EPISODE

23. Deus Ex Machina

The team takes desperate actions in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets. Meanwhile, the months-long battle with the anti-surveillance terrorist group Vigilance comes to a shocking conclusion.

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The trial continues. Reese, Hersh and Fusco search for the courtroom. Shaw helps Root smuggle seven servers into the Samaritan array. Hersh finds a bomb, wired to go off when the power comes on. Control is found guilty. To save her life, Finch confesses to building the Machine. When a command post is compromised, Collier moves the trial to the roof, where Decima attacks. Greer reveals that he himself created Vigilance. He wanted an atrocity—the bomb—to justify Samaritan. The bomb explodes, Greer's lieutenant kills Collier, and Reese rescues Harold. Because of Samaritan, Vigilance members are identified, targeted and eliminated, but Harold's team is identified as “irrelevant” by the program. Finch, Reese, Shaw, Root and the programmers have new identities. The seven servers hard-wire Samaritan to ignore them. Samaritan asks for instructions. Greer replies, “What, my dear Samaritan, are your commands for us?” The answer: “Calculating response... ".

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