When someone's on the verge of tears, there are two things you can do. You provide comfort of some kind, or you help distract them from exposing something of themselves that is too vulnerable.

Lorne opts for the second approach. "As if I was just gonna let you go willy nilly into the night, chased by a bunch of crazies. I'm not smart enough."

They both know the safest thing for him would have been to just stay away. It would also have been the intelligent thing to do, but intelligence barely entered into his panicked equations tonight.