The Man in the Suit is a moniker for John Reese referring to his trademark black suit.
The following is a list of quotes from various episodes mentioning the Man in the Suit or any variation of it.
Man in the Suit[]
“Identity Crisis”[]
- "You refer to him as the man in the suit." - Nicholas Donnelly
“Firewall”[]
- "Man in the Suit? We got him." - Donnelly
“Bury the Lede”[]
- "And, uh, don't think I've forgotten about your man in the suit. We will catch him as soon as we're done with this." -Donnelly
- "And when you step out of the shadows to help her out, she's going to know you're the man in the suit." -Harold Finch
- "So you're off to chase your man in the suit?" -John Reese
“The High Road”[]
- "Your man-in-the-suit routine doesn't exactly play." -Finch
“Shadow Box”[]
- "So, with HR degraded to the point of irrelevance, my team is shifting priorities back to the man in the suit." -Donnelly
- "For instance, we think Mark Snow, the CIA agent who contacted you, may also have been recruited by the man in the suit." -Donnelly
- "I mean, Snow was sent to find this man by the CIA. He catches him, and then the man in the suit flips him. Gets Snow to be his asset." -Donnelly
- "Gotta stop, John. Donnelly's back and he's hot for the man in the suit." - Joss Carter
- "I think we got our break. The man in the suit was involved in a robbery at a charity on the Upper East Side." -Donnelly
- "Looks like that pain-in-the-ass Donnelly finally caught up with the man in the suit." -Patrick Simmons
“Prisoner's Dilemma”[]
- "The man in the suit, you still want to catch him?" - Donnelly
- "Your man in the suit, we got 4 of them." -Donnelly
- "I'm not gonna let the man in the suit slip away just because his license checks out." -Donnelly
- "While our man in the suit was committing homicide in New Rochelle, Mr. Kelly was in Iraq." -Donnelly
- "Are you the person the police call "the man in the suit?" -Donnelly
- "So if we let nature run its course, maybe the man in the suit will show us his combat skills." -Donnelly
- "When the man in the sui...John here, slipped away, I knew we had a mole/" - Donnelly
“Reasonable Doubt”[]
- "Who was that man in Washington Heights, in the suit?" -Mike Laskey
“Razgovor”[]
- "All right. We're about to get the tapes and the man in the suit." -Simmons
“Endgame”[]
- "This has "Man In The Suit" written all over it." -Simmons
- "The man in the suit dies tonight." -Simmons
“Pretenders”[]
- "Drove the cops nuts, though, they called him the man in... the suit." -Walter Dang
- "That vigilante I heard about? The man in the suit?" -Dang
“B.S.O.D.”[]
- "Rumor had it that the underworld's most elite assassin was taken out by the so-called "man in the suit", but I always figured you were too clever to be done in by some gun-for-hire." -Bela Durchenko
“return 0”[]
- "... and in your case, Riley, a bespoke suit. Which reminds me of this vigilante we had a couple of years back. We used to call him man in the suit."
Man in a Suit[]
“Bury the Lede”[]
- "She's been scouring through police records, talking to witnesses, hunting for a man in a suit." -Harold Finch
- "The police just call him the man in a suit." -Maxine Angelis
“Prisoner's Dilemma”[]
- "I know all about his hunt for the "man in a suit." -Elias
- "Now you want to give me the name of your boss or can I just charge you as the man in a suit?" -Nicholas Donnelly
- "Congratulations Carter, you just caught the man in a suit." -Donnelly
“Dead Reckoning”[]
- "This one, Mark Snow, fits the description of your man in a suit." -SAIC Brian Moss
- "So does that mean that the Bureau's case against the man in a suit is..." - Carter
“Razgovor”[]
- "(...) hush hush meetings with some man in a suit." -Mike Laskey
Guy in the Suit[]
“Firewall”[]
- Joss Carter: "I want answers. Now."
Lionel Fusco: "The guy in the suit."
Carter: "What did you say?"
Fusco: "The guy in the suit, the one you've been chasing."
“Bad Code”[]
- "Look at the guy in the suit." -some barfly in Bishop, TX
“Mors Praematura”[]
- "He's with the guy in the suit." -unnamed Vigilance member
Guy in a Suit[]
“Pilot”[]
- "They got taken out by one guy. In a suit." -Detective Kane
- "It was just some guy alone. In a suit." -Louis Azarello
“Ghosts”[]
- "Let me guess. Some guy in a suit." -Joss Carter
“Judgment”[]
- "My guy in a suit led me to another case. Nanny from the Bronx murdered on her lunch break." -Carter
“Witness”[]
- "Who was he with? - Some tall guy in a suit. Definitely not with the Russians. Shot one of them in the knee before they got away." -Bill Szymanski
“Foe”[]
- " Remember our friend, the German agent and his escort to JFK? Apparently a guy in a suit shot them off the road with a high-caliber weapon." -Lionel Fusco
“Firewall”[]
- "Let me guess. Tall guy in a suit." -Patrick Simmons
“The Contingency”[]
- "Some guy in a suit took him." -Aryan Brotherhood thug
“Relevance”[]
- "Cole, I think I've been made. My 3 o'clock, good looking guy in a suit." -Sameen Shaw
Pal in the Suit[]
“Razgovor”[]
- "Her pal in the suit knows about the meet." -Mike Laskey
- "And now your pal in the suit." -Mike Laskey
Friend in the Suit[]
“Razgovor”[]
- "No sign of our friend in the suit." -Mike Laskey
Guy with the Suit[]
“The Perfect Mark”[]
- The guy with the suit showed up, rolled Laskey and our guys, and then got away with the con man and his girl." -Raymond Terney
Killer in a Suit[]
“Ghosts”[]
- "Only now he's a killer in a suit." -Joss Carter