Oh, she's absolutely a liability. A huge risk, a drain on resources.

But we're the good guys, aren't we?

I'm proposing we do something nice and cooperative. Self-serving, certainly. But if we work with her to get a core, even if there is no core... Well, that does weaken their leader's position that we're heartless murderers, doesn't it?

We don't even need to convince her. The chance to get out of that cell, the chance to be out in the open, the chance to get away OR help her people... she'll leap on that. If she DOESN'T, then we've got real trouble.

[He smirks at Psii.]

What did you have in mind, in case you didn't mean dominant persuasion?