they will keep abusing, beating and belittling him until one day, they are standing on laugh tale soil, faced with the sudden realization that they have, unexpectedly for themselves, fulfilled their great dream - one that they ran from, looking for refuge in a 'safe space' utopia where no one could remind them of their failures - of finding one piece.
courtesy to whom?
their captain.
then they will turn to him and look something like this: