[Billy squeezes Henrys shoulder lightly, offers him a half smile.]
Hey, I didn't mean I expected a confession, I just meant... [he pauses, then gives a small shrug.] If I was in a situation like that, I really don't know what I'd do. Where I'd go.
[He looks down a little]
I'm glad you weren't alone at least.
[And then, in a moment of brilliant and horrible clarity, for the first time Billy almost gets it. When Jim had been here Billy had hated him for goading West, for the possibility that he might hurt one person who he cared about. He was suddenly beginning to understand that when West talked about him killing "his men", that meant that for West, Jim had slaughtered the last human beings he'd ever known, ever tried to protect.
Without thinking about it, his grip on his friends shoulder has tightened considerably, and Billy is just sort of staring off into the middle distance. It's too late to want to kill him now, he's gone. It's pointless.
He looks down.]
Right. I mean, yeah, we don't have to talk about it if you don't want too.
Action!
Hey, I didn't mean I expected a confession, I just meant... [he pauses, then gives a small shrug.] If I was in a situation like that, I really don't know what I'd do. Where I'd go.
[He looks down a little]
I'm glad you weren't alone at least.
[And then, in a moment of brilliant and horrible clarity, for the first time Billy almost gets it. When Jim had been here Billy had hated him for goading West, for the possibility that he might hurt one person who he cared about. He was suddenly beginning to understand that when West talked about him killing "his men", that meant that for West, Jim had slaughtered the last human beings he'd ever known, ever tried to protect.
Without thinking about it, his grip on his friends shoulder has tightened considerably, and Billy is just sort of staring off into the middle distance. It's too late to want to kill him now, he's gone. It's pointless.
He looks down.]
Right. I mean, yeah, we don't have to talk about it if you don't want too.