Price compresses his lips and decides to keep looking at the scene. He is surprised to see Dan do such thing, and does in fact have mixed feelings on the matter: forcing kids into doing questionable things is very despicable in his book mostly because it could be seen as child abuse and child abuse makes him overwhelmed with rage (for his own personal reasons, certainly he doesn't care about that kid specifically, it just happens to be a trigger), on the other hand he understands the necessity that brought to this course of action with a frankly admirable execution.

Even so, now that he's been proven right, that Dan isn't a saint at all, it's...Satisfying and disappointing at the same time. The negative feelings take over.

"Are you perchance afraid of making yourself look bad?" he defies "It's not like anyone would believe me if I ever decide to say anything."

Plus it's not like Dan didn't befriend him to show how much of a good person he is, the saint that tends to the outcast because his heart is so pure and special, because proclaiming himself as the paladin of lost causes is his way to reframe his failures in order to cope with them. If this wasn't true, then Price wouldn't have been able to take a gamble such as jumping off the damn roof so that Dan could react accordingly.

"YOU are a liar that plays with people's emotions too, Daniel!" he fails to raise his voice as always "I don't judge people for committing crimes or inflicting pain, whether they do so out of necessity or not...But you do."

So how are they different, really? What allows Dan to preach from his high horse?

"So what is the truth? Is it part of your mask?" meaning, are you like me? "Or are you just a hypocrite?"