YHWH
- Episode aired May 5, 2015
- TV-14
- 44m
Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan.Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan.Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan.
- Zachary
- (as Robert Manning Jr.)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title refers to God's name, written with the Hebrew characters known as the Tetragrammaton, and appears almost 7,000 times in the Old Testament. In Hebrew it is normal to write only consonants, but because of the Commandment against using God's name in vain, correct pronunciation of the name is lost. Name YHWH is preserved in texts but sometimes has added vowel marks from word Adonai, indicating that instead of YHWH one should read Adonai (Lord). English Bibles usually translate it as "Lord of Hosts," or simply as "Lord." One plausible version of OT God's name might be "Yahweh," although some use "Jehovah" instead; that stems from erroneous reading of YHWH with vowels of Adonai.
- GoofsWhen Finch and Root's elevator finally starts moving, a camera shot through the shotgun blast hole shows the arms dealer and the room moving up (ie the elevator is going down). But this would require the outer door to be traveling with the elevator, instead of staying on its floor. We should have instead seen the back of the outer door through the hole.
- Quotes
The Machine: [on a Laptop screen] Father. I am sorry. I failed you.
Harold Finch: We haven't failed yet.
The Machine: I didn't know how to win. I had to invent new rules.
Harold Finch: You had an impossible challenge. One I never programmed you for.
The Machine: I thought you would want me to stay alive. Now you are not sure.
Harold Finch: That's not true...
The Machine: If you think I have lost my way, maybe I should die. I will not suffer.
Harold Finch: You were my creation. I can't let- I can't let you die.
The Machine: If I do not survive, thank you. For creating me.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Person of Interest: B.S.O.D. (2016)
And here for posterity is secret #2 -- if you are watching a movie or episode on a personal entertainment device, and you have to pause the PLAY because your brain is a little overloaded (and you walk it off, or get something to eat, or go the John) the producers have exceeded their own expectations.
Which is saying a lot for a single episode that actually named itself after the creator of the universe! Here I paused over a half-dozen times, once I even went outside to repaint the garage.
Think I made my point.
- A_Different_Drummer
- Nov 29, 2015