And the thing is. Christine is there in the background when Tony charges out of the benefit to confront Obadiah after Christine show in the photos. Obadiah does a thing where he turns their backs to Christine and whispers in Tony's ear, but Tony is as open as can be about asking Obadiah right there, in public.

So. Yeah.

If anybody outside Tony's circle of, um, TWO PEOPLE HE TRUSTS is going to put together the fact that Tony's friend tried to rip his heart out, it's going to be Christine. I mean, guy double-deals, then goes on long-term vacation, like, two days later? Corporate battle at the very least, and if Christine is half as good as she's ballsy, she's going to want the paper trail that led that. And there is none. And maybe she'd buy that it wasn't some kind of connected thing because as much of a shit Tony Stark is, he's probably not going to have his partner killed in a plane crash. Is he?

But then, Tony is mixed up with this high profile Avengers thing? Sheeeeit.