Gene stops cold for a second, and when he looks back up at Tony his eyes are flinty.

"Over my dead body."

His tone is more savage than cold; it makes the statement less a sentiment and more a prophecy, making clear that the only way he's leaving here is on his terms and not without Tony, that he'll cling to Keeliai with bloodied fingernails on broken hands before he'd let anyone, anyone tear them apart.