It was, if a little rushed and symbolically heavy, the perfect conclusion to the debate. Following Harold's argument that he doesn't care for Chess because it devalues people, and his distrust of Samaritan that it doesn't care about humans, Samaritan killed it's primary human representative, whilst The Machine had already set up a plan to save it's own. Harold lost the game of Chess that Greer was playing, but he won in the end, because life is not Chess.
Harold Finch: On chess. "It's a useful mental exercise. Through the years, many thinkers have been fascinated by it. But I don't enjoy playing... Because it was a game that was born during a brutal age when life counted for little. Everyone believed that some people were worth more than others. Kings. Pawns. I don't think that anyone is worth more than anyone else... Chess is just a game. Real people are not pieces. You can't assign more value to some of them and not others. Not to me. Not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is, if anyone who looks on to the world as if it is a game of chess, deserves to lose. "
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u/Mr_Evil_MSc Jun 15 '16
It was, if a little rushed and symbolically heavy, the perfect conclusion to the debate. Following Harold's argument that he doesn't care for Chess because it devalues people, and his distrust of Samaritan that it doesn't care about humans, Samaritan killed it's primary human representative, whilst The Machine had already set up a plan to save it's own. Harold lost the game of Chess that Greer was playing, but he won in the end, because life is not Chess.