Sarah Shahi credited as playing...
Sameen Shaw
- John Reese: [the Machine runs through a simplified mission simulation] Cooly delivered sadistic warning.
- Lionel Fusco: Self-deprecating inquiry into the time necessary to infiltrate system.
- Root: Funny yet insightful retort.
- Harold Finch: Mildly agitated declaration of mission completion.
- Harold Finch: [Objective complete] Gentle exhortation to further action.
- Root: [Root calls Shaw] Overly affectionate greeting.
- Sameen Shaw: Greeting.
- Root: Transparent rationale for conversation.
- Sameen Shaw: Annoyed attempt to deflect subtext.
- Root: Overt come-on.
- Sameen Shaw: Mildly embarrassed defensiveness bordering on hostility.
- Root: Playfully witty sign-off.
- Sameen Shaw: Someone's gotta get to that button and hold them off.
- Root: Sameen, if you even think I'm gonna let you...
- Sameen Shaw: Oh, for God's sakes!
- [Shaw kisses Root briefly, then gets out of the elevator, closes it's gate and runs towards the red button]
- Root: [to Shaw as they are leaning close together against a wall, firing their weapons and covering the others' escape] We're so good at this together. You're gonna realize that someday.
- Sameen Shaw: [as they move together down the hall after the others, firing] Root. No offense. You're hot. You're good with a gun. Those are two qualities I greatly admire. But, you and me together would be like a four alarm fire at an oil refinery.
- Root: Sounds cozy.
- Root: Hey, sweetie, you busy?
- Sameen Shaw: A little. Skip the verbal foreplay, Root. Why you calling?
- Root: Can't a couple of gals take a little break from work to catch up?
- Sameen Shaw: I've been arrested and you're fighting an AI apocalypse so, no, we don't have time to catch up.
- Root: Well, there's no need to be rude.
- Sameen Shaw: I am not having this conversation right now.
- Root: There's no time like the present, Sameen. Why are you so afraid to talk about your feelings?
- Sameen Shaw: [Scoffs] Feelings? I'm a sociopath. I don't have feelings.
- Root: And I'm a reformed killer for hire. We're perfect for each other. You're gonna figure that out someday.
- Sameen Shaw: Root, if you and I were the last two people on the face of this planet...
- Root: An increasingly plausible scenario given Samaritan's plans.
- Sameen Shaw: Fine. Maybe someday, when Samaritan wipes everyone out we can talk about it.
- Root: You're saying maybe someday?
- Sameen Shaw: Yeah, sure, Root. Maybe someday. Is that good enough for you?
- Root: Yes, Sameen. That's good enough for me.
- John Reese: [the Machine has been running simulations to get the team out of danger, but is running out of time. The team is in the server room. The Machine display reads Simplify Simulation]
- John Reese: [Into the ear of the man he is holding at gunpoint] Coolly delivered sadistic warning.
- Lionel Fusco: [to Finch and Root] Self-deprecating inquiry into the time necessary to infiltrate system.
- Root: Funny, yet insightful retort.
- Harold Finch: Mildly agitated declaration of mission completion.
- [the Machine displays Secondary Objective - Prevent Financial Crisis: Complete]
- Harold Finch: General exhortation to further action.
- [Cut to the team in the mechanical room securing their exit by cutting a cable that locks the elevator]
- Root: [to Shaw over comms, excitedly] Overly affectionate greeting.
- Sameen Shaw: [Blandly] Greeting.
- Root: Transparent rationale for conversation.
- Sameen Shaw: Annoyed attempt to deflect subject.
- Root: [Smiling widely] Overt come-on.
- Sameen Shaw: Mildly embarrassed defensiveness, bordering on hostility.
- Root: Playfully witty sign-off.
- Sameen Shaw: Hey, Reese, you got a sec?
- John Reese: I was gonna ask you the same thing. We need that bypass code.
- Sameen Shaw: Oh, I'm working on it. How do you talk down a psycho in a bomb vest?
- [pause]
- Sameen Shaw: Hello?
- John Reese: I was waiting on the punch line.