Exercise 15, chapter 9 of O'Neill's "Semi-Riemannian geometry"

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I am stuck with the following exercise (exercise 15, chapter 9) in O'Neill's book on semi-Riemannian geometry:

"Let $M$ be a complete and connected semi-Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$. Show that the following statements are equivalent:

1) The isometry group of $M$ has dimension $n(n+1)/2$.

2) The algebra of Killing vector fields of $M$ has dimension $n(n+1)/2$.

3) Given any two points $p,q\in M$ and any linear isometry $\Lambda:T_pM\to T_q M$, there exists an isometry $\sigma:M\to M$ such that $\sigma(p)=q$ and $d\sigma_p=\Lambda$."

I have no problem in showing 1) $\Rightarrow$ 2) and 3) $\Rightarrow$ 1), but I cannot show 2) $\Rightarrow$ 3).

More specifically: given 2), it is clear to me that 3) with $p=q$ will hold whenever $\Lambda$ is connected to the identity, but I cannot see why it should hold also for $\Lambda$ not connected to the identity.

Any ideas?