Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
Though I was prepared to score this excellent episode even higher had it decided to go fully dark, "Death Benefit" was a still a spectacular way to take us into the final act of Season 3. Its strengths lying in its cunning ability to turn the prospect of Samaritan into something almost apocalyptic. If this were The Dead Zone (movie or TV series) Finch would have touched Congressman McCourt's hand and gotten psychic flashes of mushroom clouds.
Because sometimes the tech talk on POI can get a little esoteric. And so we're always looking for the way the writers are able to drive their point(s) home a little better. And while I had gathered that Decima and their Samaritan program were going to be the main villains to take us out of the season, I didn't realize how much I needed to be sold on them as a true global threat until I watched this episode. And saw that The Machine itself had, for the first time, purposefully turned Finch and Reese into a hit squad. And that the number they'd been given (from the backdoor, not Relevance) was a target, not someone to protect. Wow. That hit like a ton of bricks.
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