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8/10
The Trader
claudio_carvalho16 February 2024
Finch tells Reese that The Machine gave the number of the proprietary young trader Adam Saunders from Wall Street brokerage firm Baylor Zimm. Reese dresses to pose as Finch's investment manager and heads to meet Saunders in the firm, where he sees how efficient Saunders is to make money for his clients. Reese unsuccessfully tries to clone his phone. Then they go to a bar where his envious and drunken co-worker Victor fights him. Later, Reese sees that Saunders has a love affair with his boss Sydney Baylor. Meanwhile, the SEC investigator Rasmussen threatens Saunders on the street, who had some trouble in the past with inside information since he lied in a process to protect his bosses. Saunders meets the man who has created him, Uncle Bob, who owns several food trucks and has invested his money following Saunders' instruction in only one company, Tri-Tech Energy, and he is afraid to lose his money. Saunders asks his co-worker Paul Ashton about Tri-Tech since he has studied its numbers, and Paul does not like his attitude. When Saunders finds that Reese has investigate his personal life, he drives Reese home; he is saved by Reese from a fatal car accident provoked by someone that wants to kill him. Then he saves Saunders from another attempt on the roof of the building of his firm and they go to Sydney's home, where they find her murdered with evidence to frame Saunders. Soon they learn that someone powerful is manipulating the stock market using the Tri-Tech.

"Risk" is an episode of "Person of Interest" perfect for people that knows the stock market. There are operations hard to be understood by the general audience. The death of Sydney Baylor, with several evidence pointing to Adam Saunders, is forgotten in the plot. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should protect the investors and not depend on only one investigator. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Risk"
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10/10
Absolutely amazing!
vishudbz9 July 2015
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What to say? Person Of Interest just gets amazing with every single episode. As always, it's the least expected person who turned out to be the antagonist of the episode. The ending was brilliant; it was good to see Scarface again, which was pretty unpredictable. Elias talking to John in the end made the whole episode for me, along with the good choice of music. And, we learn more about John's part. Great episode about wall-street brokers, a lot of twist and turns. Pretty much had everything suspense, mystery, betrayal, shocks and truth. Fantastic season, and it deserves a lot of hype. It's reminds you how scary things can get with power and technology. Such an underrated show. Jonathan Nolan doesn't disappoint!
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5/10
Good in spite of its many faults
IndigoFlame2 May 2014
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The writing of this show is hands down clever so critiquing this episode is a bit tricky. My issue isn't with the acting or the overall story but with the facts of that story. I know writers make up details of a story to accommodate time or legal reasons and I don't bother with those. But sometimes in telling their story writers skew the general facts, actions or motives in a way that pushes an underlying agenda. This is one of those stories. Again, the writing is clever; they use the phrase 1% and it's located on Wall Street in a story to show the stock brokers' greed and how it affects people. In this case the people look like they are homeless. In fact, John knows one lady who was there for him when he bottomed out.

Without coming out and telling us that it was pure greed that motivated the collapse on Wall Street they tell us that pure greed motivated the collapse on Wall Street. The writers say that the SEC has no teeth yet it was laws passed by Congress in efforts to widen the availability of mortgages that created this issue. If the SEC didn't have laws for the new regulations that mortgage companies did exploit and make use of, then it was Congress' lack. There can be no crime where there is no law forbidding it, no matter how egregious the action. And how many ordinary people take advantages of loopholes? Greed isn't restricted to the 1%.

Another sly move on the writers' part is that Congress had to pass a law to allow fracking. It isn't Congress' job to decide what new technologies are legal. There used to be a politburo that did that tho... And the pipeline that isn't necessary. Well, in the real world we know how necessary that is.

When writers use a vehicle as wonderful as Person of interest for their personal soap box it just makes it less interesting. Audiences instinctively know truth it's just loathsome when writers pander to their baser instincts.
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