Story highlights Driver provides his account of Boston-area carjacking 
 
 He details behavior of the Tsarnaev brothers 
 
 Older brother asked Danny about his heritage 
 
 Incident followed Boston Marathon bombings 
 
 During the 90-minute ride of terror, Tamerlan Tsarnaev kept talking. 
 
 He barked out orders, detailed his hatred of Americans and asked his carjacking victim to remain calm. 
 
 Tsarnaev kept asking about the 26-year-old driver's heritage and family. 
 
 "If you cooperate, I won't kill you," said Tsarnaev, who, along with his younger brother, was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings and the killing of a police officer. 
 
 The Massachusetts driver, whom CNN is identifying only as Danny because of privacy and safety concerns, gave his account of the April 18 incident and described the very different behavior of Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar. 
 
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 While the talkative Tamerlan was the ringleader during the carjacking, the quiet Dzhokhar responded to multiple orders, such as getting money from an ATM. 
 
 The only question Dzhokhar asked was how much Danny paid for his Mercedes SUV. 
 
 After the Chinese entrepreneur eventually escaped, police caught up with the brothers and engaged in a gun battle that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead. 
 
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 Dzhokhar, wounded, was found later and is in police custody. 
 
 Hours after authorities released images of the two bombing suspects, the brothers spontaneously decided to go to New York's Times Square to blow up their six remaining explosives, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators. His account was outlined by New York's police commissioner. 
 
 Before forcing their way into Danny's vehicle three days after the bombings, the brothers fatally shot a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, police said. 
 
 Tamerlan Tsarnaev said right after he got in the vehicle that he was responsible for the bombings and the officer's death, according to Danny. 
 
 "This is like something you see in a movie, isn't it?" Tamerlan Tsarnaev said at one point during the carjacking. 
 
 Danny, who first spoke with The Boston Globe, gave CNN this account of the carjacking in a more than hourlong conversation off-camera. 
 
 -- Danny had stopped his vehicle to send a text when Tamerlan walked up and tapped on the window. The suspect, allegedly carrying a handgun, opened the door and got into the passenger seat. 
 
 -- Dzhokhar followed in another vehicle. 
 
 -- Under questioning by Tamerlan, Danny played up being Chinese and tried to humanize himself by talking about cell phones and family. Danny told CNN he felt being Chinese helped save his life. 
 
 -- Eventually, Dzhokhar abandoned his vehicle and the three rode in Danny's SUV. Tamerlan started driving, using back streets in the Boston area, trying to avoid police and searching for an open gas station. 
 
 -- Danny heard the word "Manhattan" at one point and thought the brothers were going to drive to New York, kill him on the way and dump his body under the bridge. 
 
 -- When they stopped to refuel at a Shell gas station, Danny managed to slip away. He could feel Tamerlan grab him and heard him yell an expletive. Danny ran to a Mobil gas station, where he told an employee there what happened. 
 
 Danny told CNN the fact that his car was low on gas helped save his life. 
 
 During the carjacking, Danny thought about a girl in New York whom he really liked. 
 
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 (CBS News) You are about to hear, for the first time, from a man who got caught up in the terror in Boston two weeks ago and helped bring it to an end. 
 
 An immigrant from China, he was carjacked by the suspects, but escaped and tipped off the police. 
 
 This 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur, who calls himself "Danny," had just pulled over in his new Mercedes on a Boston street to send a text message when a man jumped in. 
 
 (At left, watch "Danny" describe how the incident began) 
 
 In his first television interview, he tells his story. At his request, CBS News is concealing his identity and has altered his voice. 
 
 "I thought it was just a robbery, you know?" Danny said. "He took out his gun, pointed to me. He told me that 'You know I am serious. Don't be stupid.'" 
 
 But Danny quickly learned it was more than just a robbery. 
 
 "He asked me a question, like, 'Do you know the Boston explosion on Monday?' I said, 'yes.' He said, you know, 'I did that. And I just killed a policeman in Cambridge.'" 
 
 (At left, "Danny" gives a detailed account of what happened in the car after the suspects took control.) 
 
 The gunman was Tamerlan Tsarneav. His younger brother, Dzhokhar, was trailing behind in another car. When they pulled over, the two suspects loaded the remaining bombs into the back of Danny's car. Tamerlan and his brother spoke to each other in Russian. 
 
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 Danny said he didn't understand much of their conversation. 
 
 "I only heard one word. It's Manhattan," he said. 
 
 "It seemed like they were going to New York because they asked me a lot of questions." 
 
 En route to a gas station, Danny's phone rang. It was his roommate, who wondered why he wasn't at home. Tamerlan pulled a gun out. 
 
 "If you don't want me to pick up the phone, I won't pick it up. I won't say anything," Danny remembers telling Tamerlan. "He told me that you have to answer the phone. But if you use any single world in Chinese, I will kill you." 
 
 When Danny's roommate heard him speaking in English, he responded in Chinese, saying "Why are you speaking in English? Are you okay?" 
 
 (At left, "Danny" describes how the Tsarnaev brothers threatened to kill him if he spoke Chinese on a phone call with his roommate.) 
 
 "I just told him I'm going to sleep over at a friend's place tonight," Danny said. "So after, I hang up the phone. Tamerlan was very happy. He said, 'Good job. Good boy.'" 
 
 Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev 
 
 At some point, he started thinking about his exit strategy. "I have a lot of things to do," he said he remembered thinking. "I have to unlock the door. I have to unfasten my seatbelt. I have to pull the handle on the door." 
 
 Finally, at a gas station Dzhokhar left the car to pay inside. Tamerlan was fiddling with the GPS. Danny knew this might be his last chance. 
 
 "I was counting," Danny said. "I was counting. I was just, 'one two, three, four.' And I just do it. And I did it. I can feel Tamerlan trying to grab me ... I was just running as fast as I can and I never look back." 
 
 (At left, "Danny" describes how he managed to get away.) 
 
 He ran across the street to a Mobil gas station, pleading with the clerk on duty to call 911. 
 
 "Car-jacking occurred at Rich & Shell, 1-0-0-1 Cambridge Street," the police scanner said. "The victim fled the car at the Mobil on Memorial Drive." 
 
 Danny said he doesn't think he's a hero. 
 
 "What I was doing was trying to save myself. The police, they are the hero. They exchange gunfire with the bad guys. I think they are the heroes." 
 
 Danny felt lucky to get out of it alive and in one piece. His car, the 2013 Mercedes SUV was not so lucky. Police used its GPS to track it to where they cornered the Tsarnaev brothers in the shootout. It sustained 32 bullet holes, so the Daimler Leasing Company says a month-and-a-half into the deal, Danny's car is a total loss. 
 
 You know what? He's okay with that.
– As the Boston carjacking victim known only as "Danny" continues to recount his story of what happened during his encounter with the Tsarnaev brothers, CNN has what might be the strangest detail of all. Danny says that while Tamerlan made threats, blustered about his hatred of Americans, and generally acted as ringleader, Dzhokhar asked only one question the whole time: He wanted to know how much Danny paid for the Mercedes SUV they were riding in. At another point, the Chinese immigrant tells CBS that his phone rang. "If you don't want me to pick up the phone, I won't pick it up," he told Tamerlan. "I won't say anything." Tamerlan "told me that you have to answer the phone. But if you use any single word in Chinese, I will kill you." Danny complied, and when he hung up Tamerlan said, "Good job. Good boy."