Moran stands silently, off to the side. He's never heard that one before, and when Tony reaches up to stroke Jim's hair -- probably out of some sort of personal amusement and little more -- he nearly shoots Tony Stark dead, then and there. But Jim moves into his line of fire, and Sebastian knows that what Tony said was true.

Moran is a genius, but he's not on par with these two.

He's here for backup, as a pet, to do the heavy lifting, but this is a meeting of the minds more than bodies.

And Tony seems to be considering it very hard, the answer to Moriarty's question.

"If you could threaten to take away who I am, what I'm able to do, my very mind--. But yanno, that'd defeat the purpose really. Neuter me and no more anything."