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The Purge had been an eventful night, leaving John a little unsettled regarding the way Darrow conducts itself and while he hadn't been particularly worried about the people he cares about, knowing them to be capable of taking care of themselves, it has shifted his attitude regarding their team.

Knowing what he's like, he's still certain he's not meant to be in the role of their leader, and he thinks Karen and Dutch will both accept that. Peggy seems less sure, but he thinks if he has the other two backing him up, he'll be able to avoid that for at least a little while longer. His focus right now is trying to figure out the right way to get back into what they used to do.

And that means finding a way to create something similar to the Machine.

Before he can even begin to consider something like that, however, he needs to tell a few people the whole story of who he is and what he had done in New York. Karen knows everything and Dutch knows more than most, but even she doesn't know about what Finch was capable of or the computer he'd created. It feels like the first step in getting back to what he used to be, telling her the entire truth, and so he's asked her to meet him late one afternoon.

When he sees her, he raises his hand and smiles faintly.

"Coffee or guns?" he asks. "Your choice. I have some things I need to tell you."

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"You tell me where to point myself and I'll be there," Dutch tells him with a nod. "I don't really know where to look first since there was a lot of shitty people doing a lot of shitty things that night but I'm sure someone's talked about it or bragged about it."

Not to her, thankfully. She's stuck to her guns when it comes to not killing anyone unless it's absolutely necessary but she can't say definitively that she'd adhere to that if she faced some of the people who'd done horrible things that night.

"Probably the first step is finding the worst offenders," Dutch muses. "I don't really care about the people who broke windows or threw rocks at buildings. That's shitty but small in the grand scheme of things."

"I can do that. There were still reports made, even if we were unable to do anything on the record. I have names of people who lost loved ones, people whose homes were burglarized, people who lost things with significant personal meaning. I even have a few reports from people who said their pets went missing or were abused."

And John puts up with violence toward animals with as little patience as he does toward innocent people.

"Several reports of assault, multiple rapes or attempted rapes. We'll have plenty to start with, if you're interested." It's against every last rule that had been laid out to him as an officer during the Purge and he doesn't care at all.

"I'm interested," Dutch confirms with a nod. "I have a lot of time and an inkling to put my hands on some of those people who thought it was okay to go around hurting people just because the idiot mayor said they could."

She still doesn't plan on killing anyone but no one's going to care if she busts a few chairs over their heads or backs. It's the least they deserve for deciding that they were above the law despite being given permission.

"Forward me whatever you want me to look at and I can keep you in the loop as to what I find."

Dutch's answer doesn't surprise him and he suspects, as with his own plans, she won't be killing anyone. There's no reason they can't put a few people in the hospital, though, and John plans on making sure certain folks are unable to use parts of their bodies they might have otherwise very much liked to keep uninjured.

That's fine with him, though. If someone can't be a respectable member of society, he doesn't have to treat them with respect in return.

"I knew there was a reason I liked you," he teases, his voice dry and his smile small.