History Recap / CobraKaiS5E5ExtremeMeasures

* TheReveal: Turns out ''Tory'' was the one who left Daniel the note about Kreese not beating up Stingray.

** Notably, Daniel is also unshaven throughout most of this episode, when he's almost always clean-shaven. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Johnny even notes that Daniel hasn't even tucked his shirt in.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Daniel confronts and snaps at Johnny for blocking himself out from the Cobra Kai drama since losing the 51st All-Valley Tournament. Johnny is actually shocked about how Daniel was acting and concernedly asks what on Earth has gotten into him.

** Notably, Daniel is also unshaven throughout most of this episode, when he's almost always clean-shaven.

* KickTheDog: When Daniel informs Silver that he's done with their rivalry and Cobra Kai can keep the Valley, Silver ''could'' have just accepted his win and let their past be water under the bridge (as he claimed to want when he and Daniel met again in season 4). Instead, Silver opts to taunt Daniel as a prelude to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* SwappedRoles: This time Miguel has Robby at his mercy on the balcony, but he manages to get control of himself and stop before anything happens.

* TheAtoner: Daniel feels bad about roughing up Stingray and destroying his Playstation. He decides to apologize and buy him a new one. Unfortunately, Silver is waiting for Daniel there.

-->'''Johnny:''' [{{Beat}}] What has gotten into you?

* CastingGag: Courtney Henggeler (Amanda) and Sunny Mabrey (Elizabeth-Anne) both appeared in the TV movie ''Film/Escaping Dad'' in which they play characters who are best friends instead of enemies.

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* AesopAmnesia: While Amanda has good reasons for leaving Daniel, she ignores his warnings about what kind of person Silver is until she hears the details from [[Film/TheKarateKidPartIII Jessica Andrews]] herself. This despite the fact that she previously ignored Daniel when he tried to warn her about John Kreese, only to find out Daniel was not lying or exaggerating in the least about how dangerous Kreese is. As it turns out, [[HistoryRepeats she again finds out Daniel has every reason to fear Silver]].

* ItsAllMyFault: When Sam asks why he didn't ask for her help when he was getting beaten up by Kenny and Kyler, Anthony says asking his sister to protect him would only make him a bigger target of bullying and adds that he probably deserves getting beaten up after how he treated Kenny.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Daniel confronts and snaps at Johnny for blocking himself out from the Cobra Kai drama since losing the 51st All-Valley Tournament. Thankfully Johnny realizes this trope is in play and asks Daniel what's wrong.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Johnny again, as usual. Apparently he has never heard of "Pandora's box" and has no idea what that means.

* HourglassPlot: Johnny and Daniel's heart to heart illustrates how their roles have reversed from the start of the series, with Johnny now being a responsible family man while Daniel is a drunken mess.

* ConspicuousConsumption: Daniel is at first dubious about someone leaving a message that Stingray lied about Kreese attacking him. But one look at Stingray not only driving his former car but his new fancy place with a video game system and other items the guy shouldn't be able to afford is enough to convince him.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Daniel confronts and snaps at Johnny for blocking himself out from the Cobra Kai drama since losing the 51st All-Valley Tournament.

!!Tropes

* WhamEpisode: Miguel and Robby finally hash things out and achieve peace, Sam decides to teach Anthony karate, Silver gives Daniel a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, Johnny decides to get back into the conflict and help Daniel and Chozen, and Tory and Kreese are revealed to be secretly working together to bring Silver down.

* AesopAmnesia: While Amanda has good reasons for leaving Daniel, she ignores his warnings about what kind of person Silver is until she hears the details from [[Film/TheKarateKidPartIII from Jessica Andrews]] herself. This despite the fact that she previously ignored Daniel when he tried to warn her about John Kreese only to find out he was right. As it turns out, [[HistoryRepeats she finds out Daniel was not exaggerating at all and everything he said was right]].

* ConnectedAllAlong: Turns out Jessica Andrews from ''Film/TheKarateKidPartIII'' is Amanda's cousin and was the one who introduced her to Daniel.

* EmbarassingNickname: Of a dark variety. One of the women at the bar (who also went to school with Amanda) called her "Babe Ruthless" for using a baseball bat to smashing her teacher's car as a teenager. Amanda was not keen on being reminded of something very violent she did as a teenager.