hahaha Frank's holding Matt at gunpoint when Matt blurts it out frantically, because it's a long shot but if this owner hates his other owners maybe he'll be happy to hear Matt hated at least one of them too?

And then after that confession pleases his owner, maybe Matt tries to give a whole itemized list of Disobediences That Were Never Punished (except by himself)--maybe once he kept an alcoholic owner drunk at an event so he could convince her her order to have him beat a baby slave to death never happened, maybe he fucked with an overseer so thoroughly the overseer attacked Matt in full view of the owner, who promptly sold him off, because the overseer pressured/raped the other slaves?

And the whole time Frank is calming down Matt's abasing himself more and more because in his experience that's the only thing to calm an owner down for sure, but all it does is make Frank angry as fuck like, who did this to you kid???