Ruminations

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Takes place after the showdown in the Pilot

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Stunned silence filled the air. Jedikiah kept staring at the spot where John, Stephen and the others had been. Now shattered glass covered the floor. Jedikiah lowered the gun slowly trying to comprehend what just happened. It was not supposed to be possible for Tomorrow People to use their powers in this part of the building, yet somehow, they just did. The other Ultra agents turned to Jedikiah waiting for orders. He just dismissed them without saying another word and headed back to his office.

Jedikiah paced around his desk trying to calm down. He hadn't seen John since he left Ultra. Now, out of the blue, there he was.

He sat down at his desk to try and get back to work. Pulling open the top desk drawer to put the gun away in the secret compartment, that's when the memories started flooding back: Shooting John's foster father ... John in the chamber ready to be weaponized ... John training with Killian ... testing John in the safehouse... John standing in front of him for the first time in 6 years ... that last image lingered with him. John was a man now.

Then more memories ... comforting John when his friend had to be terminated ... the birthday he gave John the knife ... these memories caught him offguard. Then the regret of taking the shot at John came. How did it come to this?

This kid with so much promise, his best agent. So much drive and so much ... heart. That is what turned John against him in the end. John always had a protective nature, with the other foster kids and now with the Tomorrow People.

This plan of his and Roger's drove John away. He didn't want to lose him, but that was how it had to be. It was a sacrifice that needed to be made ... for their plan and, in some ways, for John. Hard to believe anything good could have come from this, but it did. It gave John a new purpose ... protecting the Tomorrow People from what Ultra had become. He took to it like a fish to water. Shooting Roger may have destroyed a part of his soul, but finding and protecting others like him gave him a higher purpose than he had ever had before. It was a purpose that he dutifully fulfilled. He was completely dedicated to it.

Another part of the plan was to drive John away from Ultra. Jedikiah knew John could take care of himself, but it was still a risk. There was risk in him staying at Ultra and risk in letting him go. Getting him away from Ultra seemed the lesser of two evils.

The risk of him staying was The Founder taking more of an interest in John's special talents, turning him into Ultra's cold-blooded assassin. On the other end of that spectrum, John either losing his powers or, more likely, his life because of not being able to follow orders to kill. Besides, as long as Jedikiah was with Ultra, he could help protect John, keep him under Ultra's radar.

Even though John played the part of a loyal, dutiful agent, Jedikiah suspected that eventually whatever John was assigned to do would get the better of him. He wouldn't be able to take the killing. He also didn't want the Founder to find out how powerful John could be.

John was engineered to be lethal for a reason. Not to kill Roger, that was an unfortunate turn of events, but to one day take out the Founder. When the Founder created the Machine and genetically linked it to Roger, they couldn't find another way out.