No, you shouldn't have, Vic McQueen. They had some sort of psychic control over you - I've been watching them do it to others.

[in his defense he didn't understand what he was seeing right away, but space is full of mind controlling aliens so it wasn't hard to reason out. He's going to keep hold of her until she seems back in her right mind as well to make sure she doesn't either head right back to the chasm or worse, to those little psychic shits.]

If you'd have given them what they wanted they would have asked for something else until you had nothing left.