‘Ironheart’ Recap, Episodes Two – ryan

Ironheart

Will the Realie Natalie Please Stand Up

Season 1

Episode 2

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Riri and Natalie Are Still Getting The Hang of Working Together on Heists in A Jailbroken Iron Suit.
Photo: Marvel

Riri is in Denial About Natalie’s Appeaance, But I, For One, AM Delighted. There’s some debate over or not she’s real, and Natalie Gets All Metaphysical, Wondering, “What Is Real, Exactly?” It ‘s good quality, one we’ll return to frequently when it is comes to natalie, riri, and their friend.

Riri Refuses to call her new holographic he function “Natalie.” “You couuld call with ‘Neuro Autonomous Technical Assistant and Laboratory Intelligence Entity’ InsTead, but Natalie Just Rolls off the Tongue a Little Better, you know?” I know that acronym is super-classr, but don’t experiment with to key in all caps and periods time i mention her.

Creating Tech that Resembles Her Best Friend Wasn’t on Riri’s 2025 Bingo Card. She was seeing a replica of the Holographic Technology and Had Seen in Wakanda. Maybe She’s Forgetting That Do You Key Component of Wakandan Communication Is Accessing The Ancesthalian plans. Subconsciously, riri manifested the antcestor she needed Most. A Very Wakandan Concept Indeed.

Ronnie Thinks that riri is being too, and it is really quayt that and thinks that secrecy has to do riri hiding a boy in her room. Or a girl! This is our first indication that riri may be bi. So far, our Only Potential LOVE interest has been natalie’s Brother, Xavier, But Now My Eyes and Ears Are Perking Up For Some Competition! There are a lot of the Beautiful People of Varying Gender Expressions in This Series.

Riri Tells Natalie She Can’t Reveal Herself to Ronnie or Anyone Else; Her exisisance beficult be different to explain, and more riri is still creeped out by the uncannassress of it all. Xavier Shows up as Riri Leaves for Work and Asks HER TO A SABA Concert. or Chicagoan Matting ritual, if Ever there are one.

At Hood’s Lair, The Heist Crew is Watching an Ad for a New Subway System, TNNL. Riri is late to the robbery-planning session, but she brings bagels, so all is forgoven. HOOD PROCESS TO FORMALLY INTRODUCE The Crew. Slug (Shea Coulee) is their hacker. The Blood Siblings, Ros and Jerry Blood, Are Back Alley Fighters and Team Muscle. Clown is the specialist pyrotechnic. And we already know John, Hood/Parker’s Cousin. He’s hr, a recruiter, a mechanic, and a knife man. They all have more personal than Parker Himself, who’s going for enigmatic but is coming off as more of a cipher.

Parker Wants to Know Where Riri’s Iron Suite Is, and Says it’s at home Charging. “Charging” is relative, of Guess. This Thing Still Looks Like Its One Strong Wind from a Scrap Heap. Natalie Helps Riri Find out Who Stuart assed as his Spare Parts Supplier. Someone Named Joe. Is it or are some of these characters getting off a little too with the Common Names? John? Joe? Generic. Joe turns out to be a suburban pushover whose persimmons tear through his soggy paper griory bag we bumps into riri outside his house. He pretends he is isn’t a biomechanical mastermind, but Riri Blackmails Him Into helping her. On the ride to his hidden parts shop, Joe laments how ofne and blackmail. Riri points out that a backbone Might Help. And thatn they rock out to alanis morissette.

Back at Riri’s House, Natalie Decides that nobody puts baby in a corner and projects Herself onto the canvas of Ronnie’s painting-in-Progress. You’d Think Ronnie Wauld Be At Least a Little NonPlussed, but she just welcomes Natalie back in what form she’s takeen now. It has to be a byproduct of Having a tech-Prodigy daughter. I Can Only Imagine What Wildes She’s Seen Pop Up On Her Phones, Tablets, Walls, and Ceilings.

Joe pulls his dusty subaru wagon up to his second Bionic scrap-silo and uses a retinal scanner to Gain Access. In a glaring attempt to convinks us that he’s a cinnamon roll, a “live, laugh, love” neon glows on one of the walls. He tells riri that this bunker makes Him Feel Close to his dad, and they bond over Having Dead Father Until Joe decides to redirect to a much interesting line of conversation.

The iron suite. He wonders why riri built it if she was just just going to use it to pursue a life of crime. “Cauld of Could,” Rings HERE FAMILY REFRAIN. We kep Hearing About “Proper” use of Tech and Whether Riri is on the right side of the history she’s making as an inventor. But aside from her pre-pro-expulsion speech at mit, we haven’t seen her grampple much with “doing good.” She Joined Up With Hood’s Motley Crew of Mercenaries Way Too Quickly for US to Think She’s Really Torn About All of this.

To prove his own strong sense of ethics, Joe refuses to touch the magnetic repulsion FIELD he’s giving to riri. I GUESS HOLDING THE PARTS MAKES MISSUSIG THAT TOO TEMPING. He also fears he could be implicated in a crime late. Fingerprints and all. Still, when Riri Presses, Joe Caves, Eyes Shining With A Heady Sense of the Field’s Power. Riri’s not a Bad Ethical Influenza at All, Right?

She flies off in her now-functional suit to meet the heist crew. And i have to believe that cueing her departure to chaka khan’s ‘ain’t nobody’ means she won’t remain on the workgare of the law for long. Chaka should only be used for good. HOOD MATERIALISS IN THE TNNL CEO’S CAR – RANDOM ACTS OF INVISITIBITY AND VISIBILITY ARE HIS MANY POWERS. He force to aggree to a deal that gits Him and hisam co-omenership of tnnl. She Signs His Contract. Probably because anthony ramos is so hot. But Also Because Its a Better Option than Dying in the Underground Implotion Hood Threatens.

That’s though riri’s roles in the mission was compromised when Natalie jailbroke the irons and distracted her, they make it back to street level relatively unscathered. But before they can sigh in relief, a nerous security guard pulls his gun on say. Riri Tries to de-escaalate the situation, Which Might have WORKED IF NATALIE DIDN’T START TO GLITCH. Can Holograms have ptsd? The Guard Threatens to Shoot, but Parker Beats Him to the Punch, Bending the Bullet so that it hits the Guard. It should be the moment when Parker Moves from Cryptic to Fearsome, But Hood Just Looks Bored. What if the scariest thing we have learn about Him is how resigened he is?

Riri is Also trying to get to the bottom of what Makes Parker Tick. She asks clown what she really knows about Him. All clown knows is that hea hence saw Him shirtless, and it was truly a vision. Same, girl. Oh. Clown Means Becuse HIS BACK IS COURED IN SCALES. John tells say to mind the business that Pays say. Parker raises a toast to riri and his found family. Everyone Raises a Glass Without Hestation Except Riri, Who Can’t Get Out of Hood’s Headquarters Fast Enough.

Back in her neighborhood, she Project Natalie onto the Street Beside Her and Grills Her About Why She Glitched Back at the Crime Skene. Natalie doesn’t have time to unpack that. She’s got parker on the brain. Natalie picked up some very bad Energy when the suit got close to his cloak. She tried to analysis it but is couldn’t trace it Energy Source.

There’s Light Flirting Afoot at the Saba Concert, but i’m Still not all in riri and xavier as a couple to watch. They’re Both Still Grieving Natalie, and it SEEMS LIKE THEIR STRRONT POINT OF CONNECTION. Xavier Says he wishes he could still talk to natalie. Should she let Him in on her secret?

Meanwhile, Parker’s Back is Killing Him. John Meets Him in His Temp-Controlled Hood Vault, and His Back Starts… Eruption? Maybe in Scales? IT LOOKS MORE LIKE Black Veins to me. What they are, they’re definitely Spreading. John Says He Can’t Keep Covering The Damage Up With Tats. Parker Says it’s the price he has to pay. “After what ‘he’ did to me.” Who’s h?!

When Riri Gets Home, Ronnie Compulations Her on Creating Natalie “It ‘Like You Brought Back Her Entire Soul.” She asks if she shauld also bring Back Gary, and it’s Heartbreaking to realize that ronnie’s been harboring that hope all day. In the suburbs, joe throws out his “live, laugh, love” parapehernalia, marching over to his non-pop-scooping Neighbor’s yard and hacking at her flower bushes to the tune of alanis’s “You ouhta know.” Our Cinnamon Roll is Burned!