It's a good joke. And he does try, registering it with a low chuckle before he shakes his head.

"I think we both know when things have gone wrong enough that we'd need to get them out," Ellis points out. With everything else they don't quite agree on, they both have more than enough experience reading a situation gone too far sideways to salvage. "And from what I understand, we won't hear anything too easily down there."

So relying on instinct alone. An approach that certainly won't go wrong.

"You get them up the stairs. I'll be right behind all of you."

That's the approach isn't it? That's what their specialties lend themselves to?