[It's possible he's not making sense. He is decently out of it after the amount of time he had spent trying to stabilize Merrick. And trying to calm Cyril down.]

There isn't anything you can do. I just wanted to keep you in the loop since it seemed the others hadn't thought of it.

Merrick was poisoned. I assume they meant it to kill him, but it didn't... We've stabilized him, but he's still fighting it off.