Jesse looked up as not one, but two, new people wandered in and sat by him. Both of them looked fairly upset, and both of them ordered hard alcohol. He could assume, then, that they'd both had somebody they cared for die recently.
It just made him more irritated at the idea that he couldn't do anything at all.
"Sorry for your loss." He said to the woman first. She looked far more distraught than the man did.
Then he turned to the man and repeated the words, lifting his drink in a silent salute.