If it makes you feel better this guy was an asshole. A mugger.
[He probably shouldn't have rushed into that, but he's been practicing the lie in his head the entire time he's been waiting, and he already looks uncomfortable. Chris doesn't need to know that he snapped and the poor guy obscured a few feet behind him just had the misfortune to be the first person he found. It's too late to change what he's done now and Chris doesn't need to feel even worse about what they need to do to survive. So he just takes a breath and hopes it doesn't sound as fake to him as it does his own ears.]
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[He probably shouldn't have rushed into that, but he's been practicing the lie in his head the entire time he's been waiting, and he already looks uncomfortable. Chris doesn't need to know that he snapped and the poor guy obscured a few feet behind him just had the misfortune to be the first person he found. It's too late to change what he's done now and Chris doesn't need to feel even worse about what they need to do to survive. So he just takes a breath and hopes it doesn't sound as fake to him as it does his own ears.]
He had a knife. He would've used it.