Danny and Colleen fight against Davos with the help of Misty and others to determine the fate of Chinatown. Shocking information about her family sets Colleen in a new direction. After a series of groundbreaking revelations, each character faces an uncertain future.
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- And the Adventure Continues: Colleen is protecting the streets of New York as the Iron Fist (and the episode hints that Misty might even refuse the Captain's job and join her), and Danny and Ward are Walking the Earth, hunting the secret history of K'un-Lun and the Iron Fist.
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Danny uses Colleen's katana to cut open a steel pipe.
- Artificial Limbs Are Stronger: Downplayed; Misty uses her artificial arm to break a hole in the room she's imprisoned in, but it takes her a while to do so, and afterward she needs it replaced. It might be a state-of-the-art prosthetic, but it is no Winter Soldier arm.
- Attack Its Weakpoint: When Walker fights Danny, she eventually kicks his bad leg, knowing he is still in recovery.
- Bad Ass Boast: Ward delivers a subtle one before delivering an open one.Ward: Look, you have no idea how hard it was to track your boss down. Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, that mess in Jakarta...
Smuggler: Our shipment was stolen in Jakarta... [subtle boast]
Ward: Well, things went sideways.
Giant Mook: [stands up, looms]
Ward: Wow. Look. You really don't wanna mess with me.
Smuggler: What if I disagree? [reveals gun]
Ward: Then you have to deal with him. [turns to reveal Danny, obvious boast] - Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite Colleen, Misty, and Walker getting involved in the climatic fight and each taking several punches and kicks, they barely have any blood or dirt on their faces by the end of it. Meanwhile, Danny and Davos actually look like they've been in a fight.
- Because Destiny Says So: Both Davos and Colleen reject this, but after seeing the symbol of the Iron Fist on the reverse side of the Wing family crest, Danny realises that meeting Colleen wasn't part of his destiny, it was part of hers.
- Call-Back: Remember when Ward said to Joy in season 1 how "people have been known to start over with nothing"? He's doing just that with Danny at the end of the episode.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Danny has to break off to fight Walker, leaving Colleen to handle Davos alone, because if Walker kills Davos, Colleen dies, too.
- Combat Pragmatist:
- A less violent version than usual: Once Misty takes over Danny's fight with Walker, Danny is able to end their fight by slicing a water pipe (simulating rain) and having Misty use her phone flashlight like a strobe, which suppresses her Walker personality and brings out the sweet, non-violent Mary alter.
- Played with when Danny is shown to be using firearms now that he no longer has the power of the Iron Fist. Turns out he still has the power of chi, and has Took a Level in Badass so he can now Shoot the Bullet out of mid-air.
- Continuity Nod: Luke is name dropped again.
- Did Not Get the Girl:
- While Bethany is clearly touched by Ward's apology to her and offer to be there for their child, and is happy for him that he's doing better, she ultimately turns him down and does not get back together with him, feeling she'll have enough problems dealing with a child plus her own issues, without adding Ward's as well.
- Downplayed with Danny; he and Colleen break up at the end of the episode, but it lacks the finality often associated with this trope, since it feels more like a "taking a break to find ourselves" scenario, with Danny explicitly saying he wants to develop himself into a man worthy of Colleen.
- Dual Wielding: Walker with her twin machetes, and Danny with Guns Akimbo enhanced by the power of the Iron Fist.
- Giant Mook: One stands up to intimidate Ward on hearing he was behind the Noodle Incident in Jakarta. He proceeds to Summon Bigger Fish—Danny who's sitting nearby.
- Grand Finale: The series ended up cancelled not long after it's run, making this episode the final one for this series.
- Ice-Cream Koan: Danny trolls Ward while persuading him to join him in Walking the Earth.Danny: You already know who you are. Why don't you find out who you could be?
Ward: Uhh, it's irresponsible. You can't just up and leave. You can't run away from yourself.
Danny: Maybe you'd be running towards yourself.
Ward: What does that even mean?
Danny: [with a huge shit-eating grin that shows he knows how annoying he's being] What does it mean to you?
Ward: [finding this Actually Pretty Funny] Now stop it! Don't Zen koan me. - If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Colleen invokes this when she refuses Davos's request to kill him after taking the Iron Fist from him.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: A variation with Danny bringing the Mary personality to surface to stop Walker.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Danny goes Guns Akimbo and fires two bullets that hit a bullet fired at him at the same time, obliterating it.
- Irony:
- Davos turns up at the warehouse telling Chen Wu he'll finally get his wish of being more than The Driver. Turns out Chen is already dead.
- Davos protests Colleen’s right to be the Iron Fist during their fight. With the reveal of Colleen’s ancestry, the power is WAY more her rightful inheritance than it ever could be his.
- After calling in Walker to get Davos off her back so she can get on with her life, Joy finds herself in exactly the same position with Walker.
- The Lancer: Ward fully takes on this role to Danny's The Hero after the Time Skip.
- Last Kiss: A goodbye kiss between Danny and Colleen because they both have to walk their separate paths.
- Mythology Gag:
- The man Ward and Danny are looking for post Time Skip is named Orson Randall, Danny's Golden Age Retroactive Legacy as the Iron Fist in the comics.
- Danny sporting chi-powered Guns Akimbo, a Badass Longcoat, and a more military look is a reference to Randall's
costume, weapons, and abilities. - Colleen's outfit◊ after the Time Skip greatly resembles one from the comics.
- Misty's comment that she might bling her prosthetic arm up a bit is a reference to the gilded appearance she usually sports in the comics.
- Walker sings "Monday, Monday" while suiting up to hunt Davos. She previously sang the same song in the comics whilst fighting Daredevil during Brian Michael Bendis's run.
- Nightwing Restorations, a company run by Misty and Colleen in the original comics, is alluded to.
- "A Duel of Iron!" was previously a story title in the original comics (although in that case, Iron Fist was tricked into fighting Iron Man).
- Noodle Incident: Referring to one is how Ward convinces Randall's man to stop and talk.Ward: Look, you have no idea how hard it was to track your boss down. Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, that mess in Jakarta...
- Punny Name: Colleen and Frank's widow address each other as "Ms. Wing" and "Mrs. Yang".
- Sequel Hook:
- Mary Walker reveals that she has a third personality more dangerous that hers that she doesn't know anything about, and coerces Joy into continuing their partnership.
- Colleen becomes the new Iron Fist, becomes a nighttime vigilante crimefighter like Danny before her, and learns how to channel her chi through her katana. (And Misty may join her as the Daughters of the Dragon, since she considers not taking the Captain job).
- Similarly, Danny and Ward go Walking the Earth together, continue trying to find out more about the Iron Fist and themselves, Danny somehow re-learns to use chi again despite not officially possessing the Iron Fist anymore, and like Colleen, learns to channel his chi into weapons (in his case, through guns and bullets in both hands).
- After the credits is a short teaser for Daredevil season 3.
- Shout-Out:
- Misty says to Colleen that Knight Wing has a good sound to it.
- At the end, where Ward confronts Danny at the private jet might as well have been lifted straight from Casa Blanca.
- Suicide by Cop: After Colleen takes the Fist, Davos tells her to kill him, preferring to die rather than be without the power. She refuses, however, since that would make her no different from him, and Davos is arrested instead.
- Time Skip: The last two scenes take place months later.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The opening flashback shows Davos nursing Danny back to health after the plane crash, then looking on in awe as Danny demonstrates the marvel of a paper airplane.
- Voiceover Letter: When Colleen reads Danny's letter, his voice reads it in a voiceover.
- Walking the Earth: Danny and Ward do this together at the end of the episode and during the Time Skip: Danny to learn more about the Iron Fist, and for both men to discover themselves and a new purpose in life.
- Wham Episode: Colleen gets Danny's power, we find out she's the descendant of the first female Iron Fist, she and Danny break up, Danny goes off to learn the secrets of the Iron Fist, and we get a glimpse of Danny's new powers after a Time Skip. It's a lot of twists for one episode.
- Wham Shot:
- Colleen turning over her family crest to reveal the symbol of K'un-Lun is on the other side.
- Colleen using the power of the Fist to make her katana glow, and Danny doing the same with his pistols when he then uses to shoot a bullet out of the air.
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