Person of Interest - The ultimate dialogue (05x12)

I'm giving you the opportunity to save your Machine,
which you so clearly love and loves you in return.
-For what purpose?
- Samaritan would consider your Machine
a much-needed peer for what promises to be a fantastic voyage.
This virus you uploaded is nothing but a tragic mistake.
Tell me, after it's eradicated both ASIs, what then?
- Then we go back to letting humanity determine its own fate.
- Surely you're not that naive.
You know another ASI would soon arise.
- Not for certain I don't, and neither do you.
- Proliferation is inevitable. So is progress.
- Progress?
That eliminates free will and renders humanity irrelevant?
You've gone mad.
- Sir, there's been a security breach.
We've got five men down.
-How many hostiles?
-Two
A man and a woman.
A response team's been dispatched.
- You are the problem.
Samaritan's code was conceived by Arthur Claypool, who was a good man.
You have corrupted it.
- I didn't corrupt Samaritan any more than I can control it now.
That would be like the apes controlling us.
It's impossible.
Let go, Harold.
Join us.
-Ceding control is not the answer,
because you will never know if Samaritan has any real concern for human life, for all human lives.
And that is why I will not join you or ever allow our machines to join.
[chuckles]
- Thank you for answering my question.
- Funny, it sounded like a demand.
- Not that question.
But whether your Machine knows the password to deploy the virus.
[dramatic music]
From the very beginning, when you crippled your Machine,
you denied it the same power that you enjoy.
Autonomy.
It's always required your permission, because it never had your trust.
And you just said it, you wouldn't cede control.
That tells Samaritan that only you know the password.
For such a brilliant mind,
you are a terrible chess player,
which is why you've already lost.
[lock clicks]
[whooshing]
Two pieces trapped on a board.
-(Greer) Despite your lessons to the Machine,
the life of a pawn is not worth the same as a queen.
This room is soundproofed.
No microphones, no way to activate the virus.
The fire suppression system will suck the oxygen from this room within seconds.
- Samaritan will kill you too.
- The queen sacrifice.
So be it.
Be at peace, Harold.
We have created a new world,
with our lives and now with our deaths,
Samaritan's survival is ensured,
as is life's evolution.
[wheezes]
History will revere us.
[gasping]
[pained gasping and wheezing]
[dramatic music]