You're right -- it's not farfetched for this place. Sometimes I forget that things I'd've considered impossible back home are completely possible here.

[Down to and including people causing earthquakes. He flips the page of his notebook and jots something else down.]

An intended victim. Interesting thought. Not an angle I'd considered, but I don't see why it couldn't be another possibility. The truth is, we have no idea what our captors want from us.