Mr. Finch (Michael Emerson), a mysterious billionaire, developed a computer program for the government that predicts terrorist threats to the US. It was designed as a means to prevent another 9/11-type disaster, but Finch discovered that it was also predicting many "irrelevant" (non-terrorist) crimes. The non-terrorist data is dumped to a separate database and deleted each night. Finch realized that a great many domestic crimes could also be prevented if that data could be used. Finch built a backdoor into the machine that allows him to retrieve a list of Social Security numbers of people who will be involved in those crimes in order of occurrence. Unable to investigate the data on his own, Finch hires John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a former Green Beret and CIA field officer who is presumed dead, to help stop the crimes from taking place. The world thinks that Finch, like Reese, is dead. Finch made the choice of only transmitting the Social Security Numbers of the persons of interest so that if the backdoor is discovered, the government would have no clue as to what the numbers mean or that Finch is still alive.

2016 film by Oriol Paulo

初雪的夜晚，小男孩从噩梦中醒来，惊觉妈妈不见踪影，院子里凭空出现一个不知是谁堆起的雪人。他当圣诞礼物送给妈妈的粉色围巾，就围在雪人的脖子上，一排由黑色卵石组成的眼睛和嘴巴在月光下闪烁，雪人凝视着屋子，仿佛在微笑……一封署名“雪人”的匿名信，开启了警探哈利·霍勒对新近女性失踪案的调查，观察力敏锐、又略显神秘的女警卡翠娜也加入了调查小组。接连失踪的那些女人似乎有着奇怪的共同点。是什么隐秘的动机在驱使罪犯连续作案？以“雪人”为杀人记号的冷血犯人究竟是谁？总是徘徊在酒醉与清醒之间的哈利沉迷于扑朔迷离的案情，越来越无法自拔，几欲疯狂。就在他即将揭开“雪人”真面目的当口，前女友萝凯也被卷入这场致命的追缉。哈利必须牺牲自己，才能救回爱人……