Old Steve nods his agreement at the assertion that Clint deserves to have some good luck. When Verity can't smile about registration, he isn't bothered--he can't smile about it, either, and he's not the sort of man who expects women to smile through everything. "You said you registered right away? That explains it: early on, Tony wanted heavy hitters and media darlings, people he could trot in front of a camera to show how safe the program was making people. You didn't want power or fame, and average people probably wouldn't have been comforted by the idea that any communication they might ever have made could be reviewed by you and deemed true or false in a second. You'd have been someone to keep away from the cameras if you'd wanted on a team."