Root (Person of Interest)
Root is a female television character who features in Person of Interest.
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Biography
Samantha Groves was a female human born in Bishop, Texas, and lived there until her mother's death around 2002. Her mother taught her to follow her talents, specifically computers. As a child, computers made more sense to Sam than people. As an adult, she admits that she has been waiting for someone who shares her understanding of technology her whole life. Soon, she also finds that she can inflict harm on others with ease, although she told Finch she wished she was a sociopath because it would make what she does easier. She claimed that she did not enjoy killing people, but admitted that she did not feel bad about it either. One afternoon in 1991, Sam and her friend Hanna Frey are in the local library. As Sam looks for a book, Hanna unsuccessfully plays the simulation computer game 'Oregon Trail' until the library closes for the day. After Hanna left, Sam stayed behind, quickly finishing the game with apparent ease. As Sam leaves the library, she sees Hanna getting into a car that belongs to Trent Russell, a local man who is a member of the library's book club. She recognizes his car and tells the librarian, Barbara Russell, what she has seen. However, because Barbara was Trent’s wife, she intimidated Sam into keeping what she saw to herself. Later, Sam made an anonymous 911 call describing what had happened and giving the operator the license plate of the car, but not mentioning Trent.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Root was shown to be attracted to Shaw.
Being an accomplished hacker, Root is quite famous in the hacker community, when Jason Greenfield recognized her work.
Powers and abilities
Root has shown herself to have a high tolerance for pain, taking nearly all of Control's syringes and enduring a stapedectomy without anesthesia. While being tortured she was also able to pickpocket Control for her knife and escape her bonds.
Root uses a Samsung NP300V4A notebook computer, a Google Samsung Nexus S smartphone, and arms herself with a Heizer Defense DoubleTap 9mm pistol.
As both an assassin and later the Machine's Analog Interface, Root is responsible for a great number of deaths and injuries.
Notes
- Root was created by Erik Mountain and was portrayed by actress Amy Acker where she featured in the setting of the Person of Interest universe.
Appearances
- Person of Interest: "Root Cause"
External Links
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