In flashbacks to 2006, Reese (Jim Caviezel) runs into Jessica (Susan Misner) at an airport, having returned from an overseas job.
Please.” Reese and Finch (Michael Emerson) get the number of Joey Durban (James Carpinello), a soldier who has just returned from Afghanistan who now works as a doorman.
Analyzing the stops, they find a bar owner Sam Latimer (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), a Gulf War veteran who was also in Joey's division.
When he is refused entry due to lack of space, Finch plants a gun on one of the members to get him arrested so that Reese can be given a place on the team.
Detective Carter (Taraji P. Henson) is shown the footage of Reese stopping the guard in the bank and wonders whether he was involved in the robbery.
Reese finds Joey, and he reveals that after returning to the country, he wanted to have success but the gang had control over him and forced him to carry out robberies.
In its original American broadcast, "Mission Creep" was seen by an estimated 11.57 million household viewers and gained a 2.6/6 ratings share among adults aged 18–49, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Club gave the episode a "C+" rating and wrote "Person of Interest doesn't need to be the next great drama on television to be effectively entertaining, but if it's going to keep churning out B-level plots like this one, it needs to do more with its two leads.
She's basically just a superfluous expository device at this point, and unless she starts feeding Reese and Finch information, there's no real reason to keep her around.)
As far as ratings go, the series is pulling solid, if not spectacular numbers, which, unless something drastic happens, gives it good odds for sticking around the full year.
In fact, it's probably the show's strongest instalment so far - there's a solid, straight-forward plot, nice moments of character development and the usual batch of exciting action scenes.