Neither Leaves Without a Yes

The door is locked and the rule is simple: no one leaves this room until one of you says yes to the other. One of you came to attack, one came to hold the line, and the situation is built so a single clean sentence could turn it — if you find it before the other does. Read the real motive under the words, refuse the false choice, offer the exit that lets them save face. Whoever concedes first walks out smaller; whoever forces it wrong walks out hated. Begin.