"Yeah, but..." Alec has a point. And he knows it's gonna sound like the same sort of whining he did when Ned was reluctant to turn off the Training Wheel Protocol. "...I mean, can't we just act like we normally do, in the real world, instead of just beating on machines or something?"

Peter has apparently failed to grasp that Alec might actually be one of those people who does smash in candy machines in the real world.

Peter pulls up his cell phone in one hand to check the wires based on the photo, shoves it into his pocket, and then reconnects the first of them. He's thankful he remembered to take a photo first.

"You didn't answer my question, though," he says, snapping the final one back into place. "Did you see something I didn't?"