The BEST episodes of Person of Interest season 4
Every episode of Person of Interest season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Person of Interest season 4!
An ex-CIA agent and a mysterious billionaire prevent violent crimes with the help of an all-seeing machine that can predict events before they happen.
#1 - If-Then-Else
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2015
Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, forcing the team to risk their lives in a desperate mission to stop a global catastrophe.
#2 - YHWH
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/2015
Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan. Also, Reese is caught in the middle of the final showdown between rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic.
#3 - Asylum
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/2015
Reese and Fusco get caught in the war between the two newest POIs, rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic. Also, a tantalizing clue to Shaw’s whereabouts leads Finch and Root into a possible trap, and Control goes rogue to uncover the true intentions of the Samaritan program.
#4 - Nautilus
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2014
Although Finch insists that he no longer wishes to help with new numbers, his interest is piqued when Reese learns that the newest POI is a brilliant college student engaged in a mysterious, life-and-death scavenger hunt. Now he must decide if he can help without alerting Samaritan.
#5 - Panopticon
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2014
In the fourth season premiere, the team must devise new ways to continue their work without being detected by Samaritan after they're forced to take on new identities created by Root. Some, however, find it hard to ignore the Machine's numbers, putting them all at risk of being seen by the rival machine.
#6 - Prophets
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2014
Finch is suspicious when a gifted political pollster's number comes up at the same time that his typically ironclad predictions go wrong – and believes that the two events are linked. Meanwhile, Reese is sidelined by a direct order from Captain Moreno. Jason Ritter guest stars as pollster Simon Lee.
#7 - Control-Alt-Delete
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2015
Control, who oversees the handling of relevant numbers for the government, begins to question the methods and intentions of the Samaritan program. Root and Reese start looking for Shaw, whom they believe is still alive.
#8 - Wingman
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2014
Finch recruits Fusco to stay close to the latest POI, a professional "wingman" whose number has come up, but learning how to approach women soon becomes the least of his worries. Meanwhile, Reese must find a way to play by the rules at his new day job as the Machine sends Finch and Root on a mysterious errand.
#9 - The Devil You Know
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2014
Reese must save Elias from the Brotherhood. He can't get any help from Root or Shaw since Shaw's cover is blown and Root is escorting her to underground.
#10 - The Cold War
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/2014
Samaritan demonstrates its true power by taking control of New York for 48 hours and erasing crime from the city in an attempt to lure The Machine out of hiding.
#11 - Honor Among Thieves
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2014
Shaw joins a team of international thieves in order to keep tabs on the latest POI, but an unexpected turn of events puts her in danger of being detected by Samaritan. Finch and Root, meanwhile, undertake a dangerous sabotage mission.
#12 - Pretenders
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2014
Reese, Shaw and Fusco must protect an unassuming office worker who stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as a fake detective. Meanwhile, Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his academic cover identity.
#13 - Search and Destroy
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2015
Reese and Finch scramble to protect a software CEO when his behavior becomes increasingly erratic following a hacker attack that reveals all his secrets and unravels his life.
#14 - Point of Origin
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2014
Reese volunteers as an NYPD police academy instructor in order to keep an eye on a talented young officer whose suspicious actions make him question her motives. Meanwhile, Martine – armed with information from Samaritan – hunts a member of the team.
#15 - M.I.A.
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2015
Root and Reese’s hunt for Shaw takes them to a small town in upstate New York where it becomes apparent that not everything is as idyllic as it seems. Also, Fusco teams with a former POI to tackle the newest number.
#16 - Skip
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/2015
Reese must protect a bounty hunter who refuses to let the potential threat to her life deter her from the relentless pursuit of her target. Also, Finch tries to set the plan he began in Shanghai in motion.
#17 - Brotherhood
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2014
Reese's cover job as an NYPD detective becomes complicated when the young brother and sister he's protecting become targets of a gang investigation.
#18 - Q&A
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/2015
Reese tries to protect a software programmer with a mysterious second life, but it’s unclear which side of her life the threat is coming from. Meanwhile, Claire, a young hacker whom Finch tried to protect from Samaritan, reaches out to him for aid.
#19 - Blunt
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2015
Reese and Finch must protect Harper, a street-smart grifter, when her plan to steal cash from a medical marijuana dispensary goes up in smoke.
#20 - Guilty
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2015
When the Machine arranges for Finch to sit on the jury of a murder trial, he begins to suspect that a fellow juror is set to rig the proceedings. Meanwhile, Reese begins to open up to the department’s therapist.
#21 - Karma
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2015
Reese and Finch try to protect a psychologist whose unorthodox methods for helping his patients find closure could cost him dearly. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal Finch’s fragile state in the days following the bombing that killed his best friend, Nathan Ingram.
#22 - Terra Incognita
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2015
Reese finds himself on a perilous personal journey when he takes on a homicide case Detective Carter was never able to close.