Keep them engaged, sure, that could work, as long as there was a reasonable end point where they didn't have to be engaged anymore, which Tony doubted was magically working itself out on their behalf. His focus quickly skipped through the crowd, clearly trying to figure out what to make of them, and how seriously they should be taken, and it might have been the last good moment for Tony to take advantage of that focus and ask, "Has anyone seen Hedda? We're looking for her." Announcing their intentions like that was definitely going to make things worse if she also turned up dead now. The evidence was mounting. But cutting down on the search time right now felt more valuable.

"She's with the Captain," a familiar voice supplied, sneering and narrow-eyed. The other woman that the socialite had been scrapping with on the dock.