User blog comment:Dandywierdo/Did you kill Ralis or spare him during unearthed? dragonborn dlc./@comment-86.130.144.70-20140105013259

"What? No! You can't... I have his will on my side! He will command all of us!"

his response to punishment is that of disbelief as he says "I have "his" ('his' being the voices influencing him that told him to kill) will on my side"... so he is still under the influence of/acting for the voices and just acting dumb when his life is on the line.