"This is gonna be a lot easier than I thought." If that sounds a little predatory, well...deeply ethical and cool under pressure though she is, Shepard would not have gotten as far as she has if she didn't enjoy a little mayhem. Or a lot of mayhem.

She gestures for Garrus to take cover against the bulkhead...then rips the first barricade away with a surge of biotics, the ease of it taking her aback. It's one thing to be told you're getting a power boost. It's another to hurl a few hundred kilos of assorted junk like sweeping a table clear.

"...Sprock," says a man in a prison jumpsuit who now has no cover.

"If you stand down now, it'll hurt less," says Shepard.