"No, no, no, no, no," Elliot says, "listen, I am an undercover journalist." He repeats his message, trying to get them to listen. They do not.
"Are you?" The masked militants mock.
"Mate! Listen to me!" Elliot says as the militants continue their attack. "I'm being serious!"
If you're going "undercover" and infiltrating a group of Nazis, you've gotta accept being treated like a Nazi. Folding the moment your new Nazi buddies get you into trouble is some weak shit
If you get accepted as a Nazi, by a group of Nazis...getting beaten up by antifa just kind of comes with the territory. I don't know what he expected.
Oh, I know exactly what he expected. He expected to use his "journalist" status as a get out of jail free card. He's being serious! These people really do think they are first class citizens and everyone else is a kind of pond scum that is, at best, contemptible.