Gene has, somehow, been coerced into joining Tony on his scrapyard run. (Although maybe he's looking for the components for a cattle prod. Hey, wrangling Foreigners is hard work.)

So he's been scouring when he notices Tony stop moving next to him, and he looks up, and then follows Tony's gaze to see just what's enraptured him so (probably something with a lot of engineering words).

Imagine his surprise - just imagine it - when he sees Dante and Valdis, sitting in a tree, kay eye ess ess eye en gee. Or, well, not in a tree, but the sentiment is close enough.

Tony's grin has a bit of the sadistic about it, and Gene immediately stoops to the ground, packing a few snowballs with the ground cover.

As Tony calls out, Gene wings one of the snowballs at Dante (he's got no beef with Valdis), and the rest follow, given a bit of a boost by a sudden prevailing wind. Yes! What a crazy random happenstance. It's certainly nothing to do with the glow of a white gem on one of his rings, no. Nothing whatsoever!

Okay, sure, he'd agreed to help Dante's brother. That didn't mean he'd absolved Dante of his horrible horrible cockblocking sin.