[Price eyes Dan with genuine confusion. Did he really expect he was going to make it?]

Circumstances were unfavourable. You did all you could.

[He pauses and stares in mild annoyance. Kind of ungrateful of Dan not to notice that the creature could've killed him too had Aiden not frozen it.]

Sadly, I already had the suspect he wasn't going to make it.

[He shrugs, strangely speaking from actual confusion rather than passive aggression]

I suppose you felt it was still worth to try.