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*** Someone says that about every villain ever; it doesn't actually mean he's had a psychotic episode and developed mental illness.
** He saw the people looking through the area at the beginning. If they had a warrant, there were people in the police department who knew it was stark. His only sane choices would be to admit to everything and hope not to get punished too badly, or take a car and run. Using the suit would mean that he'd be punished worse if they detain him, there'd be more police (and national guard) there if he tries to run, and he could get killed while in the suit. The thing isn't invincible, after all.
*** They would not need a warrant -- not only does Pepper have the authority to let them in the building<ref>The relevant case law is that ifwarrantless theconsent ownerto gives someonesearch a setcommercial ofproperty keyscan tobe agiven commercialby property,either thatthe isowner impliedor permissiontheir for'designated thatbusiness personagent'. toThat grantmeans otheranyone peoplewho the owner has given access tocontrol thatrights property.for Thesaid property search-and-seizure lawswhich doin notpractice requiremeans 'trusting them with a warrantcopy ifof the copskeys' are-- givenor consenthas tothe enterauthority andto searchspeak byin someonethe whoowner's hasname theon authoritybusiness tomatters grantcan accessdo so. SinceSeeing Pepperas nothow onlyPepper has Tony's keys butto the place, has alsobeen his confidential private secretary for years, and almost certainly holds at least a limited power-of-attorney, shefor canhim make(given SHIELD'sthat warrantlessshe searchsigns all of his financial and government paperwork without even bringing it to him, to the buildingpoint ashe legaldoesn't asknow churchhis onown Social Security number), she qualifies for this about three times Sundayover.</ref>, but Stark Industries is a major defense contractor involved in highly classified research projects. The US government has a lot of oversight in such situations.
** I also got another idea. Perhaps Stane was hoping that a sufficiently effective display of the Iron Monger suit might convince the government to ignore his indiscretions in favor of a steady supply of new power armors. You can bet that more than a few lawmakers and military personnel would take one look at that suit's abilities and consider sweeping Stane's crimes under the rug in exchange for the technology. The plan's batty, but then, so is Stane by that point.
*** Which is probably the only reason that this would work, seeing as the govenment officials wanted him for supplying weapons to the people they fight as well, a showing of the power he's willing to supply probably wouldn't get him any freedom. He'd have to be very batty to contemplate that. Though that would explain why he left that one guy alive at least. Very Very Batty.
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