Nice to meet you. ...I'm lying, it's been extremely uncomfortable meeting you, but then I've always been a bit on the edgy side when someone says they want to pound me into the dirt. [ With the tone of someone being Kind and Indulgent: ] We can get past it.

[ He gestures to the board with his pen. ] How about we start splitting up these names and seeing if we can't track down the people who left the notes here?