Oh man, I loved having POI back, and I was screaming to my monitor (all on my own, nobody witnessing) when Reese said: "I'm going to go out too look for Root." That girl can handle herself. There's no need for man in the suit. And she doesn't need a voice in her ear to tell her to pull the trigger.
Although it was a bit unbelievable that he still had some steam left after that night op. What does he eat to be able to keep going so much? Or is it just pure adrenaline?
Harold, in the other hand, waffled - as he does when he panics. When he's calm and not in a stressful situation, he can operate, but after that I would have just hooked the Machine in the power supply and called it a day. I mean beyond certain point there's not much you can do. The Ai won't fit in a normal machine. Not in its entire archive, but using the case and brushing off dust from the electronics, the "RAM" bank could have served as an external memory bank.
I won't venture more into the details, because it's just becomes a nightmare. For you and for me. All I'm saying is that group is small, and they're on run or in a hiding place. So resting should be priority. Rest of the stuff is just engineering and acquiring supplies.