'Iron Fist' Recap: 'Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch'

Written by Scott Edwards

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With his mind being clouded by all of the drugs in the Birch Psychiatric Hospital, Danny has no idea where the orders about his fate are coming from. Being honest with his doctor about the Order of the Crane Mother, his time in K’un Lun and being the Iron Fist, he may not have a chance to leave the facility after all. Being moved in the middle of the night, Danny sees that he is to be beaten to a pulp, but is actually able to focus enough to escape his cage. With the power back in his hand, the Iron Fist is able to punch his way out of the hospital and gets back on the streets where he wants to be.

Visiting his father once again, Ward is finding out the hard way that not following his requests could be hazardous to his health. Having failed to have Danny killed, Ward is instructed to go back to work since that is what he is good at. With his sister Joy at his side, closing the deal on the pier is the most important thing for their future, but neither of the kids fully understand why. But business is business and Joy is great at her job and willing to go the extra mile to make things happen. Returning to Colleen’s dojo, Danny is not followed but forced to make a promise that he may or may not be able to deliver on. Needing to prove his birthright to get his chunk of the company that is his, he needs to try and find a common place between himself and his friends. Visiting Joy Meachum, Danny gets offered a hundred million dollars for his shares in the company, but would have to change his name if he accepts the offer. Seeing the change in his old friend, Danny declines the offer and tries to come up with an alternate plan to make the Meachum’s pay for what they are doing to him.

With Danny promising to pay her back in a big way, Colleen is still trying to make ends meet at her dojo and when one of her students shows up with a new battle wound, she needs to know what is going on. Hearing that he is a part of the underground fights going on around town, she shames her student, but when it comes to making money, fighting is the only way that he is able to get by for his family. Watching as Danny arrives back to his temporary home before beating up one of her students for disobedience, Colleen fears for the worst and needs to insure that she will be able to make the next month’s rent and decides to check out the fights and see if it can be a new source of revenue for her.

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Getting visited by his overseers, the Hand, Harold has been figured out and must pay the price for leaving the penthouse. Visiting Danny in the hospital may be more costly than he knows, but if the Iron Fist is real, which he knows it is, it may be the only way he is able to move on with his life and get back to the real world. Knowing that his every movement is being watched once again, the deals that he is instructing Ward to make may be for the family’s best interest, but not for their future. The Hand seems to have its reach where Harold does not want it and another failure may be more costly to him than just cutting up his hands.
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Needing help to prove himself, Danny has one other option and is able to track down Jeri Hogarth.  Knowing her before she was a big time lawyer and finding out that she is taking care of his family’s assets, she may be Danny’s last hope. With her digging for some sort of proof that the dead Danny Rand is the man he claims to be, Jeri is coming up nothing, not even a birth certificate, which only leads to someone trying to erase Danny entirely. With only one additional record that Danny can locate, he finds that the Meachum reach is much further than even he could imagine when it comes to burning hospital records, but they might have something in plain sight that could be even better evidence.

There you have it, the first crossover character of the series as Jeri Hogarth is back once again and being the best lawyer that she can be. This is a little bit of a better crossover for me since it has to do with business and how cutthroat some people can be when all is said and done and the Meachum’s are at the top of their game. It is obvious that Ward and Joy are not willing to give up any part of Rand Enterprises and are going to fight over it in court, but that might be a losing battle for them with Hogarth on the case. I will admit that the best part of this episode falls between two scenes, both with Danny and Joy seeing eye to eye on one thing, that they are no longer friends and money rules the world. Even though Danny does not believe this one bit, everything comes down to money in the long run and that is what Joy is fighting for hand over fist. Only three episodes in and we get our first crossover and I am sure that there will be another one coming up pretty quick as it appears that Danny might actually need to be checked out by someone at the hospital, I guess we will have to wait and see.

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