On this episode of Person of Interest…

Shaw escapes the facility and breaks into a prison in South Africa. She manages to escape.

James Ko, who has bird flu, is injected with the human flu, which kills him and creates a super flu outbreak in the hospital.

Jeff, a Samaritan asset, is sent to kill two hospital employees. He is blackmailed after his reluctance.

Fusco seeks out Elias for why there were a bunch of buried bodies.

A hospital administrator destroys the antivirals.

Reese manages to stop Jeff, and Root manages to get an antidote to the virus.

Jeff learns that the outbreak was so Samaritan could collect people’s DNA in order to sort them.