8.9/103,623 votes#1 - Panopticon
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2014
Forced to take on new identities provided by Root, the team members try to adapt to their new lives. However, some find it hard to ignore The Machine's numbers, which puts them all at risk of being detected by Samaritan.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Erik Mountain, Greg Plageman
8.9/103,334 votes#2 - Nautilus
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2014
Despite not wanting to help with the new numbers, Finch's interest is piqued when the newest person of interest turns out to be a brilliant college student involved with a mysterious scavenger hunt.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love, Dan Dietz
8.4/102,857 votes#3 - Wingman
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2014
Finch recruits Fusco to stick close to the latest POI, a professional 'wingman', but learning how to approach women soon becomes the least of his worries. Reese must find a way to play by the rules at his new day job. The Machine sends Finch and Root on a mysterious errand.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Amanda Segel
8.3/102,839 votes#4 - Brotherhood
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2014
Reese's cover job as a detective at the NYPD becomes complicated when the young brother and sister he's protecting become targets of a gang investigation.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Denise Thé
9.0/103,400 votes#5 - Prophets
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2014
While Reese is forced to go to counseling for his violent tendencies, Root, Shaw and Finch try to help a new POI.
Director: Kenneth Fink
Writer: Lucas O'Connor
8.6/103,015 votes#6 - Pretenders
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2014
Reese, Shaw and Fusco must protect a unassuming office worker who stumbles into a dangerous conspiracy while moonlighting as fake detective. Finch travels to Hong Kong as part of his academic cover identity.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Ashley Gable
8.6/102,969 votes#7 - Honor Among Thieves
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/2014
Shaw joins a team of international thieves in order to keep tabs on the latest POI, but an unexpected turn of events puts her in danger of being detected by Samaritan. Also, Finch and Root undertake a dangerous sabotage mission.
Director: Sylvain White
Writer: David Slack
8.7/103,001 votes#8 - Point of Origin
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/2014
Reese volunteers as an NYPD police academy instructor in order to keep an eye on a talented young officer whose suspicious actions make him question her motives. Meanwhile, Martine – armed with information from Samaritan – hunts a member of the team.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Tony Camerino
9.4/104,108 votes#9 - The Devil You Know
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/2014
Reese must save Elias from the Brotherhood. He can't get any help from Root or Shaw since Shaw's cover is blown and Root is escorting her to underground.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Erik Mountain
9.1/103,504 votes#10 - The Cold War
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/16/2014
Samaritan shows its power by erasing crime from the city for a day in an attempt to force The Machine out of hiding.
Director: Michael Offer
Writer: Amanda Segel
9.8/1013,640 votes#11 - If-Then-Else
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/2015
Samaritan launches a cyber-attack on the stock exchange, forcing the team to risk their lives in a desperate mission to stop a global economic catastrophe.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Denise Thé
9.2/103,760 votes#12 - Control-Alt-Delete
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/2015
Control, who oversees the handling of relevant numbers for the government, begins to question the methods and intentions of the Samaritan program. Also, alarming news reports of a pair of vigilantes rampaging through the Northeast begin to surface.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Andy Callahan
8.8/103,069 votes#13 - M.I.A.
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/2015
Root and Reese investigate a small town in upstate New York that holds the key to Shaw's location... and whether she's dead or alive.
Director: Kevin Bray
Writer: Lucas O'Connor
8.4/102,709 votes#14 - Guilty
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/2015
When the Machine arranges for Finch to sit on the jury of a murder trial, he begins to suspect that a fellow juror is set to rig the proceedings. Meanwhile, Reese begins to open up to the department’s therapist.
Director: Kate Woods
Writer: David Slack
8.7/102,842 votes#15 - Q&A
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/2015
Reese tries to protect a software programmer with a mysterious second life, but it’s unclear which side of her life the threat is coming from. Meanwhile, Claire, a young hacker whom Finch tried to protect from Samaritan, reaches out to him for aid.
Director: Stephen Semel
Writer: Dan Dietz
7.9/102,640 votes#16 - Blunt
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/2015
Reese and Finch must protect Harper, a street-smart grifter, when her plan to steal cash from a medical marijuana dispensary goes up in smoke.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Amanda Segel, Greg Plageman
8.2/102,593 votes#17 - Karma
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/10/2015
Reese and Finch try to protect a psychologist whose unorthodox methods for helping his patients find closure could cost him dearly. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal Finch’s fragile state in the days following the bombing that killed his best friend, Nathan Ingram.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Sabir Pirzada, Hillary Benefiel
8.7/103,031 votes#18 - Skip
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/2015
Reese must protect a bounty hunter who refuses to allow the potential threat to her life sway her from the relentless pursuit of her target. Also, Finch tries to set the plan he began in Shanghai in motion.
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: Ashley Gable
8.8/102,980 votes#19 - Search and Destroy
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/2015
Reese and Finch scramble to protect a software CEO when his behavior becomes increasingly erratic following a hacker attack that reveals all his secrets and unravels his life.
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Zak Schwartz
8.8/103,951 votes#20 - Terra Incognita
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2015
Reese finds himself on a dangerous personal journey when he takes on a homicide case Detective Carter was never able to close.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love, Erik Mountain
9.5/104,601 votes#21 - Asylum
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/2015
Reese and Fusco get caught in the war between the two newest POIs, rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic. Also, a tantalizing clue to Shaw’s whereabouts leads Finch and Root into a possible trap, and Control goes rogue to uncover the true intentions of the Samaritan program.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Denise Thé, Andy Callahan
9.7/107,432 votes#22 - YHWH
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/2015
Finch and Root race to save The Machine, which has been located by the rival AI, Samaritan. Also, Reese is caught in the middle of the final showdown between rival crime bosses Elias and Dominic.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Dan Dietz, Greg Plageman
The Best Episodes of Person of Interest Season 4
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Panopticon" is the best rated episode of "Person of Interest" season 4. It scored 8.9/10 based on 3623 votes. Directed by Richard J. Lewis and written by Erik Mountain, Greg Plageman, it aired on 9/23/2014. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Nautilus".