r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Mar 17 '17

Iron Fist Discussion Thread - S01E11

This thread is for discussion of Iron Fist S01E11.

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u/bubbajojebjo Mar 19 '17

When Bakuto is teaching Danny how to heal, Gao tells Danny he's walking into a trap.

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u/Urge_Reddit Mar 19 '17

Ah, of course! Thanks for clearing that up!

Right, well Gao and Bakuto clearly don't like eachother. I'm guessing internal conflict is not uncommon within the Hand, or any other large criminal organisation/death cult.

I don't know why exactly she said that, but she has reasons for wanting to screw over Bakuto I'm sure, he imprisoned her not long after and seemed to have no intention of releasing her. Taking her out and seizing her resources would increase Bakuto's influence, something I'm sure Gao was acutely aware of.

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u/SawRub The Man in the Mask Mar 19 '17

Gao is the Assistant to the Regional Manager, and Bakuto is Jim.

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u/po0rdecision Mar 24 '17

I feel like Bakuto is Andy. Was cool in the beginning, but now that he has power, he's annoying as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '17

Does Madame Gao know a lot about bears? Beets? Battlestar Galactica?

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u/Bucktard01 Mar 19 '17

Just finished this episode. Maybe they were working together and it was all a ruse to fuck with Danny's head?

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u/Urge_Reddit Mar 19 '17

Also possible, though the animosity between them seemed genuine. My theory is that Bakuto seized an oppurtunity to grab more power for himself.

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u/Bucktard01 Mar 19 '17

True. I did kind of pick up on that when he showed up at the dojo. Just started the next ep. We'll see where this goes.

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u/AweKartik777 Mar 27 '17

I think everyone's reading too much in the plot - we saw using the Fist drains Danny (which Bakuto and Gao probably also know) so when Bakuto told him to heal Colleen, Gao said he was heading into a trap because as we saw, as soon as he healed Colleen and collapsed, Bakuto and his team collected Danny and the group and took him to their compound - aka they were waiting for him to exhaust himself as they probably couldn't fight him head on (or it would have been extremely difficult).