The hit CBS show, Person of Interest concluded its Samaritan trilogy. Executive Producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman spoke to IGN about the recent development and their decision behind a Control-centric episode, Root’s rage and whether this will result in a war against Samaritan.
Here are some highlights:
On focus on Control
Jonathan Nolan: You know, we love doing that. It’s sort of a novelist impulse. Right when you get to a really really juicy part of the story where the audience can’t wait to find out exactly what happens next, you switch gears and do something different. We’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Ever since the episode “Relevance,” which introduced Shaw. So we figured it would be a fitting bookend to her story, or this chapter of her story on our show. We’ve established this pattern now of occasionally doing episodes where we just jump ship completely into a different universe. And to show the other side of the equation. You know, Control’s little army within the West Wing. Dispensing with terrorists before they can even act. Which is sort of its own show, you know?
On tone of episode compared to Season 3’s “The Devil’s Share”
Greg Plageman: Certainly I think any version of doing something like that in the wake of Shaw’s departure would feel reminiscent. I think if you started to break a part of that story you’d start to feel like you’re following a similar step. Jonah came up with the idea to take a hard left turn and go through the looking glass a bit here and look at the Relevance side of things and see how all of this might be viewed. And in the fun, having our guys in Team Machine sort of emerge as outsiders in that story. It’s really cool. And I think also we were due to revisit Control. And Camryn Manheim is someone we want to come back to because it’s been half a season since they relinquished power to Samaritan and we haven’t really seen how that’s gone for that side. And now we’re starting to get a glimpse into the insidious grip that Greer and Greer’s machine have upon the government. You make that deal with the devil and it’s going to be costly. We wanted to see what that means. And we think it was time to visit upon that.
On Samaritan making itself known to the public
Nolan: I think the emphasis is that we operate under the idea that Samaritan is playing in the shadows. Maybe it’s getting a little more reckless in its actions, but it understands that the general public isn’t capable of imagining any more than they really would. They could never fathom its existence. If they published a story tomorrow attributing some financial downturn or any catastrophic event in the world over the last month or two to an artificial intelligence, I don’t think a lot of people would believe it. So it can capitalize on this inertia where people tend not to think about things. So in our world, Samaritan is still lurking in the shadows, but it’s willing to do more and more public acts that it knows no one will attribute to it. Where it’s willing to draw the more ire and attention is with its fellow AI, which is The Machine. It starts to get a little more brazen with the way it’s taking control of human beings. Almost as a bit of a “f*** you” to The Machine.
On Root’s revenge.
Plageman: Oh yeah. I think Root’s been spoiling for an opportunity to get back at Control. Regardless of what she perceives as having happened to Shaw. Amy Acker is just spectacular. There hasn’t been anything we’ve thrown at her, no matter how bananas the storyline is, or how ridiculous or over the top you could actually think the scene could go, she manages to own it. And even with just a look at the end of last week’s episode, with those elevator doors closing… she’s incredible. And I’m glad that your site is one of the sites out there that recognizes her performance on the show.
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Person Of Interest Producers Discuss Samaritan Trilogy On Hit CBS Show
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