[π] person of interest quarantine rewatch ➥ 5x07 qso
you know what trope pisses me off the most? when the protag is pointing a gun at somebody and they’re like “you won’t do it. you’re too good” and the person holding the gun is like oh shit i am and they slowly lower the gun while the other person laughs. WHAT THE FUCK. if i were there, and somebody told me “you won’t do it” i would immediately shoot them dead without hesitating. who are you to tell me what i wont do. musty bitch
Root: come over, sweetie
Shaw: I can’t, Samaritan won’t let me go
Root: four alarm fire
Shaw:
past & present in reference to shaw - (root’s version)(shaw’s version)
Root: come over, sweetie
Shaw: I can’t, Samaritan won’t let me go
Root: four alarm fire
Shaw:
Samaritan did over 7000 simulations and in all of them he didn’t know to take into account that Root would rather die than live in a world without Sameen Shaw
Grab some guns, Sameen. You’ll feel better once we shoot some people.
So I killed myself. Over and over again. And I’d rather do that here and now than to risk your life.
When I was training with the ISA, they taught us if we were ever tortured to take our mind somewhere else, someplace safe. Where did you go? Nowhere. The training was bull. There was no safe place. No escape.
Damn it, Root.
“In order to predict what we do, she has to know us, and she’s gotten better and better at it. And the people she watches the most, she knows the best. Better than we know ourselves. Nathan, Elias, Carter…they’re all still in there. The Machine’s still watching overthemus.”
“Maybe this isn’t the end at all.“
[Caption: gifset showing various scenes in the show’s finale between Shaw and The Machine, using the late Root’s voice (revealing herself to Shaw and warning her about Samaritan operatives in the cementery; Shaw getting her and Root mixed up; passing along Root’s message to Shaw about how she’s “a straight line; an arrow”). For further description and to read the dialogue, the images themselves contain captions.]
Bonus: Shaw receives a call from The Machine at the very end of the show, hearing Root’s voice again. She smiles up at one of the street cameras, and continues the mision.