[ He doesn't need to say it. Scott can think it. He's not the paranoid plotter he's destined to become, but he's not naive, either. ]

It would be good to have a plan in place for convincing them that a regime-change that favors the rest of the city favors them too. Something better than an appeal to straight logic, because like it or not, that rarely works.

[ A hesitation, and then— ]

It feels like to do this well, we'd need a plan with more moving parts than we might be able to coordinate. [ As they are, right now, as a team. ] But the simplest conceivable solutions definitely won't effectively solve the problem.