John smiles, but it's an expression without humour. He knows he would never be described as influential or powerful, certainly not in the way Nikita means, and he thinks that's part of what made him so good at the job Finch had wanted him to do. They had protected people. All people. Regardless of who they were or where they came from, if their number came up, they went to work. They put bad people where they needed to be and kept good people safe.

"I think we're very much on the same page there," he agrees.