Person of Interest (TV Series)

God Mode (2013)

Peter Friedman: Lawrence Szilard

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• Root : We want to know about Northern Lights.

  Lawrence Szilard : I have no idea what you're talking about. I have nothing to say.

  Root : Your daughter, Christine. In LA, where you hid her. Such a shame if people running Northern Lights got a hold of her.

  Harold Finch : Please, there's no need for that.

  [to Lawrence] 

  Harold Finch : I can tell you how it began. You were approached by a woman named Alicia Corwin.

  Lawrence Szilard : She was killed last year.

  Root : Such a tragedy.

  Lawrence Szilard : All of my colleagues on that project died in suspicious circumstances in the past two years. As far as I know, I'm the last one alive.

  Harold Finch : And you're the last person who can tell us about Northern Lights.

• Lawrence Szilard : We were contracted to build a structure. It had to be hidden in plain sight and have power for 50,000 people. At first, you know, I said, "That's a joke. What about a nuclear reactor?" The next day, I was given specs for a nuclear reprocessing facility and the army corps of engineers as a work force. And then it started to arrive. Disguised as radioactive material to evade scrutiny. We were just told to - to plug it in. They would take care of the rest, but I've always been the curious type.

  Harold Finch : So you took a look at the data.

  Lawrence Szilard : Just the I/O. The rest was encrypted. But what I saw... it was like a glimpse of the future. Elegant, intuitive. Practically alive.

  [Turns to Root] 

  Lawrence Szilard : It's speaking to you right now, isn't it?