Not as planned! Not as planned at all! He'd hoped maybe this would be a form of appeasement that would put Edgard at ease, give some value and consideration to Abby's suggestion, and things would be resolved in a way that would allow him some way to apologize properly to Benedict.

Instead! Things appear to be spiraling down into a different not-very-much-less chaotic path.

He misses Ezra, he would have talked their way out of this situation by now and everything would be fine. But he's not here, and it does no good wishing.

You know what, he's just going to keep his mouth shut for now, at most miming out a silent "I'm sorryyyyy" to Benedict.