Carrying out justice against those who think they can harm others and get away with it, evidently, is quite possible here. So please do not insult my life's mission.

Now then, wouldn't such an important task be worth fighting to return to? We've been focused on the provided incentive as a motivation, to the point of ignoring the obvious one: we've been here for nearly a week already. Someone may have simply grown desperate, or given up on escaping any other way, and acted however they deemed necessary to return to what was truly important to them.