- Sameen Shaw: You think I should have a hobby? Now, what would that be? Hanging around a derelict library with you, your poorly-socialized guard dog, and Bear here?
- Harold Finch: Bit of a come down from saving the world, I guess, but we have our moments.
- Sameen Shaw: Is this your hobby? Running a halfway home for retired assassins?
- Harold Finch: Hate to see talent go to waste.
- Sameen Shaw: Awfully trusting of you, now, isn't it?
- Harold Finch: I'm quite confident, Miss Shaw, that you are the first person who has ever said that to me.
- Monica Jacobs: May I? This was one of my babies. Completely rebuilt the interface, disabled the portmapper.
- Harold Finch: Secondary authentication?
- Monica Jacobs: Added for access to the FTP and SNMP.
- John Reese: [Amused watching the tech talk] If you two would rather be alone...?
- John Reese: I thought I just might find you here.
- Sameen Shaw: And you decided to drop in for a visit?
- John Reese: Stakeouts can get a little tedious.
- Sameen Shaw: And what made you think I wanted the company? The time I shot you or the time I ditched you at the cemetery?
- John Reese: I'm persistent.
- Sameen Shaw: Or maybe you just can't take a hint.
- John Greer: Unfortunately, we've had to pull up stakes in Rylatech. But, as expected, the US is entirely focused on China's involvement and not ours. Oh, one small wrinkle. The breach of our encrypted network appears to be the work of a single individual. I shall do everything in my power to determine his identity and render him... irrelevant. Our larger operation is, of course, still on schedule.
- John Reese: Darlene and Evan Cole. Your former partner's parents.
- Sameen Shaw: Dead partner.
- John Reese: The government framed Cole as a domestic terrorist. I thought you might come back here to set the record straight.
- Sameen Shaw: How'd you figure that?
- John Reese: It's what I'd do.
- Sameen Shaw: Control killed their son. They didn't need to take their memory of him. Even the CIA wouldn't stoop that low. They'd just sweep their mess under the rug and give him a star on the wall.
- John Reese: Your former employers killed Cole for discovering the truth, and nothing's stopping them from killing his parents, too. But you already know this. That's why you're out here and not in there.
- Sameen Shaw: Next time you want some fresh air, pick a different spot.
- John Reese: A friend once told me, in our line of work, we walk in the dark. Doesn't mean we have to walk in it alone.
- Detective Cal Beecher: [Elias has his chess board out] Hope you don't expect me to play
- Carl Elias: No offense, Detective, but my opponent is someone who brings a little more to the table, and you're breaking my concentration.
- Detective Cal Beecher: I'll cut to it, then. Detective named Szymanski. Organized crime. Was he on your payroll?
- Carl Elias: Afraid you made a bad move, Detective.
- Detective Cal Beecher: Just trying to get some answers.
- Carl Elias: Then start asking better questions. Who benefits from Szymanski's arrest and murder? How could one arrange these acts without being suspected? And who's at the center of the strings that were quietly pulled? See, I think you know something you don't even know you know, which means you're playing a chess game of your own, detective. You just don't realize it yet.
- Detective Cal Beecher: Did you give money to Szymanski?
- Carl Elias: Absolutely... and he threw it in our faces. He was clean, and you got played by HR. It was nice meeting you, Detective Beecher. Word of advice. Choose your next move wisely, or it's going to be chosen for you.
- Harold Finch: Ms. Jacobs, how are you doing?
- Monica Jacobs: Oh, not bad, considering the company I devoted the last ten years of my life to is under Federal investigation. And, please, we breached firewalls together. Call me Monica.
- Harold Finch: Good evening, Mr. Reese. Have you made contact with your quarry?
- John Reese: Not yet. You keeping track of yours?
- Harold Finch: Yes. Thanks to the chips in the ID cards, I can see the location of every employee in the building.
- John Reese: Identify any potential threat?
- Harold Finch: So far, just overwork and the consumption of raw seafood. Ms. Jacobs is dedicated, passionate, technically astute.
- John Reese: You've got a crush on this number, don't you, Finch?
- Harold Finch: A human being can recognize qualities in another human being without - She's leaving her office.
- Officer Patrick Simmons: Beecher's looking for answers. One of our guys at Rikers saw him, with Elias. Looks like your talk with him didn't do the trick.
- Alonzo Quinn: That's a damn shame.
- Officer Patrick Simmons: We could promote him out of town. Desk job upstate.
- Alonzo Quinn: I always told Cal to be careful. Being a cop's a dangerous job.
- Harold Finch: There's a matter that we need to discuss. The night we broke into Rylatech, I recognized some of the encrypted code in the spy's network. It had a signature similar to that virus that Stanton uploaded. I was able to crack the virus's code and learn two things.
- John Reese: I'm all ears, Finch.
- Harold Finch: First, only a fraction of the stolen data made it to the Chinese government. The rest went to another organization. I believe they may have placed the final call to Baxter. I dug further, but all I could come up with was a name - Decima Technologies.
- John Reese: And the second thing?
- Harold Finch: Whoever Decima is, I believe they created the virus to find and infect a single target: The Machine.
- Harold Finch: [Playing chess, Elias has removed some of his own pieces] Interesting strategy, Mr. Elias. Care to explain?
- Carl Elias: Trying to learn how to win at a disadvantage.
- Harold Finch: I assume we're talking about more than just chess. Rook and knight, valuable pieces. The Assistant District Attorney and Detective Szymanski. Their deaths benefited your enemy, Peter Yogorov.
- Carl Elias: That's very good, Harold.
- Harold Finch: And I'm in touch enough to know that a number of your associates inside have recently been transferred elsewhere.
- [Looks at the board]
- Harold Finch: Who are you playing against? The Russians? HR?
- Carl Elias: A ghost. Someone I'd very much like to identify.
- Harold Finch: From the board, I'd say the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
- Carl Elias: Don't count me out just yet, Harold. I might have a few moves left.
- Detective Cal Beecher: Hey. I know you don't want to talk to me. But look, about Szymanski...
- Joss Carter: There's nothing to talk about. Unless you're ready to tell me the name of your CI who got him killed.
- Harold Finch: Mr. Reese, I have news.
- John Reese: [Being fired upon] Can it wait?
- Harold Finch: I've cracked Lee's encrypted emails. They're messages, reporting back to his father, a high-ranking official in the Chinese Communist Party.
- John Reese: What are you saying?
- Harold Finch: Lee wasn't spying for a company. He was spying for his country.
- John Reese: We just picked a fight with the People's Republic of China.
- Harold Finch: I've located the end users receiving the traffic.
- Monica Jacobs: You mean the spies?
- Harold Finch: Yes. It appears that we may have underestimated the scale of the operation.
- Monica Jacobs: [Looks] That's over half of our senior-level employees in every department.
- Harold Finch: All this rerouted traffic seems to be coming from an unending number of networks belonging to the government.
- Monica Jacobs: Military, banking institutions. These are Rylatech clients. But how - Our routers and switches. They've been compromised. They have back doors. The spies aren't spying on Rylatech. They're using Rylatech's technology...
- Harold Finch: To spy on the entire country.
- Monica Jacobs: You're firing me?
- Martin Baxter: Effective immediately, with civil and criminal charges pending.
- Monica Jacobs: Martin, I've worked for you for ten years.
- Martin Baxter: Then you can afford a good lawyer.
- Ross Haskell: I believe our network solutions proposal says it all. Rylatech's routers and switches have a 99. 7% reliability rating.
- TOVO Networking Advisor: On the basis of what?
- Ross Haskell: Independent tests run alongside three of our five main competitors. Our firmware is self-upgrading.
- TOVO Networking Advisor: Like everyone else's, including Censatek - who had better pastries. Look, what is your name again?
- Monica Jacobs: Ross Haskell, Head of Product Development...
- TOVO Networking Advisor: Ross, our VP didn't come here to listen to dry stats. Why should we use Rylatech's products?
- Monica Jacobs: Because you already do. We've spent the last 15 years building the backbone of the internet, and our latest components will set the standard for the next 15. Even the Department Of Defense trusts us to get their data from point A to point B. But, if you want just one reason, Martin Baxter. He started Rylatech in his parents' garage and built it into this. That determination, we all have it. We'll never stop working hard for you. Or, go with Censatek, who is known for offering kickbacks to networking execs... along with their nice pastries.
- Martin Baxter: I know how this looks, Monica.
- Monica Jacobs: How it *looks*? You're a murderer, and a spy for China.
- Martin Baxter: No! I'm just protecting what I've spent my life building.
- Monica Jacobs: How could you do this?
- Martin Baxter: imple economics. When the dot-com bust hit, we were bankrupt. A prime takeover target. And then an opportunity presented itself.
- John Reese: To save your company by selling out your country.
- Martin Baxter: The world has changed, Monica. There is no value placed on outdated notions like patriotism anymore. And companies like ours, we have to constantly look forward to the future so that we can prepare for what comes next.
- Monica Jacobs: And what's that? Selling information instead of protecting it?
- Martin Baxter: Controlling it. Because whoever controls information will control the future.