With Gao captured, Danny goes hunting for truth serum to make her talk, while Gao has fun manipulating Claire and Colleen. Meanwhile, Harold returns from the dead and works to piece his memories back together.
- Acquired Poison Immunity: Gao mentions that she spent most of the 17th century being interrogated, implying this is why the truth serum doesn't work on her. On the other hand, we still don't know what Madame Gao IS, so she might just be Immune to Drugs.
- Ax-Crazy: The newly-revived Harold is not right in the head. He brutally murders his intern Kyle simply for preferring vanilla ice cream to other flavors. The Triad boss warns Ward that this will get worse each time he comes back, until he inevitably attempts to kill those closest to him.
- Back from the Dead: Harold rises from the swamp Ward tossed him into. This leads him to realize that the Hand's resurrection is not a one-time thing, but a permanent alteration.
- Bad Black Barf: Harold spews black chunks of swamp mud all over the ground shortly after his resurrection.
- The Bus Came Back: Dr. Edmonds, the guy that already treated Danny at Birch Psychiatric Hospital, is back, now evaluating Ward after he has been framed by his father.
- Came Back Wrong: Even after Harold reconstructs his memories, he's just a little stranger and a little more cruel. Ward goes to the Hatchetmen to find out how to kill him permanently, but is warned that there is no way, and every time Harold dies he'll come back crazier.
- Cardboard Box of Unemployment: Harold enters his children's offices to find their personal items packed in archive boxes.
- Comicbook Movies Dont Use Codenames: Averted, as Gao refers to Claire's involvement with Daredevil, instead of using his tabloid nickname in his own series, "the Devil of Hell's Kitchen".
- Continuity Nod:
- The copy of Forbes with Danny's face on the cover, that the mysterious assassin looks at has a banner line on top, "Is Stark Industries too big to fail?"
- The stuff that poisoned Colleen is the same stuff that poisoned Elektra in "Guilty as Sin". In both cases, it was from getting struck with a poisoned blade, and the poison turns the blood in the veins black.
- Criminal Mind Games: Gao works on all three of her captors to sow self-doubt or convince them to release her.
- Disproportionate Retribution: When Harold offers several ice cream flavors to Kyle, he becomes so enraged when the latter asks if there is any vanilla. Harold reacts by bludgeoning Kyle's head with an ice cream scoop.
- Fast-Roping: Hand soldiers in special forces gear blast holes in the ceiling and rappel down into the dojo to rescue Madame Gao.
- Faux Affably Evil: At first the newly-resurrected Harold appears to be genuinely regretful over how he treated his son, and eager to make amends. He soon reveals himself to be as abusive and manipulative as ever, but now much more violent and unstable.
- Flipping the Bird: Ward does this again to the hidden cameras he knows his father has installed in Dr. Edmonds office.
- Frameup: Harold's method of sidelining Ward is to have drugs planted in his car for the police to find.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Twice-resurrected Harold can take a lot of things, such as his son wishing him dead, with great serenity, but is enraged by other things, such as Kyle's boring taste in ice cream.
- Hannibal Lecture: Madame Gao delivers one to Claire while she's being held at Chikara Dojo, accusing her of fraternizing with gifted individuals because she secretly hopes that whatever makes them special will rub off on her. Claire is not impressed.Claire: First you wouldn't talk, now you won't shut up.
- Healing Hands: Bakuto teaches Danny how to use his chi to burn away Gao's poison that is killing Colleen. In fact, he seems surprised that Danny doesn't know how to do it already. The effort causes Danny to fall unconscious, giving Bakuto's group (including Colleen) more than enough time to take both Gao and Danny to an unknown location.
- Improbable Weapon User: The mysterious assassin makes throwing stars out of cooking foil.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: While being driven back to the penthouse, Harold eschews his usual green slime health drink and instead requests bourbon.
- Internal Reveal: Joy learns that her father is still (or rather, again) alive.
- Ironic Nursery Tune: The newly-resurrected Harold sings "This Old Man" to himself as he wanders New York.
- I Was Never Here: A Rand employee catches Danny breaking into the lab and helps him find what he's looking for, but she makes it clear she's never seen him and she doesn't want to know why he wants the drugs.
- Morton's Fork: Ward is savvy enough to realize this when he ends up in Birch Psychiatric, speaking to Dr. Edmonds.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Harold has a moment of this after bludgeoning Kyle to death with an ice cream scoop.
- The Nothing After Death: Mentioned by Harold after he kills Kyle.Harold: It's okay. I've been where you're going. It's not so bad. It's just... nothingness.
- Not So Stoic: For the first time ever, we see Gao honestly unsettled, when Bakuto shows up.
- Pet the Dog: Harold is an abusive asshole, a liar and a manipulator... but his passcode to enter the Rand building is Ward's birthday.
- Really 700 Years Old: Going by what Gao mentions, she has been around at least since the 17th century.
- Resurrection Sickness: Harold wanders around New York until his memories return, startling people with his bizarre behavior. In one case he scalds his hand trying to grab a hot dog directly from a vender's stove.
- Resurrective Immortality: Harold really died the last two times, but always comes back.
- Shout-Out:
- Remember how in an earlier episode, Ward's phone was revealed to have Harold labeled as "Frank N. Stein" on his contacts list? Well, here, Harold goes through an accelerated version of the learning process described by Frankenstein's monster in the book, until he regains his memories.
- Danny quotes Sun Tzu when defending his decision to bring Gao to Colleen's dojo.
- Spies In a Van: A variation; the Mysterious Watcher knocks out and ties up someone manning a fast food van outside the Rand building to he can keep surveillance on it.
- Swiss-Cheese Security: Harold's old passcode is still programmed into the Rand security system. Of course it's possible he arranged this in case he ever needed it.
- Tainted Veins: The poison turns Colleen's veins dark as it spreads from the wound on her arm to her chest and throat.
- Tempting Fate: Claire agrees that everything's going to be alright, then the lights in the dojo go out.
- This Cannot Be!: Ward has such a reaction to finding Harold alive and well again.
- Truth Serums: Danny gets Sodium Pentothal from the Rand laboratory to make Madame Gao talk. While it appears to have success, Gao recovers and claims she was faking the whole time.
- Villainous Breakdown: Gao's cool and self-confident facade cracks when Bakuto arrives.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Harold's coughing up black chunks moment occurs fully in-frame.
- Would Hurt a Child: Ward is told of a legend of a man who made a similar immortality deal with the Hand, but the resurrections make him so twisted he eventually cooked and ate two of his children. Ward doesn't have to be told the implications of this, especially with his father now willing to risk Joy's life for his schemes where previously he never wanted her involved for her own safety.
- You Can Never Leave: Harold offers his son whatever he wants to make amends. Ward wants only to be set free of his control. Harold agrees...then arranges for Ward to be arrested and confined to a psychiatric clinic.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Ward refuses to be his father's patsy any more, Harold arranges for him to be taken to the same psychiatric hospital used to hold Danny Rand, while he lets Joy know of his existence so she can take Ward's place.
- You Monster!: A seemingly repentant Harold asks his son if he's a monster. Ward confirms it. He's soon proved right.
