"Yeah. Me too." Radley darkly smirks again. "I'm used to being the leader in a mess and at least trying to have some kind of plan. With this, I'm just kinda floundering at the mercy of these aliens ... like everyone else is."

And he hates feeling so helpless. Not that he didn't feel helpless back home, but at least he understood things better there than here. And he liked having some level of power over his rival Malcolm. He really doesn't have that here.