"What're you gonna do, ask him nicely to please let you go? Ha!"

He assumes that anyone who'd hold people hostage and torment them is like the bastard he already dealt with, and all he can think of is how many times The Grabber gave him false hope only to take it away.

And he was desperate, so he fell for it every time.

"Yeah, well, they're wasting their fucking time if they do. I'm a ghost. I'm here to get revenge and then go to hell or wherever you end up."