Good day, Katie.

My name is Thrawn. I work alongside you on custodial duty. If you are interested, I have a one-day experiment for us. Should it succeed, it may reduce your workload there, in half the time. It may also - and this could be either a warning or an additional incentive - irritate Richter Belmont.

Are you interested?

Sure, why not.

[ She is down to irritate people. ]

Excellent. Please note that if you find after I tell you my proposal, you may back out with no explanation needed or repercussions given. This is truly only a brief experiment.

Richter believes that the most efficient use of his bloated team of fifteen inmates is to go floor by floor, every day, scrubbing everything down. When I told him this was ill-advised, he dismissed me as attempting to militarize the ship.

I am reaching out to all of us on custodial now. We pick one day in the near future - just one day - wherein all of us take a single floor. No top-down work, with the more difficult levels 1 and 2 being assigned more than one person.

He believes he knows the best way to conduct things but he misunderstands that we can accomplish the same goal in half the time and manpower. I intend to humiliate and frustrate him publicly by accomplishing precisely that.

So I have to clean because you're in a pissing match with the janitor?

[ Less down for cleaning. ]

You do not have to do anything.

I am asking for a favor. What would you like in exchange?

Could use a hammer of my very own.

I have access to the maintenance supply.

Sounds like a deal, Thrawn.

Excellent.