[It kind of cheers him up, after the confusion of the mingled timelines and the alarming multitude of injections it took to correct them.]

I wasn't...doing what he did, you can rest assured of that. I appreciate the thought, but I fared well in that false future, all things considered. But what he did was born of pain. He just...handled it poorly. I should have stepped in to try to correct him sooner, before he could start-...

[Well. That.]

...Perhaps if he'd had more support from other immortals, he would have been different in the end.