​Finch was in the unique position to gain access to lots of information, before he disappeared. His Machine might have been a closed system, but Finch himself had skills of impressive magnitude that was invaluable to their little makeshift crew. And as it turns out, information was often the trigger to many of their numbers turning up on the list. Having too much of it, or not enough. Like Leon, who found out belatedly that he was laundering money for the Aryan Nation. Or Cole, who touched upon the greatest secret of all and got shot by his own people for the trouble.

"Let me guess. Your life is in danger," she says with the unsurprised sort of expression that makes it clear she's been through this sort of thing many times before.