You said they put a pick to your friend's neck and threatened you. And they tried to capture you alive. It seems like... probably they didn't want to kill you, even if their intent was to get something out of you.

[He is never, ever, ever going to let her go. Never going to let anyone take her and do things to her like that again.]

If they wanted people alive, then... I don't think... they killed someone in front of you. Not like that, with the bear.