Person Of Interest Season 1 Episode 21 Many Happy Returns
Added 2023-04-28 14:48:28 +0000 UTCReleased to The Cats Meow/Meeow on Friday May 5th!!
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Yes! I thought you might have recognized her a little. Even though you might not have said so. I love that Dagmara Dominczyk and Jim Caviezel reunited again for this episode of Person of Interest! They have fantastic chemistry both here and as two lovers in The Count of Monte Cristo. :) Thank you, Jessie! Sincerely, Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2023-04-29 12:27:36 +0000 UTCDagmara Dominczyk was a wonderful actor in this! I did not remember she was in The Count of Monte Cristo, but that's probably why she looked familiar!
Jessie Dobbie Reactions
2023-04-29 12:23:05 +0000 UTCMany Happy Returns- Thank you so very much for your marvelous reaction to this absolutely phenomenal episode of Person of Interest, Jessie!! This episode is really emotional, and I love seeing that you really felt the emotions we're meant to feel as we watch it as you cried towards the end, just as I do. I always cry throughout this episode, because my heart just absolutely breaks for Reese. He's in so much pain, and yet he very rarely allows people, including Finch, see just how much. Absolutely heartbreaking! I absolutely love, love, love this episode of Person of Interest, and how it takes place on Reese's birthday!! This is easily one of my favorite episodes! And not just from this season, but from throughout the entire show as well. And Jim Caviezel's performance in this episode is absolutely phenomenal throughout. I love him as an actor, and I love him here in this role as John Reese! :) Jessica's husband, peter, and the U.S. Marshall are two very different people. Although, both men are, or rather were abusive. Both are very bad men, whom Reese beats severely to make them suffer for what they've done to the poor women they've abused and terrorized for so long, before finally taking them to where they belong. Do I believe Reese killed Peter? Upon seeing Reese's frame of mind in the moment upon him confronting Peter... I would like to believe Reese didn't, because I love Reese so much. Reese is truly a good man who sadly believes himself to be a monster. And killing Peter would have only deepened his hatred for himself. Yet even if he did kill Peter, I still love him. Because I absolutely would have understood, under these circumstances. But then... Upon Carter receiving the call from a prison warden down in Mexico, we are informed that Reese had put this Marshal away inside the prison on trumped up charges so that he won't be able to use his power of authority to escape. Where his influences can't help him, and where he won't ever be able to hurt his wife ever again because he won't ever be freed. And upon the revelation from the prison's warden that at least one or two other Americans have been brought here by Reese as well, after Cater asks the warden if there were any other Americans there... We can now believe in the possibility that Reese also might have brought Peter to this prison, given that the local police never found Peter's body and we have no idea what happened between Reese and Peter inside his home in New Rochelle, aside from Reese most likely beating him nearly to death. As is indicated, given the bloody mess Donnelly tells Carter had been left behind after Peter's attack. It's also possible that the serial rapist Reese had taken care of to protect the doctor back in the fourth episode of this season, titled... Cura Te Ipsum, may be one of the Americans he brought here to protect the doctor as well. Which I very much love too. Again... We never found out what Reese did to him, due to the episode ending on such a cliffhanger. Now... Finch is afraid to tell Reese about Sarah/Karen, because she is an abused wife terrified of her abusive husband, just like Jessica was too. He knew this case would be extremely personal for Reese. And while Finch wanted to protect Reese because he worries about him, I do believe a part of Finch is also afraid of how Reese would react, and seeing how he does react... Finch has every reason to be worried. I too would have been okay had Reese killed the Marshal, because he most certainly would have deserved it. And I most certainly wouldn't have thought any less of Reese had he done so. But I absolutely love that we learn Reese doesn't kill him. This shows us just how good a man Reese really is, and how strong he is as well. What happens to Jessica is tragic, and my heart breaks for Reese upon seeing how broken he becomes upon losing her. And not just because he loses her, but because he fails to be there for her when she needed him most. Even though he really isn't to blame for her death. Reese absolutely blames himself because he didn't leave right after he spoke with her on the phone shortly before she died, because he felt obligated to fulfill this one last mission. And if this wasn't bad enough... This is when Reese learns that his agency has been lying to him about everything, only rubbing salt in his wounds so to speak. Lying to him about the good he's supposedly been doing for his country, and about the people he's killed. Like we learned in a previous episode... Wolf and Cub, Reese has killed a number of people who were really innocent, all because those he worked for have lied to him about who is good and who is bad. It's terrible. I understand why Reese is now on the run and why everyone has believed him to be dead, until he's started working with Finch in New York. And sadly... His agency still aren't the only ones looking to take Reese down. Agent Donnelly with the FBI is continuing to look for him too, and it's not good. Fun fact... The actress who plays Sarah/Karen, the woman who Reese saves from her abusive marshal husband, is Dagmara Dominczyk, and she has actually worked alongside Jim Caviezel once before. She stars alongside Jim Caviezel in one of my all time favorite movies... The Count of Monte Cristo, as Edmond Dantes' love. I love Dagmara as Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo, and I also really love her in this episode of Person of Interest. I really love the chemistry that these actors have between one another. Their screen time together in this episode is short lived, but you can tell there's a bond between them and their characters, especially when Reese assures her that she is now safe and free to live her life again. And their chemistry in The Count of Monte Cristo is phenomenal and beautiful too. Not only do I love Reese throughout this episode, but I love Finch and Carter throughout it too. While it's tough that Finch doesn't tell Reese about the woman in trouble, and it might be wrong for him to have kept Reese in the dark in spite of Reese later finding out about her later on anyways, I can also understand why Finch doesn't tell him at first. Because he was afraid for Reese. But not just because he was afraid of how Reese would react and what he might do. But because he is also afraid of what might come of him. Finch and Reese may not openly state how much they've come to care about one another, and for both Carter and Fusco too. But they definitely care, and they are friends. Very close friends. So, of course Finch is worried about Reese, and he wants very much to protect him, as does Carter. Not worried so much that Reese would become a monster, like the man Reese always sees himself to be. And Reese very much struggles with believing himself to be anything other than a monster, just like he warns Finch that he is just before charging into the Marshals' office. It's so, so sad, and you can most certainly see the pain in Reese's eyes as he must live with his pain and fear of himself coming undone every day. Just like we see in Reese's eyes in the ending as he stands up to attack Peter, when Reese's eyes suddenly turn from being sad, to cold and angry. Such phenomenal acting from Jim Caviezel, and I just absolutely love this!! And I love how Carter receives a call in the end from the prison warden down in Mexico to let her know about the Marshal being locked away per Reese's request, so that she too would be assured that he didn't kill this man like she feared he might have done. And yes... This call does most certainly confirm for Carter that Reese really is a very good man, and I definitely believe this will allow for her to put her complete trust in Reese, as well as in Finch too. And I love it!! :) I love Carter's investigation into New Rochelle, that leads her to discovering the truth behind Reese' past and the death of the woman he loved. And I love that in the end, she destroys the evidence she collects on him in order to protect Reese from the FBI"s investigation into him. While Carter is afraid of breaking the law she's always fought to remain on the right side of because she's good, she also understands that Reese is a good man fighting to protect innocent people that are failed when the rules are followed. Which they would have been, and had Reese not done as he did with the Marshal, Jennings would have gotten away with his crimes and would have been free to go after his wife again. And like Reese tells Carter, she wouldn't have been able to do anything about it, because the law was technically on his side given that Jennings was a Marshal. And now... I believe that Carter has come to realize that the world needs men like Reese and Finch in it to keep these people safe. I love it!! And in the very end... We see just how long Finch has been keeping an eye on Reese, upon him having received Reese's, Jessica's, and Jessica's abusive husband's numbers some time before Finch and Reese came to work with one another. I love that we see Finch in the hospital in the moment Reese finds out that Jessica had been killed, as he then whispers a sincere apology to Reese after Reese walks away from him, showing how sorry he is for failing to protect the woman Reese loved. Regarding whether or not Reese knew Peter was abusing Jessica... He knew very well that he was. Not only did Jessica call him a few times over the last few days before Reese escapes from being killed by those from his agency in the CIA, sounding very afraid, but Reese is also seen watching the video of hers and Peter's engagement party, in which Reese sees that she looks very scared of Peter when he is seen holding her quite roughly. Plus... I don't doubt that Reese would have also investigated Jessica's death just like we see Carter do throughout this episode as well, by talking to the coroner who declared her death an accident upon him presumably being paid off by Peter to help him cover up the truth. So, yeah... It wouldn't take much for Reese to recognize that Peter was most certainly abusive, and that he deserved death just like the Marshal and serial abuser deserved too. And lastly... In the beginning of this episode, we see that Reese is living in this very tiny apartment, or possibly even a tiny hotel room. Which would make sense, given that Reese is in hiding from his former employers and is trying to stay low. But I also suspect he lives where he does, because it has been revealed in previous episodes that Reese also gives away ninety percent of the money Finch pays him to take care of those they fight to save, or to people who have helped him in his past when he's needed it. People like the blind man he is seen playing chess with in the park in the beginning of this episode, as well as the homeless woman Reese had thanked in the stock market episode... Risk, for helping him during his time living on the streets. Upon recognizing this himself, Finch gives Reese a key to a gorgeous, huge apartment for his birthday. So that Reese can live more comfortably and close to his blind friend whom Reese is seen playing chess with in the park. Where he can keep an eye on him from. Overall... An absolutely phenomenal episode, and one of my absolute favorites throughout the entire show for sure! So, thank you so, so much once more, my dear friend! And thank you for your continued reactions for this phenomenal show! You're wonderful, Jessie!! :) Thank you! Sincerely, Heidi
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2023-04-28 16:19:28 +0000 UTC
