All right. Yes. Fury probably would have gone to talk to Pierce. Alex was one of his closest friends, and pretty much the only person in the higher ranks Nick trusted. So maybe. Maybe it would have ended like that. But you don't know because you didn't try.
Couldn't?
I never should have let you go. I was worried, and I let you do what I thought you needed to, but... Maybe if you'd been with the rest of us, things would have turned out differently. If Victoria had killed John, the rest of it wouldn't have played out.