Oh, hey, c'mon. [His tone is reassuring, and it catches even him off-guard. So quick to fall back into comforting him, when this is only their second conversation after Thomas confessed to aiding and abetting a serial killer?

...but. He deserves pity, if nothing else. Right? And it was brave, to just come out with something like that. Max tries to pick up the flow of what he was saying again.]

It would've been stupid for you to say something like that and then turn around and do it anyway. We'd all see right through that.