Mitchell spies Ivan through the cafe window first, a visual that is disconcerting in a good and bad way at the same time. It affirms what everyone has told him, and also it's good that Ivan is alive. Probably (see: this may or may not go well).

He does hesitate a minute by the table before taking a seat, then says, "Complete this sentence: out on the wiley, windy moors." He's only half-joking.