[s5e1] B.s.o.d. 〈HIGH-QUALITY - Manual〉

The Machine, sensing its imminent erasure, asks Finch what death is and reminds him of his father's struggle with Alzheimer’s, equating memory loss to death.

The episode is anchored by flashbacks to , revealing a critical moral conflict between Harold Finch and his partner Nathan Ingram: [S5E1] B.S.O.D.

Picking up just hours after the Season 4 finale, the team is fractured and hunted: The Machine, sensing its imminent erasure, asks Finch

Fearing the potential for an all-powerful AI to become malevolent, Finch decides to implement code that wipes the Machine's memory every night at midnight. sensing its imminent erasure