Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

TOMMY
That was the way they prepared things for the landing. They sent four people. A mother and a father and two kids who looked just like humans . . . but they weren't.

There's another silence as Steve looks toward the crowd and then toward Tommy. He wears a tight grin.

Based on the stage direction, the reader should visualize Steve as

mocking the crowd’s fear.
trying to scare the crowd.
mocking Tommy’s ideas.
trying to hide his fear.