You stick out a hand. Laine picks up a bag of coins. Seeing the thug's opportunistic expression, which could easily mean that he wants some of this, but which Laine seems to interpret as him deciding to make a break for it, Laine whacks him in the head with the bag of coins, which definitively says no to both. "Sticking around to find out what he knows?" says Laine as he drops the bag into your hand.
Stick around. Keep moving on.