Tonight on Person of Interest , the anti - surveillance vigilance man Collier finally gets his consequence to bring out the verity about government spying … and A.I. We spill to Leslie Odom Jr. , who meet Collier , and he helped us invade Collier ’s privacy . Spoilers onward …
We were lucky enough to have a speech sound consultation with Odom this morning , and he talked to us about what ’s next for Collier — and whether Collier could ever team up with the Machine gang in some capacity .
In tonight ’s season finale , Collier redact all the major players on “ trial ” on the cyberspace , to get to the bottom of their program of stag on the American mass : Greer from Decima , Control and others from the government … and Finch from the Machine gang .
“ Everybody ‘s going to jar in the court tonight , ” Odom tells io9 . “ Collier and Vigilance need some answers , and they ’re going to take some pretty extreme actions . ” He adds that Collier hop to catch his enemies unprepared so they have no option but to reveal the Sojourner Truth rather of “ inclined statements . ”
“ Collier ’s like , ‘ You have admission to all our pestiferous secrets . You have admission to all our information . What are you hiding ? ’ As an actor , you could really get behind a mission like that . ” He ’s really enjoyed play Collier in these scenes , because the foreign mission is so clear and his character is so passionate about it .
But Odom hints that Collier may not be so thrilled about some of the affair he learns tonight . “ I will say that there are twist and turns . It ’s not what you expect . It was n’t what I expected . ” He had an easy clock time portraying his character ’s surprise at the turn of events , because he was surprised by them as well .
And we find out more tonight about who recruited Collier , and who ’s behind Vigilance . formally , Vigilance has no drawing card , it ’s unravel collectively in a sincerely popular fashion . But somebody raise Collier to join the brass back in 2010 , and tonight we ’re going to regain out more about who that was .
Odom feels as though his character is way more sympathetic , now that we know his backstory involve his brother being falsely accused of terrorism . “ I loved how the writers break it to the consultation , and also to me . I had no idea why he was doing this , but I figured it had to be a right reason . I just tried to give it as much honesty and truth as I could . ”
But understand what really motivates Collier ” gave me the permission to go to those dark topographic point , ” adds Odom . “ I loved it . ”
Odom ’s had a nice bit of synchronicity in terminus of the role he ’s been playing lately — he ’s also play Aaron Burr in Hamilton Mixtapes , a hip - hop musical about the death of Alexander Hamilton which focuses on the Founding Fathers and the ideals they had for this country . So Odom discover himself able-bodied to channel that passion for the base paragon of the United States into his performance as Collier .
“ I kind of consider we sort of subconsciously draw thing into our lives , whatever we ’re trying to work through , ” so the synchronicity of playing Burr and Collier at the same time appealed to him . “ Getting into what those founding ideals were , and what we were trying to do when we wrote the Declaration of Independence … it ’s interesting to [ connect that ] to what Collier is trying to do . ”
Could Collier ever become one of the good guys , or at least join forces with them ? Anything ’s possible , says Odom . After all , face at Root : “ She started as a full-strength - up villain , and they run together now . Their methods are very different , and their reasons for doing what they ’re doing are very dissimilar , but they forge together . ”
And we ’ve already witness Collier have a bite of a glint with Shaw , where she seemed to sympathize with his goals , if not his end . They seemed to have some alchemy together , too . Says Odom :
You know , what I like a lot about the character , as radical as he is — all the characters they ’ve create have some unity , because masses with integrity can always find uncouth ground . We may not desire the same thing . You ’re fighting for your principles . I ’m fighting for my principles . Where can we touch ? I feel like [ Collier ] had that same connection with Finch [ as with Shaw ] — not a romantic connector , but they sympathize each other on some storey . That empathy , that connective , it pretend thing complicated , in a very beautiful way . [ But Sarah Shahi ] makes things so sluttish . look into her centre , you get everything you need . There ’s for sure possibility for them to find common ground .
But he ’s just taking his part ’s progression one day at a metre .
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