Person of Interest (TV Series)

Bad Code (2012)

Amy Acker: Root

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• Root : [after John tracks them down]  How did he find us?

  Harold Finch : Because you're wrong. He proves you're wrong. Not all humans are bad code.

• Root : Amazing. We've managed to perfect the apple - a genetically modified version that never goes brown. And yet, we still haven't upgraded human beings. The human race has stalled out, Harold. And from what I've seen, most of it is rotten to the core.

• Root : But, you must see I'm on your side.

  Harold Finch : I'm not on any side.

  Root : You know what I mean. I am the best friend, the best support, the best partner you will ever have. And definitely the most fun.

• Root : [On the phone]  Is this a bad time, John? I wanted to thank you for finding my friend Hanna, giving her a proper burial. I won't forget it.

  John Reese : Come near us again, and you will be sorry.

  Root : I don't think so. Tell Harold I'll be in touch when I'm ready.

• Harold Finch : [Root has Weeks strung up with a hood over his head]  Can you please make this stop?

  Root : Another hour in that hood, and he'll believe anything I say. Amazing how easily the human brain can be manipulated.

  [Goes to Weeks, removes the hood] 

  Root : But you know that, don't you, Denton?

  [Root holds up a sheet of paper] 

  Root : A top-secret DOD memo authorizing enhanced interrogation techniques, including "Palestinian hanging," which you are currently enjoying. Whose signature is at the end? Why, it's yours.

  Denton Weeks : Please water.

  Root : [Mockingly checks the document]  Sorry, not allowed. Unless you tell me what I want to know.

  Denton Weeks : Lady, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm a White House lawyer. I sign documents. I don't read 'em. Please, for the love of God, let me down.

  Root : If you tell me where the machine is.

  Denton Weeks : What machine?

  Root : [Points at Harold]  The machine he built. The machine Nathan Ingram sold you for one US dollar. You know where it is!

  Denton Weeks : I don't know anything! I swear!

  Root : [Looks at Harold as she puts the hood back on Weeks]  Really, Harold, why do men always seek to delay the inevitable?

• Root : Oh, Harold, generous to a fault. Always letting someone else take credit for your work. I'd recognize your code anywhere. It's so elegant.

  Harold Finch : Then let it be.

  Root : I told you, I don't want to control your machine.

  Harold Finch : Then why are we here?

  Root : We're here to observe another kind of code. The bad code.

  Harold Finch : Clearly, we differ in our views of humanity.

  Root : Do we? Then why are you; the father of a seismic shift in intelligence; forced to live in fear and anonymity?

  Harold Finch : You don't know anything about me.

  Root : Oh, but I do, Harold. You're the man who sold the world. Just to the wrong people. I will get access to the machine, Harold. And either you can show me how to do that, or...

  [Goes over to another man she has prisoner] 

  Root : This sad specimen will. Denton Weeks: the man you sold the machine to. One of you will walk out of here onto the next stage of our adventure. I do hope it's you, Harold.

• Harold Finch : What happened to you?

  Root : Me? You think I was damaged? Some childhood trauma? That is so sweet.