"If that's the case, then you probably shouldn't be hanging out in a room with him, huh?"

He might have listened to Ross – begrudgingly – about the Accords, but Tony's patience with the Secretary of State begins and ends there. "I'm telling this man – Sergeant Barnes – was a prisoner of HYDRA all those years and forced into compliance against his will."

He hopes like hell Steve doesn't lose his head and mention something about the activation sequence – the fewer people who know about that, especially in positions of power within the government – the better.