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Person of Interest Season 3

24 September 2013Rated M23 episodes

Where to watch Person of Interest Season 3

Person of Interest season 3 is streaming in Australia on Netflix (subscription). You can also buy it on Apple TV from $29.99 and Prime Video Store from $29.99. Season 3 was released on 24 September 2013.

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Air dates: TMDB.

About Person of Interest Season 3

The team suffers a devastating loss and confront staggering challenges. Adapting to the next evolution of The Machine, now completely self-governed and hidden from all, Finch and Reese team with rogue agent Sameen Shaw to save lives and seek justice, but their missions now threaten to tear them apart. Joss Carter and Lionel Fusco finally unravel the criminal police conspiracy "HR" - but at a tragic cost. And former cyber-enemy — and now highly tuned confederate of The Machine — Root becomes an unpredictable ally when the team learns a second surveillance apparatus to rival The Machine is on the verge of activation.

Season summary: TMDB.

Person of Interest Season 3 episodes

  1. S03 E01

    Liberty

    43m

    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.

  2. S03 E02

    Nothing to Hide

    43m

    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.

  3. S03 E03

    Lady Killer

    43m

    The team suspects the latest number to be a potential stalker/ killer. Root plots her escape from the institution and gives her psychiatrist a big surprise.

  4. S03 E04

    Reasonable Doubt

    43m

    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.

  5. S03 E05

    Razgovor

    43m

    Shaw must stay close to a 10-year-old girl with highly developed surveillance skills when she is identified by the machine; Carter's mission could be exposed.

  6. S03 E06

    Mors Praematura

    43m

    After being freed from her confinement to the psych ward, Root needs Shaw's help with a directive from the machine; Finch and Reese look into a mild-mannered investigator.

  7. S03 E07

    The Perfect Mark

    43m

    The team is met with surprises during an investigation into a hypnotherapist; an antiquities dealer has ties to a crime organization.

  8. S03 E08

    Endgame

    43m

    The machine gives Finch 38 numbers at once; information about Carter's past is revealed.

  9. S03 E09

    The Crossing

    43m

    The battle to bring a crime organization to justice reaches a new level; Reese's number comes up in the machine.

  10. S03 E10

    The Devil's Share

    43m

    As the POI team seeks justice for a murder, Finch realizes one of his team members may go one step too far in order to end the war with HR. Also, The Machine gives out the number for NYPD Officer Patrick Simmons, one of the crime organization’s key players.

  11. S03 E11

    Lethe

    43m

    Flashbacks to Finch’s adolescence provide insight into his creation of The Machine. Also, the team receives the number of an already dying man, and Reese leaves the POI team behind in the aftermath of the war with the crime organization, HR.

  12. S03 E12

    Aletheia

    43m

    Multiple enemies converge on the POI team as they protect a dying man whose number has come up. They struggle to keep their enemies at bay but without Reese, who has left them and their mission behind following the tragic war with HR, being down one man could have catastrophic repercussions for the team.

  13. S03 E13

    4C

    43m

    Reese boards an international flight in an attempt to put the team and the past behind him, but is angered when he realizes his travel plans have been manipulated.

  14. S03 E14

    Provenance

    42m

    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.

  15. S03 E15

    Last Call

    43m

    Finch goes undercover in an emergency call center to protect a 911 operator, but it soon becomes clear that the threat reaches further than the team could have anticipated.

  16. S03 E16

    RAM

    43m

    The secrets of Finch’s operation before he enlisted Reese are revealed, including shocking ties to present-day events.

  17. S03 E17

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    44m

    The Machine assigns Root to seek out a janitor with a mysterious past, but when her very presence puts his life in danger, Finch also receives his number.

  18. S03 E18

    Allegiance

    43m

    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.

  19. S03 E19

    Most Likely To...

    43m

    Reese and Shaw pose as alumni at a high school reunion in order to keep eyes on the latest POI. Meanwhile, Finch and Fusco travel to Washington, D.C., to investigate the motivations behind Vigilance’s latest attack.

  20. S03 E20

    Death Benefit

    43m

    Reese poses as a Secret Service agent to get close to the latest POI, a U.S. congressman who may hold the key to derailing Decima’s plans to bring a second Machine online.

  21. S03 E21

    Beta

    43m

    As Decima uses Samaritan’s feeds to hunt Reese and Shaw, Greer exploits Finch’s greatest weakness in an attempt to lure him out of hiding: his love for his former fiancée, Grace Hendricks.

  22. S03 E22

    A House Divided

    43m

    When an unknown entity prevents The Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends the team five separate numbers to help them piece together the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Root’s team of hackers arrives in New York.

  23. S03 E23

    Deus Ex Machina

    43m

    The team takes desperate action in its race to prevent the malevolent AI program Samaritan from coming online and making them its first targets. Meanwhile, the months-long battle with the anti-surveillance terrorist group Vigilance comes to a shocking conclusion.

Episode names, air dates, runtimes and summaries: TMDB. Air dates are the first broadcast anywhere.

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