Coming off the first season’s cliffhanger ending, the cast and crew of Person of Interest are naturally a little cagey about revealing too much about the future of the CBS crime.
“It’s hard doing interviews for Person of Interest because there is much you cannot say,” co-star Taraji Henson told journalists at Comic-Con International, where she was joined by fellow cast members Michael Emerson, Jim Caviezel and Kevin Chapman, executive producer Greg Plageman and creator Jonathan Nolan.
Produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, Person of Interest centers on a mysterious billionaire named Mr. Finch (Emerson) who develops a computer program that predicts the identities of those who will be involved in a violent crime sometime in the future. However, it can’t determine whether the person will be the perpetrator, the victim or a witness, or when or where the crime will take place. So he recruits a presumed-dead former CIA agent (Caviezel) to help him top the crimes from taking place.
If we give away secrets, Nolan holds us down and J.J. Abrams beats us,” laughed Chapman, who plays Detective Lionel Fusco. “You go to the Bad Robot dungeon.”
“There are some big things going on next season, and we don’t find him right away,” added Henson, referring to the kidnapped Finch. “I’ll just say that.”
Emerson said the second season marks a drastic departure for the series. “We are already in new territory,” the Lost alum said. “We are out of the library and in new territory.”
