He monologues like a Bond villain, 76! Anyway, tool retrieved from his bag John slides back under the panel and gets back to work.

"That's what I'm guessing, which is why I'm hoping for logs off it. Anything that might confirm or deny his story, or give us a little more to work with. I don't trust Magda as far as I can throw him."

Not that he trusts the Natha, but at least... Well, at least the Natha have stopped the dragon. Whereas Magda, by the sound of it, instead funded the thing. If he's picking between some space UN rules lawyers and someone who funds terrorism, he knows which way he's swaying.