The Worst Episodes of Person of Interest
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John Reese, former CIA paramilitary operative, is presumed dead and teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch to prevent violent crimes in New York City by initiating their own type of justice. With the special training that Reese has had in Covert Operations and Finch's genius software inventing mind, the two are a perfect match for the job that they have to complete. With the help of surveillance equipment, they work "outside the law" and get the right criminal behind bars.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Person of Interest" is "Ghosts", rated 7.9/10 from 4395 user votes. It was directed by Richard J. Lewis and written by Greg Plageman, Jonathan Nolan. "Ghosts" aired on 9/29/2011 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Blunt".
7.9/10 4,395 votes#1 - Ghosts
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2011
Reese and Finch question the machine's reliability when they are asked to investigate a teenager who was killed years earlier; Finch remembers the origin of the machine.
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Writer: Greg Plageman, Jonathan Nolan
7.9/10 2,587 votes#2 - 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: Greg Plageman, Amanda Segel
8.0/10 4,086 votes#3 - Mission Creep
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/2011
Reese goes undercover to find the threat surrounding the next person on Finch's list: a young army veteran named Joey Durban.
Director: Steven DePaul
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
8.0/10 2,904 votes#4 - Reasonable Doubt
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2013
The team must figure out if a prominent lawyer orchestrated the murder of her husband or if she is being framed; Carter is spotted with Reese by her new partner.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love
8.1/10 3,741 votes#5 - Foe
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/2011
When Reese and Finch discover that their latest POI has connections to Cold War Soviet espionage circles, they quickly learn how covert ops were handled in a world before The Machine.
Director: Milan Cheylov
Writer: Sean Hennen
8.1/10 3,392 votes#6 - Wolf and Cub
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/2012
The Machine identifies Darren, a teenager whose brother was just murdered, as the next POI. Meanwhile, Finch is growing concerned that the son of his former business partner is dangerously close to finding out about the Machine.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Michael Sopczynski, Nic Van Zeebroeck
8.1/10 2,978 votes#7 - Triggerman
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2012
When The Machine gives them the number of a mob enforcer whose life becomes endangered, Reese and Finch must decide whether to intervene or allow karma to balance the scales of justice. Meanwhile, Finch seeks aid from an unlikely source.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Erik Mountain
8.1/10 2,973 votes#8 - Til Death
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2012
The team is spread thin when a husband and wife’s numbers both come up
Director: Helen Shaver
Writer: Amanda Segel
8.1/10 2,826 votes#9 - C.O.D.
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/2012
When the machine names a New York cabdriver as a person of interest, any of his passengers could be a part of the impending crime.
Director: Clark Johnson
Writer: Ray Utarnachitt
8.1/10 2,735 votes#10 - Provenance
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/2014
Reese rejoins Finch in New York, but when the team receives the number of a highly skilled antiquities thief, a surprising turn of events finds them planning a heist which could land them all in jail.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Sean Hennen
8.2/10 3,442 votes#11 - Legacy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2012
When Carter finally comes face-to-face with Reese, he urges her to join forces to help with their latest POI, a scrappy young woman from the wrong side of the tracks who turned her life around and became a lawyer.
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Amanda Segel
8.2/10 2,751 votes#12 - All In
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/14/2013
Finch and Reese head to Atlantic City to protect the latest person of interest, an elderly gambler; Carter tries to clear another detective's name.
Director: Tricia Brock
Writer: Lucas O'Connor
8.2/10 2,586 votes#13 - Allegiance
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 3/25/2014
Finch and Reese must delve into the murky waters of international politics when they are given the number of a former government contractor who is stalking a UN diplomat. Also, an enemy attempts to gain an upper hand on Root.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Tony Camerino
8.2/10 2,549 votes#14 - 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
8.3/10 5,921 votes#15 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2011
When the social security number of a young prosecutor comes up, Reese and Finch work together to figure out if their person of interest is the victim or perpetrator.
Director: David Semel
Writer: Jonathan Nolan
8.3/10 3,833 votes#16 - Judgement
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/2011
Reese and Finch have the added challenge of investigating a Person of Interest who wants nothing to do with their brand of vigilante justice.
Director: Colin Bucksey
Writer: David Slack
8.3/10 3,356 votes#17 - Risk
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/2012
The Machine leads Reese and Finch to Wall Street when a sharp young trader at a major investment bank becomes embroiled in a multi-million dollar financial scam.
Director: Jeff T. Thomas
Writer: Sean Hennen
8.3/10 3,107 votes#18 - Masquerade
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2012
With Finch back in the Library, Reese returns to field work, only to face his toughest case yet – protecting the privileged daughter of a Brazilian diplomat.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love
8.3/10 2,929 votes#19 - The High Road
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/2012
Reese goes undercover in an idyllic neighborhood when The Machine’s latest number sends him to the suburbs.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Writer: Michael Sopczynski, Nic Van Zeebroeck
8.3/10 2,908 votes#20 - One Percent
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2013
Finch and Reese meet their match: a tech billionaire whose curiosity and endless resources could expose their identities and ruin their efforts to save his life.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love, Denise Thé
8.3/10 3,192 votes#21 - Liberty
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2013
The Machine, now completely self-governed with its whereabouts unknown, resumes giving Finch its "irrelevant" numbers for people in danger, which include a U.S. naval officer in town for Fleet Week. However, with so many sailors flooding the streets of New York City, finding the officer in time presents an even bigger challenge for Reese and Shaw.
Director: Chris Fisher
Writer: Greg Plageman, Denise Thé
8.3/10 2,861 votes#22 - Nothing to Hide
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2013
The number comes up for an Internet entrepreneur in the business of eliminating people's privacy, but finds his own being rapidly stripped away. As his life spirals out of control, Reese tries to protect him while Finch calls on Shaw, Carter and Fusco for help finding whoever is after him.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: Erik Mountain
8.3/10 2,792 votes#23 - 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
8.3/10 3,036 votes#24 - A More Perfect Union
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 5/23/2016
The Machine sends Reese and Finch to a wedding to protect a pair of POIs before their nuptials. Also, Fusco becomes angry at being kept in the dark by the team and takes it upon himself to investigate a string of missing person reports.
Director: Alrick Riley
Writer: Melissa Scrivner-Love
8.4/10 3,994 votes#25 - Cura Te Ipsum
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2011
Reese and Finch get some help from Detective Fusco as they surveil their latest POI, Dr. Megan Tillman, while she’s on call and after hours to unravel the threat surrounding the promising young physician.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Denise Thé