Finch and Reese attempt to understand the threat to, or by, people the Machine identifies as being 'of interest' by providing only their social security numbers, and try to stop the crime from occurring. government after Septemcalled the Machine, which monitors all electronic communications and surveillance video feeds, in order to predict future terrorist activities. He is approached by Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire software genius who built a computer system for the U.S. John Reese, a former Special Forces soldier and CIA operative, is burnt out and presumed dead, living as a vagrant in New York City.

Main article: List of Person of Interest episodes The show won the 2012 People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama and the 2016 People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Crime Drama. Katharine Trendacosta of Gizmodo noted that by the end of the series in 2016, Person of Interest had been transformed from a 'crime-fighting show' with an entertaining plot device into 'one of the best science-fiction series ever broadcast'. The series raises an array of moral issues, from questions of privacy and 'the greater good', the concept of justifiable homicide, and problems caused by working with limited information programs. The series centers on a mysterious reclusive billionaire computer programmer, Harold Finch ( Michael Emerson), who has developed a computer program for the federal government known as 'the Machine' that is capable of collating all sources of information to predict terrorist acts and to identify people planning them. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, Denise Thé, and Chris Fisher. The series was created by Jonathan Nolan executive producers were Nolan, J. Person of Interest is an American science fiction crime drama television series that aired on CBS from September 22, 2011, to June 21, 2016, with its five seasons consisting of 103 episodes.

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