michael emerson played mr finch in person of interest.
michael emerson played mr finch in person of interest.
who plays mr finch in person of interest?
michael emerson
john reese (jim caviezel), a former cia agent and army special forces soldier-turned homeless alcoholic, has a struggle with a group of hot-headed teenagers on the subway. after this, he is extracted from police custody before homicide detective joss carter (taraji p. henson) can confront him on his links to previous killings discovered through analysis of his fingerprints on the police system. reese is brought to a mysterious and somewhat secretive billionaire, harold finch (michael emerson), who is the creator of the next-generation software known simply as "the machine". after 9/11, finch developed a computer program that can sift through enormous amounts of data, looking for patterns of behavior or activity that would predict another attack. it also provided information about individuals who could be in danger; it can predict the identity of a person involved in a premeditated crime that will happen at some point in the future – however, finch's back-door link to the machine only provides the social security number of the person, and offers no clues to their involvement or when the crime will take place. finch, who feels a need to do something to help these people, enlists reese to aid him in preventing these crimes. finch offers reese a job to do this, as well as give reese a purpose following the death of his girlfriend, jessica (susan misner) (which is the source of his depression). the first on his list is diane hansen (natalie zea), an assistant district attorney currently working on a major prosecution of a prominent drug killing. reese agrees to help and begins by watching her. reese soon learns that hansen is not the victim, but the perpetrator running a ring of corrupt police officers and planning to kill a fellow da, wheeler (brian d'arcy james). after blackmailing one of the corrupt officers, detective lionel fusco (kevin chapman), into being his source of information inside the nypd, reese reveals hansen's corruption to an open court, kills detective stills (james hanlon), the leader of the corrupt gang of cops, and links fusco to the crime to ensure his future cooperation. having previously rejected finch's offer of work, reese recants and agrees to continue preventing violent crimes.
pilot (person of interest)
the following day, the group returns to the school to investigate further. the doctor confronts mr finch, who confirms that he and other staff members are krillitanes — a composite species that takes desirable attributes of the species they conquer. he attempts to subvert the doctor, without success. mickey and k9 remain in sarah jane's car for surveillance. with the doctor's help, sarah jane and rose discover that the school computers — bolstered by the students' enhanced intelligence — are part of a krillitane effort to solve the "skasis paradigm", a theory of everything. mr finch propositions the doctor a second time, but the doctor again refuses, and they run from mr finch. after kenny (a student who had not eaten the chips) alerts mickey to the students' plight, mickey crashes sarah jane's car through the school's doors and unplugs the computers, allowing the children to flee. the doctor leads the krillitanes to the kitchen. upon their arrival, k9 detonates the chip oil container, saturating the krillitanes and blowing them up with k9.
school reunion (doctor who)