Times like these, Phillips misses Erskine. Scientist or not, he'd have known how to deal with a statement like that.

All Phillips has to deal in is raw truth.

"I hope that's a great comfort to you when they shut this division down," he grits out, but before he can follow it up with anything else, the sounds of shouting and of soldiers running gets his attention.

"What the hell's going on out there?"

It's rhetorical, and he doesn't wait for Carter to answer before striding out of the tent.