Person of Interest: Season 3
Person of Interest Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 23 episodes. The series features action and adventure, crime, and sci-fi and fantasy elements. John Reese is identified as a former CIA paramilitary operative who is presumed dead. The production is broadcast on CBS and has received user and critic ratings across platforms such as The Movie Database, ČSFD.cz, and Kinobox.cz, reflecting its ongoing stat
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- John Reese is a former CIA paramilitary operative who is presumed dead.
- The series centers on characters who are being watched.
- The overarching narrative involves action, crime, and sci-fi and fantasy elements.
- The series originally premiered on CBS as an original television series.
Season overview
Person of Interest Season 3 continues the overarching saga across 23 episodes. The series features action and adventure, crime, and sci-fi and fantasy elements. John Reese is identified as a former CIA paramilitary operative who is presumed dead. The production is broadcast on CBS and has received user and critic ratings across platforms such as The Movie Database, ČSFD.cz, and Kinobox.cz, reflecting its ongoing status as a television series that follows characters who are being watched.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Liberty
Sep 24, 2013 · 43 min
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 to
Nothing to Hide
Oct 1, 2013 · 43 min
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,
Lady Killer
Oct 8, 2013 · 43 min
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.
Reasonable Doubt
Oct 15, 2013 · 43 min
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.
Razgovor
Oct 22, 2013 · 43 min
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.
Mors Praematura
Oct 29, 2013 · 43 min
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.
The Perfect Mark
Nov 5, 2013 · 43 min
The team is met with surprises during an investigation into a hypnotherapist; an antiquities dealer has ties to a crime organization.
Endgame
Nov 12, 2013 · 43 min
The machine gives Finch 38 numbers at once; information about Carter's past is revealed.
The Crossing
Nov 19, 2013 · 43 min
The battle to bring a crime organization to justice reaches a new level; Reese's number comes up in the machine.
The Devil's Share
Nov 26, 2013 · 43 min
As the POI team seeks justice for Carter’s 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 n
Lethe
Dec 17, 2013 · 43 min
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
Aletheia
Jan 7, 2014 · 43 min
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
4C
Jan 14, 2014 · 43 min
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.
Provenance
Feb 4, 2014 · 42 min
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 la
Last Call
Feb 25, 2014 · 43 min
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.
RAM
Mar 4, 2014 · 43 min
The secrets of Finch’s operation before he enlisted Reese are revealed, including shocking ties to present-day events.
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Mar 18, 2014 · 44 min
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.
Allegiance
Mar 25, 2014 · 43 min
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
Most Likely To...
Apr 1, 2014 · 43 min
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 motivation
Death Benefit
Apr 15, 2014 · 43 min
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.
Beta
Apr 29, 2014 · 43 min
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 He
A House Divided
May 6, 2014 · 43 min
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
Deus Ex Machina
May 13, 2014 · 43 min
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 w