[Alright, so he doesn't really have a viable argument for that one--

Aaand that's the sound of a hard object against another equally hard object from somewhere near by. She's closing in on him. He pitches his voice lower involuntarily over the comm:]

Okay, so you don't like me pulling parts off your prowler. No big deal. We can just reroute the proweler's systems then we both get what we want. See, that's what we call compromise.