Maybe there was a part of him that wanted to be caught. Not that he wanted to be used by her, no, but a part of him did think he could be annoying enough to have her kill him. If he was really lucky, he could seize the moment and kill her with his bare hands too - that was a good image. The mental image actually made him smile a little, though it was a rough sort of one. "Can we skip the megalomaniac gloating and get on with the torturing already?"