Death Benefit
- Episode aired Apr 15, 2014
- TV-14
- 43m
Reese poses as a Secret Service agent to get close to the latest POI, a U.S. Congressman who may hold the key to derailing Decima's plans to bring a second Machine online.Reese poses as a Secret Service agent to get close to the latest POI, a U.S. Congressman who may hold the key to derailing Decima's plans to bring a second Machine online.Reese poses as a Secret Service agent to get close to the latest POI, a U.S. Congressman who may hold the key to derailing Decima's plans to bring a second Machine online.
- Detective Lionel Fusco
- (credit only)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe dilemma that Finch, Reese and Shaw face, whether to let McCourt live, causing the deaths of many, or to kill McCourt and potentially save many lives, is known in the field of Ethics as the Trolley Problem. The question is, you see a train speeding towards five people, who will surely be killed if the train continues, but can switch the train to a side track, on which there is only one person. In this case, is it ethical to switch the track, saving five lives for the price of one, or to let it continue, killing five, but saving the one.
- GoofsWhile Root and Shaw are having drinks, Shaw's glass is empty in the first shot but is completely filled in the next.
- Quotes
Harold Finch: Since we started this, things have changed. We've changed. But the mission, our purpose, has always been constant - to save lives. If that's changed somehow, if we're in a place now where the Machine is asking us to commit murder... that's a place I can't go. I'm afraid this is where I get off.
- ConnectionsReferences The Addams Family (1964)
- SoundtracksPara La Habana
Performed by Johannes Linstead
"Death Benefit" is another excellent episode of "Person of Interest", with the dilemma of Reese, Shaw and Finch to kill the corrupt politician Roger McCourt aiming a greater good. This polemic ethical discussion exists for many decades and is called Trolley Problem. Now Samaritan is running and Greer's first question is about Harold Finch. Looking forward to seeing the sequel. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Death Benefit"
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- Mar 3, 2024