What line would have worked better than Han Solos "give us time to lock a reactor down" attempt at bluffing?

“You caught me in the middle of something. Give me a minute to pull my pants up.”

“Look into my eyes, look into my eyes.
You are starting to feel sleepy….”

There was a fire in the garbage room, some ammo cooked off.

I so love the Emperor, don’t you? Ok bye.

I think the problem with his story was more about his delivery, than with what he tried to say. That is, trying to say there’s a dangerous situation but that it doesn’t make sense to send anyone else from outside yet.

Having just been in combat inside a hostile base, it was understandably hard for him to think straight and keep his cool. That’s one of the things the first Star Wars movie did better than any of the others – show people having appropriate mental distress caused by the violence and danger.

“Bob over cooked his dinner in the micro blaster again.”

Now that I think of it . I would have let the other prisoners go, and give them the stormtroopers blasters.