They were strong, yes, but their greatest strength was each other...and that was well documented. They could be used against each other. They needed something to protect against that, they needed a plan. Had their roles become so reversed that Newt needed the plan and Hermann did not?

"What IS their agenda, though? We don't know, really. We lack information and neither of us read people well enough to go on theory and instinct. We're helping them get information...to what end? We know what we want this information for...but are they looking at some sort of government upheaval? Cross-dimension travel? What if we're helping fuel a bigger problem than the Porter or the Cold War? Hermann, we have to think about what's in it for them, because I don't know Raina, not like I knew Qubit or some of the Nanite team."