Coming from a city of eight million people, Pepper's sense of scale with this kind of thing is a bit skewed. Then again, mobs had once run a great deal of New York City, and those were definitely families of the kind Lin is referring to. Perhaps she needs to think a little more Gotham and a little less Manhattan.

"I think I got the picture," Pepper says, turning to Raine with her eyebrows raised in wordless question.