Of course, smashing a guard in the face with a basketball could also put a completely different target on his head, but he doesn’t look worried.
Keeping quiet in jail is definitely his best bet, since blabbing about the “business” will only put a target on his head.
The clip above obviously takes place in the interim between Tom’s fall from morally ambiguous grace and his potential rise to morally ambiguous glory, and it’s clear that Bean’s badass is mixed up with some powerful people.