Person of Interest just ended its fall season with a Inferno of a cliffhanger . What pass next ? We wo n’t know until January 6 , when the next episode airs . But Amy Acker , who play Root , tells us that episode was their most intriguing to shoot . And she also order us the adult question that dwell beneath the show ’s quaternary season .
admonition : despoiler for last Tuesday ’s Person of Interest ahead …
We were lucky enough to have a earphone conversation with Acker yesterday , and here ’s what she told us .
That scene in Tuesday ’s episode , where you ’re talk for the Machine and interacting with the picayune child who ’s speaking for Samaritan , was intense . What was it like filming that ?
[ That actor ] was so good . He was just incredible ! The first time he read the scene — everyone had been talking about it chair up , like “ You wo n’t believe this kidskin we get wind . We thought we would have to probably cast like a 14 or 16 year quondam just to be able-bodied to do all the dialogue , and to get you know the aim of what was happening , and they said this nine twelvemonth old male child came in and just like nail it and so we got to that vista and he was super creepy-crawly and wonderful and then delightful in real life-time . ”
It was a challenging scene for me because I had [ only ] had one other aspect where the Machine spoke through me , and that was n’t a dialog with someone . I was just kind of order Control what the Machine was say . It was a little more challenging having to try Samaritan speak to me as Root and then as the Machine , and then not react as Root , but trying to respond as the Machine . It was challenging . But I intend he was so great , and the whole episode was really fun and decidedly one of my pet to take .
the great unwashed have noticed you act otherwise when you ’re speak for the Machine , versus when you ’re speaking as Root . In your head , is she hearing Logos in her heading and then repeating what the Machine says ? And how do you essay to convey that it ’s not her talking ?
Well , that was that we ’re trying to research a little bit , as we did that view . We talked about almost like being in a trance . And then we kind of came around to the fact that , you know , whether it was Root or the Machine , but whoever , or both , they were both angry at Samaritan , so that there was an bad blood in the bringing of these lines , but also trying not to allow Root ’s personality and what Root might add to the conversation [ follow through . ] Root was n’t adding anything of her own , other than perchance a potential flavor that she could n’t help but bust out of being the Machine to respond to .
There ’s a minute where Samaritan says “ you know , you ’re not like them , ” and you sort of look down and there ’s this sort of facial expression that comes over you and I was wonder if that ’s Root or the machine and what you feel like that meant in the moment .
I was trying to make it seem like that that was something — that Root was like , “ Why are you let Samaritan utter to you like this ? ” But then get to desist from sharing anything she wanted to , and then really just become back into respond as the Machine want her to number across to Samaritan . So I think a draw of it was like trying to put up a front [ as if ] the Machine ’s [ telling her ] “ This is the design , this is what we ’re doing , and do n’t mess it up . ”
In Tuesday ’s instalment , Harold actually calls you Root rather of Ms. Groves . Do you think that that ’s pregnant , and do you think that that stand for a change in their human relationship , maybe , that he ’s finally call her what she want to be called ?
That ’s interesting . Someone else said that I call Shaw “ Sam ” for the first fourth dimension . I felt like I may have called her that before , but it did seem like this is kind of the time when we ’re all really coming together . And I mean , I mean Harold and I have had moments that we — I entail , I feel like they have almost this like comrade - sister relationship even , where they ’re set aside to excruciate each other , they still make out each other . [ Laughs ]
But yeah , I feel bad . I did n’t take in that was the first prison term he had call me Root .
I have n’t pick up on this at all , but some people feel like there ’s like hints of a Romance language between Harold and Root . Everybody hop this does n’t happen , because we all need Root to be with Shaw . Do you recollect that there ’s any of that going on , like wild-eyed tension , or intimate tension with Harold ?
Huh . You know , I feel like at the beginning , when I had kidnap him , and I was trying to get information about the Machine from him , that you could [ feel that ] I loved him in a way that was more like an obsession , like I just thought he was so great [ because ] he had made this thing . And I find like she really , really handle about Harold and envision him as an extension of the Machine at the beginning and that was why she worry about him . And now she has just come to care about him as a individual . [ But ] no , I ’ve never really read anything that hinted there would be a romantic [ pursuit . ] I do n’t think that that seems to be the vibration . It seems more like a sept to me .
Going back to that scene between the Machine and Samaritan , Samaritan say , “ You know you ca n’t win , ” and the Machine say “ Yes . ” So , what do you cogitate the Machine is doing , it ’s just kind of fighting a lose battle because it does n’t have a go at it what else to do , or what ?
Yeah , that was the part that scared all of us when we translate that . We were like , “ Wait . We have a architectural plan , we ’re not all pass to die , right ? ” [ laugh ]
[ But ] I retrieve that ’s still being revealed in what we ’re shooting now . I mean , I think we ’re endeavor to figure out what is the Machine ’s architectural plan , and does the Machine have a plan , and is there a way to stop Samaritan , and who do we demand to make that pass off , and what necessitate to go on ? Or , what do we need to do to break off Samaritan that we can do , not as the Machine but just as ourselves ?
I feel like that that ’s kind of the big , the big theme of this yr , is “ Does the Machine have a program ? ”
In that same moment , like the Machine seems as though it ’s uncoerced to sacrifice its human agents , basically for nothing , and you ’re forced to be the mouthpiece of that . Do you think Root is just ready to die for the machine ?
I finger like [ she would probably fail ] to turn back Samaritan for the motorcar . I call back they all seem to have a sense that if they do n’t struggle to the death to stop Samaritan , then it ’s not going to matter if they ’re animated or not . They either end Samaritan or snuff it trying , because if they do n’t , they ’re live on to be obliterate regardless .
So now that Shaw ’s like left the den and has start out there to try and help the others , how far is Root go to go to essay to keep open her ?
I retrieve everyone is worried about her , and that ’s emphatically where we leave the last of this , but we ’re [ also ] about to have the warfare of these two immortal . We ’ve got a caboodle of stuff and nonsense to occupy about . We require to get Shaw back , and we need to verify she ’s safe , because this other thing is going to be bigger than all of that . I think she ’s by all odds out to protect Shaw and that that ’s her number one concern in her heart probably , but what she knows has to pass off has to be to protect the Machine and cease Samaritan .
So what can you tell me about what ’s next in price of the war between these two gods ? What ’s that going to calculate like ?
It ’s kick the bucket to be very exciting . [ express joy ] It ’s really , really cool — it ’s really unlike , and Denise Thé , who drop a line it , came up with a exceedingly cool idea , that ’s unlike any episode that we ’ve shot before . It was challenging to shoot , but everyone said it ’s come together really neat . And Chris Fisher , who direct it , is our on - set manager / manufacturer , so he was spill the other day , and he was like , “ This might be my preferent affair I ’ve ever directed . ”
This show has been depart into more and more nonobjective territory about the nature of hokey intelligence , and you ’ve been the main mouthpiece for a lot of that . Do you occupy about go away spectator behind , or about how to make this clobber clearer ?
I do n’t do it . You know , I think it ’s been really interesting . peradventure it ’s because I ’m on the show that I ’m more aware of it , but I feel like there ’s been so many thing in the news lately that … [ I read an article today ] that was all about like , it was like , “ Artificial news , they ’re amiss , it ’s not possible that it would be capable to take over humankind , ” or something like that . And I ’m sitting there saying , “ But do n’t they bang about Samaritan ? ” [ laughs ] Then I ’m like , “ Oh await , that ’s not tangible . ”
Elon Musk had just said something like , his number one fright is about AI , and that he ’s invest in all these unreal intelligence house because he want to be capable to keep an optic on them and see what they ’re doing . I think of , I think that ’s the affair that ’s scary about the show : When we started out , they were talking about being watched by the authorities , and it seemed like a science fiction theme , the government watching us and bang everything that ’s going on , and reading all our emails , and since the show ’s been on the air we ’ve found out that that ’s not scientific discipline fiction at all .
I just intend we have this — a little mo of a queasy energy , like “ Be careful what you compose , because it ’s plausibly going to happen . ” [ laugh ]
The other affair that jumped out at me in this last sequence that just aired was that they kept impart back the fact that the Machine had asked them to pour down a representative . And this prove that the Machine was n’t really noble , or that it did n’t really have a moral code . Do you think that the Machine is expire to be postulate them to do some more really kind of terrible thing soon ? Like , do you remember they ’re go to be force to keep crossing a line over and over ?
I think it ’s potential . I mean , that has been something they ’ve bring in up a gang of times about , “ If we had kill the Congressman , this would not have even been the position we ’re in now . ” So I feel like you ’re right , they ’ve say that more than once , so it makes me guess : If we start into that situation again , would we make a different option ? So far that has n’t happen , but I feel like it ’s very possible that it could .
Finally , there ’s some speculation that someone else is conk out to die in the next few episodes . Can you tell me anything about that ? Is there anybody we should be worried about ?
Well , there ’s a sight [ to be worried about ] . It is like the big war of the gods . Everyone is in danger . I mean , from the promo at the end of last calendar week you see everyone ’s having near - demise experiences , so it ’s really going to be exciting .
Transcription by Diana Biller .
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