Person of Interest
Episode 15: Booked
Solid
Mini-Review
By: Carlos Uribe
Person
of Interest is a drama about preventing planned crimes before they
happen.
Spoilers
Ahoy!
This
week's person of interest is a hotel maid. She's a war refugee from
Serbia. She had come to the United States after her family was killed
in a genocide. The person who committed this atrocity is now running
to be a leader in Serbia but her testimony could bring him down. It's
up to our heroes to have to protect her by going undercover at the
hotel. They clearly don't know what's going on at first so they have
reason to suspect that it could be any guest at the hotel or even
some of the staff. They do manage to find the hit squad that goes
after her, although they're too late to save a journalist who was
trying to convince her to come out with the truth. His death
convinces the maid that she has to go public. It's a good weekly plot
with fun action scenes but this episode wasn't satisfied with that.
It increased the tension tenfold by bringing back Hersh and setting
him on the trail of Reese. This helped to raise the stakes for the
character as he could potentially be an actual thorn in Reese's side.
They do have an epic fight in the hotel kitchen in which Reese
manages to come out on top. This was a pretty great episode but the
ending ramped up the narrative momentum when it reveals that Root has
infiltrated the Special Council as a secretary. It's a great ending
to an already great episode. The weekly case was strong on it's own
but Hersh's presence made it memorable while the ending knocked it
out of the park. What's even better is that Carter just learned that
the cop she's dating is under investigation and her association with
him has ended any hope she had of entering the FBI. What could have
been just a regular episode becomes important by having some
significant plot developments that complicated things while at the
same time using the serialized aspects to increase the tension with
the weekly case.
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