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| - The New York stock exchange is currently in turmoil. Anxious bankers watch the charts from outdoors, and among the crowd are Finch and Root, who know that Samaritan has attacked the city's financial system. While Shaw is busy taking care of a number, Finch and Root head to the stock exchange to investigate. Lambert checks in with Greer, who informs him that the stock exchange attack is the latest step of Decima's plan. Greer anticipates the team's resistance and remains confident. Finch and Root pretend to be technicians fixing the security cameras, which Reese is tampering with as part of the hoax. Finch operates the clerk's computer and secretly allows the Machine access into the building's closed-circuit surveillance system. He and Root board and elevator and are joined by Reese and Fusco. They head to the ground floor, where 90% of the shares are digitally deployed. Shaw is in a subway train waiting to confront a man with access to the security room codes. However, matters are complicated when a suicidal man, Gary, who is wearing a bomb vest, handcuffs a banker seated next to him and threatens to detonate his vest. Reese, Finch, Root and Fusco arrive at the ground floor when Samaritan's feeds come online and the lights partially go out - Martine and her army of Decima operatives cover the area, with armed men ambushing the team. The four take cover behind a shelf in an office and Root consults the Machine for a strategy suggestion.
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