Person of Interest

Person of Interest is a new CBS drama series debuts at 8 p.m. Thursday (September 22) on WWL-TV. Person of Interest Created by Jonathan Nolan and the stars of the series are including Michael Emerson, Jim Caviezel and Taraji P. Henson.

Person of Interest is about Mr. Finch a mysterious rich guy has discovered a way to deter violent crime by tapping vast electronic-surveillance networks. A mysterious apparently poor guy helps.

The pilot episode establishes that Finch originally built the machine for the government as a means to prevent another 9/11-type disaster, but found that it was also predicting many "irrelevant" crimes. Finch built a backdoor into the machine that, before erasing the "irrelevant data" each night, sends Finch a single Social Security number of someone involved in one of those crimes. Finch also reveals that the world thinks that he, like Reese, is dead.