With a haughty sniff, Tony claimed, "Sounds like a lack of confidence in the premise." See, he was right, Gladio thought it was a bad idea, too. Tony was full of those. The stairs here were probably not his worst idea, at least, because they had to go up to find the surface of this pool, and try looping back around to find themselves on top of the Deep End. "Honestly, listen, you were doing fine before I led you off the track, you had your kids and you were focusing their energy or whatever, you were already doing the important work that they appreciated."