[This feels very suddenly like a lecture from his father after he's done something worth getting knocked over the head for. It makes him feel younger, incompetent, and very much desirous of making amends, making things right again, promising to do or say what he's been told or what he knows the other man wants to hear. It takes a few minutes for John to reply as he forces down that feeling, pushes it away to think more rationally, more like an adult - like Dr. Watson.]

I'm not going to tell you I won't get involved, Solomons. I ask questions. I'm curious. I worry when people are murdering and hurting each other. If I could do this again, I'd not trust Ecks to do as she's told, and I'd have just dragged her out of the room with me and left him to deal with later. What dealing with would entail, I don't know. I don't know what to do here for revenge murders for the same reason catching and jailing the Joker is a problem. There's no prison. There's no police to actually hand someone over to. No trial or juries or judges.

I'm not going to just execute people on the spot - a life for a life. But just letting some one get off, Scot-free? That's not right, either.