If there's something very clear to Max, it is the fact that his past is haunting him. And as much as he has gotten used to filtering out the bad things he had done, the crimes that he had cleaned up and the people framed and now paying for his crimes, serving life sentences in prison, he can't get away from his karma.
The moment he cocked the gun, he signed up for death. At least, this time, he's going to kill to protect the people that he loves and not to prove himself worthy to someone, or to stay on the safe side for the government cooperation that had enslaved him ten years ago.
There are so many things about him that are just coming out to the open, so many things he had hidden and avoided all of these years, now it feels like he would have to keep running for the rest of his life and never care a lot about anyone. His love for Lola is his weakness, which is not a good thing, but he wishes his future would simply be what he imagined as a child.