A pinch like beating someone's skull in? Like shooting them in the head.

[He's surprised to hear a slight tremor in his voice; he expects himself to have more control than that. As much as he wants to think he's misunderstood something here, being in denial is not going to help things at all.]

Are you even listening to yourself? Can't you see that something is wrong here? If you "pinch" me, I am not going to wake up. I am going to be dead.

Whatever's been done to you can be fixed. There are doctors, we can...but I can't do any of those things if I'm dead.