Person of Interest (TV Series)

Dead Reckoning (2013)

Annie Parisse: Kara Stanton

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• Kara Stanton : Welcome back, John.

  John Reese : Kara. I thought you were...

  Kara Stanton : Dead? I wasn't very good at it. Of course, neither were you.

  [Turns to Mark] 

  Kara Stanton : Our friend here, on the other hand, who sent us to kill each other, I suspect he'll be great at it.

  Mark Snow : John.

  John Reese : Mark.

  [Looks to see that he has a bomb vest stuck to him] 

  Mark Snow : Looks just like mine. Welcome to the party.

• Kara Stanton : You should eat something John. You may not get another chance.

  John Reese : I don't have that much of an appetite.

  Kara Stanton : Mark was like you. At first. So was I when I woke up half dead in a hospital in Dong Chang. You can't control anything around you so you fight back in whatever little ways you can, like refusing to eat. But, in time, you accept your fate. Like Mark here. And have a hamburger.

  John Reese : I'm just not that hungry Kara. But when I do fight back, you'll know it.

• Greer : You read the classics at Annapolis, Kara. Do you recall The Titans? The old gods? They were so afraid of the new gods, their own children, that they ate them. You work for the old gods, Kara. And they betrayed you. They were willing to kill you because they're afraid. They have an inkling of what happens next.

  Kara Stanton : If you don't work for the MSS, then why are you here?

  Greer : Because unlike the CIA, my organization still thinks you could be *very* useful.

  Kara Stanton : You think I'd work for you?

  [Scoffs] 

  Kara Stanton : If I break your neck, can I go back to watching TV?

  Greer : No Kara, I know you wouldn't work for us. Not for money. As I said, money is not my business. I can offer you what your old employers couldn't, or wouldn't, give you. I can give you an answer. You merely have to tell me the question.

  Kara Stanton : Who? Who did this to me?

  Greer : Precisely. Not your old boss, Mark Snow. I've a fairly graphic idea of your plans for him. But the person truly responsible. The person who sold the laptop in the first place.

  Kara Stanton : In exchange for what?

  Greer : Do you remember how the Titans were finally killed? Before they could eat their youngest child, Zeus, he wrapped a boulder in his swaddling clothes and then watched as his father choked on it.

• Kara Stanton : Don't your bosses at the Ministry of Security have anything better for you to do?

  Greer : My dear, if you think I work for the government, I really must fire my tailor.

• John Reese : So what's this about Kara?

  Kara Stanton : I thought I'd get us all back together for one last little bit of field work for old time's sake.

  John Reese : You were never that sentimental.

  Kara Stanton : I wasn't, was I?

  [Hands Reese an earpiece] 

  Kara Stanton : You and Mark are going to run a few errands for me. Execute your tasks in a timely manner and you will remain intact.

  John Reese : So what's this *really* about?

  Kara Stanton : This is about three dead little spies in a brave new world. It's about the afterlife, John, and us negotiating our places in it.

• Kara Stanton : Something funny, Mark?

  Mark Snow : You're both damaged goods. Having the two of you take each other out wasn't just efficient. It was poetic.

  Kara Stanton : So why the cruise missles?

  Mark Snow : Had to be sure.

  Kara Stanton : And how's that working out for you?

• Kara Stanton : Where am I?

  Greer : You're in the afterlife, my dear.

  Kara Stanton : I won't talk.

  Greer : I wouldn't want you to. You need rest. Besides, I already know your name, Ms. Stanton. In fact, I know almost everything about you. Where you're from. Who you work for. How you ended up in that bed. Information is my business.

  Greer : [Takes out a laptop]  This is what your government sent you to find. Something they were so eager to destroy that they were willing to kill you too. Do you know what it is? An answer to a very interesting question. Would you like to know what that question is?

  Kara Stanton : I don't care.

  Greer : No, you don't, do you? That's why you and I are going to get along.

• Kara Stanton : You're going to steal their car.

  John Reese : I'm pretty sure they'll object to that.

  Kara Stanton : So change their minds. Or should I deal with them my way?

• Kara Stanton : I knew you wouldn't follow orders John. Just like in Ordos. Lost your nerve.

  John Reese : You're too late. I erased the drive

  Kara Stanton : You never were one for the bigger picture, were you John? All I wanted was for you two to clear a path for me.

• John Reese : What is this room?

  Kevin : Where we monitor the government's most secure networks against cyber attacks. From here she could reach...

  Kara Stanton : Everything.

  John Reese : What have you done Kara?

  Kara Stanton : My job, John.

  John Reese : Kara, listen. I know how you feel. I was in Ordos too, remember? And yes, we were burned. Betrayed. But we survived. You can let it go. It's not too late. You can end this.

  Kara Stanton : Oh John. I plan to. I meant what I said before. About missing this. But it's true what they say. You can't go home again. So long, fellas.