"They're out there somewhere. I'm not convinced they're behind the Agrii, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were." A sigh, brief and frustrated. "If it is them, why haven't they put chips in all of you?"

Not that he'd ever get a satisfactory answer to that question, or ever be free of his own.

"And there it is," he murmured, focusing his attention on Tony again. "You could've led with that and avoided all this mess. Yes, that was a fairly standard issue weapon. Yes, I know how to use and maintain it, though that particular specimen is too much a victim of its time in the lake. So yes, evidence that at one point the Atroma were likely here. And let me guess," he continued, connecting the dots to Tony's earlier questioning, "you want to get the attention of someone other than the Agrii?"