"Ooooh, inside operatives, very spooky. Man, I wish I took more classes on AI..." He nods thoughtfully, babbling as always. The 'leaders' thing concerns him-- what if they say no?-- but it's up to them. If he gets kicked out or shot at (or both... at the same time... probably), he'll just have to deal. It doesn't mean they're not good people. They have no reason to trust him.

Then... he wonders about something else.

"Did- uh, smack me if this is too personal or whatever, but why didn't the people who designed you guys put in contingencies against this sort of thing? Like Asimov's laws of robotics, or something similar." He assumes she'll know what those are; she is, after all, the subject of them. "I mean, I'm not complaining; if you have the processing power and complexity to be sentient, you deserve whatever you can get, but I used to run a tech company and that is not a cheap venture. Having your 'products'," he makes quotes in the air and his voice tilts sarcastically, "run off and demand rights has got to be costing them. Did they really not foresee this in the testing stages?"

Maybe... maybe that's how he can help them. He can unravel that mystery, because it just sticks out to him, now, in a way he can't ignore.