Questionable as her ever admitting it is, Chloe knows monstrous. Malcolm doesn't fit into that category. Not in the slightest. Disappointment or being horrified aren't present at all. Just a sadness for what he's had to go through, and a simmering anger at the world for making someone like him experience something like that.

"It sounds like you were both trying to protect the people you love." She almost says that the fact he couldn't shoot is very telling of the person Malcolm is, but she doesn't want to make any implications about Ainsley. "People will go to all sorts of lengths to do that. If you were a terrible person... Well, I don't think you'd be feeling the way you are now." Nor would a zombie of the past be rising from the grave to haunt him.