Fareastdriver (your #8932),
...He may well look into the eyes of somebody and then kills him...
As Kipling put it: "
Where is the sense of 'ating those / 'Oom you are paid to kill ?" (Notice how Kipling's rough soldier uses correct English grammar. To the day of his death, my father, educated to the age of 12 (?) in some Victorian Army Cantonment, wrote beautiful copperplate script which put my handwriting to shame).
...Does he really want to escape and return to that?...
ISTR that was irrelevant - it was your
duty to escape if you could.
Danny.