She was right. By the look on his face, he didn't like it. Even if he was all about trying to lay out any technical contingency plans for the past few years, his first instinct usually consisted of attack.
"So if we don't solve it with violence," he said with a shrug, "then I guess we're left trying to outwit him."
So sayeth the guy who was kicked out of Tech Chess at MIT for drunk and disorderly conduct.