(Maximus posing as Knight Titus asks Thaddeus about what he thinks about Maximus...)

Thaddeus: Uh, to be honest, me and the other guys used to be pretty hard on him. Like, regularly beat the sh*t out of him. It wasn't personal, you know. It's just... well, you know, people at the base, they used to beat the sh*t out of me all the time. This shipment of new recruits came in, and, uh, one of them was Maximus. So I had this funny idea, what if we beat the sh*t out of that guy instead? And it worked. Yeah, I was really popular. It was great. I just wish he'd lived long enough to find someone else to beat up, you know? Only seems fair. I realize that, uh, people die all the time. It's the law of the Wasteland, so who cares, right? But still, uh, I feel bad.

Maximus: Don't feel bad. It's like you said, it's the law of the Wasteland.