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"She's dead Jim"

You know that she like everyone else on the show except Kevin Bacon will end up revealed as a Follower. We'll have to increase immigration substantially to supply enough Followers for that show.

/thread hijack

Actually the're called the Keystone Kops. Thay are so inept they can't spell it correctly.

And now we return to tonite's feature, Person of Interest.

 

Actually she just has huge "geek" cred from several years on Angel as "Fred" long before Dollhouse.  She was also on several episodes of Alias back in the day.  She's hot in a quirky sort of way.  However, I agree with your hotness order other then Carter really doesn't do much for me.

New episode tonight.

This episode used the theme from a Tim Olyphant (Justified) movie where the killers assume the identites of the victims and live their lives. I think it was obvious who the cereal (sic) killer was in tonite's episode. So, what's goin on with the machine?

Seemed to be a little predictable, but an excellent episode nonetheless. The writers have definitely hit a groove.

I knew it was the FBI guy when Reese stumbled upon him on the apartment, little misdirection when the drug dealer guy was running away but he was too old to be the suspect.

The Machine is struggling with the recent virus attack on the feds, like Finch said, the countdown is still on..

I'll be that the machine is okay, but whatever is feeding the machine has been compromised. Notice this week in the opening shots afer each commerciial break, that many of the "boxes" were blank, rather than populated. It is being starved for information, so it cannot make the determination. I wonder if it is limiting not only the irrelevant list, but the terrorist list as well?

I think the boxes were blank because of the storm -- lack of power, etc.

That's a thought. I guess we'll find out eventually. It's good to think on and speculate.

Absolutely. The episode had several scenarios where phones, radios whatever were out, so it's only logical that the myriad camera feeds the machine uses as its sensory input would have lots of missing camera locations.

Correct. Also, the feeds from the police station on the island showed "Aux power" because they were running on generator power. That doesn't happen in real life, but that is a discussion for another day/thread. That was the show's way of letting us know why those cameras were working whereas a lot of them were not. Most places don't have backup generators.

I knew the FBI guys was the killer the entire time... Not the best episode.

Yeah, most camera security systems only know if the camera signal exists or not - not whether the system is running on normal utility power or on generator. Intrusion systems know if the power is out because they are intended to monitor that since it can be a sign of a security breach.

There would be no need for a camera system to know what the power source is. If it's providing power, that's all that matters.

The way Hollywood portrays CCTV systems, namely the images produced is utterly ridiculous. Forget poetic license, they need a serious reality check.
Recordings off of a Beta 3 tape that was copied a few times look better with real systems, especially IP based, as these would be.

Probably the biggest myth is that all these cameras are connected in a way that can be accessed like in this show or movies like "Enemy of the State".

While the public city cameras would likely be able to be tapped into that way, those owned by businesses are seldom set up in a way that they could be connected to outside of the TV screen attached to them. There are still plenty of cameras out there running into dirt old time lapse video tape recorders. Even among those running into a network-enabled DVR, few of them are actually set up to be viewed remotely. Many don't even have a connection (wired or wireless) to allow them to, even if the software allows for it. Cameras with built in IP capabilities are still a bit new for the average convenience store to be using them.

In fact, most businesses prefer their cameras are only seen in house.

At least this show doesn't keep jumping into the "enhance it" pool like the CSI shows do. Most of these IP cameras are barely SD, much less detailed enough to read someones name tag.
Edited by NetworkTV - 3/13/13 at 7:16am

That would be a compliment.
These CCTV vendors are promoting IP video like it's the best thing since sliced bread. The only thing 'great' about that is the ease of installation, just like those dome cameras. Both have the same poor PQ potential, but the installer could care less.

Some nice twists at the end to a good episode last night. It will be a few weeks before we pick back up with it since the NCAA tournament will occupy the time slot the next couple of weeks.

POI does comedic episodes well. Interesting premise for laundering money. In the real world there'd be tons of geezers eager to launder for 1% of the cash, no risky coercion needed.

That was a ton of money running around, I wish someone give a million to play, I just take it and walked away, and too bad the guy almost walked away with 100K chip (gimme!)

How much money Finch has? he can just go out and buy hotels and stuff and a 2M dollar watch

Although Harold is quite wealthy and could afford it, the watch was a gift. Remember, the guy gave it to John as a gift for saving his life multiple times. Harold stomped on it in the park to disable the tracker that was inside.

What good would a chip from a defunct casino be, $100K or one dollar?

I was confused by one thing in this last episode.

When the POI was playing for all that money at the end, everytime he looked at his cards they then turned to two other cards. Was he somehow changing them or was this just to show multiple hands going by in succession?

^^
I figured he was supposed to be some kind of magician, but I dunno.

He was a card shark and was switching cards i thought.

Leon Tao? Again? That's his fourth appearance this season - as many as Root or Zoe.

It's a question of whether he's a victim (of his own stupidity) or a resource, because he's been both. At least Bear likes him.

(I wonder how many times John and Harold groan whenever his number comes up)

I loved his reaction when the Nigerian said he was going to kill him and he knew that John was going to show up.

He was cheating , earlier in the episode he talked about that twice , 1st when he explained his broken fingers when his future wife finding him near death & broken up in the diner parking lot many years ago . 2nd then when asked by Finch if he could play (when he came back to town & was seen playing as Finch was about to steal data) he said "I have the best hands in Atlantic City "