Dama, you are an Oklahoma fan. You are defending Texas. You can't do that. It does not matter what conference they are in. You can't do it. They are your biggest rival.
It looked like he was expecting the door to be blown open. It looked like he had a set plan because he was pretty quick to react once the hatch door was blown open.
I'm re-watching the episode now. Did anyone else notice that Desmond injected himself with something? What was it? Possibly something to do with the disease?