Vasquez keeps nursing his liquor while he waits out Billy's silence, genuinely thinking that maybe it's something that he's going to have to get used to, because he's not used to silence. He likes noise, chatter, which had been why it had been so good to have Faraday always chattering in his ear.

This silence is new, and when he does speak, it's heartbreaking, in a way that he's not sure how to deal with. "So you believe in him and wish for him. At least he has someone like that. Most people in the world, they don't have that. He's lucky."