My partner doesn't like needless violence or death. I mostly go for kneecaps these days but they don't make targets with lower torsos.

[ There's a small hesitance at the word "partner". He almost said "employer" but Harold had insisted from day one of being here that he refused to have such a distant relationship with John. There is nothing distant between them, no matter how little he knows of Harold, no matter how they dance around each other just beyond arm's reach. Harold wants to be known as partners, so that's what John says, whatever implications it carries, whatever that says about him. And he purposefully doesn't mention how every bullet that goes in a kneecap instead of a head is a small blessing; he will never walk in the light again but it's a relief that Harold has asked him to do better, to be better. ]