Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, leaving the team with no choice but to embark on a possible suicide mission in a desperate attempt to stop a global economic catastro... Read allSamaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, leaving the team with no choice but to embark on a possible suicide mission in a desperate attempt to stop a global economic catastrophe.Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, leaving the team with no choice but to embark on a possible suicide mission in a desperate attempt to stop a global economic catastrophe.
- Kenneth
- (as Christopher LaPanta)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the highest rated episode in the entire series.
- GoofsHarold says he hates chess because it was invented when life was cheap and some people were seen as worth less than others, "Kings and pawns...". Harold is wrong on all points. Chess is a simulated war, the pieces are troops, set up in battle formation and used as a real army would be on a battlefield.
What we now call the King was a General, who like many commanders directed from behind the army and obviously didn't move around the battlefield much. It is not a more important piece, the game ends when it is captured because an army can't fight without a commander. The piece now called the Queen was his Adviser, who moved just as little. The pawns were Infantry, footsoldiers who move slower and aren't as strong in battle. The rooks, knights etc were cavalry (and elephants), who move quicker and are stronger in battle. That isn't a class system, or valuing one life less than another, it's just realistic.
- Quotes
Harold Finch: On chess. "It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing... Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little. Everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings. Pawns. I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else... Chess is just a game. Real people are not pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them and not others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is, if anyone who looks on to the world as if it is a game of chess, deserves to lose. "
- SoundtracksFortune Days
Written by Edward Ma, 'Justin Boreta, and Josh Mayer (as Josh Lawrence Mayer)
Performed by The Glitch Mob
*: In the interest of being objective, I will bring up two small items I took issue with. I. In the opening scene, Finch and Root are discussing the current situation aloud amongst a pretty quiet crowd. It's immersion-breaking for me to see these characters talk about how careful they must be, only to speak so loudly about things which are meant to be hidden. II. Similarly, Fusco is the only (human) member of the team that is still unaware of The Machine, designated with a white box. Carter's was changed to a yellow box when she deduced that Finch must be getting his number from some kind of supercomputer. Yet The Machine and Samaritan are directly referenced in open conversation with Fusco, and his white box remains. Again, just some immersion-breaking that I think needs to be addressed in future episodes. But those two little things are literally all my critical eye can come up with as flaws for this episode. Everything else is brilliance.
- dirtylemons
- Jan 6, 2015
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Filming locations
- New York Stock Exchange - 11 Wall Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Teams attempt to stop a global economic catastrophe)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro