"It's a relief," he agrees and it's nice to be able to admit that. Finch feels the same, he's sure of that, but they don't discuss it much beyond agreeing Samaritan would have made itself known by now if it were here. There's no reason for a system like that to keep itself quiet, not in a place like Darrow. It could take over far easier here in a closed system and John doesn't know if he and Finch would be able to stop it. There's every chance Samaritan would win here and not having to worry about that, not having to wait until the moment their lives are threatened to that extent has been strange, but very welcome.

"We had to be so careful in New York," he continues. "There were days... periods when we had to stay completely off the grid. The Machine would give us alternate routes of travel, places where the streets had no cameras or where she knew the cameras would be turned in another direction at the right time for us to pass unnoticed."

Calling the Machine she is something he'd picked up from Root without even realizing it. John doesn't understand all the details, he doesn't know the science behind the Machine, but he knows Root and the Machine have a connection that's undeniable. It's difficult not to think of them as being the same.