I know that, but you say it like there's not a million other ways for things to go wrong. What if... you lost your research notes, or your spore collection, or your equipment collapses, or... or something-

[The question Kölliker confronts him with is disarming enough to make him stop positing his own hypotheticals to Egon.]

...I- yeah, of course I do. [He self-consciously shifts in his seat, starting to wonder if he's been falling short in expressing this.] Why wouldn't I?