She's apparently the one that picked him for the team, so I always saw it as "I picked you just so I could kill you, because you skeeve me something fierce, and even if this whole thing goes to hell I'll be damned if I don't accomplish that much."
But McDuffie had to cut the whole story down to half its original length due to meddling, so there's a more obvious reason for it to be choppy. McDuffie probably had more planned and salvaged what he could.