User blog comment:The Milkman/The Definitive Mass Effect Experience?/@comment-2250460-20121102224255/@comment-4220180-20121105165249

@Temporaryeditor78, remember, this is a videogame. Lots of times, the model won't have the item (in this case, a grenade) in it, but the story would say that he did. Kind of like how Shepard always shows up with a M8 Avenger or a M3 Predator in cutscenes, even if you didn't have that in your arsenal.