"For you people not tuned in, this guy claims he's a runner and has got some things to tell us. I still say it might be safer to drug him now, but if he's speaking the truth we might want to know faster. Waters, got anything that can read him or make him talk? Noise, I've got my gun on him, keep an eye on our backs."
If Silk was the least bit surprised, it didn't show. She pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and put it and the lighter in a pocket, her hand came out holding the small holdout pistol.
"Alright, hands behind your head, make a wrong move, yadiyadiya."
Silk nodded her head waved her gun in the car's direction, motioning him to walk in that direction. She spoke to him while they walked in that direction.
"You're right about one thing: Laes is out of the question. A bullet might be the only option left unless you can give us a very good reason not to. You've got until we reach the car to convince us we're not better off without having you to worry about. Start talking."
She'd almost been killed twice tonight and had gotten close to failing the job. She could do without new potential trouble, but there was a lot of information she -and the team- needed. This ambushed had been planned before they'd even gotten the job.
Her first impressions of the guy she held at gunpoint wasn't great.
If he was lying, he was an civilian who, in trying to bluff his way out, had just eliminated his only chance of survival.
If he was telling the truth, he was a runner who not only had failed to do whatever he was hired for but was also willing to sell out his employer, in fact seemed to prefer it above the easy way out he'd just been offered.
In short, either a dead idiot or a treacherous screw-up.
The two guns exchanged hands, the holdout in her main hand, the Savalette Guardian in her off hand.