Jordan Hester
It happened that the Machine had troubles thinking about some cases, because of the lack of digital information. It wasn't a problem per se, but she still had to add many parameters to her analyzing process, and she found it... annoying.
Usually, it happened because someone was toying with identities a bit too much, and so the Machine had to reconnect files with different names together. An usual issue when dealing with spies like her two primary assets, and high profile criminals like Analog Interface.
Not so much of an issue, really, because the Machine's capacities were well above that, but annoying nonetheless. It made communicating with her Teams harder, for one thing. Which name was she supposed to pick out? Which social security number? Since she was already limited in her communications, it was annoying.
Maybe her father had really created her more human than he'd ever thought.
Annoying.
Then there was that one time, with Jordan Hester, where the Machine actually had only one name for two people. Sure, she could have chosen Tara Verlander's if she had wanted, but it wouldn't have been of much use to the Team, considering they had no way to find the woman again, when she had ditched that name for someone else's.
Well, at least, it had allowed the Machine to give both the criminal and the victim's names to Harold Finch and John Reese.
And thanks to that, the true Jordan Hester was well and alive when he opened his mail and stared at the kraft paper envelope that held the obituary of the man who had turned his life back into normalcy, three days after Primary Asset n°1's demise.
The man had to force himself to inhale again, because the news had been such a shock he had forgotten how to breathe for a moment.
Jordan Hester couldn't quite believe that the man who had turned Hell into nothingness, the man who had made his life right again, was dead. He couldn't believe that the man who had allowed him to be, not only alive, but himself again, was dead.
Where was the justice in that?
"John Reese, aka the Man in a Suit", the invitation said. Go figures, that the stranger would also be the urban legend. Obviously Jordan Hester wasn't the only only who had been saved by his savior.
He wondered if the others had also been invited to his funeral.
The man looked around his apartment, remembering the hard times before John Reese's intervention. Everything in here, he still had thanks to that man. His life was his own, and his own only, thanks to that man.
But what had the man had, when he gave everything for others?
