John nods his understanding, knowing she'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know most of what they need to know when she says that. "I was stationed in Iraq," he tells her. "There was an ongoing conflict."

That he's still certain his country didn't really want to end. They wanted to prevent terrorism on their own soil, of course, that's why they created the Machine, but when it came to bringing violence to Iraq and Afghanistan, they certainly never hesitated.

"It is hard, though, isn't it?" he asks. "Shaking the war."