full spoilers for the Person of Interest series finale below.
Even though there is a spoiler warning literally right above this line, I’m still putting one extra spoiler warning if you haven’t seen the Person of Interest series finale (read Matt Fowler's review of the finale here). Okay, let’s go!
After five years and 103 episodes, the story of Team Machine has come to an end, with tragedy and triumph occurring along the way. I spoke to POI executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman about the big events in the final episode, including the death of John Reese, how they decided on what would occur and more – including what we can infer the future holds for the surviving characters.
Nolan: Yeah, I mean, you don't want to be flippant about it there, but the whole point of Shaw, as Root said to her in the finale, she's a f**king straight line. We're not watching the redemptive story of Shaw. We've watched the redemptive story for Root, right? We've watched her go from being immoral to transcending, subliming something different. With Shaw, what we love about Shaw was that she's f**king Shaw. You could detonate a suitcase nuke on her f**king forehead, and she'd still be Shaw, right? There's an unwavering commitment there to her own closely guarded, tiny little moral compass, because she sees and looks at the world differently, right? And you didn't want to betray that. So in that last moment, for her -- and it's terribly satisfying for us -- it isn't a redemptive, "Oh, my friend has taught me the meaning of ..." No. Her friends were, in order of prominence, a f**king hitwoman-turned-f**king acolyte of a transcendent artificial intelligence, a presumed dead and missing special forces f**king hitman, and a man who had been accused of treason. This is not a person who learned to be nice.
Plageman: And a dog!
IGN: And a sweet dog.
Nolan: A fearsome, combat-trained Belgian Malinois. These aren't cuddly, people! We weren't looking for the happy, smiley moment there. I found that tremendously satisfying.
IGN: What do you imagine as the unseen future of these characters? There's a great moment at the end there, the sort of full-circle callback to the pilot, with Shaw looking at the camera, and we could presume that she is going to continue on with missions from the Machine, probably aided by Lionel. Is that what you see as the future of these characters, and does Harold Finch wander back into orbit with them and help them again? Or does he just live his happy life with Grace?
Plageman: Oooh... You know, I guess I always saw it as somewhat of a liberation, even though it's still a bit of an Orwellian world. The introduction of another team is thought-provoking enough, but I always like to believe that Harold Finch or Sameen Shaw, even Lionel Fusco, were given a new license on life. That they could actually try to live a normal life. Whether that would actually hold up, I don't know. What do you think Jonah?
Jun 24, 2020 · Person of Interest creator Jonathan Nolan explained that the series made it clear as early as the pilot episode that both of them wouldn’t walk away alive [via Deadline]. Finch even told Reese that he expected them both to be killed.
Nov 20, 2013 · After setting up the possibility that Detective Fusco (Kevin Chapman) would be the one to kick it, Person of Interest creator Jonathan Nolan and EP Greg Plageman threw audiences for a loop...
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Nov 12, 2013 · The clip suggests the death of a one of the core cast members, with most of the evidence pointing to Kevin Chapman's Fusco. But there's got to be some kind of twist, right? ... Adam Bryant Nov....
- Adam Bryant
Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama [2] television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, [3] to June 21, 2016, [4] with its five seasons consisting of 103 episodes. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan; executive producers were Nolan, J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher .
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May 3, 2016 · Executive Producers Greg Plageman and Jonathan Nolan tease a Samaritan-dominated world and the resurrection of the Machine.
