Look. It’s the walking dead. Surely there is something he can learn from a reanimated body. Besides, he wouldn’t be much of a scientist if he balked at something like this. The secrets of life (or un-life, as it were) are, of course, fairly important to him, given his own research.

Still. He can be practical.

“I wouldn’t want to put you in danger,” he says, plotting to sneak into the Academy and maybe take a biopsy of a zombie or two. “If you’d rather not go back, I’ll settle for directions.”