Leslie Bibb credited as playing...
Christine Everhart
- [last lines]
- Tony Stark: There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred on the freeway and the rooftop...
- Christine Everheart: I'm sorry, Mr. Stark, but do you honestly expect us to believe that that was a bodyguard in a suit that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that...
- Tony Stark: I know that it's confusing. It is one thing to question the official story, and another thing entirely to make wild accusations, or insinuate that I'm a superhero.
- Christine Everheart: I never said you were a superhero.
- Tony Stark: Didn't?
- Christine Everheart: Mmm-mmm.
- Tony Stark: Well, good, because that would be outlandish and, uh, fantastic. I'm just not the hero type. Clearly. With this laundry list of character defects, all the mistakes I've made, largely public.
- Rhodey: [whispers to Tony] Just stick to the cards, man.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, okay.
- [holds up his notes and pauses]
- Tony Stark: The truth is...
- [puts cards down]
- Tony Stark: I am Iron Man.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [after Stark's one night stand with Christine] I have your clothes here; they've been dry cleaned and pressed. And there's a car waiting for you outside that will take you anywhere you'd like to go.
- Christine Everheart: You must be the famous Pepper Potts.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: [smiles and nods] Indeed I am.
- Christine Everheart: After all these years, Tony still has you picking up the dry cleaning.
- Virginia 'Pepper' Potts: I do anything and everything Mr. Stark requires. Including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?
- Christine Everheart: Mr. Stark! Christine Everheart, Vanity Fair magazine. Can I ask you a couple of questions?
- Hogan: [whispers to Stark] She's cute.
- Tony Stark: [whispers to Hogan] She's alright.
- [turns around]
- Tony Stark: Hi!
- Christine Everheart: Hi.
- Tony Stark: Yeah. Okay, go.
- Christine Everheart: You've been called the Da Vinci of our time. What do you say to that?
- Tony Stark: Absolutely ridiculous. I don't paint.
- Christine Everheart: And what do you say to your other nickname, the Merchant of Death?
- Tony Stark: That's not bad. Let me guess... Berkeley?
- Christine Everheart: Brown, actually.
- Tony Stark: Well, Ms. Brown. It's an imperfect world, but it's the only one we got. I guarantee you the day weapons are no longer needed to keep the peace, I'll start making bricks and beams for baby hospitals.
- Christine Everheart: Rehearse that much?
- Tony Stark: Every night in front of the mirror before bedtime.
- Christine Everheart: I can see that.
- Tony Stark: I'd like to show you firsthand.
- Christine Everheart: [exasperated] All I'm looking for is a straight answer.
- Tony Stark: OK, here's a straight answer. My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
- Christine Everheart: That's a great line, coming from a guy selling the sticks.
- Tony Stark: My father helped defeat Nazis. He worked on the Manhattan Project. A lot of people, including your professors at Brown, would call that being a hero.
- Christine Everheart: And a lot of people would also call that war-profiteering.
- Tony Stark: Tell me,
- [removing his shades]
- Tony Stark: do you plan to report on the millions we've saved by advancing medical technology or kept from starvation with our intelli-crops? All those breakthroughs, military funding, honey.
- Christine Everheart: Have you ever lost an hour of sleep in your life?
- Tony Stark: I'd be prepared to lose a few with you.
- Christine Everheart: [at the Firefighter's Family Fund Benefit] Well, Tony Stark!
- Tony Stark: [awkwardly] Oh, hey.
- Christine Everheart: Fancy seeing you here.
- Tony Stark: [tries to remember] Carrie.
- Christine Everheart: Christine.
- Tony Stark: That's right.
- Christine Everheart: You have a lot of nerve showing up here tonight. Can I at least get a reaction from you?
- Tony Stark: Panic. I would say panic is my reaction.
- Christine Everheart: I was referring to your company's involvement in this latest atrocity.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, they just put my name on the invitation, I don't know what to tell you.
- [Everhart shows Stark some photos]
- Christine Everheart: [disgusted at Stark's evident hypocrisy] Is this what you call accountability?
- [Stark looks at photos of Stark Industries weapons in Afghanistan]
- Tony Stark: When were these taken?
- Christine Everheart: Yesterday.
- Tony Stark: I didn't authorize this.
- Christine Everheart: Well, your company did.
- Tony Stark: Well I'm not my company!