I'm not hiding anything! [He pauses when Steven grabs him, looking back over his shoulder.

They don't believe him that easily, but he doesn't want to give up and--what, fight them instead? If he can deescalate it without it coming to that, he wants to give it everything he can.

So he looks back to the crowd again.] And neither are the monsters back there. You see that it's affecting us too, don't you? Why would we do this to ourselves?