Kevin Chapman’s five-year run as Lt. Lionel Fusco on “Person of Interest” comes to an end with tonight’s series finale, but the Hingham homey isn’t too worried about scoring a new TV gig.

“Someone’s gonna need a cop or a bad guy and I got that pretty much locked up east of the Mississippi,” Chapman joked to the Track. “I’ve carved out enough of a niche for myself that I’m always going to be working.”

In fact, Chappy has been working in TV and movies pretty much constantly since leaving the Boston Film Office in the late 1990s. So he’s looking forward to having the summer off.

“It’s the first time in five years I’ll be home for July and August,” he said. “I’m going to hang out with the kids — my son is 11 and my daughter is 14 — and you don’t get those years back. So it’s a matter of spending time with them now. I want to make sure I don’t have any regrets.”

Since being discovered by director Ted Demme in 1998’s “Monument Ave,” Chapman’s built a long resume with roles in films including “Boondock Saints,” “Mystic River,” “21 Grams” and “Ladder 49.” His TV credits include “24,” “Brotherhood,” “Rescue Me,” and, of course, “Person of Interest.”

“The thing I loved about playing Fusco was the duality,” Chappy said. “Was he a bad guy doing good things or a good guy doing bad things? I kind of left it up to the viewers to decide. The first couple of years, he was looked at as a dirty cop but then he went on this journey of redemption and that was very enjoyable to play.”

In case you aren’t a fan, “Person of Interest” is a crime thriller about an ex-CIA agent played by Jim Caviezel and a mysterious billionaire (Michael Emerson) who prevent violent crimes by utilizing an all-seeing machine that can predict the events before they happen. Fusco is an NYPD homicide cop who works with the duo. CBS announced last March that it would not be renewing the show, produced by J.J. Abrams, for a sixth season, much to the dismay of its many fans.

“The TV landscape has really changed and profit margins are not what they were,” Chapman said. “A lot of CBS shows are produced in-house but we were a Warner Brothers show that was rented by CBS. It’s like are you going to put a pool in a house you rent or one that you own?”

Chappy said he’ll miss working with the cast and the writers, but what he’ll miss most is filming in New York City.

“There’s nothing better,” he said. “We shot an episode where Fusco chased a character down 5th Avenue. And New York doesn’t lock up the street like they do in Boston. You just set up the camera and go for it. If you knock someone over on the way and get sued, good luck with that.”

He said the end of the show’s run is “bittersweet.”

“I feel like we still had more story to tell,” he said. “But it was great to work on a show that was so cutting edge. When we first went on the air, people thought it was science fiction. Then the whole NSA and (Edward) Snowden thing happened and people were asking ‘Who the hell is writing that show?’

One of those fascinated fans is Gov. Charlie Baker, who once had a staffer who is a friend of Chapman call and ask him when the show would return from hiatus.

“I sent him a director’s chair signed by the whole cast and he sent me back a picture of him with it,” Chappy said. “So we became friends and he’d text me every once in a while and ask about the show.”

But now that its over, Chapman said he’d like to do some more producing — he previously produced two films “Bad Company” with Willem Dafoe, and “Lonely Street” with Jay Mohr. And he’d also like to do a complete career 180 and try comedy.

“Because I do the everyman really well, people always want to hire me for that,” he said. “But Denis Leary wrote a pilot for me about an Archie Bunker-type character that was really funny but then I got ‘Person of Interest.’ But I’d love to get back to doing comedy stuff. It’s always fun to be silly.”

The “Person of Interest” finale airs at 10 tonight on CBS.

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