1. I think it's unintentional and to show he's rattled enough to lose his legendary 60 bpm heartbeat cool. If really intentional though, I guess it'd be the kind of detail he'd think helps him blend in the crowd as an everyday man ("guy's so clumsy and unsteady, he's hard to picture as an ice cold sharp shooter").
2. I took it to possibly mean one of four things:
1) She's afraid they'll come back and finish the job in an even more gruesome manner, and so needs assurance that the killer will take care of the problem...
2) She was afraid she might have told her aggressors about the whereabouts of the killer...
3) A hint that she wasn't raped. If I recall correctly, in the comics, an associate of the killer asks him if she was, and he more or less replies "Don't want to know. Didn't ask."...
4) It's a very astute psychological observation of what happens when you enter in a relationship with a soul-obliterating psychopath like the killer, as described in Fincher's fantastic series 'Mindhunter': "When we empathise with a psychopath, we actually negate the self. We deny our own beliefs about decency and humanity, and that can be very dangerous." When the girl speaks next to the killer, even though she's been the victim of a brutal assault, she totally downplays her own traumatic experience (and his responsibility in setting it in motion and letting it happen) and is instead anxious to earn his approval ("you'd have been proud of me". "It could have been worse").
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