Angel's still smiling. Rather than reply to the side commentary, he carries on with the story.
"So when we met up with Collins' friends, we found out their landlord wanted them to pay a year's worth of rent all at once. Their landlord used to live in the building with them, and promised them they wouldn't have to worry about rent when he bought the building. He wanted to turn the place into... some kind of recording studio thing, I still don't know all the details. Or why he wanted money from them, really - he married rich, so it shouldn't have been that big of a thing." Angel shrugs.