Returning show! PER SON OF INTERE ST
SEASON: 4 US BROADCAST: CBS from 23 September UK BROADCAST: Channel 5 TBC
When we last left our heroes on Person Of Interest at the end of season three they’d broken up and scattered in an effort to survive their enemy AI Samaritan’s plans for their destruction. Season four begins by jumping ahead in time and finding them all entrenched in their new identities.
“They’re identities with which we’re kind of fish out of water trying to navigate through them,” reveals Sarah Shahi, who plays bloodthirsty former government assassin Sameen Shaw. “We haven’t gotten a number in a while. The Machine is letting us acclimate to our new identities. It’s very frustrating for our characters, especially mine, who’s had a very intense appetite for violence. In the first episode we finally receive our first number, and it’s kind of tricky helping the number out and not being caught by Samaritan.”
When SFX asks what the team’s new identities might be, Shahi laughs. “That’s what I can’t tell you! Okay, fine I’ll tell you mine – I’m a hooker by day, hooker by night. That’s all you’ll get out of me.”
“This season,” explains Amy Acker, aka Root, the Machine’s analogue interface, “the Machine has to be a little bit more cryptic with how she’s talking to me. She’s teasing me with hints to help everybody maintain this new identity. But I don’t have the direct line of communication that I had with her last year.”
“We just have to be very sly with how we operate,” Shahi tells SFX. “Because there are eyes everywhere…”