Jess has the same urge to give chase--to run forward to make up for all the lost time he's spent running away from parts of his life and people in it. To eventually find a way home and reunite with the few people he'd call family, tied together not by blood, but something even more ephemeral: trust.

But Peggy has a point there. It seems like what they're chasing is the wizard behind the curtain.

"You sure aren't kidding," he sighs. "But I didn't get dragged out of my life to let disembodied overlords make my choices for me." Internally, he thinks he's had his fill of that. "Fighting back is a choice they haven't rigged for us and better the enemy you know, right?"