User blog comment:AustinDR/PE Proposal: Sir Miles Axlerod and Professor Zündapp/@comment-25075214-20190527000009/@comment-2175012-20190527001915

Uh...he didn't want to die. Mater was threatening him with the bomb. Of course he'd be cowardly enough to give into his demands to avoid being killed. Not seeing anything remotely funny there.