My last career had just ended badly. I needed help, they provided it, and then they made me a job offer.

[It is, as ever, the partial bare-bones explanation. These aren't questions that she minds, really, but the full answers are all tied up in secrets, details she doesn't want to talk about, or both. She doesn't know enough about this place to know if talking about the Machine is a bad idea. And she still doesn't like talking about Cole.]

I blew them off at first. But then Finch did me another solid even though I'd just turned him down, and then two different things we were working on separately ended up being the same thing, and...

[She shrugs.]

Just sort of happened.