"Oh, Malcolm, you know me. I can fight anything if I try hard enough," she quips - a little joke of her own. Then, more seriously, she adds, "It's not so different. I almost had to kill my second in command over this sort of thing."

But it's not at all the same thing, and she knows it. Theodorus had been an entirely different beast, with entire different motives - she's just curious about how Malcolm will react to the information.