"Sometimes the best way to help is to hurt." It's just said in a matter of fact tone of voice, while Cole tries not to look Rita in the eyes. "I don't like doing it. And you need to stop me if it goes wrong. But I can't look the other way."

If there is someone here, someone like the Harbingers, whose purpose is so vile, so awful that multiple people would get hurt if he didn't do anything, then Cole has to hurt them himself. That's how it was back home, that's how it is here.