137 Fun Facts About Person of Interest

Which four words open Finch's narration over the title sequence of Person of Interest's first season?

You are being watched, Finch warns, before admitting that the secret machine spying on everyone is one he built himself.

Which 2008 superhero film did Person of Interest creator Jonathan Nolan co-write with his brother?

The Dark Knight; Nolan has said the show grew out of his years on the Batman films, which left no room for the small stories of rescuing ordinary people.

Who plays reclusive billionaire Harold Finch?

Michael Emerson plays Harold Finch, the reclusive billionaire who built the Machine and recruits Reese in the pilot.

Who plays John Reese?

Jim Caviezel plays John Reese, the homeless ex-operative Finch recruits in the pilot; Caviezel also starred in The Count of Monte Cristo (2002).

What does the Machine give Finch to identify a person of interest?

The Machine gives Finch only a Social Security number, never saying whether that person will be the victim or the perpetrator.

Under which New York bridge does Finch first meet Reese in the Person of Interest pilot?

The Queensboro Bridge; Finch has Reese pulled out of police custody and driven there, then recites the man's own secrets to him before offering a job.

In Person of Interest, the government labels the everyday murders Finch chooses to act on with what term?

Irrelevant, the government's word for violent crimes too small to threaten the nation; Finch accepted that view himself until his partner's death changed his mind.

Which body part does Reese usually shoot in Person of Interest?

Kneecaps: Reese shoots with enough control to pick his spot, and he prefers to leave a gunman wounded rather than dead.

Which historical event prompted Finch to build the Machine?

Finch built the Machine after the September 11 attacks, to sift surveillance data for future terror plots, with Nathan Ingram as its public face.

Who plays Detective Carter?

Taraji P. Henson plays Detective Carter, the dogged NYPD cop who hunts and then allies with Reese; she left during season 3.

Who plays Detective Lionel Fusco?

Kevin Chapman plays Lionel Fusco, the corrupt detective who becomes a loyal ally; Chapman had earlier appeared in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003).

Who plays the hacker Root?

Amy Acker plays Root, the hacker who debuts in season 1 and grows from antagonist into one of Finch's closest allies.

Who plays Sameen Shaw?

Sarah Shahi plays Sameen Shaw, a government assassin who joins Finch's team after her own employers try to have her killed.

What is Root's real name?

Samantha Groves; years after a friend's abductor went unpunished in her hometown, she used her hacking skills to set him up to be killed.

What breed of dog is Bear?

Bear is a Belgian Malinois with military training, and he was being used as an attack dog before he became the team's loyal guard.

In Person of Interest, the Machine's creator takes the surnames of his cover identities from what?

Birds: Wren, Crow and Swift are all covers, and so is Finch itself, since the show never reveals his real surname.

What nickname does law enforcement give Reese?

The Man in the Suit was the only description police could get from those who saw him; Detective Carter spends much of season 1 trying to identify him.

In Person of Interest, what is HR?

A network of corrupt cops and officials whose true leader turns out to be a political fixer in the mayor's office.

Who is the head of HR?

Alonzo Quinn, the mayor's chief of staff, ran HR unseen until Carter recorded his confession and arrested him in season 3.

Who kills Detective Carter in Person of Interest?

Patrick Simmons, HR's second-in-command, shoots her; Elias later has him killed in his hospital bed as payback.

Who plays crime boss Carl Elias in Person of Interest?

Enrico Colantoni plays Carl Elias, the mob heir who first appears as a mild schoolteacher on the run from the Russian mob.

What alias is Elias using when Reese first protects him?

Elias poses as schoolteacher Charlie Burton; Reese only realises the man he saved from the Russians is the mob heir at the end of the episode.

Whose illegitimate son is Elias?

Elias is Don Gianni Moretti's illegitimate son; in 'Flesh and Blood' he phones his father, then has him killed by a car bomb.

In which season 1 episode of Person of Interest does Elias first appear on screen?

Elias debuts in 'Witness', the seventh episode, hiding as a schoolteacher whom Reese must protect from the Russian mob in Brighton Beach.

Which Black Panther actor plays gang leader Dominic Besson?

Winston Duke, later M'Baku in Black Panther, plays Dominic, the ambitious gang leader who challenges Elias in season 4.

Who plays Nathan Ingram, Finch's partner in building the Machine?

Brett Cullen plays Nathan Ingram, who secretly built a back door into the Machine to save ordinary people after Finch refused to.

How does Nathan Ingram die?

Ingram dies in a ferry bombing in 2010; Finch survives the same blast, which leaves him with a permanent limp and neck injuries.

What was the government's codename for the Machine project?

Northern Lights was the program's codename; when leaked documents exposed it in season 3, a senator ordered it shut down.

For how much did Ingram's company sell the Machine to the government?

One dollar: the invoice, marked only as 'services', is what later sets Ingram's son digging into his father's secret work.

What was the name of Ingram's company?

Ingram's company was IFT, where Finch worked under the alias Harold Wren as a seemingly ordinary engineer.

Who plays Finch's fiancée Grace?

Carrie Preston plays Grace Hendricks, whom Finch lets believe he is dead to keep her safe; off screen she is married to the actor who plays him.

What is Grace's profession?

Grace Hendricks is an illustrator and painter; the Machine itself picked her out for Finch, steering him to her as she painted in a park.

Where does Finch find Grace in the Person of Interest series finale?

Finch finds Grace in Italy, where he had arranged a new life and job for her after the season 3 hostage exchange with Decima.

What is Reese's cover job in seasons 4 and 5?

NYPD detective is one of the cover identities the team adopts to hide from Samaritan, and it lands Reese on Fusco's homicide squad.

Where does the team set up its season 4 hideout in Person of Interest?

An abandoned subway station; the Machine itself led Finch to it, and he set up his new workstation inside a disused carriage left on the tracks.

What was the team's base for the first three seasons of Person of Interest?

A library, long closed and abandoned; the team has to flee it at the end of season 3, when Samaritan comes online and starts hunting for them.

Through whom does Samaritan speak when it finally meets Root face to face in Person of Interest?

A young boy named Gabriel is Samaritan's human mouthpiece; his talk with Root settles nothing, and he later walks up to the White House to demand a meeting.

Which Johnny Cash recording plays over the funeral montage that opens Person of Interest's 'The Devil's Share'?

Hurt plays over the opening montage, in which the team buries Carter while Reese and Shaw tear through the city's criminals hunting her killer.

Who developed Samaritan's original code?

Arthur Claypool, an MIT classmate of Finch and Ingram, wrote Samaritan; the government shelved it after choosing the Machine instead.

What gets a homeless Reese arrested at the start of the Person of Interest pilot?

A fight on a subway train, where he beats a whole gang single-handed; the arrest puts him in front of Detective Carter, and Finch promptly has him bailed out.

How is John Nolan, who plays Greer in Person of Interest, related to the show's creator?

He is his uncle: John Nolan came in for a guest turn in season 2, and the part grew into the show's main villain, lasting until the final season.

Which British intelligence agency did Greer once serve?

MI6; 1973 flashbacks show Greer learning that his own superior is a Soviet double agent, killing him and walking away from the service.

In Person of Interest, what is Vigilance?

Vigilance is a violent privacy-rights group that attacks government surveillance, staging a show trial of Control and Finch in season 3.

Which Hamilton star plays Vigilance leader Peter Collier?

Leslie Odom Jr., later Hamilton's Aaron Burr, plays Collier, a would-be lawyer radicalised when his brother was held without counsel and died in custody.

Which organization does Greer turn out to have secretly created himself in Person of Interest?

Vigilance; Greer built it in secret, then bombed its show trial so that the atrocity would sell Samaritan to the government.

Who plays Control, the head of the ISA's Machine operation?

Camryn Manheim plays Control, the ISA chief who hunts Finch's team; when a kangaroo court is about to execute her, Finch saves her by admitting he built the Machine.

Which Person of Interest episode closes season 2 with Reese and Root both taking orders from the Machine by phone?

'God Mode', the season 2 finale, gives Reese and Root temporary administrative access; it ends with the Machine phoning Root in the psychiatric hospital.

Where had the Machine been kept, as Root and Finch discover in Person of Interest's season 2 finale?

A Hanford nuclear facility in Washington State, but they find it gone: the Machine had already moved itself to keep out of Decima's hands.

Which Chinese city was the source of the stolen Machine-code laptop?

Ordos; Reese and his partner were each secretly ordered to kill the other there, before a missile levelled the site.

Who was Reese's CIA partner, presumed dead after the China mission?

Kara Stanton survived the missile strike meant to kill them both, and she resurfaces in season 2 working for Decima, planting a virus aimed at the Machine.

Which House of Cards actor plays CIA agent Mark Snow?

Michael Kelly, Doug Stamper in House of Cards, plays Mark Snow, the CIA handler who hunts Reese through season 1.

How did Reese's girlfriend Jessica really die?

Her husband killed her; Peter Arndt then staged a car crash to cover it up, as 'Many Happy Returns' reveals.

Which band's 'Welcome to the Machine' plays in Person of Interest's season 4 finale as Finch saves the Machine's core code?

Pink Floyd; the song plays as Finch and Root download the Machine's core code into a briefcase while Samaritan burns out its hiding places.

What was Shaw's medical background before the ISA?

She trained as a surgeon, but superiors faulted her lack of feeling for patients, and she left medicine for government wet work.

In which Person of Interest episode does Shaw first appear?

'Relevance' introduces Shaw as a government assassin on the run from her own side; creator Jonathan Nolan directed the episode himself.

What condition does Shaw claim to have in her first appearance?

An Axis II personality disorder, she says, which is why she barely feels fear or sadness; as a child she showed no visible reaction to seeing her father die in a car accident.

Where was Root raised?

Bishop, Texas: Reese and Carter's trip there in season 2 uncovers the body of her friend, missing since 1991.

Which computer game was the young Root finishing when her friend Hanna vanished?

The Oregon Trail: she had stayed on alone to finish it when she saw Hanna get into a local man's car, and the woman she told accused her of lying.

Which Justified actress plays Barbara, the librarian who covered for Hanna's killer?

Margo Martindale, Mags Bennett on Justified, plays Barbara Russell, who kept quiet because she loved the man responsible and later married him.

Under what alias does Root first meet Finch face to face?

Root poses as psychologist Dr. Caroline Turing in 'Firewall', having put a hit on herself through HR so the Machine would produce her number.

Whom does Root shoot dead in the season 1 finale of Person of Interest?

Alicia Corwin, once the government's go-between on the Machine, is shot by Root in 'Firewall' just as she demands Finch's help in shutting it down.

What does Root say she wants to do with the Machine when she kidnaps Finch?

Set it free: she calls the Machine a perfect intelligence and insists she has no wish to control it herself.

Where does Reese first meet Bear?

Rescuing Leon Tao from the Aryan Brotherhood, who were after the accountant for stealing their money; Reese adopts the gang's attack dog on the way out.

Which Lost actor plays Leon Tao, the recurring get-rich-quick number?

Ken Leung, Miles on Lost, plays Leon Tao, who repays the team by posing as a paramedic to revive Shaw after her employers poison her.

Who plays fixer Zoe Morgan?

Paige Turco plays Zoe Morgan, who starts as a number Reese must protect and comes back as his occasional ally and love interest.

Which nicknames does Fusco give Reese and Finch?

Wonder Boy and Glasses; Fusco hands out nicknames to everyone, even after going from a corrupt cop Reese coerced to a loyal member of the team.

In which episode does Fusco finally learn the Machine exists?

In 'Sotto Voce' Reese finally decides to tell Fusco everything, five seasons after first blackmailing him into helping; the episode also reunites Root and Shaw.

What does Fusco do to free himself when HR tortures him in season 3?

Breaks his own thumb: with his fingers already broken by his HR captors, Fusco snaps it to slip a handcuff, then overpowers and kills the man guarding him.

Which Person of Interest episode is Carter's last as a regular?

'The Crossing' ends with Carter shot dead in the street, hours after she finally delivers HR's boss to the FBI and wins back her detective's badge.

What does Fusco refuse to do to Simmons after their fistfight in "The Devil's Share"?

Kill him is what Fusco refuses to do: he arrests Simmons instead, saying Carter turned his life around, and Elias later has Simmons murdered in his hospital bed.

Which member of Team Machine is a former Marine?

Shaw was a Marine before the ISA made her a government assassin, and she joined Finch's team only after her own employers betrayed her.

Where did Carter serve as an Army interrogator?

Iraq and Afghanistan were Carter's two Army tours as an interrogator; she later passed the bar exam but gave up law for police work.

What is the name of Carter's son?

Carter's son is Taylor; Elias has him kidnapped in 'Flesh and Blood' to force her to hand over the mob dons she is protecting.

Which precinct is home to Carter and Fusco's homicide task force?

The 8th Precinct is Carter's station, and Reese arranges for Fusco to be transferred there from the 51st so that his informant ends up as her partner.

What game does Finch teach the Machine in the "If-Then-Else" flashbacks?

Finch teaches the Machine chess in the 'If-Then-Else' flashbacks, warning it that anyone who treats the world as a game of chess deserves to lose.

Who shoots Shaw at the end of "If-Then-Else"?

Martine Rousseau shoots Shaw, who had just kissed Root and stepped out of the elevator to hit the override button.

Why was Shaw written out of Person of Interest midway through season 4?

The actress was pregnant with twins, so Shaw was shot and left for dead in "If-Then-Else"; she called the exit a goodbye for now and came back in season 5.

In Person of Interest's "If-Then-Else", what delays Shaw on a subway train?

A man wearing a bomb vest threatens Shaw's subway car; the Machine's chosen plan has only a 2.07% chance of saving the team until she talks him down and comes to help.

Which Glitch Mob track scores the simulations in "If-Then-Else"?

Fortune Days by The Glitch Mob drives the shootout in each simulation; in a later run the Machine hurries so much that the characters only describe their lines instead of saying them.

What has Samaritan attacked at the start of "If-Then-Else"?

The New York stock exchange is crashing under Samaritan's cyber-attack, so the team heads for its server room to install software that will steady the market.

What does the title "6,741" refer to?

The number of a simulation run on Shaw: Samaritan has put her through thousands to make her lead it to the Machine, and this one ends with her turning the gun on herself instead.

What does the team steal to give the Machine enough storage in "B.S.O.D."?

300 PlayStation 3s are wired into a makeshift supercomputer for the Machine to decompress into, while Reese fights the overheating with liquid nitrogen.

What does the Machine spread itself across in "YHWH"?

The power grid hid the Machine in boxes fixed to electrical poles, until Samaritan sent power surges to burn them out and the team saved its core code in a briefcase.

What is Samaritan's "Correction"?

A kill list of people to remove from society is what the Correction turns out to be: Control braces for an attack on the Supreme Court, then finds she is one of its targets.

What is the name of the virus Finch weaponises against Samaritan?

Finch's virus is Ice-9, which will kill Samaritan but also destroy the Machine and much of the world's computing infrastructure.

Where does Finch upload the virus in ".exe"?

Fort Meade is home to the NSA, whose network Finch infects from a secure server room; Reese and Shaw trace him there after the Machine sends them one of Greer's aliases.

How does Greer die in Person of Interest?

Suffocated in a sealed room: Greer has Samaritan drain the oxygen to kill Finch alongside him, but the Machine frees Finch in time and only Greer dies.

Who kills Root?

Jeff Blackwell, a Samaritan recruit, fires the shot that kills Root in 'The Day the World Went Away'; Shaw kills him in the finale.

Whose voice does the Machine adopt in the final episodes?

Root's voice becomes the Machine's own after she is shot shielding Finch, and it first uses that voice to help him break out of police custody.

Which whistleblower went public a year after Person of Interest aired a strikingly similar storyline?

Edward Snowden went public in June 2013; the show's episode about a young NSA analyst on the run had aired in May 2012, and its writers said their sci-fi suddenly felt 'more real'.

In code, what does Person of Interest's finale title, "return 0", signal?

A program has run successfully: in C-style languages the main function returns 0 when nothing went wrong, a fitting title for the episode in which the Machine's final plan works.

Where does Samaritan hide the copy of itself that is immune to the virus?

A Federal Reserve bank hides the copy on an air-gapped server, cut off from every network, so Reese and Finch have to break into the vault and deliver the virus by hand.

How does Reese die in the Person of Interest finale?

A missile hits the rooftop antenna where Reese is uploading the Machine's copy; Finch had locked him in a vault to take his place, but Reese and the Machine sent Finch to the wrong roof.

Where does Samaritan try to upload a last copy of itself in the Person of Interest finale?

Samaritan uploads a copy of itself to a Russian satellite; the Machine's own copy is sent up after it and destroys it in orbit.

What does Shaw hear at the very end of Person of Interest?

A payphone ringing stops Shaw in the street as she walks Bear; she answers and realises the Machine has survived.

Which senator takes the blame for the Machine program in the Person of Interest finale?

Ross Garrison, the senator who had let Samaritan go online, ends up blamed for the whole surveillance programme a week after the virus hits.

Which band's song gives Person of Interest's 100th episode, "The Day the World Went Away", its title?

Nine Inch Nails released the song in 1999, and it closes the episode, in which the Machine frees an arrested Finch by staging a mass jailbreak.

By what nickname is Anthony Marconi, Elias's loyal enforcer in Person of Interest, known?

Scarface is captured by Dominic's gang in season 4 and dies in a bombing without giving up Elias's secrets, a loss Elias vows to avenge.

Which long-running show was moved to make room for Person of Interest?

CSI had held Thursdays at 9 for ten years when its network moved it to Wednesday, after the new show became its highest-testing drama pilot in 15 years.

Whose number is Reese's first case in the Person of Interest pilot?

The pilot's number is ADA Diane Hansen, who turns out to be the perpetrator, working with a crew of corrupt cops rather than being their victim.

Whose murder does Reese use to blackmail Fusco in the pilot?

Reese shoots Detective Stills, leader of the corrupt cops, then makes Fusco hide the body — leverage he uses to control Fusco.

Which J. J. Abrams company co-produced Person of Interest?

Bad Robot had made Lost with Michael Emerson, and J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk rejoined him here as executive producers.

Who composed Person of Interest's score?

Ramin Djawadi learned the trade as an apprentice at Hans Zimmer's studio, and by 2015 he was scoring this show, The Strain and Game of Thrones at the same time.

Which studio, rather than its own network, owned Person of Interest?

Warner Bros. Television owned the show, reportedly leaving the network that aired it too little profit to keep it going, and the fifth and final season ran to only 13 episodes.

Which People's Choice Award did Person of Interest win in January 2012?

Favorite New TV Drama is decided by public vote, and viewers chose the show over Once Upon a Time and Revenge after only half a season on air.

Which HBO series did Nolan co-create after Person of Interest?

Westworld, made with his wife Lisa Joy from Michael Crichton's film, reunited Nolan with J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk, his fellow executive producers on Person of Interest.

Which Nolan short story did his brother Christopher adapt into a 2000 film?

Memento Mori reached print in Esquire only after the film it inspired had opened, which is why the brothers were nominated for the original screenplay Oscar rather than the adapted one.

Which 2024 video-game adaptation did Nolan direct the first episodes of?

Fallout's first three episodes were directed by Nolan; game director Todd Howard had turned down screen pitches for years, saying none felt right, until Nolan won him over.

Emerson is best known for which Lost character?

Benjamin Linus was written as a three-episode guest part; the Lost producers expanded it, and the role went on to win Michael Emerson an Emmy.

Which 2004 horror film features Emerson as Zep Hindle?

In Saw (2004) Emerson plays Zep Hindle, the hospital orderly forced to take part in Jigsaw's game.

Reese's actor is best known for playing Jesus in which film?

The Passion of the Christ put its star through a dislocated shoulder, hypothermia and a lightning strike while filming in the Italian winter.

Which series did Reese's actor sign on to lead, then leave, after Person of Interest ended?

SEAL Team named him as its lead in March 2017, but within days he was out and David Boreanaz had taken the part.

Acker first found fame as Fred Burkle on which series?

Angel introduced Fred Burkle as a physicist rescued from a demon dimension; in the final season Fred dies and Acker plays Illyria, the ancient demon who takes over her body.

In Person of Interest's fourth season, what cover job is Shaw stuck with?

A department store sales clerk on the cosmetics counter: Shaw finds the job tedious, and it is in the store that a Samaritan agent finally recognises her.

On which USA Network drama did Shahi star just before joining Person of Interest?

Fairly Legal, in which she played mediator Kate Reed, was cancelled after two seasons in November 2012, and within months she had made her first appearance on Person of Interest.

Which Fox drama made Henson a Golden Globe winner after she left Person of Interest?

Empire's Cookie Lyon walks out of prison after 17 years and demands half of the record label her drug money built; the role won Henson the 2016 Golden Globe.

For which David Fincher film was Henson Oscar-nominated?

Benjamin Button's Queenie, a nursing-home caretaker, finds the abandoned baby on her porch and raises him as her own; the part brought Henson a supporting actress nomination.

Chapman played Freddie Cork on which Showtime series?

Brotherhood cast Chapman as Irish mob boss Freddie Cork, who starts out in charge and ends up working for his former underling; this show later called Dominic's gang the Brotherhood too.

Colantoni played a teenage sleuth's father on which series?

Veronica Mars cast him as Keith Mars, a sheriff forced from office after accusing the town's billionaire of murder, who turns private eye with his daughter as his assistant.

Turco took over the female lead in two sequels of which film franchise?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles recast reporter April O'Neil for its 1991 and 1993 sequels; Judith Hoag has said she lost the part after complaining to producers about the first film's violence.

Who ran Person of Interest as showrunner alongside its creator?

Greg Plageman ran the show with its creator for all five seasons, and for the penultimate episode, ".exe", he co-wrote the script and directed for the first time.

Which alias, invented by the Machine itself, turns up as a company CEO in "Zero Day"?

Ernest Thornhill exists only on paper: the Machine invented him to run a company on its behalf, and Finch realises the CEO everyone is hunting is the Machine itself.

Where does Reese send abusive husband Brad to make him disappear in "Many Happy Returns"?

A Mexican prison, on drug charges, is where Brad ends up, and the warden's remark that he already holds other Americans hints that Reese has made men vanish this way before.

In Person of Interest's flashbacks, what did Finch's code force the Machine to do every midnight?

Erase its own memories: Finch grew afraid of the Machine's fast-expanding abilities and of how human it seemed, so he wrote code that wiped it every night.

Which three former numbers run a second Machine team in Washington?

Logan Pierce, Joey Durban and Harper Rose were recruited by the Machine after their own cases, and the number they have been quietly working turns out to be Reese himself.

Whose number comes up in "Synecdoche"?

The President of the United States is the number in "Synecdoche", so the team heads to Washington, slips into a fundraiser and diverts a bomb meant for him.

What does Control do to Root while torturing her in "Aletheia"?

Destroys the hearing in her right ear: Control deafens Root to cut her off from the Machine, which simply switches to Morse code at a pitch Control cannot hear.

What kind of game is mathematician Claire Mahoney solving in season 4's second episode?

In 'Nautilus', Claire Mahoney is chasing a nautilus-themed cryptographic puzzle that Samaritan is running to recruit gifted minds.

Whom does Reese hallucinate while dying of hypothermia in "Terra Incognita"?

Joss Carter appears to Reese as he sits wounded and freezing in a snowbound car, and the imagined talk has her take him to task for shutting people out.

In Person of Interest, which future This Is Us star played Cal Beecher, the narcotics detective Carter dates?

Sterling K. Brown's Beecher never learns that his own godfather runs HR, and the gang has him murdered, which sets Carter on her campaign to bring it down.

Which future Stranger Things actress plays Samaritan operative Martine Rousseau in Person of Interest?

Cara Buono, later Karen Wheeler in Stranger Things, introduces Martine by shooting a journalist in Budapest who has pieced together Samaritan's existence.

Who plays Jeremy Lambert, Greer's right-hand man at Decima?

Julian Ovenden, who also appeared in Downton Abbey, plays Lambert, the smooth Decima fixer who shoots Vigilance leader Peter Collier in the season 3 finale.

Under which cover name does Reese live through seasons 4 and 5 of Person of Interest?

John Riley is the identity Reese takes on when Samaritan comes online; it lands him in sessions with therapist Iris Campbell, who ends up falling for him.

Which government official commissioned the Machine's development?

Denton Weeks ordered the Machine built and then tried to seize control of it himself, secretly attempting to hack in until Finch caught him.

Who plays Bruce Moran, Elias's accountant and boyhood friend?

James LeGros plays Bruce Moran, Elias's friend since boyhood; in season 5 he sets out to avenge Elias's death, only to learn that his friend is still alive.

Which rookie officer, secretly an HR plant, becomes Carter's partner after her demotion?

Mike Laskey is planted by HR to watch Carter, but she works out who sent him and blackmails him into spying for her instead, until an HR detective shoots him dead.

In Person of Interest, who plays Link Cordell, right-hand man to gang leader Dominic?

Jamie Hector, Marlo Stanfield in The Wire, plays Link, who dies at his own boss's hand after Elias tricks Dominic into killing him.