[Apparently, it's more possible than they thought for L to have met Misa's mystery monster.]

I remember him touching a black notebook, and then he could see her. Rem.

[He tries out the name. Like a stage of sleep...? He doesn't understand, and it's just another troubling question atop a heap of many.]

It sounded like she wanted to help you. If not with your cause, then at least with your livelihood.