Asylum

we are being watched.

The government has a secret system--

A machine that spies on you every hour of every day.

I designed the machine to detect acts of terror,

But it sees everything...

Violent crimes involving ordinary people.

The government considers these people irrelevant.

We don't.

Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret.

You will never find us.

But victim or perpetrator,

If your number's up, we'll find you.

We are only numbers to it.

No. The machine cares about us.

The second that a bullet enters your brain,

The machine will cast you off and replace you.

i want them to release you.

I just want it to be done.

Okay, anthony.

if you better understood samaritan,

You would know it employs a private army

To do its bidding.

You would suspect they would employ

At least one of them as a spy in your own organization.

hey, hon. Are you at work?

not yet. My morning has been hellish.

Oh, jackson forgot his lunch again today.

But you know what, he can eat cafeteria food,

Because i have got a ton of papers to grade

Before second period.

Oh, my god.

My brakes aren't working. My brakes!

what? What do you mean?

Dennis!

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get the body.

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All good, ma'am. Right on schedule.

Drive.

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You look like hell.

Good to see you too, lionel.

Maybe next time you decide to take on a psychopath

In the frozen tundra, you'll call your partner first.

Hey. You're right.

You're a good detective, and a damn good friend.

You have a temperature or something?

I'm still standing...

Which is more than i can say for our friends here.

brotherhood soldier.

Elias's guy came out of nowhere,

Shot dominic's boys, and disappeared.

it's like deja vu all over again.

Lionel, tell me this.

How did a gunman get through security?

That's a good question, detective.

Finch, i got four dead brotherhood soldiers.

why didn't the machine give us any of their numbers this time?

I wish i knew.

Though it's no stretch to imagine

That a cunning fugitive like elias might have found

A way to communicate that even the machine can't trace.

At least that's one theory.

You got another?

Samaritan has found the machine.

If that were true, we'd all be dead.

What happened, ms. Groves?

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Turns out the people's republic is surprisingly lax

On full-body searches.

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How goes your gang war, harry?

Dangerous.

I'm afraid it's only a matter of time

Before dominic retaliates.

Might be sooner than you think.

You getting this number, finch?

It's actually two numbers, mr. Reese.

Dominic and elias.

It seem the two crime bosses

Are hell-bent on killing each other.

God only knows how many innocent victims

Will get caught in the crossfire.

We have to find a way to stop this war, mr. Reese.

Got a feeling this might help.

hmm, it's some sort of canister.

I'll look into that.

In the meantime, i've managed to trace

The brotherhood's security transport trucks

To a new location.

Thanks. I'll take lionel.

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we got a problem.

Boys want retribution for the courthouse.

And they'll have it in due time.

Time's running out.

We got soldiers with itchy trigger fingers.

Looks like there's trouble in paradise.

We need to take action.

You and me, we go back a long time.

Remember that skinny pockmarked kid from trinidad?

You told him it's not enough to hit back.

No, you need to put your enemy in the ground.

I haven't forgotten.

Only one way this war ends.

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Brotherhood's preparing for battle.

- Increased security, patrols. - Mr. Reese?

I was thinking that you and detective fusco

Might stop by the bank.

You need us to make a deposit, finch?

The canister from the crime scene

Is a remnant of a long-defunct pneumatic tube mail network

That once ran beneath the city.

One of its hubs was an old retail bank

Which has recently found new ownership.

- Carl elias? - Indeed.

Mr. Elias appears to have revived it

To conceal his communications.

And smuggle murder weapons

Into highly secured government buildings.

if elias is at the bank, we'll find him.

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Shaw's phone.

- Finch? - I have to go, mr. Reese.

you'll have to manage elias yourself.

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Hello?

root, are you there?

It's me. I need your help.

Shaw?

Wait. Sameen.

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W-where am i?

Why are you doing this?

We need to talk about samaritan.

I don't-- i don't know what that means.

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You know tyler, don't you, shelly?

What? N-no.

I don't know that man.

He was one of my best agents.

It's your last chance to say good-bye.

no.

Please don't...

no.

Oh, no! No!

How could you forget a face like that?

i don't understand.

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Why are you doing this?

I want you to be helpful.

Tyler was helpful.

At first.

He admitted to being

One of several samaritan moles

Embedded in the isa.

He admitted that you were their handler.

I'm just a teacher and a mom.

I just--i just want to go home to my family.

i understand.

I'm a mother too.

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That's why i'm giving you one last chance

To save your own life.

Tell the truth, shelly.

Or you too...

Will end up a spot on the wall.

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root, are you there?

It's me. I need your help.

She's alive, harold.

We wrote her off for dead, but she's alive.

We don't know that, ms. Groves.

Except we do.

I just talked to her

On a call originating from the city.

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Can we take just five minutes and talk this through?

The last time we had this conversation,

I actually listened to you.

And to the machine.