I'm not saying I'm not willing to help, Captain. I'm just not seeing how there's much use for me in your operation, and I'm feeling a need to keep busy. Busy flying, preferably. Might be different if Zoe were... but anyway, she's not.
Yeah. He wanted to use their tech to find out what they'd done to River, and I guess he figured we wouldn't help him out with that unless we were getting a haul out of it.