Even in this state, John can think of at least a dozen questions, most of them ones he can't ask, not without running the risk of blowing his cover or alerting Samaritan. Someone else might tell him he's being paranoid, but he knows Finch and if Finch thinks their situation is as serious as he's led them to believe, John trusts that. He knows better than to do anything that might cause him to lose this second chance he has. There's still so much work to do, they still need to find Shaw, and if he isn't dead, if this is really some plot to get him off the grid and out of New York, what he needs to do is get through this so he can get back out and find her.

Where is Finch? Where is Shaw? Does she know Root? None of them are appropriate questions to ask out in the open like this and even if she does know, she isn't going to tell him.

"The hospital," he says finally. "The doctors there, can they be trusted?"

She can't possibly know the extent of what he's really asking, maybe any answer she gives won't be satisfactory, just like she's said, but he still has to ask. He needs to know he isn't going to walk into a trap. A hospital in New York would be one thing, a place of general anonymity, the Machine helped him with his cover, but if he's not in New York anymore, he isn't sure who or what he can trust. Without the Machine, he might not even have a cover any longer.