...Of course. [he is reaching the limits of 'i don't know what that is and by now i'm afraid to ask', kip]

I feel perhaps I should extend some minor apology to you. Even though I've no doubt you and your assistant are at minimum complicit in this grand kidnapping and potential bloodbath of a farcical and twisted series of events, and though I also find myself convinced the two of you are waiting for one of us to snap and start throttling one another, perhaps it was a slight overreaction to attempt cutting off one of your arms within scarcely a few minutes of our meeting.

Just slightly.