S1E11: In case the hiatus has taken a toll on your Person of Interest memory, here’s a quick recap of where we last left our heroes (I know that’s a corny phrase, but the nature of this show sort of warrants it): Reese had just been shot after being apprehended with his old CIA partner and “best friend”—if you can imagine him with a legitimate social life—Agent Mark Snow (Michael Kelly), thanks to some cooperation from Det. Carter. The detective had a change of heart immediately after witnessing Reese’s near-fatal takedown and managed to help he and Finch, whom she recognized as a civilian she interviewed way back in the beginning of the season, escape.

So where are we now? Finch is rushing Reese into some under-the-table medical care while Carter continues to acerbically dodge the wrath of Agent Snow, who is hot on Reese’s tail. Carter herself is now interested in what Reese and Finch really “do,” so she’s firing up her own case in the meantime.

"She looks...healthy." - Reese
Finch holes a wheelchair-bound Reese up in an apartment wherein the friendly but apparently forgetful superintendant is the machine’s latest number. The duo manage to apprehend that the super, Mr. Trask (Dexter’s David Zayas keeps Person of Interest’s nearly perfect guest casting record going) might be stalking one of his tenants, a chef named Lily, who seems to be romantically involved with another of his tenants, a wealthy banker. The roles are reversed in this episode, as Reese is confined to his wheelchair and henceforth forced to do the surveillance work while Finch acts as the field agent, sneaking into Trask’s apartment and spying on various residents of the apartment building.

Among the many things it has going for it, this is probably the funniest episode of Person of Interest yet—to be fair, the show has not made any substantial effort previously in the realm of humor. But still: credit where credit is due. Two particular moments of humor stand out. One: Reese earning frustration when he tries to describe to his squeamish partner the best way for him, as an inexperienced fighter, to take down Trask in combat. And two: Reese and Finch, in trying to figure out just what the motive for the crime perpetrated by or targeted against Trask might be, bug the entire building and spy on each of the tenants…paying prolonged attention to a particularly attractive woman working out in her living room. I think the reason the moment is so funny is because it reminds us that although these men try very hard to forget this, they are, in fact, still just men.