"Thanks," he smiles. He always had a soft spot for Penelope.
The smile grows wider, as it does every time he remembers he's actually getting out of here at last. "Out to the stars with Ianto," he says, gesturing skywards as if the sky here were actually real. "And Spike too, if he'll come."
He sobers then, as he realises: "If you're going home, doesn't that mean you'll be going right back to - you know." To Maeve and all the horror of that.