"Yeah! It leads below deck! Now I need you to do these things!" He says as he starts guiding instructions, more or less simplistic, to get the cockpit open and allow Ramza out.

ONce he was riding down on the tow line, MarKus yanks him down into the opening.

"Okay, we got that far... I really didn't expect anyone else after Zelda... But at least I know most of this is not the way things happened. It's now a matter of protecting you while I'm... stuck."