Gene nods; he'd heard that, vaguely. They don't really give slaves CNN. But that seems to explain that.

"I'm sorry," he says, and it's not a perfunctory apology. Because he really does think that's horrible. Granted - horrible in a different way than what he'd been through, but still. He wouldn't have wished that on Tony, who, despite (because of?) the previous night's incident, is the most moral master Gene's ever had.