I love this show beyond the obvious good weekly stories and excellent acting. There are larger ideas and motivations in play, like the issue of artificial intelligence (is it life or isn't it), man's abuse of power and control, the machine having survival instincts and acting out of self-interest (or is it merely following lines of programming), etc. Also, we've seen Elias pretty much take a back seat (at least for now), HR has been eradicated (so we've been led to believe), Root is off becoming one with the machine...while we're still not sure if Root and/or the Machine is friend or foe, bad guys and their organizations have come and gone and now a new bad guy (the terrorist guy last night) pops into the picture and is keenly interested in Finch and the group. Needless to say, I have no doubt that Root (who is akin to Catwomen IMO) is keeping an eye on everyone. The remainder of the season should be a good one.