Oh, Christ. [ a small laugh -- perhaps the first of the evening. and she drinks a little more and shakes her head and confirms exactly what jemma suspects. ]

Stark's private vaults got cracked, about a year ago, and some truly ghastly technology started hitting the black market. Things dangerous enough to convince just about every bureaucrat in Washington that Stark must have set the whole thing up so he could sell to America's enemies.

[ peggy can talk about it now with a touch of levity, even though at the time things had gotten...quite bad. ]

Hogwash, of course. But he had some truly terrifying stuff in those vaults. He called them his bad babies.