[Ah, regrettably, he agrees with this, tapping the marker on the board with Emphasis a bunch of times about it.]

That's what I've been saying! Or, you know— back then. We could have been out of here months ago if they just told us what they want us to do.

[And he does not mean because they'd have politely obeyed directives, of course. Maybe they would go on an elaborate closed-room adventure to escape only to find out that they were acting in the mastermind's real interest all along!! But that's not the point.]

Now it's probably too late for some of us. Not— I mean, like, they're not going to care that we've got names now, you know?