Person of Interest (TV Series)

Prisoner's Dilemma (2013)

Michael Emerson: Harold Finch

Quotes 

• Detective Lionel Fusco : I mean, c'mon, you gotta need something. Are we gonna bust John out of there or what?

  Harold Finch : Oh, it sounds like such a bad idea when you say it.

• Harold Finch : Right now I need your help in another matter. I'm sending you the name and address of a young lady in Brooklyn. She's about to be involved in a very bad situation.

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Let me get this straight. John's ass is on the line and I'm stuck dealing with some dumb -

  [Gets the file, the woman is a supermodel] 

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Yeah, I got this.

• Harold Finch : It's a nice office, isn't it?

  Detective Joss Carter : When you cook up a cover, you don't mess around.

  Harold Finch : John Warren is our friend's clean cover. We never use it for work. It's the most complete identity that John has, and it most closely matches the details of his true past. But John Warren is still an illusion, the incomplete footprint of a man who doesn't exist. If we make a mistake, or if Donnelly spots a single flaw, we and the work that we do will be in very grave jeopardy.

• Harold Finch : Your name is Charles Bennett MacAvoy. Your lovely wife and two little girls live in a palatial estate just outside of Houston, Texas. Your monthly mortgage of $4,200 is easily affordable, considering that you have 6. 2 million in a Cayman Islands account. An account that I've just drained to zero. The money was payment for illegal mercenary activities, crimes that I doubt you were prepared to divulge to Agent Donnelly. So the question for you is who would you rather make a deal with, the FBI or me?