Here, I'll let you in on it, before post game even.
I think you were surprised Rake would ask such a question and started thinking of how to answer it. You gave a general answer on the basis that giving a complex one would tip off scum to what you were looking for, a reasonable enough if evasive answer. But then you kept thinking about it and trying to flip it as if Rake had asked you a personal question, until the point you didn't notice Orbo had changed the question into "What would you do as scum?". Well you were already thinking about that a second ago, after all you're scum, but there's no way you could tell us, you'd be selling yourself out. So you gave the same answer.
But wait, that doesn't make sense: no scum would play the way you do and benefit fully from it. If anything they'd have to avoid playing the way you just pointed out to avoid suspicion, making their play harder. So you started stalling while you thought of a reasonable answer and tried to dismiss the question as "wifom" that had nothing to do with you. But we wouldn't drop it, so eventually you just told us exactly what you'd do, what you're already trying to do, and hoped that would be good enough.
Is that about right?
I'm calling you scum bro.