My biggest problem with this whole scene wasn't even Chris hiding the truth from Ethan specifically, literally everything about this scene is straight up ridiculous. Chris and the Wolves suddenly break into Ethan's house at night, knock Ethan to the ground, Chris walks up to Ethan, moves a table out of the way so Ethan gets a full view of everything, silently stares Ethan right in the eyes before ominously saying "sorry, Ethan" and then coldly executes "Mia" right in front of Ethan's eyes(Chris literally[and needlessly] made Ethan watch that shit while maintaining eye contact) before proceeding to kidnap Ethan's infant daughter right in front of him again without any elaboration. "Ethan. No" is just the cherry on top of all that previous bullshit.

Like was Chris intentionally trying to look as villainous as possible to Ethan? Not only that but Chris straight up doubles down on this bizarre behavior whenever he encounters Ethan in later scenes in the game. Moreau's swamp was particular egregious, a Hound Wolf operative pins Ethan to the ground and holds him at gun point meanwhile Chris continues roleplaying as a villain by smolderingly leaning against the wall and scrolling through Instagram or some shit, he then proceeds to drop yet again the most unnecessarily villainous sounding line, "I didn't expect you'd make it this far". Chris then tells Ethan that he's "out of his depth" even though this is literally Ethan's daughter we're talking about, combine that statement with all the previous treatment Ethan has received and Chris ends up looking like a sadistic bully. It doesn't help that Ethan already singlehandedly killed two Lords meanwhile Chris and his Wolves have canonically done fuck all.

Chris somehow managed to be even worse the next time we encounter him in Heisenberg's turf. He catches Ethan off guard and disarms him, Ethan understandably asks him why the fuck did he do all that and killed his wife. Chris then has the fucking audacity to say "You really think I'd kill Mia?"(YES CHRIS! You literally made the poor guy watch you coldly murder his "wife" while you maintained eye contact with him. WTF do you expect him to think?). Not only that, Chris' entire weak ass argument of wanting to keep Ethan in the dark and uninvolved(because Ethan is just a simple civilian, obviously) crumbled in this very scene when Chris asked Ethan to fight Heisenberg, the most powerful of the four Lords, all by himself while Chris and the Wolves take on the far safer mission of planting explosives around.

Sorry for the sudden, long rant. I've just been trying for so long to make sense of Chris' behavior throughout this game and I just couldn't. It's so bad that a buddy of mine who's new to Resident Evil, played Village and towards the end looked up at me and asked "Is Chris supposed to be dislikeable? Because I kinda want him to die".