User blog comment:Bob the Wikipedian/The cliffhangers!/@comment-185.15.0.6-20130525201802/@comment-1509826-20130926161103

Well in all fairness, would wearing googles really make a differance? All the stuff needed to do was apparantly touch bare skin, so he would have to ware a full mask, gloths and potentially a body suit, all of which was a bit strange.

Also this series Nick has started getting more impulsive and listening more to his insticts than his common sense. He almost beat a Lowen to death with his bare hands in the other side, and then he tried to drug a Schakal in the hour of death to find the answers. I think it was simply another example of that. Or else if the baron did try his spit trick ontop of the container Nick could have just got out of the way, he only got Nick because he caught him by suprise.