Why didn't he give up? The question almost doesn't make sense to Harold. It had really never occurred to him.

"It's not that we pursued her," he says more slowly, thinking it through. They'd followed her as a number, as someone in danger that they were trying to protect, but Harold wouldn't have dreamed of stalking someone to coerce them to work for him. For all the tricks he'd played with John early on, he'd still had the option to decline.

"We ran into one another again and I reiterated the offer. There are very few people with both the skills and the mindset necessary for the kind of work we do. It seemed remiss of me not to ask."