Root Cause (Person of Interest) Quotes

Root Cause (Person of Interest) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Root Cause stopped airing in 1970.

It features Bryan Burk, Greg Plageman, and Jonathan Nolan; J. J. Abrams as producer, and Ramin Djawadi in charge of musical score.

Each episode of Root Cause (Person of Interest) is 44 minutes long.

Root Cause (Person of Interest) Quotes

• (Student) "Hey, I reserved the room."
• (Harold Finch) "Take a break --"
• (Student) "Nice work, dude."

• (John Reese) "In frame jobs, the decoy usually doesn't make it. If they're not taken out at the scene, they're eliminated soon after. Staged to look like a suicide or accident."
• (Harold Finch) "Are you speaking from experience, Mr. Reese?"

• (John Reese) "I hear we have you to thank for catching Matheson."
• (Zoe Morgan) "Glad I could help. Although there is a matter of payment. Buy me a drink?"
• (John Reese) "You once told me a story about a guy who could say two words that would make the reporters go away. Ever figure out what he said?"

• (John Reese) "Whoever is behind this left little to chance. But I need you to stay focused, Scott, so I can get you back to your family."
• (Scott Powell) "I doubt I got a family to go back to right now."
• (John Reese) "I know about your job. I know about the money, the lies. Yeah, I now what it's like to live inside a lie. I've lived there for so long it feels like there's no way out. But there always is."
• (Scott Powell) "I just needed a little more time, you know. To get a job, to get on my feet. I was going to tell Leslie. But now it's too late."
• (John Reese) "No, it's not. We're going to get you out of this."

• (Harold Finch) "Were you able to convince Mr. Billick to abandon his plan to kill his ex-wife?"
• (John Reese) "I'm working on it, Finch."

• (Zoe Morgan) "Whoever killed Delancey, it goes way beyond politics. Prior to running for office, Delancey owned a contracting company. D. A. 's office has quietly been preparing an investigation into the company for several months."
• (Harold Finch) "How do you know that?"
• (Harold Finch) "Never mind."
• (Zoe Morgan) "There were allegations of corner cutting and payoffs to city inspectors."
• (Harold Finch) "Strange way for Delancey to run his business, considering his anti-corruption platform."
• (Zoe Morgan) "It is. But he wasn't running the business."
• (Harold Finch) "Matheson Delancey's campaign manager."
• (Zoe Morgan) "And business partner."
• (Harold Finch) "For two years, Delancey is in full-time campaign mode not really running the day-to-day of his business."
• (Zoe Morgan) "So the bribes and the corner cutting they must have happened under Matheson's watch."
• (Harold Finch) "Unless he could say Delancey was really running things."
• (Zoe Morgan) "Which he could if Delancey wasn't around to defend himself."
• (Harold Finch) "Even if this was true, we have no proof that Matheson had Delancey killed."
• (Zoe Morgan) "Let's go get some."

• (Harold Finch) "I haven't been able to unmask the hacker's ip. But here's a vulnerability in the firewall. Yes. Okay, now we're in."
• (John Reese) "Never doubted you."
• (Harold Finch) "Now let's see who's behind the curtain. Wait, something's wrong."
• (John Reese) "What is it?"
• (Harold Finch) "We didn't hack in, we were let in. It's a honeypot. Program is sophisticated. They're using a worm to infect any devices connected to our private network. Including our phones. They're listening to us right now. Destroy your phone. You know how to find me."
• (Harold Finch) "Who are you?"

• (Harold Finch) "If someone starts shooting, what do you expect me to do?"
• (John Reese) "You'll think of something."

• (Harold Finch) "Whoever shot congressman Delancey and framed Powell went to a lot of trouble. They had to hack his computer, they spoofed his Internet search history and emails. They knew exactly what information to manipulate so that he looked guilty to the police."
• (John Reese) "Fooled us. And your machine."
• (Harold Finch) "No, the machine doesn't get fooled. If Powell isn't the threat, then he must be in danger."

• (Harold Finch) "I'll be joining you tonight."
• (John Reese) "Ever been on a stakeout, Finch?"
• (Harold Finch) "No. Should I bring anything?"
• (John Reese) "Warm clothes, something to read, and an empty water bottle."
• (Harold Finch) "Empty?"
• (John Reese) "There are no bathrooms on a stakeout, Finch."

• (Scott Powell) "I could die. And; and the person who I love most in life would think that I'm nothing more than a killer. Do you have any idea what that feels like?"
• (John Reese) "Actually, I do. Of course, in my case, it was true."

• (Harold Finch) "Our client was at congressman Delancey's fundraiser."
• (Zoe Morgan) "As a guest?"
• (Harold Finch) "The shooter."
• (Harold Finch) "He was framed. We're looking for the actual shooter."
• (Zoe Morgan) "Well, you boys certainly do like a challenge, don't you?"

• (Pete Matheson) "I hired you because I thought you could handle this."
• (Unnamed) "And I am."
• (Pete Matheson) "Then why is Powell still alive? You assured me of your abilities. And right now, I'm not seeing any of them."
• (Unnamed) "I could have every email you've sent, contact you've called and password you've used. I could empty your bank accounts, liquidate your stocks, and even send your ex-wife the location of your house in bermuda."
• (Pete Matheson) "All right, stop it, stop it. You've made your point. Powell and his friend will be taken care of."
• (Unnamed) "You just make sure to have my final payment ready."

• (Harold Finch) "This is odd. Those threatening emails that Powell sent to the congressman they're being flagged by my system -- The ip addresses match, but there are big discrepancies in the TTL values, and the headers are failing to authenticate."
• (John Reese) "What are you getting at, Finch?"
• (Harold Finch) "Those anonymous emails didn't originate in Powell's laptop. They were copied onto it from a remote location."
• (John Reese) "Finch, I'm more interested in finding the guy with the gun than I am in fixing his computer."

• (John Reese) "You ever crave a more conventional life, Finch?"
• (Harold Finch) "If by conventional, you mean a life without the numbers, it has crossed my mind."
• (John Reese) "It looks like Powell has a pretty normal one."
• (Harold Finch) "If there's one thing our little venture has proven, Mr. Reese, it's that people are rarely what they seem."

• (Zoe Morgan) "A little advice: if you're going to do something wrong -- do it right."

• (Harold Finch) "Thank you for meeting me on such short notice, Ms. Morgan."
• (Zoe Morgan) "I work when I'm needed, Mr --"
• (Harold Finch) "Harold please."
• (Zoe Morgan) "I am curious how you got my number."
• (Harold Finch) "Mutual friend. He assisted you on a Delicate negotiation with a certain pharmaceutical company."
• (Zoe Morgan) "So you're the guy on the other end of the phone. How is John?"
• (Harold Finch) "On the run, as usual."

• (Detective Joss Carter) "I always imagined you in the back of my car -- but in handcuffs."

• (Leslie Powell) "I don't understand. One man took my husband away from all of you?"
• (Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly) "We believe he's part of an armed group; possibly terrorists. Did your husband have any Radical political views, Mrs. Powell?"
• (Leslie Powell) "Terrorists? No. Scott would never be involved in anything like that. If you don't believe me, ask his friends, his coworkers."
• (Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly) "You do know that your husband's been out of work for the past eight months?"
• (Leslie Powell) "No. Scott goes to work every day."
• (Special Agent Nicholas Donnelly) "Have you taken a look at your finances recently? It seems pretty clear that you don't know your husband as well as you think, Mrs. Powell."

• (John Reese) "You follow up on the hacker?"
• (Harold Finch) "She seems to cover her tracks as efficiently as you do. I was able to trace the signal to an address which the FBI received by way of an anonymous tip. Sadly, they were too late. It seems the hacker was using the dorm room of an unsuspecting college student who had been on winter break. I need to determine the damage to my system. I'll contact you when another number comes up."
• (John Reese) "Take care, Finch."
• (Unnamed) "Hello. FBI paid me a visit. Good thing I travel light."
• (Harold Finch) "Who are you?"
• (Unnamed) "My name? I've had a few. You can call me Root."
• (Harold Finch) "Did you kill Matheson?"
• (Unnamed) "Matheson was a causality of his own weakness"
• (Harold Finch) "Why did you contact me?"
• (Unnamed) "I wanted to acknowledge a worthy opponent. And say I'm looking forward to the next time -- Harold."

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