[The issue with a spear is that it is not nearly as effective once you're inside the radius of the pointy bit. And that it's a two-handed weapon.

Shrike does manage to block Glory's downward strike, her combat knife catching on the shaft of the spear. But Glory still has a pair of handcuffs in her other hand, and since Shrike's wrists are so conveniently presented, she moves to clap one of the cuffs around one of them.]