Those who threaten with open-ended violence are not to be reasoned with. There must always be a cause for it. And if they are puppets on someone's strings, then they don't see any reason to give a cause. They believe in what they believe blindly, even if it goes against everything they knew before.

[Lexa worries about the escalation, because it may mean more than just their efforts being futile. It might mean that the Enemy is here and acting, and they are somehow ignorant to it all.]