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Nov. 19th, 2016 06:16 pmWhile he and Finch are still working on getting their team together, still moving toward having a suitable environment from which to operate and trying to tie up any odds and ends in the world -- like getting John Riley his proper and fake ID to replace the ID in the name John Reese that Darrow had supplied him with -- he still finds himself watching Darrow in the same manner in which he used to watch New York.
It'll be some days before he has the new ID and therefore a few days still before he can walk into a police precinct and speak to someone about getting a job as Detective John Riley, but it's still a hard habit to break. Watching people. Watching his surrounding to make sure he isn't being tailed. So far Darrow has done nothing to make him think Samaritan has followed them here and he's sure the system wouldn't lie this low for such a long time, but he hasn't entirely let down his guard. Not yet.
He doesn't break into their neighbours' apartments looking for bugs any longer, but he does occasionally walk by the other buildings he knows transplants to be shuffled into. It's interesting, as Jessica pointed out, that they're all in the same buildings and not spread out across the city.
It's easy enough, too, to act as if he's a prospective renter, and when a pretty young woman comes out of High Gate Terrace, he smiles at her, easy and curious, and asks, "How do you like it here?"
Then, appearing flustered, he laughs and says, "Sorry. I'm just... thinking about moving is all. I have a friend who lives here, but I think he might say anything to get me to move closer, so I'm just wondering what a stranger thinks of the place."
And if asked, he can easily cite Laurent as said friend. They have to be friends now, although the rest is a lie, Laurent having never asked John to move any closer.
It'll be some days before he has the new ID and therefore a few days still before he can walk into a police precinct and speak to someone about getting a job as Detective John Riley, but it's still a hard habit to break. Watching people. Watching his surrounding to make sure he isn't being tailed. So far Darrow has done nothing to make him think Samaritan has followed them here and he's sure the system wouldn't lie this low for such a long time, but he hasn't entirely let down his guard. Not yet.
He doesn't break into their neighbours' apartments looking for bugs any longer, but he does occasionally walk by the other buildings he knows transplants to be shuffled into. It's interesting, as Jessica pointed out, that they're all in the same buildings and not spread out across the city.
It's easy enough, too, to act as if he's a prospective renter, and when a pretty young woman comes out of High Gate Terrace, he smiles at her, easy and curious, and asks, "How do you like it here?"
Then, appearing flustered, he laughs and says, "Sorry. I'm just... thinking about moving is all. I have a friend who lives here, but I think he might say anything to get me to move closer, so I'm just wondering what a stranger thinks of the place."
And if asked, he can easily cite Laurent as said friend. They have to be friends now, although the rest is a lie, Laurent having never asked John to move any closer.
