History Recap / CobraKaiS5E5ExtremeMeasures

While trying to unseal the window he glued shut for the escape room exercise, Johnny is unexpectedly visited by Daniel who appeals to him for help. He explains that Kreese was framed and that Silver paid off Stingray to keep quiet about the assault, but Johnny doesn't want to get involved, citing his more important family issues. Daniel argues that Johnny was responsible for the resurgence of Cobra Kai in the first place and cannot ignore his part in the conflict, but Johnny counters that with Robby out of Cobra Kai and Kreese in prison, he is content to leave well enough alone, leading an irate Daniel to call him a pussy. Instead of escalating, however, Johnny chooses to defuse the situation by simply talking to Daniel, who confesses that Amanda left him after he pushed her too far.

Another training session at Cobra Kai is well underway when Stingray walks into the dojo, his presence bringing everyone to a halt. Silver considers him the embodiment of what Cobra Kai stands for and commends him for returning after Kreese's brutal attack, drawing applause from the students. Privately, it is revealed that Silver has bought Stingray's silence about the assault by providing him with his own apartment, and by giving him Johnny's old Cobra Kai Challenger which he recovered from an impound auction. In the trunk, Stingray finds his very own gi to mark him as a member of Cobra Kai.

Another training session at Cobra Kai is well underway when Stingray walks into the dojo, his presense bringing everyone to a halt. Silver considers him the embodiment of what Cobra Kai stands for and commends him for returning after Kreese's brutal attack, drawing applause from the students. Privately, it is revealed that Silver has bought Stingray's silence about the assault by providing him with his own apartment, and by giving him Johnny's old Cobra Kai Challenger which he recovered from an impound auction. In the trunk, Stingray finds his very own gi to mark him as a member of Cobra Kai.

At home, Daniel drowns his sorrows in the wake of his family's departure. Chozen counsels him that they will eventually return, noting that Daniel's family has a strong bond, but Daniel points out that it only took Terry Silver to break them. Chozen reminds him why he must be defeated, but Daniel is disheartened, wondering how no one else can see though Silver's schemes. As Chozen sorts through the morning mail, he passes Daniel a newspaper clipping about Kreese's conviction, with the word "LIAR" and an address written on it. Despite Daniel's skepticism, Chozen convinces him to investigate and speak with Stingray himself, theorizing that he might be the key to exposing Silver.

As Daniel convalesces at home with Johnny, Chozen, and his family watching over him, Tory meets with Kreese at the prison. She complains that Cobra Kai is turning her into someone she doesn't want to be, alienating her from Robby and forcing her into a web of lies to maintain Silver's trust. When she asks Kreese if he has an endgame, he assures her that Silver is going down - he just doesn't know it yet.

Daniel drops by Stingray's place late at night with a new [=PS4=], only to be confronted by Terry Silver instead. Daniel tells him that he did not come to fight and yields the Valley to Silver, but Silver implies that his plans go far beyond the Valley and brags about how easy it was to disrupt Daniel's marriage. When he suggests wooing Anthony and Sam into Cobra Kai, Daniel snaps and attacks him. As the two men battle, Daniel strikes the wall behind Silver, bloodying his knuckles much like Silver forced him to do in the past. Using Daniel's rage against him, Silver defeats Daniel and leaves him sprawled out on the floor, but not before warning him that the real pain is about to begin.

Outside the address written on the newspaper clipping, Daniel laments over his many unanswered texts to Amanda, before Stingray pulls up in front of the building. Daniel immediately recognizes Johnny's old car, and both he and Chozen confront Stingray in his new apartment and show him the clipping. However, Stingray denies that he is covering for Silver and suggests that Daniel must have done something to deserve Silver's scorn. Enraged, Daniel advances on Stingray, who falls backwards and crushes his brand new [=PS4=] console. Chozen intervenes and escorts Daniel out of the apartment; he compares Stingray to a turtle, in that if they press him too hard, he will simply retreat into his shell. Conceding that Stingray will be of no help to them, Daniel believes he knows someone who can.

Unwilling to give up, Johnny attempts to force Robby and Miguel to cooperate by turning his apartment into an escape room, effectively sealing them in before dropping the key into the garbage disposal. When using the plot of ''Young Guns 2'' fails to inspire them, Johnny reveals that the three of them are about to become a family soon, a notion that both teens reject out of hand. When Miguel's grandmother Rosa enters the apartment in a cowboy costume, Miguel takes the opportunity to walk out the door, while Robby returns to his room.

Outside the address written on the newspaper clipping, Daniel laments over his many unanswered texts to Amanda, before Stingray pulls up in front of the building. Daniel immediately recognizes Johnny's old car, and both he and Chozen confront Stingray in his new apartment and show him the clipping. However, Stingray denies that he is covering for Silver and suggests that Daniel must have done something to deserve Silver's scorn. Enraged, Daniel advances on Stingray, who falls backwards and crushes his brand new PS4 console. Chozen intervenes and escorts Daniel out of the apartment; he compares Stingray to a turtle, in that if they press him too hard, he will simply retreat into his shell. Conceding that Stingray will be of no help to them, Daniel believes he knows someone who can.

Daniel drops by Stingray's place late at night with a new PS4, only to be confronted by Terry Silver instead. Daniel tells him that he did not come to fight and yields the Valley to Silver, but Silver implies that his plans go far beyond the Valley and brags about how easy it was to disrupt Daniel's marriage. When he suggests wooing Anthony and Sam into Cobra Kai, Daniel snaps and attacks him. As the two men battle, Daniel strikes the wall behind Silver, bloodying his knuckles much like Silver forced him to do in the past. Using Daniel's rage against him, Silver defeats Daniel and leaves him sprawled out on the floor, but not before warning him that the real pain is about to begin.

Filled with anger and having nothing to lose, Daniel follows a new lead to an enriched student of Cobra Kai. Johnny also tries to get Miguel and Robby to finally reconcile, while Amanda reconnects with her cousin.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Simultaneously for Daniel and Johnny. Daniel rages at Johnny for refusing to help fight Silver, to the point of trying to pick a fight. Rather letting himself be provoked, Johnny is stunned by Daniel's behavior and sincerely asks what on Earth has gotten into him. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He even mentions that Daniel hasn't tucked his shirt in and when he provides him a Coors Banquet, Daniel does Johnny's signature bottle cap flip.]]

'''Daniel:''' [{{Beat}}] ''What the hell am I doing?'' [collapses into Johnny's new club chair] If ''you'' think I'm off the rails...\\

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

* AndYourLittleDogToo: When Silver is taunting Daniel into a fight, he muses about getting his kids into Cobra Kai as well. This angers Daniel almost as much as if he'd threatened to harm them directly.

* ShadowArchetype: Amanda's mother is this to Amanda. She goes on a diatribe calling marriage obsolete clearly speaking from her own resentment towards her ex-husband. This shows what Amanda would've become and essentially Daniel and Amanda's relationship would've become if they hadn't worked through their own issues.

* SpitTake: Jessica nearly does one when Amanda mentions Terry Silver as she brings her up to speed on how bad the guy was.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Silver gives Daniel the worst beating he's suffered since the Halloween incident in the first ''Karate Kid''.

* ParentsInDistress: When Amanda is being attacked by her old high school bully during a BarBrawl, it's Sam who comes to her rescue and kicks the Billy's butt.

* ItsAllMyFault: After Anthony is beaten up by Kenny, he shows an impressive willingness to accept his own responsibility, pointing out that he probably deserved it for the way he'd been treating Kenny when they first met.

* BarBrawl: This time, Amanda starts one off, having enough of an old bully bring up her past and nearly gets her butt kicked over it, if not for Sam coming to her rescue.
* [[BigBrotherWorship Big Sister Worship]]: After he sees Sam save Amanda from her attackers in the bar, Anthony remarks how awesome she is, dubbing her as [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Jean Claude Van "Sam"]].

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

* EmbarrassingNickname: 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.

* ItsAllMyFault: After Anthony is beaten up by Kenny, he shows an impressive willingness to accept his own responsibility, pointing out that he probably deserved it for the way he'd treating Kenny when they first met.
* KarmicJackpot: Daniel hit this apparently for his kindness to Jessica Andrews. She had introduced her cousin to Daniel who later became his wife, Amanda. She later saves their marriage by warning Amanda that Silver is every bit as dangerous as Daniel made him out to be.

* OhCrap: Jessica's reaction when Amanda casually mentions that Terry Silver has been involved with the recent event in Amanda's and Daniel's lives.

-->'''Daniel:''' What happened to the "strike first badass", huh? Do I need to kick his ass to wake him up, or was just one tournament loss all it took to turn ''you'' into a [[GenderedInsult pussy]]?
-->'''Johnny:''' [{{Beat}}] ''[[WhatTheHellHero What are you doing?]]'' You show up out of the blue, raving like a lunatic, you reek of booze, and now you want to fight me because I don't want to get pulled back into this rivalry with Silver? What's going on with you, man?
-->'''Daniel:''' [{{Beat}}] ''What the hell am I doing?'' [collapses into Johnny's new club chair] If ''you'' think I'm off the rails...
-->'''Johnny:''' [[BrutalHonesty Way off.]] [hands Daniel a Coors Banquet]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Simultaneously for Daniel and Johnny. Daniel rages at Johnny for refusing to help fight Silver, to the point of trying to pick a fight. Rather letting himself be provoked, Johnny is stunned by Daniel's behavior and sincerely 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. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Johnny even notes that Daniel hasn't even tucked his shirt in and when he's given a Coors Banquet Daniel does Johnny's signature bottle cap flip.]]

* CruelMercy: Contrary to Terry's claim ("Don't think of this as an act of mercy."), his beatdown on Daniel and subsequently leaving him without any permanent (physical) injuries is nothing else but this. He makes it clear that he wants "Danny Boy" to watch and feel unable to do anything as Silver continues to make his life hell and takes Cobra Kai further than he could ever imagine.

* 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 [[KarmicNod he probably deserves getting beaten up after how he treated Kenny.]]

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Johnny is uninterested in helping Daniel take down Cobra Kai because he's content with just successfully getting Robby away from there and Kreese being in prison where he can't harm anyone.

* 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 stunned with the way Daniel was acting and sincerely asks what on Earth has gotten into him.

* CruelMercy: Contrary to Terry's claim ("Don't think of this as an act of mercy."), his beatdown on Daniel and subsequently leaving him without any permanent (physical) injuries is nothing else but this. He makes it clear that he wants Daniel to watch and feel unable to do anything as Silver continues to make his life hell and takes Cobra Kai further than he could ever imagine.

* 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 stunned with how Daniel was acting and sincerely asks what on Earth has gotten into him.

* MustMakeAmends: 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 are you doing?'' You show up out of the blue, raving like a lunatic, you reek of booze, and now you want to fight me because I don't want to get pulled back into this rivalry with Silver? What's going on with you, man?