"I don't know, maybe," she replies. She folds her arms. "If he wanted to catch Steve and drain him of every drop, he could do it himself and take it out on me."

She contemplates her odds: Bill has never shown her much threat. Freeze either. But the potential's there, and she has to weight that against whether they'd be successful in using any of it.

Christ.

"I'll try anyway," she says. "To prove I'm serious."