[More answers would be good. Living with constant lack of knowledge was a bit difficult...]

Well, if you refused for too long you could get kicked out of the team and be revealed to the police... or punished some other way.

[He laugh, slightly.] I almost suffered their other punishments for quite different reasons, but I managed to escape so I don't know what they might really do. I do know it wouldn't be nice. They don't like lazy people or traitors.