Top 50 Quotes From Person of Interest, Season 1, Episode 14

Darren: Now we know who's weak, who's in charge, and how to hurt him. What's step six, man?
John: Well, that's the fun part.

John: I pulled some strings. You'll be starting at that charter school for the arts.
Darren: My trumpet!
John: They got drawing classes too.
Darren: They got drawing classes too. Is that right?
John: Remember, opportunities multiply as they're seized.
Darren: Sun Tzu Right. Hey, don't worry, man. Someday you'll find a home too.

- He probably doesn't know who he is anymore.
- Only the paranoid survive.
- You know, Lionel, you could've been a good cop...
- If not for a few bad choices.
- You got me snooping around your boss, but I make bad choices?
- Man has a point.

- Get me whatever I want.
- And right now, I want my damn money.
- In Brighton beach. Tonight.
- Now, y'all mess that up,
- I will kill you both.
- Now we know who's weak, who's in charge and how to hurt them.
- What's step six, man?
- Well, that's the fun part. Come on.

Comic: Mr. Wilcox, what's this dude's superpower? He got no costume, no cape.
Andre: 'Cause being a superhero's not about a cape or a cowl. It's about protecting your fellow man, looking out for him when no one else will.

- They wouldn't act, so I decided I would.
- But I needed a partner.
- Someone with the skills to intervene.
- Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret.
- You will never find us.
- But victim or perpetrator, if your number's up, we I! Find you.

- Fusco: Detective fusco.
- You're kidding me. When?

- I'm calling them out.
- -trying to get yourself killed...
- Scrappy-doo?
- You're beginning to wear my last nerve.
- You might be scared of them, but I'm not.
- You about to get tossed, dwarf.
- Not unless you care to follow him.
- Why not let the kid go?
- And if I don't?

- Hurry up, pops.
Curtis: Just a couple more to go, man, we'll be good.
Trim: Oh. Whoa, whoa!
- That's my car!
- Reese [over phone]: That was step two, kid.
- Meet me at the corner of rut/and and 52nd.

- What the hell is that?
- What the hell is that?
- Move!
- Go around back.
Darren: Yo!
- Carter: N.y.p.d. Drop your weapon.
- Fusco: Get down, kid!

- We'll see. My boys will look for you.
- I see you made friends, as usual.
- Reese: Found our missing kid.
- I gotta get him out of here.
- He's your murder suspect.
- Carter: Get down on the ground.
- Put your hands behind your head now.
- Where you going?
- Gotta get him somewhere safe.
- Sorry.

- Maybe. Except for one thing.
- Remember that contract dad signed with the government for $1?
- It's the next day. February 25th, 2005.
- Well, that is something.
- I'm finished here and I'm starving.
- Let's get out of here.

Brick: You can't hold me if you can't charge me.
Joss: Yeah, that's right. You've done all this before, right? Yeah, well, you're right about one thing. You'll get out of here... When I take you to your arraignment.

Darren: So... Step three?
John: To impose your will on your enemy, make for their weak points.
Darren: Oh. Talking Art of War.
John: You read Sun Tzu?
Darren: Of course, man. All samurai know Sun Tzu.

Darren: Didn't know cops could pick and choose which calls to answer.
John: Never said I was a cop.
Darren: So, what are you, then?
John: One of these days I'll have to come up with a good answer for that one.

John: This is Detective Fusco. He's a... f-friend.

John: [Darren drops a pile of bills and a quarter on the table] What's this?
Darren: It's all I got left. I want to hire you to help me take down those guys who killed my brother.
John: So, if I'm not a cop, I'm a mercenary, is that it?
Darren: No, I figured it out. You're a ronin.
John: A ronin?
Darren: Yeah, a ronin. It's like a samurai with no master. Technically, you should have killed yourself. That's the code. But instead you're out wandering the land, helping people. So now I'm paying you to help me.
John: I'm not for hire.
Darren: You can't stop me from going after them. But I have a better chance with you there.
John: [Thinks it over] There's no way to convince you to just lie low, huh? You can keep your money.
Darren: Nah, man. Take it. It makes it official.
John: No. If we're gonna do this, we're gonna do it my way. That means no killing.
[Takes the quarter]
John: This is my going rate.

Andre: I don't blame you. I blame the store. Kids spending their days reading these revenge stories, selling it like it's reality, but you know the thing about comic books? They're just comics.

- Reese: You trying to reach your friend brick?
- Hello, Curtis.

John: Fusco tells me they got a lead on a foster family.
Darren: I had a family.
John: Darren, we don't get to choose what happens to us Just what we do about it. I looked into them. They're good people.
Darren: And if they aren't?
John: I'll take care of it.
[Holds up the quarter]
John: I'm, uh, still on the clock.

- Go after Andre's bosses?
- The corrupt cops and the politicians that let them operate?
- You won't be able to stop until you destroy everyone you blame...
- For taking your brother's life.
- It won't bring him back.
- You'll just wind up in jail or dead.
- You think that's what your brother wanted for you?

- Boom. Pow.
- Yo, now, that was some straight-up
- Shaolin and wu-tang whoop-ass.
- What kind of fighting style is that?
- You're a smart, talented kid, Darren.
- You gotta promise me that you'll stop looking for these guys.
- It's too dangerous for you out there.

Darren: Man, these cops let these guys do whatever they want - Kill my brother, walk around like they can't be touched.
John: But now we know how they're making their money. So they just got a lot less untouchable.
Darren: Ah "Observe".
John: To tell you the truth, I've always hated observing.

Will: That's what this is about - A dollar for dad's patents?
Alicia: I'm afraid so.
Will: So this is about the government helping him or screwing him, but why drink champagne? And what does it mean - "The machine"? Crushed by the machine?
Alicia: I suppose, yes, in a way, he was crushed by the machine.

- That's the kid?
- Darren, right? Yeah, I recognize you.
- We got something to talk about, right, you and me.

Darren: Sorry I thought you were a cop.
John: Nothing wrong with cops... just bad ones.

- Look, I wanna help, but...
- You don't have to give me a name.
- Just point me in the right direction.
- Guy like you, coming out of shadows, looking for bad guys?
- You'd fit right in at the comic book store.
- Couple blocks that way.
- They hang out there.

John: [Hands Finch the bolt cutters] On my signal, you're going to cut power to the building
[Finch looks puzzled, Reese pumps the shotgun]
John: That's the signal.

- Yo, you think brick's gonna talk?
- Brick is cool. Andre will protect him.
- Andre will take care of all of us, long as we take care of him.
- Yo, trim, ain't that your ride?
- Found your car.

Darren: Hey, you ever kill anyone?
John: Yes.
Darren: Were they bad?
John: Some. Not all.
Darren: Some? That means your master tricked you, told you to kill bad people that really weren't. A lot of ronin ended up that way.

Curtis: You know what I think, T? I think your ride's gone, yo. Come on, man. Just get a new car. Call for the insurance.
Trim: What insurance? You were with me when I stole the damn thing.
Curtis: Yeah, but you bought those rims. They might replace those.

John: The higher up you go, the harder it gets to tell the good guys from the bad.

Darren: Yo I didn't hire you to just sit here and watch. When are we gonna take them down?
John: We've already started. Step one: Observe.The most efficient way to lose is a fight is to act without knowing your enemy.

- If we're gonna do this, we're gonna do it my way.
- That means no killing.
- This is my going rate.
- All right, man. Deal.
- Look, you're working for me,
- I ought to know your name.
- Well, you can call me Reese.

John: My friend on the police force will be able to put Brick and his friends away.
Darren: Yeah, but what about Andre? He's still out there.
John: Andre didn't kill your brother. Now you want to go after him too?
Darren: Hell, yeah. He's just as to blame.
John: Then what, hmm? Go after Andre's bosses The corrupt cops and the politicians that let them operate? You won't be able to stop until you destroy everyone you blame for taking your brother's life. It won't bring him back.

- Now, is this place safe?
- Yeah, she likes to help kids.
- She hates paperwork.
- She takes in strays all the time.
- I'm not a stray.
- He'll be safe here.
- Good.
- I'll be back.
- Until then, he doesn't leave your sight.
- Yo, you really gonna leave me here?
- Not for long. Gotta return a vehicle.

Harold: I'm not sure I'm in favor of your troubling arrangement with young Darren.
John: I'm not sure I'm in favor of our troubling arrangement, especially when you disappear on mysterious business.
Harold: [Ignores this] GPS is up, Mr. Reese.
Darren: Who are you talking to?
John: Tech support.

- Fusco?
- Fusco. You okay?
- Yeah, just peachy.

- The one labeled "plan b."
- Hey. You need backup?
- I don't know. Do I?
- Something to do with that fish the captain made you throw back.
- It might.
- I got a tip. You wanna go fishing?
- Yeah, sure, why not?

John: [after Fusco gets shot] Fusco, you okay?
Detective: Yeah, just peachy.

John: Finch, Darren's run off, probably to go after Brick again. And this time he's got the gun they used to kill his brother
Harold: In other words, the idea of letting a 14-year-old hire you to avenge his brother has backfired?
John: You can lecture me later. Right now I need you to bring me the bag.
Harold: Which bag?
John: The one labeled "Plan B."

Will: Alicia Corwin; she told me some stuff. I don't know if it's what I wanted to know. You know, I had my dad on a pedestal. Loved him, hated him, but just always admired him. It's kind of hard to believe he was just an ordinary guy, made mistakes like everybody else.
Harold: Well, whatever she told you, there's one thing you should know about him. Anytime anyone ever asked him what his proudest achievement was, he always said that it was you.

Detective: [about Finch] He's got so many aliases, I don't even know where to start. Oldest one I could find is a Harold Wren. He's an underwriter for an insurance company for a number of years. Before that, MIT student, top of his class. It was there where he met the kid's dad - You know, Nathan Ingram. He's that billionaire that got killed a couple years back.
John: Ingram Graduated from the same class as Wren.
Detective: Yeah, except I did a little more digging. Wren was the name he used freshman year at MIT. That name doesn't appear on any records before '76, which tells me that Wren was a false identity too. This guy spent so much time being someone else, he probably doesn't know who he is anymore.
John: "Only the paranoid survive". You know, Lionel... you could have been a good cop if not for a few bad choices.
Detective: You got me snooping around your boss, but I make bad choices?
John: Man has a point.

- What it looks like.
- One of my tenants got shot.
- About a week ago.
- Older kid, Travis mcgrady.
- Damn shame.
- Real good about paying rent on time.
- Travis had a younger brother, Darren.
- What happened to him?
- I don't know, cops took him with them.
- Hey, when can I clean this place up and get a new tenant in here?

- I know it must be tough to think of his final days that way, but let it go, will.
- You sound like my uncle Harold.
- I do? Who's he?
- My dad's best friend, Harold wren?
- Are you sure you two never met?
- No. We haven't.
- I have to go.
- I'm sorry I couldn't be more help.

- Operator: 911, what is your emergency?
- Man 1: I got a flat tire.
- Woman: They won't turn their music down.
- Man 2: I just know he's sleeping with her.
Darren: Please help me.
- It's my brother, they shot him.
- Please send someone.
- Recording: We 're sorry. All circuits are busy.

John: [Finch is sweeping the library for bugs] I've never seen you like this. That hacker must've gotten to you.
Harold: Only the paranoid survive. Sage advice.

- Reinforce the firewall.
- Anything I can do?
- Finch: New number.
- Just came in this morning.
- Even with the library offline?
- His name is Darren mcgrady, 14 years old.
- That's his last known address.
- You better get started.

John: Morning, Detective. Miss me?
Joss: You know, I always pictured you in the back of my car... in handcuffs.
John: Well, to each his own.

John: Finch, any chance your machine gave us the number a few days late?
Harold: No. Why?
John: Because I had to crawl through police tape to get inside Darren's apartment.
Harold: The library may have been compromised, but I can assure you that the machine was not. Whatever happened there, Darren's situation must be ongoing.