"Now that's no way to react to someone who wants to show you some gratitude."

Sure, that's what she was doing.

"What I'm saying is, to get what you want sometimes you have to play along as distasteful as someone as honest as you are might find it."

"If you want to leave, you could try and do it all yourself and likely get shot by that robot or hurt yourself trying to open the door, or you could accept that someone else has been put in charge for now and prepare for the day when it's no longer necessary that you play along. A day when you can be in charge of your own life again."