Regret is not what we're going for, Aerith. Not yet. That will come later.

[He tilts his head.]

That's hard for a lot of people to understand, and that's why, I think, my decision to keep the punishment light was unpopular.

Max gets a lot of his information from the television, from shows he's seen. He's trying to cobble together some sort of new life in the span of - less than a month.