*Eric looks a little frightened, Basil looks calmly at us*
Let's go meet them, Johnny
*we get out of the car and approach them*
Basil: "So you came."
What do you want?
Basil: "Follow me." *he leads us into the mall and to a rather crowded coffeeshop* "We can't do anything funny here without being spotted and the risk of being overheard is slim."