You in post 6: If he is their guy, why hustle him off to jail in the middle of the night? & why would he play along?
Me in post 18: You want to live?
The meaning is THEY THREATENED HIS LIFE.
And as far as “attack mode”, you have got to be kidding. Asking 1 question is attack mode?
Usually when you ask somebody if they want to live, it’s a not too thinly veiled death threat. Explaining it is all well & good, but you didn’t say they threatened the filmmaker. You asked *me* if *I* wanted to live. As I said, it creeped me out. It still does.