Bakuto and Colleen help Danny to get his bearings, while Rand undergoes a shakeup.
- Affably Evil: Bakuto is friendly, open, and polite, but is also strict, merciless, and working towards the same ultimate goal as the rest of the Hand. There's some Pragmatic Villainy in there as well; he finds kindness is rewarded with far more loyalty than fear.
- Asshole Victim: Averted with Lawrence Wilkins, who has been a disrespectful Jerkass but whose death shocks the board nonetheless. Even Joy seems shaken.
- Awful Truth: Danny finds out from Madame Gao that Colleen, her students and Bakuto are members of another faction of the Hand.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Danny and Davos while fighting Hand soldiers before the gate.
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Joy says she always felt that her father was watching over her, and he was...conspiring and manipulating them behind the scenes.
- Benevolent Boss: One aspect that sets Bakuto very far apart from Madame Gao is that he doesn't dispose of people who get defeated in battle, but nurses them back to health, as seen with Darryl.Bakuto: I think you'll find I'm much more easygoing than Gao. You see, she leads through fear. I find partnership to be a much more effective method.
- Big Damn Heroes: Davos appears just in time to help Danny escape the Hand.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Harold does away with Lawrence.
- Brought Down to Badass: Danny's access to his chi is cut off by his rage and confusion, but he can still fend off an army of Hand ninjas with ease.
- Call-Back: Harold's speech in the first episode about rewarding subordinates and ensuring their loyalty mirrors Bakuto's ideology, illustrated in this episode on how he commands the Hand, but the difference is that Bakuto actually means it.
- Cult:
- Danny identifies Bakuto's group as a cult early on, but Bakuto brushes it off by saying they're little different than the Girl Scouts. Of course, his comparison falls flat since the Girl Scouts don't have armed guards, strict curfews, and massive surveillance networks.
- Colleen claims that K'un-L'un has brainwashed Danny into seeing the Hand as pure evil. While she does have a point and Danny's training would be considered at least child abuse in any modern culture, the Hand has been doing terrible things for centuries. It's not like K'un-L'un just picked a random group to hate.
- Curbstomp Battle: Danny and Davos deal with the Hand soldiers quite easily, despite being badly outnumbered and Danny unable to even activate his fist. Appropriate, given that, as we learn, Davos was the next most capable fighter after Danny, and most of the people they're fighting are students.
- Cut Phone Lines: When Lawrence tries to call Security, Harold points out the phone system has been shut down because he's arranged for the computer system to undergo a routine rebooting.
- Dead Guy on Display: An unintentional case as Harold was attempting to hide the corpse, but it's shown he stashed Kyle's body in his glass-walled fernery.
- Dragon Ascendant: Bakuto is now taking over Gao's groups and associates, though with his own goals.
- Dramatic Shattering: As Joy keeps pushing back against Harold's attempt to have a friendly, celebratory drink, he's suddenly incredibly angry and throwing the bottle of expensive scotch on the floor.
- Enemy Civil War: Colleen claims that this is what is really going on, between Bakuto's peaceful faction of the Hand and Gao's more sinister faction. And as if that wasn't enough, Harold Meachum goes rogue and decides to throw his own cast in the fight against both Bakuto and Gao.
- Evil Makeover: Now that she is working with her father and has regained Rand through less than legal methods, Joy appears dressed all in black and with her hair pulled back.
- Exact Words: When Joy asks Harold if he had Lawrence killed, he can honestly answer that he didn't. Because he did it himself.
- Fatal Family Photo: Lawrence keeps a photo of his son on his desk. Harold looks at it for a bit prior to shooting Lawrence in the head.
- Foreshadowing: Danny's first conversation with Bakuto in this episode has both Colleen and Bakuto dressed in the Hand's traditional red and black motif. Subtly, so do most of the students and soldiers at the Academy.
- Good Is Not Nice: Turns out the guy who randomly assaulted the taco-truck guy then ... teased? him by throwing makeshift throwing stars at his head was Danny's childhood friend Davos.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Like when he offed Kyle with that ice cream scoop, Harold has a moment again when Joy refuses to share a drink with him, violently throwing the bottle to the ground.
- Hallway Fight: Danny and Davos fight their way through a narrow passage while in the Hand's compound. The cramped quarters allow the Hand members to briefly tackle them before they break free.
- Heel–Face Turn: Colleen seemingly breaks ties with the Hand, as she helps Danny and Davos escape.
- I Know You're Watching Me: Danny sneaks into the guarded building where Madame Gao is being held. There's a monitor showing the room she's imprisoned in, and the moment Danny sees it she stands up, walks over to the camera and speaks directly to him.
- Intimate Healing: Danny and Colleen's recovery involves them waking up in bed together in the Cold Open.
- Manipulative Bastard: Both Bakudo, who has an entire Cult following him, and Harold, who sways his daughter to his side.
- Mythology Gag: The Iron Fist from 1948 has an outfit that looks quite similar to Danny's iconic costume from the comics.
- Never Suicide: Harold kills Lawrence Wilkins and makes it look like he shot himself.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Colleen accuses K'un-L'un of brainwashing Danny as if they were a cult, just like the Hand. This is also symbolized in how Bakuto's appearance is similar to Danny's.
- Old Friend: Davos and Danny know each other from K'un-L'un and he is unhappy with Danny leaving them.
- Power Incontinence: Danny can't focus his power into his fist due to his anger and confusion disrupting his chi. As a result, it takes Colleen knocking out the guard and opening the gate for him and Davos to get out.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Bakuto's faction of the Hand, in a nutshell, acts less like a crime syndicate like Madame Gao's faction and more like a private college, where its members get along with each other extremely well and it's especially effective in drawing new members, specifically among the disenfranchised. When Daryl gets his leg broken by Davos while trying to stop him and Danny from escaping, Bakuto still commends him for his attempt and immediately orders for his injuries to be treated, whereas Gao would have likely executed him for his failure like what she did to Radovan's guard in Episode Five.
- The Reveal: Bakuto and Colleen are not part of some random group opposed to Madame Gao. They're a rival faction of the Hand.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- Colleen cuts and runs after helping Danny escape.
- Davos also reveals that Danny did this in the past, having randomly abandoned K'un-L'un in the middle of the night.
- Secret Test of Character: Bakuto baits Danny into investigating The Hand and lashing out at him.
- Sinister Surveillance: After Joy and Harold place a call to Danny's mobile phone, a transcript of the conversation is delivered to Bakuto, who has the call traced to Harold's location. Later Danny finds a basement filled with Ominous Multiple Screens of phone taps and live camera footage of everything from Colleen's dojo to the inside of Harold's apartment.
- Sociopathic Hero: Davos fights for K'un-L'un, but he is completely okay with slaughtering the Hand's Mooks or breaking Darryl's leg on his way out.
- So Happy Together: The episode opens with Danny and Colleen lying together on a sunlit bed, with Colleen's injuries fully cured. It ends with them estranged and on the run, with Danny severely injured.
- Tantrum Throwing: Danny trashes the Hand's surveillance room.
- Trespassing to Talk:
- Bakuto does this when he sneaks into Harold's penthouse to talk with him.
- Harold does this to surprise Lawrence Wilkins in his office, before killing him and making his death look like a suicide.
- Villains Never Lie: Madame Gao swears that she is acting like "her true self" toward Danny, implying that she is the only one Danny can trust.
- Wall of Weapons: Bakuto has framed weaponry on the walls of his office. Danny recognises one of them as a ceremonial dagger used by the Hand, which is why he's inclined to believe Gao.
- Was It All a Lie?: After Danny learns that Colleen is part of the Hand, he asks her if Bakuto ordered her to seduce him. She insists that's not the case, but he doesn't believe her.
- We Can Rule Together: The reasoning behind Bakuto helping Danny. He wants an Iron Fist working with him to lead the Hand.
- Wham Episode: Colleen, Bakuto, and their entire group are revealed to actually be a faction of the Hand opposed to Madame Gao's faction, Davos has come to bring Danny back to K'un-L'un, the Meachums (and Danny) have taken over Rand once again, and Danny can no longer access his chi.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Danny is not amused when he finds out that Colleen is with the Hand.
