He made his choice. He did not have to kill her. He woke with her and a baton. That woman wouldn't have killed him, I do not think. She truly did want to protect all of us, though she was foolish about it.

They could have sat and waited for morning. Instead, he killed her. It's one thing to do that, but I didn't care for his rhetoric. He saw himself as a "hero" at the end.