He's been here, which is why he narrows his eyes at Malcolm for a moment, considers their respective mentalities, what's trained into both of them, weighs everything around for a moment and...

"Did you do anything to convince him it was in his best interest, or just argue the point?" Or did he do something stupid like attempt to achieve the objective without an extraction plan or considering how he was going to land. He's done that. It was dumb.