John nods in thanks, but says nothing else for a time, waiting until they're further away from the scene of the crime as it were. He feels no guilt over Brady's death, but also knows Root well enough now to suspect she might have something to say about it.

The Machine had never given him or Harold clear directions on how to deal with their numbers. It was just a matter of preventing a violent crime, and while John understands it had gotten complicated toward the end, his own thoughts on a certain type of man will never change.

But that isn't the only reason he'd taken the shot.

"I know you can take care of yourself," he says after they've made it a few blocks away. "But without the Machine in your ear feeding you information, mistakes can still be made. If it's you or someone else, I'm going to shoot that person."