"His fiancée," he says softly. It isn't his story to tell and he doesn't know all the details, but he figures Karen should know. In Darrow, she had certainly been Finch's closest friend besides himself.

"When Finch was working on creating the Machine, it repeatedly directed him to a woman painting in the park. Grace." He smiles faintly. "I think that might have been Finch's first indication the Machine had become more than what he had anticipated. It was trying to set him up."

The smile fades a little and he squeezes Karen's hand. "But the people who wanted the Machine wanted everyone associated with it dead. There was an explosion on a ferry, it's how he was injured, why he limped, and he used the chance to fake his death. To protect her."