User blog comment:Neowitch/Brain Pie and Living Man's Chest/@comment-22857866-20120416121504/@comment-4493594-20120416125300

I'd say he would if he could. He said he needed Smoker and the other marines to die. And they were inside his "room", in which he has control about pretty much everything. Why didn't he kill them on the spot? My theory is: because he can't. He needs to make them unable to fight, then disperse the "room" and THEN he can kill them.