[Oh, right. Tifa. Had she told Alfie about what happened? Who it was?]

I was helping him manage it. He hasn't hurt anyone in a long while. It just got to be too much again after my casebook and what happened the day before-

[He cuts himself off as he realizes that sounds a lot more like he was being targeted and a lot less like mistaken anomaly identity. John tries to cover it with another small coughing fit.]

-before last. It's just sort of made him a lot more paranoid. Uh... ready to fight anything that looked like a monster, y'know?