Well, even he's not going to play all his cards right away, so to speak.

If the cause of death is relevant, and one of them died at the hands of an external force... are we here to stop that from happening again, at least in part? The internal disputes thing tallies with what got said about the trump conflict we were in the middle of on the Grid - 'I don't want to take you out of the game the other way.'

They trapped Hermit instead of killing him outright.