You can have as many degrees as you want. That doesn't actually mean you know about someone. And it doesn't have anything to do with this situation, which is you asking me for under the table details. That is what you were doing.

[And it doesn't do anything to convince Steve that Sam isn't just needling him because he's not getting what he wants. The apologies come easily, right between all the justifications and arguments that he was right to do it and he deserved to know. For Tony's good, of course. Not because Sam was being pushy.]

You don't want anything? Then we're done here.

[He walks past him, continuing on his way now that Sam isn't blocking him physically.]