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1. Panopticon

Forced to take on new identities created by Root, the team tries to adapt to their new lives. However, some find it hard to ignore The Machine's numbers, which puts them all at risk of being detected by Samaritan.

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The team adopts cover identities in the wake of Samaritan's rise. The Machine provides Reese the number of Ali Hasan, who has built a communications network VHF television antennas across New York that cannot be traced by Samaritan. When a street gang known as "the Brotherhood" forces Hasan to set up a network for them, Hasan attempts to assassinate one of the leaders via a bomb placed in a burner phone. In retaliation, the Brotherhood kidnaps Hasan's son; Reese hires Elias to recover him. Finch gives Reese a phone belonging to Hasan's invisible network. A Samaritan agent named Martine Rousseau arrives in New York to eliminate threats to Samaritan. The Machine leads Finch to a new hideout inside an abandoned Interborough Rapid Transit Company station. Reese, via his cover identity as an NYPD detective, is placed on the 8th precinct's homicide task force.

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