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= Sameen Shaw (Person of Interest) = Sameen Shaw, as known as Shaw, is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama television series Person of Interest. She is portrayed by Sarah Shahi. Shaw was set off as a recurring character on Season 2, but she became the main character in Season 3, 4 and 5. Before joining Harold Finch's team, Shaw is a former physician, U.S. Marine, operative for the U.S Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA).

Background
Shaw's father was killed in a car accident. Her mother's name and location remain unknown. Not much information about her childhood was presented on the show. Shaw has a romantic and sexual relationship with Root throughout the show, where Shahi commented, "the only romance on this show is between Root and Shaw."

Shaw diagnosed herself with Axis II Personality Disorder, which makes her a sociopath that unable to have feelings or show normal human emotions like happiness, sadness and fear. Where Shaw described as, "I have Axis II personality disorder, which means that when I kill you and your friends, I’m not gonna really feel anything."

She finished medical school and started her residency in a hospital. Later, she was considered inappropriate to be a doctor, because she was criticized for her insufficient concern whether her patients are dead or alive. Shaw left the medical industry to join the US Marine Corps, which can probably connect to her "U.S.M.C" tattoo on her right forearm. Eventually, Shaw became an operative for the ISA, where she worked for a program called Northern Lights, which Shaw only knew it as "Research." She was responsible for handling and assassinating the Relevant numbers produced by the Machine. Later on, The U.S government and ISA betrayed Shaw, and she went on an investigation and revenge for the betrayal.

Afterwards, Shaw eventually joined Finch's team and worked on the Irrelevant side of the numbers, while providing tactical aids for the team. When Samaritan, a rival AI, went online, and the whole Team had to hide from their surveillance, Shaw lives under a new identity provided by the Machine, called Sameen Grey. Shaw worked at Bloomingdale's, a department store, as a saleswoman in the cosmetic department. Her cover was blown when she was in a mission, and a surveillance camera recorded her face. Martine, a Samaritan operative, tracked down Shaw in the department store that she worked at and started to shoot at her, where Root came in time to help her escape.

The war between the Machine and Samaritan began to intensify, in "If-Then-Else," the Team was trapped in a Stock Exchange and Shaw arrived timely and sacrificed herself to save the whole team, where she also kissed Root for the first time in the show. Shaw was captured by Samaritan and being brainwash and psychologically tortured. Where she managed to escape and reunite with the Team and defeated Samaritan.

Activities with the ISA
In Season 2, Episode 16, "Relevance," Shaw was first seen being in a mission in Berlin with her partner, Michael Cole. They located a group of terrorists making a bomb in an apartment. Shaw broke into their flat and killed the whole terrorist group on her own and detonated the place to hide her tracks. After completing the mission, Control, head of the Northern Lights program, requested them to go back to New York because a new number came up.

Cole began to raise suspicions that sometimes Research might be wrong. He found out that an electrical engineer, they had killed in a previous mission was hired by the U.S government but not by a terrorist group. He did some internal investigation based on his discovery. He asked Shaw had she ever wonder where Research gets those numbers. Shaw said no, and she believes that Research receives those numbers "from a dark room where they hurt people badly."

They went back to New York and got the number from Wilson, their handler. It turns out the mission was a trap to silence them from doubting Research, and Cole was killed in the ambush and Shaw successfully escaped from the hit team sent by Control, and she wanted revenge and answers.

Meeting Reese and Finch
In Season 2, Episode 16, " Relevance," Shaw's number was up and that caught Reese and Finch's attention, since they work for the irrelevant side of the numbers. When Shaw came back to New York to work on a new number, and she peeked that Reese was following her. During the assassination that Control set up, Reese attempted to help Shaw, but she thought Reese was one of the assassins, so she shot him couple times. After that, she was interrogated by Root and the new hit team was about to kill her until Reese showed up again and saved her life.

Reese brought Shaw to meet Finch in a deserted building and explains to her that they "work for the same entity," where "Research" does not actually exist and hinting that the Machine is the one who has been providing the numbers to the government. Finch warned Shaw about how dangerous the world is and offered help and a position in the Team because of her skills, where Shaw declined both offers. Later, she was rescued by Reese again when Hersh tried to kill her, that is when she started to reconsider Finch's offer.

Meeting Root
Shaw and Root's first encounter was in "Relevance" (Season 2, Episode 16). Shaw went to a hotel to meet an informer, Veronica Sinclair. As they were discussing and exchanging information about the Northern Lights program, Shaw heard some noise from the bathroom and found out that the real Sinclair was gagged and tied up in a bathtub. Root, who was impersonating as Sinclair, immediately tasered Shaw and zip tied her to a chair. Root held a hot iron near Shaw's neck and threatened to torture her to get more information from her. Root also claims that she is a big fan of Shaw after reading her file. Shaw told Root that, "one of the things that I left out of my file, I kinda enjoy this sorta thing." Root replied with, "I am so glad you said that, I do too," and ready to torture Shaw. However, Root has to stop and leaves to escape from the hit team sent by the government.