Person of Interest: Season 3

2013 · 23 episodes · ★ 8.4

What Season 3 of Person of Interest

Season three opens with the team reeling from a devastating loss and facing even greater challenges. The Machine now operates on its own, unsupervised, and remains hidden from everyone. Finch and Reese team up with Sameen Shaw, a rogue agent, to save lives and seek justice, but their missions threaten to tear them apart. Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco try to unravel the HR police conspiracy. Root, a former cyber-enemy and now a close ally of the Machine, becomes an unpredictable ally when the team discovers that another surveillance system, a rival to the first, is about to go online.

23episodes

Sep 24, 2013premiered

May 13, 2014latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Liberty
Sep 24, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
The Machine, now completely self-governed with its whereabouts unknown, resumes giving Finch its "irrelevant" numbers for people in danger, which include a U.S. naval officer in town for Fleet Week. However, with so many sailors flooding the streets of New York City, finding the officer in time presents an even bigger challenge for Reese and Shaw.
Directing: Chris Fisher · Writing: Greg Plageman, Denise Thé · Starring: Enrico Colantoni, Al Sapienza, Bruce Altman, David Valcin
3x02 Nothing to Hide
Oct 1, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 7.7
The number comes up for an Internet entrepreneur in the business of eliminating people's privacy, but finds his own being rapidly stripped away. As his life spirals out of control, Reese tries to protect him while Finch calls on Shaw, Carter and Fusco for help finding whoever is after him.
Directing: Frederick E. O. Toye · Writing: Erik Mountain · Starring: David Alan Basche, Clarke Peters, Gary Basaraba, Paul Urcioli
3x03 Lady Killer
Oct 8, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
The team suspects the latest number to be a potential stalker/ killer. Root plots her escape from the institution and gives her psychiatrist a big surprise.
Directing: Omar Madha · Writing: Amanda Segel · Starring: Paige Turco, Warren Kole, Bruce Altman, Ron Raines
3x04 Reasonable Doubt
Oct 15, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
The team must figure out if a prominent lawyer orchestrated the murder of her husband or if she is being framed; Carter is spotted with Reese by her new partner.
Directing: Stephen Williams · Writing: Melissa Scrivner-Love · Starring: Al Sapienza, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Paul Ben-Victor, Annika Boras
3x05 Razgovor
Oct 22, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
Shaw must stay close to a 10-year-old girl with highly developed surveillance skills when she is identified by the machine; Carter's mission could be exposed.
Directing: Kenneth Fink · Writing: David Slack · Starring: Al Sapienza, Robert John Burke, Brian Wiles, Danielle Kotch
3x06 Mors Praematura
Oct 29, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
After being freed from her confinement to the psych ward, Root needs Shaw's help with a directive from the machine; Finch and Reese look into a mild-mannered investigator.
Directing: Helen Shaver · Writing: Dan Dietz · Starring: Robert John Burke, Brian Wiles, Kirk Acevedo, Leslie Odom Jr.
3x07 The Perfect Mark
Nov 5, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
The team is met with surprises during an investigation into a hypnotherapist; an antiquities dealer has ties to a crime organization.
Directing: Stephen Surjik · Writing: Sean Hennen · Starring: Enrico Colantoni, Al Sapienza, Robert John Burke, Clarke Peters
3x08 Endgame
Nov 12, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.7
The machine gives Finch 38 numbers at once; information about Carter's past is revealed.
Directing: Sylvain White · Writing: Nic Van Zeebroeck, Michael Sopczynski · Starring: Enrico Colantoni, Robert John Burke, Clarke Peters, Morgan Spector
3x09 The Crossing
Nov 19, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.9
The battle to bring a crime organization to justice reaches a new level; Reese's number comes up in the machine.
Directing: Frederick E. O. Toye · Writing: Denise Thé · Starring: Robert John Burke, Clarke Peters, Paul O'Brien, Lee Tergesen
3x10 The Devil's Share
Nov 26, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 9.1
As the POI team seeks justice for a murder, Finch realizes one of his team members may go one step too far in order to end the war with HR. Also, The Machine gives out the number for NYPD Officer Patrick Simmons, one of the crime organization’s key players.
Directing: Chris Fisher · Writing: Jonathan Nolan, Amanda Segel · Starring: Enrico Colantoni, Robert John Burke, Clarke Peters, Laz Alonso
3x11 Lethe Mid-Season Finale
Dec 17, 2013 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
Flashbacks to Finch’s adolescence provide insight into his creation of The Machine. Also, the team receives the number of an already dying man, and Reese leaves the POI team behind in the aftermath of the war with the crime organization, HR.
Directing: Richard J. Lewis · Writing: Erik Mountain · Starring: Boris McGiver, Leslie Odom Jr., Saul Rubinek, Tom Degnan
3x12 Aletheia
Jan 7, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
Multiple enemies converge on the POI team as they protect a dying man whose number has come up. They struggle to keep their enemies at bay but without Reese, who has left them and their mission behind following the tragic war with HR, being down one man could have catastrophic repercussions for the team.
Directing: Richard J. Lewis · Writing: Lucas O'Connor · Starring: Camryn Manheim, John Nolan, Boris McGiver, Leslie Odom Jr.
3x13 4C
Jan 14, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
Reese boards an international flight in an attempt to put the team and the past behind him, but is angered when he realizes his travel plans have been manipulated.
Directing: Stephen Williams · Writing: Greg Plageman, Melissa Scrivner-Love · Starring: Boris McGiver, Sally Pressman, Samm Levine, Marc Kudisch
3x14 Provenance
Feb 4, 2014 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
Reese rejoins Finch in New York, but when the team receives the number of a highly skilled antiquities thief, a surprising turn of events finds them planning a heist which could land them all in jail.
Directed by: Jeffrey G. Hunt · Written by: Sean Hennen · Starring: Elaine Tan, Henri Lubatti, Gene Farber, Christopher Jackson
3x15 Last Call
Feb 25, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
Finch goes undercover in an emergency call center to protect a 911 operator, but it soon becomes clear that the threat reaches further than the team could have anticipated.
Directing: Jeff T. Thomas · Writing: Dan Dietz · Starring: Melissa Sagemiller, Gavin Stenhouse, Kathleen McNenny, David Andrew MacDonald
3x16 RAM
Mar 4, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
The secrets of Finch’s operation before he enlisted Reese are revealed, including shocking ties to present-day events.
Directing: Stephen Surjik · Writing: Nic Van Zeebroeck, Michael Sopczynski · Starring: Camryn Manheim, John Nolan, Neil Jackson, Joseph Mazzello
3x17 /
Mar 18, 2014 · 44 min · ★ 8.6
The Machine assigns Root to seek out a janitor with a mysterious past, but when her very presence puts his life in danger, Finch also receives his number.
Directing: Jeffrey Lee Gibson · Writing: David Slack · Starring: John Nolan, Leslie Odom Jr., Yul Vazquez, Colin Donnell
3x18 Allegiance
Mar 25, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
Finch and Reese must delve into the murky waters of international politics when they are given the number of a former government contractor who is stalking a UN diplomat. Also, an enemy attempts to gain an upper hand on Root.
Directing: Jeffrey G. Hunt · Writing: Tony Camerino · Starring: John Nolan, Nazneen Contractor, Haaz Sleiman, Michel Gill
3x19 Most Likely To...
Apr 1, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Reese and Shaw pose as alumni at a high school reunion in order to keep eyes on the latest POI. Meanwhile, Finch and Fusco travel to Washington, D.C., to investigate the motivations behind Vigilance’s latest attack.
Directing: Kevin Hooks · Writing: Melissa Scrivner-Love, Denise Thé · Starring: Camryn Manheim, Leslie Odom Jr., Nestor Carbonell, John Doman
3x20 Death Benefit
Apr 15, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
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.
Directing: Richard J. Lewis · Writing: Erik Mountain, Lucas O'Connor · Starring: John Nolan, John Doman, John Heard, Morocco Omari
3x21 Beta
Apr 29, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
As Decima uses Samaritan’s feeds to hunt Reese and Shaw, Greer exploits Finch’s greatest weakness in an attempt to lure him out of hiding: his love for his former fiancée, Grace Hendricks.
Directing: Frederick E. O. Toye · Writing: Dan Dietz, Sean Hennen · Starring: Carrie Preston, John Nolan, John Doman, Matt Walton
3x22 A House Divided
May 6, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
When an unknown entity prevents The Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends the team five separate numbers to help them piece together the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Root’s team of hackers arrives in New York.
Directing: Chris Fisher · Writing: Amanda Segel · Starring: Camryn Manheim, John Nolan, Boris McGiver, Leslie Odom Jr.
3x23 Deus Ex Machina Season Finale
May 13, 2014 · 43 min · ★ 9.1
The team takes desperate action 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.
Directing: Chris Fisher · Writing: David Slack, Greg Plageman · Starring: Camryn Manheim, John Nolan, Boris McGiver, Leslie Odom Jr.