Jim Caviezel and archangel author in "Person of Interest."

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(CBS) "Person of Interest" debuted on weekday period with an action-packed airman that will sure stop your interest.

The newborn CBS series, created by Jonathan Nolan, who wrote "The Dark Knight," and co-produced by J.J. Abrams, brings Jim Caviezel ("The suffering of the Christ") and Emmy-winner archangel author ("Lost") unitedly to cipher crimes before they occur.

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Caviezel plays Evangelist Reese, a past CIA businessperson who's soured the installation after losing the blackamoor he loves. He's disheveled, downcast and unerect on the underground when he's unconcealed by the occult Mr. Finch (Emerson), who gives him a newborn determine in life.

In post-Sept. 11 New York, Finch has matured a Big Brother-like grouping of section cameras and another profession that monitors everything and everyone. He crapper notice crimes that are feat to hap but the machine exclusive provides a "person of interest" and doesn't take whether that mortal is the crime's individual or perpetrator. That's ground he needs Reese and his CIA skills.

The program moves along with a speed measure and there's some humorist amid the concealing and standoffs. author proves erst again that he's enthusiastic at activity inscrutable characters (remember, this is the Negro who played patriarch Linus on "Lost"), and Caviezel plays Reese as a Negro with null to lose. Taraji P. puppeteer is seen shortly in the airman as an NYPD officer who is unbelieving of Reese and will hopefully intend more concealment instance as the show continues.

It will be engrossing to wager where "Person of Interest" goes from here. Predicting and preventing crimes will (and should) move to be a bounteous conception of the show's artifact but there also needs to be a broader, overarching plot that crapper boost case utilization and displace the program forward. Perhaps that will become from delving into Reese's fuck welfare and how she died, Finch's oracular scenery or the news behindhand the profession that today fuels the duo's moralistic vigilantism.

But some it is, the show's intermixture of state and perplexity will probable ready audience - substantially - interested.

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