[He gives her a serious look - the first serious look he's shot her way since they started speaking - and shrugs.]

That's the thing. If people were going to come up with a lie, it would be a less blatantly bullshit one. People always believe a collection of lies much more easily than one big one, you know? And this one's huge. And stupid. Space prison? It's implausible.

But yeah. It's also true. I don't know how it works, or why you might have been one thing before and something else now, but this is the bullshit reality we're dealing with.