"All right, so not the most practical application, I'll give you that," Daniel replies patiently. "Paperclips are easiest. And hey, if they help us get out then I'm not gonna complain."

Unfortunately, Daniel himself knows very little about lockpicking. Door consoles on foreign spaceships he has scant knowledge of; old fashioned key-in-the-lock scenarios he has not.

"I can try for scissors?" He shrugs helplessly, fully aware of how ridiculous it sounds. "Those are harder. And I've never been able to make them, so."