Panopticon
- Episode aired Sep 23, 2014
- TV-14
- 43m
Required to assume new identities created by Root, the team tries to adapt to their new lives, but a new number complicates things.Required to assume new identities created by Root, the team tries to adapt to their new lives, but a new number complicates things.Required to assume new identities created by Root, the team tries to adapt to their new lives, but a new number complicates things.
- Department Store Floor Manager
- (as Michael Burg)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe word 'Panopticon' loosely translated, means 'observe' (-opticon) 'all' (pan-). It is derived from the name 'Panoptes' in Greek mythology, a giant with a hundred eyes, who was known to be a highly effective watchman.
- GoofsWhen the woman leaves the screen after her 'mission', the camera info in the upper left corner says Szent Gellért kamera. The Gellért Hill is on the other side of the Danube (the river in the city).
- Quotes
Root: You have a god in this fight, Harold, and she's fighting for her life.
Harold Finch: I wouldn't know. She only talks to you, Ms. Groves.
Root: Just because you stopped listening to her doesn't mean she isn't looking out for you. This job, your identity, is her keeping you alive. She has the plan, Harold, but she needs you to sit up and pay attention.
Harold Finch: To what, the numbers? In the face of such a struggle, saving one or two people, what difference would that make?
Root: Every life matters. You taught me that.
- ConnectionsReferences First Blood (1982)
Team Machine has disbanded. There is a feeling of sadness and loss, and a lack of purpose. Finch, John, and Shaw go about their new jobs, looking much like whipped puppies. Even Bear looks morose.
Slowly, in stealthy moves, the machine shows them they still have a purpose. The "irrelevant" world still needs them, and the machine will help them get back on their feet.
Root is a voice of hope. Finch, of despair. He seems to feel he gave the world his best when he first created the machine, and then created Team Machine, and has nothing left to offer. Yet Finch, born in about 1963, has forgotten more about old technology than most people ever knew. He remembers a world before the digital age.
Hats off to the writers and actors for creating a credible plot that progresses from hopeless limbo to the promise of reactivation.
The team still has a way to go before they are equipped to possibly confront Samaritan, but in this episode, they make a good start.
Excellent musical support: I'd Love to Change the World (but I don't know what to do. So I leave it up to you). Written by Alvin Lee. Performed by Jetta
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