Just pretend like your character is coming back from some difficult dangerous journey. You don't have to detail the journey itself, just pretend like you're coming back, and it was hard, but you finally got the object.
That's what I did, because Marv and the rest are ready to move on with the story.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)