So… Danny has found out that one of
the people that he trusts implicitly, Colleen Wing, is in fact a member of the
Hand evil Ninja cult. Considering the fact that Danny already has some major
trust issues, and for the last fifteen years he’d been trained to DESTROY the
Hand, you can understand him freaking out. And if that wasn’t enough, the wound
on Danny’s side that Bakudo gave him isn’t getting any better.
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| Fighting a dragon feels like a ton of work to get a tattoo, a glowing hand, and eternal guard duty. |
This time, we open to a flashback.
In said flashback, Davos comes across Danny just after facing off against
Shao-Lao. Shao-Lao, for those just joining us, is an ancient Dragon, whom a
warrior must defeat to claim the title of Iron First. And, no, we’ve yet to see
the dragon. Danny had defeated the magic dragon, and claimed the Iron Fist. I
wonder if anyone let him know that he’d get Shao-Lao’s mark burned into his
chest. Davos helps him to his feet, claims that he’ll be Danny’s second, and
the two prep to perform their duties. Which, personally, makes me wonder why
Davos just gets to do that. The lead Guardian has to fight a dragon, but his
immediate #2 just… get’s to be it? Don’t get me wrong, Davos is one of
K’un-Lun’s best, I just find it odd he doesn’t have to perform a test of his
own. Weird.
In the present, Danny is still
reeling from Colleen’s apparent betrayal and being stabbed by Bakudo, another
leader of the Hand. Danny tries to access his powers, but unfortunately his chi
is still out of balance after everything that’d happened. Davos wants to return
to K’un-Lun, partially to force Danny to do his flipping job, and partially to
get the elders to use their powers to realign Danny’s chi. Danny refuses to
leave, though, because his desire to destroy the Hand is rapidly growing out of
control. Davos is willing to help, on the condition that the moment things are
handled, they’ll return to K’un-Lun. Their first objective, though, is to patch
up the giant gaping wound in his side from Bakudo’s dagger.
Meanwhile, Colleen returns to her
dojo. It’s still pretty messed up from when the various Hand factions broke in
and kind of kidnapped them. She’s snuck up upon by Bakudo, who wants to know
why she ran off the previous night. Bakudo has decided that Danny’s a lost
cause, but Colleen still… hmmm if I’m feeling nice I’d call it naïve, but if I’m
being serious I’d call her stupid, so… Colleen is still naïve enough to believe
that she can sway Danny into believing that their Hand isn’t evil. Bakudo
demands that she drop it, and get back to finding Danny. Did anyone else get a
serious 90s TMNT Shredder vibe from Bakudo? Just me?
Danny and Davos arrive at Claire’s apartment
and convince her to patch up Danny’s wound. She’d going to start having to
charge Danny, Luke and Matt for medical expenses. After getting Davos to leave
them alone for a bit, Danny explains that Colleen is part of the Hand and what
had happened since he’d been taken. She finishes the patch job, and gives Danny
a shirt to replace the bloodied one he’d had. It was one of the bullet hole
riddled shirts that Luke Cage left behind.
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| The more I see these two together, the more I worry that Things will NOT end well. |
With the Meachum’s, Harold seems to
be slowly losing control of himself. He punches a punching-bag until his hands
start bleeding and the bag itself tears. He then goes to check on Joy. While he’d
been training, she’d been hacking the tablet that Danny had stolen from Madam
Gao’s assistant a couple episodes back. She’d discovered that there are a
number of Hand accounts in the Rand corporate machine, and while they’d been designed
to syphon money, they’d recently been redirected to transfer the funds to a
single account. They assume it’s Bakudo’s, which puts a smile on Harold’s face.
They’ve got some ammo.
While Danny is out trying to
refocus his chi, Claire and Davos chat. It’s clear that the foreign martial
artist is uncomfortable with the outside world, what sort of sane person
insults Pizza, and is eager to get back home. Claire gets a little more Iron Fist
background, namely the whole having to fight Shao-Lao thing, and that while
Davos clearly wanted the responsibility of being an Iron Fist, it’s a once in a
generation sort of thing. There can be no other Iron Fist until Danny dies. Their
discussion is interrupted when the Pizza arrives.
Outside, rather than finding the delivery
guy, she finds Colleen with said pizza. Colleen wants to talk, but Claire is
obviously more than a little hesitant to trust her right now. Two seasons of
Daredevil and most of Iron Fist have taught her that the Hand very rarely play
fair or nice. Colleen keeps trying to swing the bs that ‘That’s the other Hand,
my Hand is the good hand’ but Claire isn’t buying it. But she also realizes
that Danny’s hurting and needs to talk to her.
On top of a roof, Danny is
performing his meditative kata. Unfortunately, his various angry and bitter
emotions are keeping him from recharging his powers. He has a quick flashback
to when he and Davos were guarding the pass to K’un-Lun. While Davos is 100%
into the job, Danny is clearly not completely set on the idea of spending the
rest of his days guarding a mountain pass. He’s drawn from his reflections when
Colleen arrives. She begs him to listen, but Danny refuses. He’s seen enough of
the Hand to know that the group is bad news. Colleen leaves, but not before
apologizing for hurting him.
In Claire’s place, it becomes clear
that Davos has taken one too many blows to the head. He eats pizza for the
firsts time and only says its ‘not terrible.’ Head trauma is the only way I can explain such insanity. Danny comes in and tells the two
that he’s going to bring the tablet he stole back to Harold for him to search
through. Clarification, Danny has the physical tablet, while Harold had
downloaded all of the files to peruse at his leisure. While Claire doesn’t’ try
to stop them, she makes it clear that she’s not 100% okay with Danny’s fixation
on finishing off the Hand.
Colleen, across town, tries to make
amends with Danny. She’d been told that Claire was running out of antibiotics,
so goes to a former student that’s working at a hospital. She tries to get some
antibiotics, but, in the end is captured by the Hand. The student ratted her
out.
Danny, along with Harold, Joy, and
Davos, meet and work out a strategy. It’s a pretty simple one, Joy will shut
down all of the accounts feeding into Bakudo’s. When he comes to Harold,
seeking vengeance, Danny and Davos will jump him and end this. Not the most
intricate plan, but hey, it could work.
At the Hand Compound, Colleen is
brought before Bakudo. He’s upset that she didn’t report back Danny’s location
and about the obvious insubordination. He’s done with the nice guy act, too, as
it’s clear that Colleen isn’t going to buy the kind Sensei act anymore. He has
her taken to a small lab, with the veiled remark that she’ll still contribute
to the Hand. Not sure if they’re going to just drain her of blood, or perhaps
turn her into one of the Hand’s zombie Ninja, but Colleen’s not having it. She
is able to smack around a few former students, escape her bonds and make a run
for it.
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| Davos, you're watching you buddy reconcile with his gf that works for evil Ninja. That's several types of creepy. |
Outside, Danny and Davos stake out
the place. While they wait, Danny explains why he decided to leave K’un-Lun.
Namely, he was wondering if it was right to just guard the pass for his entire
life, and when he asked for a sign, he saw a bird fly through the mountains.
This being a subtle sign that the passage between K’un-Lun and normal space had
been opened. He set off that day. Davos also reveals that he’d been harboring a
lot of anger against Danny of late, for taking Davos’ supposed birthright as the
Iron Fist, and then abandoning them with it. Can’t say I blame him. They’re
interrupted by seeing Colleen flee. Danny catches up to her and the two seem to
reconcile slightly as rain falls around them.
This series should have started in
K’un-Lun. Heck, it should have started right where this episode did, with Danny
getting the mark of Shao-Lao emblazoned upon his chest. The first four episodes
could have been him learning about the duties of the Iron Fist in the city,
episode five could have been him coming to America, six reclaiming Rand, and
then the remainder of the series fighting the Hand in New York. Is that
timeline perfect, no, but it’s a better use of time then the episodes we got.
Davos is a much more interesting character then most of the folks Danny has
dealt with. He’s a legacy warrior, from a line of warriors, that missed out on
the greatest honor his people can bestow, to his best friend, for unknown
reasons. Seeing that alone could have made up an entire season, with Davos
doing his best to support his friend and also see the ill will he feels slowly
build up over time. Just saying. Colleen is a little insufferable of late. I
can understand why she’s loyal to the Hand, it’s a group she’s been a part of
for years, and she’d mostly only seen the ‘good will’ that Bakudo performed. But,
seriously, I can only take so much BS about ‘yeah we’re the Hand but not THAT
Hand.” Claire gets it right on the head when she points out that, if they were
all that different from Madam Gao’s version of the Hand, why not change the
name? Keeping it implies that while methodology is different, their goals are
obviously the same. Colleen, you’re smart enough to see that, aren’t you? Danny’s
inner turmoil is good too. It feels a lot like what he dealt with in the early
episodes, when he was drugged out of his mind and unable to call upon his
powers, but done slightly better. It’s one thing to lost your abilities because
of drugs, it’s something else entirely when it looks like you’ve straight up lost
your powers. Where was this stuff six episodes ago? Well, that’s eleven down,
two to go. Have a good night everybody.
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