Are you kidding me?!

In one of the Texas Rangers radio show episodes, Jase Pearson and his fellow Ranger trail and escaped prisoner into hilly country. They meet a Mexican man who tells them that the stranger is sleeping in his hut, but that his wife and children are there with him. He says, "Ranger, I'm scared." Pearson replies, "Nothing to be scared of; just do what we tell you." Now there is a brilliant statement: your wife and children trapped in a building with an armed escaped convict, and there is nothing to be scared of? (Then again, I guess he knew how the plot was written.)