Possible Clues:

• Shoot the breeze, say
• Be a stool pigeon
• Use your available minutes, say
• Support ditching leader in speech
• Contrary attention-seeker, brunette, after short story for broadcaster
• Have a heart-to-heart, maybe
• Speak up
• Model last seen pocketing a thousand — sound reasonable?
• Conversate
• Heart-to-heart, e.g