If it's together, then Price is a better actor than I want to give him credit for. [But... yeah. Blaze hadn't seemed to be all that great after everything had wrapped up.] He might be on a time limit. We're being goaded into doing what he wants, and he isn't pulling his punches.

The lack of food, threatening homes; he's going right for obvious mental and physical weak spots in the hope we'll take the bait.