It seems that way, if they're in no rush to figure out how to get us all back to where we were.

[Rather than just the some of them they're managing at the moment. Not that she's bitter.]

That would explain your patience with them, though. I imagine you need a certain amount of diplomacy that I've never been able to manage. Even if these guys aren't quite as open to that kind of bribery. Or maybe they're just not sugar and caffeine kinds of guys.

[She's teasing, because she actually likes that Alex seems to have a little more integrity than some of the media folks she's known.]

Maybe they need something a little stronger to open up.