Re: Batman/Maria/Superman (or - After the longest car ride ever)
As he answered her question, continuing his perspective into what had happened that day, Maria couldn't help but straighten intently. "You talked with him and tried to reason with him," she had to repeat. "Knowing he was insane, knowing he was the cause of the explosions and all that suffering, when you confronted him you first tried to talk him down," she continued, growing a little in intensity as she went on.
She really hoped he saw the big shiny point of that, and would be sure to highlight it - and underline it a few times - in her report, along with the assessment that he would have been more than justified in shooting first, the way she would have done. "Did he threaten you?" she asked. If she was a lawyer at a trial, she'd have gotten slapped with an objection for leading the witness: this was an interrogation interview, not a trial.