"So I can get the goddamn controls out of his head," Tony snaps at him. He's vibrating like a plucked string and can't seem to do anything about it, or about the shrill ringing in his ears, or the way his heart clutches in his chest.

"He's not going to be a ticking time bomb all his life, okay? Nothing like what -- it doesn't get to happen again. No more HYDRA. No more Zemos. No one's going to wind him up like a clockwork killer and set him loose on any more innocent people, you got me? It's not gonna happen."