He doesn't move. Honestly, he could leave. Head right on back to his lab, hole up, and work on any number of projects he really should finish.

"I'll see if improvements can't be made. Though with the lack of test subjects, it may prove difficult. My personal specifications will only go so far in the name of science, after all."

He's just talking. It's what he does, aside from his work. Easier than silence, right?

"Understandable." And really, it is. Though he can't honestly imagine the feeling. He's never gotten close to anyone, and no one intimately familiar to him arrived. He steps forward. "But you're of little use to anyone, yourself included, in such a state."

He's no medic. But someone has to see to this.

"Considering we seem to be... entering the end phase of our crisis situation, will you allow an examination, commander?"