Maybe... he did seem to think that Judy would shock him if he tried to tell us anything about the others, though.

[She rolls her eyes.]

Which isn't an excuse. If he thought he was going to be dying anyway... I wonder if there's some kind of a difference between what happens to you if you die by being shocked as opposed to being killed some other way? He did seem to think there was something waiting for him after he died.

Or maybe it as just a front and he knew that the Overseer wasn't actually going to let me kill him all along.