Eh, trying to be persuasive clearly wasn't helping much her. Might as well get straight to the punch.

"I need a government scientist to get into the red zone. You're the one they assigned me."

Hopefully, if she phrased it that way...maybe he's just think he'd have to. Or at least feel like they were already in this together. His open and laid back nature was already throwing her off the game. This was going to be a fun one.