Tybalt takes a few sprinting steps toward the retreating cultists, hand on his lighter, but everything stops, and he remembers, too, that he can't do anything to save Lionel Qualls now. Not knowing what else to do, he again resorts to following at Claudia's ankles, very lost-puppy. "...Did we save him?"

That's what happens, right? They go into memories, they pluck the golden shit out , the person got freed. That's how it's worked all night.
But what is there to free, now?