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Scene change. Driving it home, fading into workshop]

Tony: Jarvis, could you kindly Vac-U-Form a digital wire frame? I need a manipulatable projection.

Jarvis: 1974 Stark Expo model scan complete, sir.

Tony: [Lifting the blue projection away from the model] How many buildings are there?

Jarvis: Am I to include the Belgium waffle stands?

Tony: That was rhetorical. Just show me. [Clicks his fingers and the model begins to spin and lifts upright] What does that look like to you Jarvis? Not unlike an atom. In which case the nucleus would be here. Highlight the unisphere. Lose the footpaths. Get rid of them.

Jarvis: What is it you're trying to achieve, sir?

Tony: I'm discovering... Correction. I'm rediscovering a new element, I believe. Lose the landscaping, the shrubbery, the trees. [Tony flicks things away] Parking lots, exits, entrances. Structure the protons and the neutrons using the pavilions as a framework. Dad. [The model now resembles a nucleus and Tony expands it.] Dead for almost 20 years, and still taking me to school. [Tony snaps down so the model fits in his hand]

Jarvis: The proposed element should serve as a viable replacement for palladium.

Tony: Thank Dad.

Jarvis: Unfortunately, it is impossible to synthesise.

Tony: Get ready for a major remodel, fellas. We're back in hardware mode.

[Smashing walls with sledge hammers, drilling holes in the floor, fiddling with wires, putting together pipes.

Agent Coulson enters]

Agent Coulson: I heard you broke the perimeter.

Tony: Yeah. That was, like, three years ago. Where have you been?

Agent Coulson: I was doing some stuff.

Tony: Yeah, well, me too and it worked. Hey, I'm playing for the home team Coulson, you and all your Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Now, are you gonna let me work or break my balls?

Agent Coulson: [Pulls a familiar looking object out of a box] What's this doing here?

"Is that my shield?"

"Maybe a prototype that my old man did, Rogers."

"Yeah, probably."

Tony: That's it. Bring that to me.

Agent Coulson: You know what this is?

Tony: [As Agent Coulson hands it to him] It's exactly what I need to make this work. Lift the coil. Go, go. Put your knees into it. There you go. And... Drop it. Drop it. [The shield is now in position and the coil straight.] Perfectly level. I'm busy. What do you want?

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