What happens when Jesus Christ gets recruited by Ben Linus from LOST? Well it's not what you think, though I'm sure some graphic novelist could come up with an interesting treatment. What you do get is Person of Interest from CBS, at least you get the actors who played those characters. From Bad Robot Productions, and created by Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises), comes Person of Interest. Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) is John Reese an affected former Special Forces soldier and CIA Tactical Officer who finds himself homeless and strikes out and neutralizes five thugs on a New York City subway when they bother him. After a short encounter with a suspicious detective played by Taraji P. Henson (Boston Legal) He is released from the police station and whisked out by a lawyer who has been hired by Michael Emerson's (LOST) Mr. Finch a mysterious figure who we find out is thought dead as is John Reese.
After 9/11, we learn that Finch was the architect of a government computer project intended to predict future terrorist attacks. It was decided at some point to shut off prediction results that were unimportant to the prediction of terror events even though they were crimes. Finch has secured a "back door" way to a list of the social security numbers of those who are going to be an integral part of predicted crimes, either victim or perpetrator. Thus he can predict a crime before it is going to happen.
The first person of interest (which both relates to the people on the list and John Reese whose bedraggled homeless personage, with fingerprints lifted from a water cup is wanted by the police for questioning) is an Assistant DA who is prosecuting a murder case with other implications of wrong doing. In kind of a cross between Burn Notice and 24, Reese uses his spy skills to surveil the unsuspecting ADA. Flashbacks to 2001 of happier times (even while watching the events of 9/11 on a television) in Mexico with a romantic interest serve to give us the background story of John Reese and how he finds himself where he is today. The production of the show weaves in conventional and surveillance cameras to show the big brother apparatus that has exploded since 9/11 and how Reese and others use it. Caviezel is more than convincing as troubled Reese and Emerson shines as enigmatinc Finch. Filling in both Reese's and Finch's backgrounds and seeing where the prediction system will send them offers many directions in which this show can go. I look forward to the weeks ahead.
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