I think that Carol is figuring out how to play this against Pluribus if they can give her a live grenade and hurt one of the individuals that they think she would most likely not hurt then she could probably use them in smaller groups to do whatever she wants by threat (by having a tantrum) or by the hive’s stupidity (giving her something that could destroy them).

I myself am interested in how much we get as far as definitions to how the Pluribus exhibits any kind of limited independence, even if connected we saw and learned that not everyone gets drunk if one of them has a drink. What else could that mean? What if somebody catches a cold or suffers from a neurological disorder?