Dragon has some armor and weaponry that can be retrofitted to act autonomously fairly easily with Lorica's help! Dragon will happily work on this with Lorica - AI isn't her speciality at all.

After the basics are worked out, Armsmaster asks what he should be lie detecting Calvert about exactly.

"Well, whether he's Coil, principally."

Armsmaster can ask that! 

Calvert is cornered is his office and asked questions under lie detection, which quickly reveal that yup this is definitely Coil and he was in fact planning to release the identities of everyone in Empire 88. His sentencing to the Birdcage is extremely fast tracked. 

"Tattletale is saying you had some type of deal with her?" asks Armsmaster while Coli's sentencing is in progress.

"She let me hold on to her while checking up on whether she was lying about her tip, I do feel obliged to let her go now - she robs banks, she doesn't start wars or plant moles in the PRT as far as we know. Good to have a line of communication."

"You are not in fact allowed to make that sort of offer."

"Didn't. Accepted it when she made it. I think it was the right call. Sort of like working on Endbringer fights together."

Armsmaster stares at her for a moment.

"I agree with your judgement call on this one. Officially I am supposed to discourage you from making decisions of that sort in the first place. That being said this was a complicated incident."

"PRT will probably do a substantial investigation into this whole incident, given the involvement of two Thinkers and a Calvert being a trusted member of the PRT - I expect you'll be questioned soon."

"Understood. I'm going to go let Tattletale out before less understanding figures interrupt me at it, sir."

Armsmaster has opinions about how this is admirable and really pushing the limits of what is considered wise for someone in the Protectorate to do career wise, but his face doesn't betray these thoughts.

"Huh, I'm honestly surprised you're actually letting me go this easily."

"You weren't lying, he's really Coil! You're a mildly annoying bank robber! I'd way rather have Coil than a bank robber in custody and trying to have my cake and eat it too seems like a way to not get any more tips like this, which would be a dumb waste of a reasonably friendly local supervillain with a great tip-generating power."

"Awww, you think I'm reasonably friendly. I do owe you one for this, feel free to call in a favor sometime."

"Keep feeding me info and we'll call it good, I don't think I'm allowed to accept gifts in my professional capacity."

"Well, if you ever need to know something or need some help, lemme know. My PHO dms are always open."

Tattletales strolls out of the PRT with confidence - she's got resources to nab and a power vacuum to fill.

Coil is transferred to the Birdcage quickly and the PRT's internal clean-up of this affair commences.

Lorica is interviewed! It's made clear to her during her first interview with the Internal Affairs department of the PRT that moving her somewhere outside Brockton Bay, possibly somewhere very remote, is being considered. She sure has spent a worrisome amount of time with a high level thinker and violated a number of regulations in the process of helping that thinker.

"You'd have to move my dad too but it wouldn't be the first time my family has relocated for business reasons. If you think that's an appropriate precaution I won't second-guess you apart from what's already in my report." Good bot, writing reports for her.

"You and your father would insist on this?"

"On... living in the same city? Yes."

The interviewer writes down a note about this. The interview goes on for quite a while - she's gone over most aspects of the report at least twice before it's over.

Next up, a mandatory psychiatric evaluation. How does Lorica feel about all this.

By about a third of the way through the interview she's just blinking approvingly at things her bot proposes for her to say, letting it say them in her voice, and reading the PHO forums when she doesn't need to be vetting ideas.

"I feel pretty good about it! I like being able to use my immunity to see opportunities that wouldn't otherwise be usable."

"Can you describe your feelings around Tattletale first approaching you?"

"Oh, I expected it was going to be some kind of trick, but she showed up in plainclothes with her face showing, using her power, I checked her ears for tech so I knew it was really her answering questions. And then she let me stick her in a cell. So then I was like, okay, serious business time, this matters enough to work together, let's actually do that, and it was stressful but not really scary past that. I knew what I was working on and didn't run out things to try before it was over."

"And your opinion on Tattletale now?"

"Annoying bank robber? I don't like her. I don't have to like people to work with them."

The psychological evaluator is very understanding about this. He asks a series of questions that go over her mental state. He also include questions to check for thinker manipulations by Tattletale and a questionnaire designed for the Simurgh affected - just in case they were wrong about that before.

Hee is also really interested about the time she apparently met Tunnel Teen's parents! What sort of effects did her interactions with them have on her later behavior?