[He smiles and ducks his head, missing a hat to tip but trying to compensate with a cordial greeting nonetheless.]

I was wondering if you have seen a gentleman, by the name of 'Malcolm Bright'. He is approximately this tall, [Doc gestures with his hand.] quite a friendly and social and chatty fellow.

I... [Doc has a rolodex of increasingly farfetched excuses for Malcolm's... eccentricity by now, and he's always blaming something he had mistakenly done in the morning for Malcolm's outbursts or skittishness whenever he encounters someone new.] Dissolved my medication this morning into a glass he accidentally drank from. He may be a little... acting a little frantic.