Return value in a called method

I know it's a trivial question, but could somebody explain to me why does the return view('some.view'); not get executed? Instead, the return redirect does.

I'm using Laravel 5.1.

In a controller i got two methods:

public function change(Request $request){

    if($request->edit === 'Edit')
    {
        $this->edit($request);
    }
    return redirect('to-route');
}

public function edit(Request $request){
    return view('some.view');
}

I understand that the edit() method should execute and then it continue his work in the change() method, but why does it ignore the return?

via Chebli Mohamed