"Then maybe you'll have some insight as to what we should be doing here."

Ha, ha.

It's not exactly a joke. Rifters bring a wholly new viewpoint with them. Holden had often seen things Derrica couldn't. Ellie and Abby both had such specific approaches to the work done here. And this man, as careful and precise as he has already shown himself to be, may well offer something similar.

But if they've been shown nothing so far, it's that Corypheus and all his armies are going to require more than the inventiveness of any one person.