History Recap / CobraKaiS3E6KingCobra

Amanda invites Armand Zakarian to dinner at the [=LaRusso=] home. Though he refuses to discuss business with a car salesman like Daniel, Amanda offers to pay him double the amount of Kreese's rent if he were to evict him from the Reseda property. Zakarian negotiates for triple the amount, to which Amanda agrees. However, Kreese refuses to leave, prompting Zakarian to bring in two of his brawny nephews to remove him by force.

As the [=LaRussos=] celebrate finally being rid of Kreese, Zakarian calls to tell them that the deal is off. Having easily defeated Zakarian's enforcers off screen, Kreese takes the phone and declares open season on both Miyagi-Do and the [=LaRusso=] family. At that moment, panic erupts at the dealership when a live snake is discovered on the showroom floor.

** Kreese declares "open season" on Daniel and his dojo after Zakarian fails to evict the Cobra Kai sensei, much like how he threatened to declare open season on Daniel and Miyagi if the former failed to attend the 1984 All-Valley Tournament.

** While it's shown off-screen, Kreese was able to easily defeat Zakarian's nephews -- even as they try to intimidate him.

* DontCelebrateJustYet: Daniel and Amanda are quick to celebrate after making their deal with Zakarian to evict Kreese, and Amanda even [[TemptingFate tempts fate]] by teasing Daniel about how quickly ''she'' managed to shut down Cobra Kai. They're very unpleasantly surprised when Zakarian (and [[ThisMeansWar Kreese]]) call to tell them the deal is off!

* FavorsForTheSexy: Zakarian doesn't trust Daniel enough to even consider making a deal with him. Yet he's happy to make the same deal Daniel wanted if ''Amanda'' offers it.

** Zakarian refuses to make a deal with Daniel, saying he doesn't trust [[HonestJohnsDealership car salesmen]]. This despite Zakarian himself being a much more corrupt businessman than Daniel himself.

* JabbaTableManners: Armand Zakarian's table manners (or lack thereof) remain as disgusting as ever.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A villainous example, as Kreese obviously beat the hell out of Zakarian's very large, thuggish nephews (and probably Zakarian himself) in order to get him to back off on Cobra Kai's eviction, but we don't get to see it.

* ThisMeansWar: Zakarian fails to evict Kreese, and the Cobra Kai sensei warns Daniel over the phone to ready his students for an inevitable conflict between their dojos.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Johnny and Miguel go to a sushi restaurant for lunch, which turns out Tory's day job (the roller rink being her night job).

* KickTheDog: Ends up being downplayed. After Tory defeats one of the newcomers to Cobra Kai (by kicking her in the face), the girl complains "You chipped my tooth, bitch". Tory unsympathetically replies "You needed braces anyway."

* NoNameGiven: The basketball-playing female prospect that Tory defeats is named Sarah. But this is revealed [[AllThereInTheScript only in the show's credits]].

** At the end of the episode, Johnny writes up his reply to Ali and it's actually quite touching, but remembering that Miguel said his earlier attempt at a reply was "like 80 pages" and that less is more, he decides that it's still too long (it's about a paragraph long, which would be appropriate since Ali's message was also a paragraph) and goes for the very short & unsatisfying "Not much, u?".

At the dojo, Kreese begins to put his new recruits to the test, pitting Kyler against Mitch in a sparring match. An experienced wrestler, Kyler quickly takes Mitch to the mat and forces him to tap out. As a result, Kreese allows Kyler to take his opponent's place on the team, claiming that Mitch is no longer Cobra Kai material. In the next fight, Tory ruthlessly defeats Sarah, an aggressive basketball player, reaffirming her own place in Cobra Kai. Anxious to rekindle his confidence, Hawk challenges Brucks when the latter is selected to fight, removing his gi before delivering a vicious beatdown to his former bully, ending with Hawk's knuckles covered in blood. Having witnessed Hawk's wrath first-hand, Kyler abruptly stops his teasing.

** Copied here for posterity. [[note]]"...AND THEN [[Film/IronEagle IRON EAGLE]] 3 CAME OUT. YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON’T CARE WHAT THE CRITICS SAY. I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY GOOD. NOT AS GOOD AS IRON EAGLE 1 OR IRON EAGLE 2, BUT HEY, WHAT MOVIE IS? THINK [[Film/WaynesWorld WAYNE’S WORLD]] WAS THAT YEAR TOO. THAT ONE WAS OKAY. THOSE NERDS HAD GREAT TASTE IN MUSIC AND THE CHICK WAS HOT. WHAT WAS SHE DOING WITH HIM? HOW COME THE HOT CHICKS GO FOR THE LOSERS IN THESE MOVIES ANYWAYS? OTHER THAN THAT 1992 WAS A PRETTY QUIET YEAR. GOT FIRED AGAIN, BUT WHAT THE HELL DO THEY KNOW. I DIDN’T LIKE CONSTRUCTION ANYWAYS. THEY ALL SPEAK SPANISH AND I’M PRETTY SURE THEY WERE MAKING FUN OF ME SOMETIMES. DO YOU KNOW WHAT A “GRINGO” IS? I STARTED LEARNING A LITTLE BIT OF SPANISH FROM MIGUEL AND HIS FAMILY. I KNOW “HOLA”, “PLANTAIN”, “TACO”, AND “DINERO”. PRETTY GOOD, HUH? WHERE WAS I? OH RIGHT. 1993 THERE WAS [[Film/JurassicPark THAT DINOSAUR MOVIE]]. PRETTY GOOD FOR THE NINETIES. I MEAN NOT ANYWHERE NEAR WHAT WE HAD BACK IN THE DAY. REMEMBER [[Film/{{Predator}} PREDATOR]]? THAT MOVIE WAS BADASS. THIS DINOSAUR THINGS WAS PRETTY COOL, BUT TOO MUCH SCIENCY STUFF FOR ME. I GUESS YOU PROBABLY LIKED THAT THOUGH, RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU’RE A DOCTOR NOW. I COULD NEVER BE A DOCTOR, NOT AFTER THAT INCIDENT AT COMMUNITY COLLEGE. I TALKED ABOUT THAT A COUPLE PARAGRAPHS AGO. DOES FACEBOOK LET YOU GO BACK AND REREAD? STILL THINK THEY OVERREACTED. ALL THE GREAT SCIENTISTS SET THINGS ON FIRE, RIGHT? LIKE EINSTIEN OR WHOEVER. ANYWAYS, 1993 DUTCH GOT ARRESTED. THAT ONE WAS PRETTY STUPID. I WAS DRUNK FOR MOST IT, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE HE HOTWIRED A GOLD CART FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB. I LOOKEDU P FROM THE BAR AND DUTCH IS DRIVING THE THING AT HIGH SPEED, OR I GUESS AS HIGH AS SOMETHING LIKE THAT CAN GO, AND CRASHES IT INTO THE POOL! THEY HAD TO BRING A CRANE IN TO GET IT OUT. HE DID SOME TIME BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. ANYWAYS, I DON’T THINK I’VE BEEN BACK TO THE COUNTRY CLUB SINCE THEN. SID WON’T LET THEM BAN ME, BUT THOSE GUYS ARE ALL UPTIGHT AND ONLY SERVE FOREIGN BEER, IT’S OFFENSIVE. WE WON TWO WORLD WARS DRINKING AMERICAN BEER. WHAT THE HELL HAS BELGIUM EVER DONE BUT GET INVADED? WHO WANTS TO DRINK THAT SHIT? I THINK I GOT OFF TOPIC AGAIN. LETS GET BACK TO THE MID 90S. 1994 WAS A SLOW YEAR. THE 90S SUCKED, MAN. YOU TURNED ON THE RADIO AND IT WAS JUST CRAP. WHO WRITES A SONG ABOUT BEING A LOSER? AND ALL THOSE GRNUGY TYPES WITH THE FANNEL. LET ME TELL YOU, MUSIC IS SUPPSOED TO BE ABOUT BEING BADASS AND AWESOME, NOT ABOUT WANTING TO KILL YOURSELF. THAT SHIT CAN’T BE GOOD FOR KIDS TO HEAR, RIGHT? LOOK AT ME, WORRY ABOUT WHAT THE KIDS ARE HEARING. I GUESS BEING A PARTENT CHANGES YOU. NOT THAT I’M ALL THAT GREAT OF A PARENT. WELL, MIGUEL SEEMS TO LIKE ME OKAY. ROBBY DOESN’T. I MESSED UP PRETTY GOOD. CAN’T EVEN GET THE KID TO TALK TO ME ANYMORE. HE’S STUCK IN THERE FOR A FEW MORE MONTHS AND HE’S GOT NOBODY. HE WON’T TAKE MY CALLS. I HOPE HIS MOM IS TALKING TO HIM AT LEAST. I THINK IT MIGHT BE TOO LATE FOR ME AND HIM. I MESSED UP TOO MANY TIMES. NOT THAT I’M A TOTAL SCREW UP. I’VE DONE SOME GOOD STUFF TOO WHICH BRINGS ME TO 1995 AND HOW I MADE TWO GRAND BETTING ON THE O.J TRIAL."[[/note]]

** We never see the immediate result of what Hawk did to Brucks, only Hawk's bloody knuckles.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Hawk's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of Brucks is so vicious that even ''Tory'' is shaken by it, but it's hard to argue that he didn't deserve it.

* NothingIsScarier: We don't get to see how awful Brucks looks after Hawk is done pulverizing him. But between Hawk's bloody knuckles and the unnerved expressions of his fellow Cobra Kai, our imaginations have more than enough to work with.

* CurbStompBattle: Kyler defeats Mitch quickly and decisively, as Tory does with the female prospect she gets paired against. Hawk's victory against Brucks, on the other hand, is a straight up NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: We learn that Terry Silver was originally nicknamed "Twig" by his comrades due to his skinny physique. It also turns out that Kreese became a POW because of ''his'' mistake in the field. Yet Silver goes on to become a corrupt billionaire industrialist and the main villain of ''Karate Kid III''.

** Chronologically a Call-''Forward'' in-universe, Turner berating Kreese for losing concentration on the battlefield references what Kreese did to a student in 1984 when they looked away during a training exercise, even doing the exact same movements that Turner did too.

At home, Johnny resumes aiding Miguel with the use of a body harness attached to a rope and pully, but Miguel is still bothered by his argument with Tory. When Johnny tries to downplay it, Miguel's frustrations finally boil over. He calls out Johnny for trying to create a fake persona to impress Ali and for walking out on his students like a pussy. In the midst of the rant, Johnny unconsciously lets go of the rope keeping Miguel suspended, and both are shocked to find him standing on his own power for the first time. Elated, Miguel embraces his sensei. Afterwards, Johnny deletes all his pretentious Facebook photos and begins to write Ali a heartfelt message about who he really is, but settles for simply answering, "Not much, u?"

* TheReveal: The episode clarifies how much of the story Terry Silver told Mr. Miyagi and Daniel when he first met them in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'' was false. In that movie, Silver claimed that his and Kreese's master was Kim Sun-Yung from South Korea. This episode reveals that Kim Sun-Yung was Captain Turner's master during the Korean War, and his only connection to Kreese and Silver was through the MasterApprenticeChain (though it is remotely possible that they did seek out Kim Sun-Yung's tutelage in person later on).

In a flashback to Vietnam in 1968, Kreese receives a photo of his sweetheart Betsy in the mail before he is called away to see Captain Turner. He finds the man practicing karate on a dummy made of bamboo; the captain explains that he learned Tang Soo Do under Master Kim Sun Yung during the Korean war, and offers to train Kreese and a small team of soldiers to perform special missions in North Vietnam, but warns that the price of failure is high. Kreese eagerly accepts, and arranges for his squadmates Twig and Ponytail to join Turner's team as well.

* CameBackStrong:
** Invoked with Hawk where he's able to pound Brucks in retaliation for season 1's bullying despite not seeing him in season 2.
** Kyler's modus operandi in Season 1 was picking on those who couldn't fight back and would get his ass handed to him by trained fighters. This time around, he's able to beat the more experienced Mitch surprisingly quickly because of his athleticism (and a well-placed taunt).

* RealityEnsues:
** Brucks finds out the hard way that all that bragging and swagger about picking on meek kids will earn you a well deserved beatdown when one of those kids [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]]. Especially since he is far less fit than anyone else in the dojo. By extension, Kyler finds this out as well and can barely look at Hawk as Hawk gives him a DeathGlare.
** Armand may be a wealthy person who owns a lot property in the Valley, including the strip mall containing the Cobra Kai dojo. But just because he has the power to evict Kreese, along with two thuggish nephews as backup, that doesn't mean this will be enough to intimidate ''Kreese'', who proceeds to effortlessly stop the [=LaRusso=]s attempt to get him out of their lives in an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome.

* TheReveal: The episode clarifies how much of the story Terry Silver told Mr. Miyagi and Daniel when he first met them in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'' was false. In that movie, Silver claimed that his and Kreese's master was Kim Sun-Yung from South Korea. This episode reveals that Kim Sun-Yung was Captain Turner's master during the Korean War, and his only connection to Kreese and Silver was through the MasterApprenticeChain.