"Restarting history, at any rate, from the old world. Doin' it shiny and right this time." There's still a part of him that's a believer in Joe's words. He has to be, because otherwise...what was the point of all the killing?

"It. Uh. History's funny like that." Apparently. How else to explain him screwing up, cowering in the rig and wallowing in his loserdom and still seem, you know, a proper War Boy?