'Person of Interest' (Thu., 9PM ET on CBS) is definitely following that classic CBS procedural formula. While we get to enjoy a new mystery each week, the character development and larger storylines are moving at a glacial pace.

This week, we saw that Reese and Finch are starting to trust one another a little bit more, and even maybe starting to open up. Not really, but the hints that they could someday become close are there. We're going to guess about halfway through the 11th season at this pace.

Luckily, the cases they tackle are unique each week, as we never quite know what to expect, or even who the real bad guy is until the guys start to piece it together. This week's case turned out to be a fairly standard one, with the guy who's number came up having his son kidnapped.

He was judge on a case some bad people wanted to go their way, so they took his son as leverage. But these were bad dudes who were going to kill the judge and his kid either way, so Reese got involved, though it turned out to be unnecessary to do all the underhanded financial maneuvering to intimidate them.

In the end, it came down to who was the better shot and, as usual, Reese was. He should have just gone in guns blazing if that's how it was going to be. But the unpredictability of the show makes it a little more refreshing than the other procedurals on the network.