You mean failure to stop the crime from happening? Is that what they always have to do? Is that what the machine wants? The question is: Does the machine know everything about the future or is it just flagging up possibilities? I believe only the latter from how I understand it to work. As Reece said, "I'm in the business of stopping bad things from happening, but I'm not sure that what is about to happen is that bad."
Up until now, the team have received a number and seen it through to a desired outcome - victims are protected, and the threat against them neutralised, whilst the few perps we've had are tracked and prevented from carrying out another crime. The only cases I can think of where the outcome was not desired were the ones directly involving Elias.
With this third series, however, we've seen a victim executed (a failure to protect and neutralise the threat against them), and we've seen a perp** not only manoeuvre herself into the position to commit the crime, but assumedly carry it through. Now whilst this second occurrence was, in part, down to a decision made by Reese, it's still a failure - the team exists to prevent things from happening to the people whose numbers they receive.
She was hooded though. Or do you mean Carter? Leon and Carter are part of the team now. Forget the location of Library, I think they know enough about Reece and Finch to cause a problem wherever they hide out. If they really wanted to move safehouse, didn't Finch buy several other disused Libraries at the same time? Are we even sure we keep seeing them at the same Library?
From what we saw of the safehouse last night, I'm guessing that it isn't the library, and that the two previous numbers who were brought in were also brought to the same place.
I think it was J-Sun who mentioned, an episode or two ago, that the team appears to care less about staying anonymous, as they're letting people see the operation. Now that it's happened on three separate occasions, I think we can say it's a thing now to bring the number to the safehouse, to question them or to give them some safety.
I hope your theory about Caviezel isn't correct. I don't have such a problem with the expanded cast, but I do think the dynamic duo works best.
Me too! If Caviezel does leave, then Shaw could easily step up to replace Reese, but the character is barely even two-dimensional, and I can't see a Shaw/Finch partnership being quite as good without a lot of work.
**My reasoning as to why I think the number this week falls more on the perp side of the line: the Machine sees all, gathering data from all forms of communication. It would know about the debt, the charity, the affairs, the plan to frame wassername, and would surely have been able to discover the fake passports for both of them. Because we're in series three, I think we can safely assume that the Machine is also a good judge of character, and would be able to work out that the wife loved the husband more than the husband loved the wife, and that the wife would likely react the way she did. Although it probably couldn't predict that Reese would giver her a gun, the Machine must have had a pretty good idea that the wife would try to murder the husband, and thus throw up her number.
