User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things/@comment-2250460-20121021093107/@comment-4237253-20121021093952

That's what I've been saying as well. Even if it does fail, and you pick destroy, can't Harbinger shoot you anyway? Indoctrinating him seems very inefficient, and as you said, convoluted. It's like they're going out of their way... for what? Just so you can have a big surprise that doesn't fit in the narrative and ends the series on a cliff hanger?

Oh, but they want to indoctrinate Shepard because he's the hero of the galaxy, right? That would destroy their morale, totally.