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| Flashbacks |
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In each episode summary on this wiki, the flashback segments of the episode are described in a gray field to more easily distinguish the break in the narrative timeline.
| Image | Episode | Character(s) | Year/Date | ||
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“Prophets” | Harold Finch | October 13, 2001 | ||
| Finch kills the Machine because it lied. | |||||
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“Prophets” | Harold Finch, Nathan Ingram | November 29, 2001 | ||
| Nathan Ingram tried to Log-In into The Machine, but The Machine only
sees Finch as its admin and tried to escape using Nathan's Laptop. | |||||
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“Prophets” | Harold Finch | December 31, 2001 | ||
| The Machine tries to kill Harold. | |||||
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“The Cold War” | John Greer | 1973 | ||
| Greer's superior, Blackwood, briefs Greer on his new assignment at MI6 headquarters: Oleg Luski. | |||||
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“The Cold War” | John Greer | 1973 | ||
| The assassination attempt on Luski fails. Greer loses a collegue, Jacob, during the firefight in Soho. | |||||
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“The Cold War” | John Greer | 1973 | ||
| Luski reveals to Greer he is a double agent recruited by Blackwood, who is also a double agent. | |||||
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“The Cold War” | John Greer | 1973 | ||
| Before destroying his own file at MI6, Greer confronts and shoots Blackwood to death. | |||||
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“If-Then-Else” | The Machine | 2003 | ||
| The Machine reviews decision making training protocols via a game of chess with Finch. | |||||
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“If-Then-Else” | The Machine | 2003 | ||
| Finch notices that The Machine favors playing the queen during their chess game. He teaches her a lesson in strategy through the story and history behind the queen chess piece. | |||||
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“If-Then-Else” | The Machine | 2003 | ||
| The Machine offers to play another game of chess. Finch refuses. Finch imparts another lesson: "Anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess deserves to lose." | |||||
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“Karma” | Harold Finch | 2010 | ||
| After the ferry bombing, Finch threatens Alicia Corwin with harassing phone calls. Finch also begins construction on a bomb. | |||||
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“Karma” | Harold Finch | 2010 | ||
| Finch ignores The Machine when she tries to convince him not to plant a bomb on Alicia Corwin's car. | |||||
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“Karma” | Harold Finch | 2010 | ||
| Finch threatens Alicia Corwin with the bomb attached to her car, blaming her for Nathan Ingram's death. Corwin convinces Finch that she was not the perpetrator for his murder. In the end, Finch decides to not kill Corwin. | |||||
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“Terra Incognita” | John Reese | late May 2012 - November 2013 | ||
| :Main article: Terra Incognita/Summary
Reese reminisces a past memory of a stakeout with Carter. | |||||