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I love Person of Interest. Will the Stanton Virus wreak havoc on the Machine?

ADAM: Finch pretty much confirmed in the last episode that the virus was most likely behind the Machine's glitchy behavior in recent episodes. But it sounds like the Machine will fight back in the run-up to this year's finale. "What's really interesting about the Machine is whether or not you believe it is an evolving organism," executive producer Greg Plageman says. "What happens when an organism like that comes under attack? The question to ask is: Have we seen all the facets of the Machine and its true power?" Anyone else hoping to see Terminators in Season 3?

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CBS ANNOUNCES 2012-13 SEASON FINALE STORYLINES

PERSON OF INTEREST (9:01-10:01 PM)

When The Machine goes offline, Finch’s elusive original motivations for helping its irrelevant

numbers begin to come to light as he and Reese join forces with surprising allies in the race to save it.

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Anybody else read that and think CBS is missing either words or punctuation in the middle somewhere?

WHEN A POI IS POISONED, REESE AND FINCH HAVE JUST 24 HOURS TO FIND THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE, ON "PERSON OF INTEREST," THURSDAY, APRIL 25

"In Extremis" – When a luminary in the world of medicine is poisoned, Reese and Finch have just 24 hours to determine the deadly toxin he was given and find the person behind the attack. Meanwhile, Detective Fusco's past corruption catches up with him when an informant gives the Internal Affairs Bureau the crucial information they need to send him to prison, on PERSON OF INTEREST, Thursday, April 25 (9:01 – 10:01 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:
Jim Caviezel (Reese)
Michael Emerson (Finch)
Taraji P. Henson (Detective Carter)
Kevin Chapman (Detective Fusco)

RECURRING CAST:
Robert John Burke (Officer Patrick Simmons)
Clarke Peters (Alonzo Quinn)
John Fiore (Captain Womack)
James Hanlon (Detective James Stills)
Louis Vanaria (Detective Azarello)

GUEST CAST:
Dennis Boutsikaris (Dr. Richard Nelson)
Ned Eisenberg (Detective Joseph Soriano)
Matthew Humphreys (Brandon Boyd)
Gabrielle Miller (Dr. Juliana De Matteo)
Matthew Rauch (Dr. Garrett Rossmore)
Allison Scagliotti (Molly Nelson)
Scott Jaeck (Armand Cochran)
Lynda Gravatt (Celia Beecher)
Con Horgan (Bartender)
Robert Turano (Sergeant)
Mark DiConzo (Uniform)
Harris Doran (Pork Pie)

WRITTEN BY: Greg Plageman and Tony Camerino
DIRECTED BY: Chris Fisher

THE COUNTDOWN ON A MYSTERIOUS VIRUS CAUSES THE MACHINE TO MALFUNCTION JUST AS THE POI TEAM TRIES TO LOCATE AN ELUSIVE MILLIONAIRE WHOSE NUMBERS COME UP, ON "PERSON OF INTEREST," THURSDAY, MAY 2

Carrie Preston, Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Brett Cullen, Jay O. Sanders and John Nolan Guest Star

"Zero Day" – Reese and Finch realize that a virus has rendered The Machine erratic, causing it to issue numbers irregularly. As they race against the viral countdown, the team searches for a tech millionaire so elusive no one has ever seen him. Also, Detective Carter's mission to bring Cal Beecher's murderer to justice lands her squarely within the sights of the HR criminal organization, on PERSON OF INTEREST, Thursday, May 2 (9:01 – 10:01 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Carrie Preston, Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Brett Cullen, Jay O. Sanders and John Nolan guest star.

CHEAT TWEET: A computer glitch Finch can't fix? A virus in The Machine may end the POI team on #PersonOfInterest 5/2 9:01pm ET/PT http://bit.ly/14ToTTi


SERIES REGULARS:
Jim Caviezel (Reese)
Michael Emerson (Finch)
Taraji P. Henson (Detective Carter)
Kevin Chapman (Detective Fusco)

RECURRING CAST:
Carrie Preston (Grace Hendricks)
Amy Acker (Root)
Sarah Shahi (Sam Shaw)
Brett Cullen (Nathan Ingram)
Jay O. Sanders (Special Counsel)
Boris McGiver (Hersh)
Al Sapienza (Detective Raymond Terney)
John Nolan (Greer)

GUEST CAST:
Kevyn Morrow (IAB Detective Ed Solis)
Opal Alladin (Claudia Sugarman)
Carter Gill (Office Drone)
Mike Masters (ESU Captain)
Sydney James Harcourt (NYPD Uniform)

WRITTEN BY: Amanda Segel and David Slack
DIRECTED BY: Jeffrey Hunt
GENRE: DRAMA

IN A RACE TO SAVE THE MACHINE, THE POI TEAM PARTNERS WITH SURPRISING NEW ALLIES TO FEND OFF ROOT AND THE MYSTERIOUS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION DECIMA, ON THE SECOND SEASON FINALE OF "PERSON OF INTEREST," THURSDAY, MAY 9

Carrie Preston, Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Brett Cullen, Jay O. Sanders and Enrico Colantoni (Flashpoint) Guest Star

"God Mode" – Reese & Finch team up with surprising allies in a race to save The Machine from Root and the mysterious international organization Decima, who have both re-emerged with dangerous agendas. As the POI team faces off against enemies old and new, the nature of Finch's relationship with former partner Nathan Ingram is revealed along with his original motivation for wanting to save The Machine's irrelevant numbers. Meanwhile, in her mission to bring Cal Beecher's murderer to justice, Detective Carter finds herself up against the criminal organization known as HR, on the second season finale of PERSON OF INTEREST, Thursday, May 9 (9:01 – 10:01 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Carrie Preston, Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi, Brett Cullen, Jay O. Sanders and Enrico Colantoni (Flashpoint) guest star.

CHEAT TWEET: Femme fatales @onlysarahshahi and @AmyAcker fight 4 The Machine! #PersonOfInterest Season Finale 5/9 9:01pm ET/PT http://bit.ly/12KRBRD


SERIES REGULARS:
Jim Caviezel (Reese)
Michael Emerson (Finch)
Taraji P. Henson (Detective Carter)
Kevin Chapman (Detective Fusco)

RECURRING CAST:
Carrie Preston (Grace Hendricks)
Amy Acker (Root)
Sarah Shahi (Sam Shaw)
Brett Cullen (Nathan Ingram)
Enrico Colantoni (Carl Elias)
Jay O. Sanders (Special Counsel)
Boris McGiver (Hersh)
Al Sapienza (Detective Raymond Terney)
Morgan Spector (Peter Yogorov)

GUEST CAST:
Stivi Paskoski (Eastern European Thug)
Peter Friedman (Lawrence Szilard)
Richard Gallagher (Jilted Man)
Anthony Mangano (Detective Kane)
Abraham Makany (Asif)
Hadi Tabbal (Translator)
Susan Cella (Lady Driver)
Tom Galantich (Businessman)
Brad Heberlee (Engineer)
Wesley Broulik (Caretaker)
Jordan Lage (Carson)
Carmen Ruby Floyd (Nurse)
Nick Mills (Uni)

WRITTEN BY: Patrick Harbinson and Jonathan Nolan
DIRECTED BY: Richard J. Lewis

Last Season and Looking Forward to Fall

SEASON FINALE: The Machine, hunted by various forces, moved itself to an unknown location in a surprising act of self-awareness and self-preservation. Reese and Shaw saved Finch from cyber-criminal Root, who engaged in a failed attempt to free The Machine from all outside control and was placed in an asylum by the POI team. Meanwhile, Carter compromised her values by helping criminal mastermind Elias escape custody.

NEW SEASON: The POI team faces an uncertain future as they struggle with the next evolution of The Machine, which is now completely self-governed and its whereabouts still unknown. Reese and Finch continue to utilize Shaw’s (new series regular Sarah Shahi) exceptional skill set, but her violent tendencies could end their alliance before it can fully begin. Also, Root (new series regular Amy Acker) remains institutionalized in an asylum, where she seeks to resume her connection with The Machine and marshal her resources for an escape.

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Person of Interest Scoop: The Following's Warren Kole Cast as a Real Ladykiller

Warren Kole, luckiest man alive…?

TVLine has learned that the onetime Common Lawman will guest-star on CBS’ Person of Interest as a POI whom Detective Carter (played by Taraji P. Henson), Agent Shaw (new series regular Sarah Shahi) and Zoe Morgan (guest star Paige Turco) each try to catch the eye of — by any dressed-to-kill means necessary.

As previously scooped by TVLine, the trio of fierce femmes are united by a cause when Reese and Finch’s target for the week is revealed to be a ladykiller. Enter Kole, playing “a real lothario,” says exec producer Greg Plageman.

Since Common Law‘s one-and-done run ended, Kole has recurred on The Following and booked a multi-episode role on the coming season of White Collar.

Person of Interest opens Season 3 on Sept. 24, now airing Tuesdays at 10/9c; Kole appears in the third episode.

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TV Line Fall TV Spoilers

PREVIOUSLY ON... | Finch led Root (and thus Reese and Shaw) to the Machine, which had been hidden within a nuclear facility, only to realize that the numbers-cruncher had orchestrated its own relocation to parts unknown; Carter went on the lam (and sprung Elias from a prison transfer) after HR threatened her son. As the finale closed, Reese and Finch, Special Counsel's Hersh and Root each got calls from the Machine.

COMING UP NEXT | The physical location of the MIA Machine "is not of paramount importance" as Season 3 gets underway, says exec producer Greg Plageman. Instead, he says you should ask, “What is it up to? What sort of organism is it becoming? And is it expanding beyond the parameters of what even Finch designed?” That said, Hersh's unseen lady boss (who goes by the code name Control and could be revealed by November sweeps) “is very interested in what happened to the Machine, and considers Root (new series regular Amy Acker) instrumental in perhaps finding it.” On the good guys' side, Shaw (Sarah Shahi, also now a series regular) is still “disillusioned” by her government's betrayal and thus “isn't giving her allegiance to anyone right now,” but will “help us out when she feels like it."

TVLINE BONUS SPOILER | Plageman promises “fantastic material” ahead for Taraji P. Henson's compromised Detective Carter, who is now “out there on the wing a bit, trying to figure out her next move.” As she does so, watch for some backstory reveals that explore “what happened in her personal past, and how she wound up where she is today."

RETURN DATE | Tuesday, Sept. 24 at 10/9c (CBS)

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