I always kinda wondered about her too... far as i remember, there is a point you can use the "illithid wisdom" to determine she is hiding something about her cure plan, but not what... i assumed it was that she was using the party to get herself a cure or that she was originally just trying to get the party to the gith before to be put down prior to realizing these tadpoles were "different"... wasn't really able to determine which was more likely though...