"I may have used the phrase 'evil bastard,'" Cal says, a touch ruefully. "He said something about it being a horrible way to go and how he wouldn't wish it on his worst enemy, and I just - I don't know. Didn't want him to worry about it, I guess."

Didn't want him digging any deeper into Obadiah Stane's life. Wanted him to forget the whole thing had ever happened so that Cal wouldn't have to worry about him knowing. Wanted to point out that Stane was, in fact, someone's worst enemy.

Wanted to say out loud that he'd deserved it, and Sherlock hadn't been there to say it to.