How long have we been on hiatus, anyway? Two weeks? Three? Lousy NCAA Championship, and who the hell has Wichita State coming out of the round of 64, much less making it to the Final Four? Gah.
But enough about my gambling problem. Person of Interest returned for one week to tie together some larger conspiracy threads and also to kill a semi-regular character. That's what I call making up for lost time.
Justin Lee is dead. I assume we'll find out why we should care later.
Mr. Finch (Michael Emerson) and Elias (Enrico Colantoni) are playing an odd game of chess, as the incarcerated crime boss removes his own pieces from the board to demonstrate his vulnerability. What would Kasparov say?
Anyway, the Number of the Week is Monica Jacobs (Traci Thoms), an executive for networking company Rylatech. Jacobs is presumably a high-profile target because of her hyper-competitive industry. Why, even now she's in a pitch meeting with customers, wowing them with insider knowledge and showing off their humble founder, Martin Baxter. Look at that lovable old coot. Did you ever see someone so incapable of evil?
Beecher (Sterling K. Brown) just won't give it a rest, and Carter (Taraji P. Henson) doesn't want to hear it, especially since she suspects her former loverman set up the recently deceased Detective Szymanski. She asks Fusco (Kevin Chapman) for help, and he takes the subtle route: confronting Beecher in the john. Beecher has his own questions, and takes them to Quinn (Clarke Peters), who tells the detective -- and his godson -- the tip came from inside the hous...er, Elias's people. He leaves (without noticing Simmons lurking in the background) and goes straight to Elias, who semi-smugly informs the earnest detective he's being played by HR. And now Quinn knows as well.
Jacobs accesses Justin Lee's (the dead guy) laptop for something. Finch knows this because he's gotten himself hired by Rylatech as IT support. He and Mr. Reese (Jim Caviezel) are conversing (Reese is on a stakeout related to the death of Michael Cole) when the ex-spook is interrupted by Samantha Shaw (Sarah Shahi), Cole's old partner. Shaw's back to set the record straight to Cole's parents and maybe to get the drop on any of Control's men who might have nefarious ideas.
Finch follows Jacobs to an impromptu meet with Ross Haskell, her head of Product Development, about the deceased Mr. Lee. She suspects Lee may have been a corporate spy. From his creepy facial hair and the pointed way he asks Jacobs, "Who else knows about this?" it's pretty obvious they're trying to paint Haskell as a bad guy, though we know from past experience he probably isn't.
Even if just about everyone else with that name is a total creep.
