"A coffee would be nice. I work later, it's probably not a good idea to show up with alcohol on my breath," he says with a small smile. And while it might not have bothered him once upon a time, John actually tries to do well in Darrow, not just for himself and not just for Karen, but because once upon a time Finch had given him a chance to be better and Carter had asked him to do the same.

So he tries.

"I'm all right," he says. "Harold isn't the first person I lost and he isn't the most difficult either. That loss... that's the one he saved me from, though. It'd be a slap in the face of our friendship to let myself fall back down into what he brought me out of it, so I'm fine. Truly."