[ Given that Winston's wounds had often been mended by Angela's nanites, it's been some time since he's had to actually get stitched up the old fashioned way. Not that he's going to complain. Jack seems to know what he's doing, and it shouldn't be any surprise that a man of his experience has stitched a few wounds in his day.

The cut in question is definitely too deep and wide to be left alone, and so Winston won't argue the point. He instead shifts his body so that the injured area (on his flank, creeping toward his back) is more directly facing Jack. To make it easier for both of them. ]

Contacts? [ He echoes the word and then laughs, something self-deprecating. ] Overwatch now isn't the way it was when you were in charge. All I have are the people who still believe in it. [ Who's going to want to work with a gorilla, no matter how smart that gorilla might be? It had been controversial for Jack to recruit him in the first place. Winston definitely has no clout in any political arenas or any people who owe him favors, now that everything has fallen into ruin.

Even with all those disadvantages, though, he still believes in rebuilding. And he's not the only one. Jack can dislike it all he wants, but those are the facts. ]