Just the right amount of awkwardness for Tony to look a little self-satisfied for making the Soldier slur through trying to backtrack, and while he didn't immediately keep testing that fracture then, the threat was definitely left on the table. Instead, his gaze darted like he might be able to see this chip if it was still there, or if it could still have that kind of control over the Soldier, and maybe Tony would be more attuned to spotting it in anyone else. Everyone else, really.

"So, if you were trying to get their attention," he proposed, very lightly and carefully, purely hypothetical, don't think too hard about it, "you'd have to be boring. Do nothing. That's what makes them intervene." That didn't seem quite right. The most obvious reactions that Tony had seen from their voyeurs was in very high pressure situations.