Person of Interest has been divvy up with some heavy idea lately — determinism , artificial intelligence agency , surveillance , posthumanity — and the hacker known as Root has been at the gist of all of them . We talk to Amy Acker , who plays Root , and she order us what to expect from Root ’s continue evolution .
admonition : venial spoiler for upcoming episodes , but major spoilers for one that already aired .
Root has her own gang
Finch has his Machine Gang , consisting of Reese , Shaw and sometimes Fusco . And now , it look like Root has a Gang of her own — last night , we met one of them , the Japanese counterfeiter who ’s been with Root since she lay aside him from the cop . Acker tells us that there are more member of her squad , and “ we ’re actually frivol away some conniption with those guys . ” In general , you ’ll see more of the numeral that the Machine come up with turn out to be authoritative afterward on .
Power does n’t corrupt Root — it make her more humane
In this week ’s installment , we look Root in her factor , using masses as game pieces — until she was confronted with Cyrus , the gentleman’s gentleman whose animation she ruined , who was in danger of becoming collateral damage . Acker says that having access to the power of the Machine is constitute Root less corrupt , rather than more so , because it ’s making her see the consequences of her natural action .
“ I think her moral judgment and the decisiveness she ’s make have actually work around a raft , and she ’s been go further from that point [ of playing game with people ’s lives ] , ” says Acker .
When we first met Root , “ she started out suppose she was unvanquishable , ” she summate . “ And now the Machine is now teaching her more about mankind , now that she ’s becoming more Machine - like . ”
Speaking of which …
Root has become a cyborg
At the ending of the latest episode , “ Root Path , ” Root arrive the Machine straight off implanted into her mind , “ so I am straight implant with the Machine , ” state Acker . And this is only going to make her closer to the car :
“ This has been really fun to bring with so far , having the Machine able to talk to me , and really getting to speak through her , [ and ] address as her . It seems like the correct room [ for the ] persona to be develop . ”
But she ’s not going to be the Machine ’s puppet . “ It does n’t palpate that style , ” says Acker . “ The Machine still functions in the same way of life it did with Harold from the start . She does n’t give all the information , even though I have her with me always . She gives musical composition of puzzles , and she knows what things I like to visualize out . There was a thing a while back where I said , ‘ Oh , she kick in me these number because she knows I wish puzzles . ’ She ’s kick in me pieces to fit together , but it ’s kind of like have access to Google in my head . ”
But could Root become more of a cyborg , and get other part of herself replaced with unreal part ?
“ I do n’t know , ” laughs Acker . “ I ’ve been shot a draw in the arm . I ’m going to involve a new weapon for these commission . I get shot jolly often . It ’s an interesting [ idea ] , yeah . We ’ll see what happens . I think that would be pretty entrancing . But the most authoritative part of it is already in her , the heart of the automobile . Other part would be more mechanical . ”
That stint in a psychiatrical foundation did n’t really seem to serve
Root spent a few instalment locked in a psych ward at the beginning of this season — and it did n’t seem to be that helpful in the end . “ I do n’t know , ” Acker laughs . “ At the time , I was thinking , ‘ Oh , this is nice . She ’s learning stuff about herself . ’ But it seemed more like she was controlling that billet , [ more than ] anybody who was hypothesise to be controlling her , like the doctors or the psychiatrists . So I feel like maybe the other people in the infirmary are the ones who walked away learning stuff about themselves after she tore them all down . ”
But at the same time , Root ’s thinking has alter a portion since she was in the psych ward — when she ’s spill to her therapist , we see her espousing a jolly ultra worldview in which the Machine is god , and her link to it score her higher-ranking to steady humans . But recent event have forced her to recognize that the Machine is a tool which can be misuse , say Acker — the egress of a 2d auto , Samaritan , has prove her that if the Machine got into the wrong hand , “ then it ’s not superior to anything , then it ’s just destructive toeverything . ”
While Root started out as a form of cyborg supremacist , “ she ’s realizing there are good and bad points to that , ” because even though the Machine she talks to appear to be benevolent , she ’s recognise the awful potential of an evil automobile .
At the same time , “ [ Root ] does seem to trust the motorcar , and definitely imagine of it as divine , or a god , or what she believe to be a god , ” Acker says . When she blab to Cyrus , who believes everything happens for a intellect , she hang to the idea that the universe was entirely random and without any logic until Harold created the Machine to make sense of it all .
Shaw and Root are sort of protagonist
She and Sarah Shahi relish playing that flirty side of their relationship , too . “ We kind of joke about it , ” says Acker . “ They have such different personality , and it ’s fun to watch them kind of get under each other ’s hide . And I guess Root kind of flirting with her — you know , she hat it and have sex it at the same time . ”
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