I just realized about me and movieverse Horatio and apologies. It's another one of those externalization things.

In bookverse, he beats himself up about his inadequacies. In movie verse, he has to, you know, talk about them to someone cause it's a movie and we don't get to read his mind.

But, yeah. He's sorry. Sorriest goddamned thing ever, but that doesn't mean he'll change.