[ Crazy just doesn't feel very useful as a term, so he slides past that, too. ]
I knew then, and I know now, that you're capable of terrible things.
[ He speaks calmly, not untouched by that but accepting of it. Harold won't delude himself; he knows the kind of people he's hired and grown close to, the kind of people he'd ultimately needed. He thinks of what the Machine said about Root, echoes her words here. Capable of terrible things, but decided to do good... ]
But that doesn't mean you'll do them. I thought I'd give you another choice.
What I'm interested in is what you choose. [ Like how Harold had chosen to believe in something better. Sometimes what someone needs is just a different option -- or as John had put it, a purpose. ]
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I knew then, and I know now, that you're capable of terrible things.
[ He speaks calmly, not untouched by that but accepting of it. Harold won't delude himself; he knows the kind of people he's hired and grown close to, the kind of people he'd ultimately needed. He thinks of what the Machine said about Root, echoes her words here. Capable of terrible things, but decided to do good... ]
But that doesn't mean you'll do them. I thought I'd give you another choice.
What I'm interested in is what you choose. [ Like how Harold had chosen to believe in something better. Sometimes what someone needs is just a different option -- or as John had put it, a purpose. ]