can't take them, pashtun culture, if they ask for assistance from the village, they give it no matter what, to the death. that's their thing. i didn't know that at the time, i wish i did, would have made the time out there easier, but that's what was happening. he was negotiating money, jewels, whole nine yards to give me up, and the owner wouldn't do it, and then that's when three guys grabbed me, took me to the cave. >> they were pledged to defend you to their own death. >> to the death. >> because of tribal law. >> a member in the village. >> there was no, you know, in briefings about afghanistan and the culture, just hasn't come up? >> maybe i was asleep. [laughter] to be honest with you, i didn't care about the people, okay? in my mind, it was just like, hey, these came over and wrecked my, you know, new york. i was there for one purpose, and that may sound bad, but i was a special operator, one thing on the mind, and that was to go there and make it right. you can only imagine the conundrum i went through when the people i was there, mistreating, you know, now they saved my life