"I feel like I've been away from it for a little too long," he says honestly, but he moves toward the door with Peggy regardless. It's not as if staring at the bank of computers is going to make the solution suddenly appear and he can't spend all day inside the warehouse.

"Isn't that part of the problem?" he asks. "A lack of leadership."

But that was Finch's job and John doesn't imagine there's anyone he would honestly trust to take Finch's place. In New York, he would have followed Carter, he might have even followed Root, but in Darrow he's not sure anyone can fill that role. There's no denying he loves Karen and she has far more initiative than he does, but he's not sure even she would know what to do in Finch's place.