Of course she believes him when he says he's over his obsession with seeing that man and his family suffer. If for no other reason, then because when he started construction on the toy factory and then designs for the toys, he threw himself into it with an achingly familiar wholeheartedness.
He'd hardly have time to be designing horrific and unstoppable weapons in there along with everything else he's given himself to do while she handles the paperwork.
Nevertheless, she doesn't like to take chances, so when she finds the door to his work area locked, there's only one thing to do.
Declaring immediate war on the possibility of a back-slide, she knocks lightly at the door.
"Buddy? Could you come out and help me with this zipper? I need a shower badly after that exploding whipped cream incident, and I've got it almost all the way down, but it looks like it's stuck; I'll either need to you to just rip the damn dress off or hold it in place while I try to wriggle out of it. And I thought you might rather help me yourself than have one of the men do it."