The fifth episode of Iron Fist (2017).
A new brand of synthetic heroin is introduced to New York. While Ward and Joy deal with controversy surrounding Rand Enterprises, Danny delves into the organization behind the drug, inviting Colleen and a familiar face.
- All There in the Script: The white sales rep is credited as "Sophia", while the captor of Radovan the chemist is credited as "King".
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The three female drug sellers seem like perfectly friendly, normal pharmaceutical saleswomen.
- Blackmail: The lawyer of the woman whose son became afflicted with cancer thanks to the company's plant films Danny's promise to help her and then sends it to the Meachums, threatening to expose it to the media if they don't follow up on this promise.
- Blood Knight: Colleen admits that she didn't only participate in the cage fights for money, but because it felt good to hurt somebody. Danny coaxes her into being his backup, knowing full well that—like him—she's frustrated with the endless training and wants to put her skills to work against a real opponent.
- Call-Back:
- Rand Enterprises is fighting a lawsuit against one of their chemical plants. Chemicals from said plant are responsible for giving Matt Murdock his heightened senses.
- When Claire was last seen, she was eyeing a poster for Colleen's dojo; here, she's shown to make good on her interest, and gets one-on-one lessons.
- Claire also remembers that the Hand was responsible for the death of her co-worker at Metro-General.
- Casual Danger Dialogue: As Danny and Colleen enter the shipyard, they whisper-talk about their non-date and Danny fitting back into Western society.
- The Charmer: Danny folds an origami flower for his personal assistant.
- Comically Missing the Point:
- When Claire asks for Danny's credit card, he says he'll pay whatever it costs. Instead she uses it to seal Radovan's sucking chest wound.
- Danny orders takeout for Colleen...which consists of men walking into her dojo and setting up a candelight dinner (this is the kind of takeout he was used to having been raised in a wealthy family). Given the romantic tension between them, Colleen naturally assumes Danny is rushing her into a date.
- Composite Character: Not so much a character as it is a symbol, but the Steel Serpent logo used on the heroin is also said to be the marking of Shou-Lao, which is more associated with the brand on Danny's chest.
- Continuity Cameo: Claire Temple once again appears, as is she did in all the other Netflix productions.
- Dramatic Irony: When Ward insists on fighting the lawsuit when the board thinks it would be best to settle, Joy speaks up in his defense, citing his perfect business track record. What Joy doesn't know is that their father has been pulling Ward's strings the whole time, and by refusing to settle he's actually disobeying his father's orders out of petty spite.
- Dramatic Thunder: Played for laughs with Ward and drama with Madame Gao.
- Elite Mook: King, the Hand associate escorting the chemist, puts up one hell of a fight against Danny, more so than the dozen or so chinese goons one episode earlier.
- Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Hand is not all Asians. This was already hinted at in Daredevil (2015) with Tyler, a white woman involved in the kidnapping of Karen Page. Here, we see the Hand employing agents of different races: the saleswomen marketing the synthetic heroin are white, Mestizo Latina and African-American, and Radovan's jailer, King, seems of Middle-Eastern origin.
- Everyone Can See It: Claire has a knowing smirk on seeing the dorky interaction between Danny and Colleen.
- Face Palm: Claire does a double face palm upon realizing that she's gotten mixed up with her fourth superhero.
- Face-Revealing Turn: Combined with Emerging from the Shadows when Madame Gao is properly revealed to the audience.
- Flipping the Bird: Ward flips off his whole office when he concludes that Harold has a hidden camera somewhere (he does).
- Foreign Queasine: Claire is surprised that Danny enjoyed eating donkey meat in the monastery, but Colleen is not as her mother used to cook it for her as well.
- Functional Addict: Ward, the CEO of Rand Enterprises, is praised by Joy for his perfect track record with company decisions. He's later seen drugged out of his mind on pills, whiskey and the tab of synthetic heroin that Danny left in his office.
- Gorn: There is a lot of blood when Claire treats the chemist's stab wound. Or when Madame Gao impales King through his head with her Sword Cane.
- Here We Go Again!: Claire is visibly frustrated in finding out she has to put up with the workings of the Hand again, and Danny is yet another superhero.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Danny assures a woman whose son became afflicted with cancer thanks to his company's plant that the matter will be handled fairly, causing legal problems for the Meachums.
- I Have Your Wife: Radovan, the chemist, has to work for the Hand because they have his daughter.
- In the Hood: Lacking superhero costumes, Danny and Colleen wear dark hoodies.
- Katanas Are Just Better: After being caught fiddling around with her katana, Danny gets scolded by Colleen for his "wuxia bullshit" twirls with it before she shows him how it's done.
- Moment Killer: A nice subversion. Claire saves the moment by forcing her way into what is unintentionally an incredibly romantic setup when Danny orders take-out from a 5 star restaurant, puncturing the ridiculous levels of awkward between him and Colleen.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Danny trying to reassure an upset mother is recorded by her lawyer and used to coerce Rand, making it again look like Danny has no idea what he's doing as a Rand majority shareholder.
- No Name Given: The Latina and the African-American sales reps are never named, not even in the credits.
- Not a Date: The ordered takeout Danny has with Colleen in the middle of the Dojo. Claire deliberately joins in to take the pressure off Colleen, though she makes a discreet exit on realising that Danny actually wants to talk business with her.
- Not What I Signed Up For: Colleen's initial reaction when she sees how heavily armed the thugs at the pier are.
- Oh, Crap!: Claire's perfectly casual for most of the episode, even while stitching Radovan up, but then she hears Danny took Radovan from the Hand. Danny and Colleen have their own reasons for reacting to the mention of the Hand.
- Refusal of the Call: Colleen, initially. She changes her mind, first after Danny decides to buy her building so she doesn't pay rent, and then when she sees what the Hand is doing.
- Right Under Their Noses: Danny holds the door open for the three Hand saleswomen as they enter the Rand building.
- Ship Tease: A fair amount of romantic tension is felt between Colleen and Danny. Even Claire sees it.
- Show Some Leg: The three saleswomen all apply this trope, deliberately showing off cleavage, legs, or bending over to catch the attention of respectively a seemingly lesbian doctor, a businessman, and a Russian drug dealer.
- Someone Else's Problem: Ward decides that he has no interest in the supernatural shenanigans of Danny and his father. So much that he even directly disobeys Harold's orders and doesn't even answer the phone at one point.
- Team Power Walk: The three female drug saleswomen are introduced this way.
- Tested on Humans: A junkie is produced to test the purity of the synthetic heroin. After he finishes convulsing, he gives it his approval.
- Travelling Salesman Montage: The three spokeswomen marketing the heroin, with the scene cutting between one marketing it to a doctor, one to an investor, and one to a drug dealer, the women finishing each other's sentence.
- Vow of Celibacy: Danny took a vow to avoid romantic entanglements when training to become the Iron Fist, to the bemusement of Claire and Colleen.
- Weirdness Magnet: Claire lampshades how people like Danny keep finding her.
- You Have Failed Me: Gao personally executes the Hand minion overseeing Radovan for failing to keep Danny from rescuing him.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Claire's word-for-word reaction when she hears the Hand is involved.
