"Okay, Sally, I'll prove it to you. Me and you will meet up tomorrow morning, I will take you to the holding cell, and you will watch me speak with it."
She holds out a hand, as if to shake on a deal. You both shake. "Deal."
Before you can head home, you have to finish off today's work. You head back to your office. You sit back down at your computer and start typing almost immediately.
You just need to write up all of the new things that you learned today. That it rotates, that it spoke.
Nothing else. Just the new things you learned today. Then, you'll be able to make the final push tomorrow. Tomorrow, the real research can begin — because now that you know it can talk, there's all sorts of questions you can ask it.
You finish putting the final touches on the article.