Let's review Ironheart Episode 3 - You in Danger, Girl

Are, so we start off with the gang playing with all the money they recently gained when pulled off their last job. Clown, in a weird editing situation where she was just talking but then comes down from upstairs, comes down in the Hood's cloak.

When this happens the room gets dark in mood. Everyone is worried about it when, suddenly, Cancer shows up out of nowhere and slams Clown's face into a table getting it off her. But not before she says the cloak is weirdly hot. Temp wise.

I do sort of like that parallel with Riri owning a power suit that Hood can't understand and vice versa. It's a clever contradiction and it's nice to see Marvel finally playing tech versus magic as it's usually pretty fun watching how one deals with the other.

"McGillicutty" shows up at Riri's door, he explains a bunch of things and ideas that he has in his head for things that the tech could be used for which, honestly, is some REALLY good ideas for how the sort of tech Riri designs could ACTUALLY help people medically. Riri is all about the money now and sort of disappoints McGillicutty.

She then goes to her room where Natalie guilts Riri into saying she needs to go out and about with her. Riri designs a necklace that allows Natalie to project in the real world without needing the suit. Though, from a basic scientific standpoint I have a LOT of problems with that necklace projector, esptecially with how often her hoodie strings pass in front of the projector without it disrupting Nat.

This seen with Nat and Riri is actually really well done. Natalie grew on me like a five o'clock shadow. She knows that she's an AI but also REALLY feels like Natalie and kinda wants the respect. Their hang out stops at the Auto Shop where Nat dies and Riri has a full on panic attack where Nat talks her down. It's a genuinely touching moment.

She gets home and find officers at her door, letting her know that Rampage is dead. Instead of running and getting out, she decides that during the night's heist, she's going to try to steal a piece of The Hood's...hood. She decides she's going to upgrade one of McGillicutty's designs for the heist and Natalie points out that it's SUPER convenient that his prototype works so well for this.

Meanwhile, back at The Hood's place, Hood and Cancer are talking about possibly cancelling the plans for the night. A LOT of foreshadowing about the job potentially going wrong.

While this is happening, Riri and McGillicutty have a debate about his biotech while also removing stuff from dude's arm. While going through his stuff, Riri accidentally spills a massive bag of powder which turns out to be his father's ashes. In a bag labelled, "Obadiah S" which...son of a...is he? Is this dude Ezekiel Stane?

Ezekiel Stane's biotech armor suit in the Marvel comics

Yup. We find out that he is, in fact, Ezekiel Stane (because that family is batshit with naming kids). Riri realizes who his dad is and mentioned that the public story was that Obadiah died in a plane crash and Ezekiel (which is somehow harder to type than McGillicutty) let's her know the truth, that his dad died trying to kill Tony Stark and that he desperately wants nothing to do with his legacy.

It creates a weird bonding moment between the two where Riri talks about her dead but awesome stepdad and Zeke talks about his dead but insane bio-dad. She tells him about how her stepdad died in a drive-by which infuriates me because, if you read my coverage of the first episode, you know that I'm already pissed that errant bullets killed two people in the back corner of a shop, but now we know that both of them were hit via moving vehicle as well? GodDAMN.

There is a moment though where Zeke was saying he was jealous that Riri had such a positive role model when all he had was a...wait for it..."Iron Monger". Which is nice that we finally got the comic accurate name of the suit in the MCU.

The bonding works in Riri's favor because it convinces Zeke to let her use his "bio-mesh" invention so that she can hide weaponry which, hilariously, is only in a caucasian skin tone.

Meanwhile, at the heist, their plan of being sneaky is doing alright despite the fact that their high end hacking and robot suit tech usage is just a lead in for the Blood Siblings coming in and being loud as fuck as they hit security into large metal objects with incredibly loud attacks that, in a normal world, would alert damn near EVERYONE.

The Hood finally gets to Hunter Mason. And while Riri decides to steal a piece of the cloak, Hunter decides, unlike the TNNL lady, he's not taking the deal. And while they start burning his place down, Riri gets a little overzealous trying to cut the cloak and it triggers the foreign object scanner which locks the crew in.

Hunter stands up to The Hood which seems like it would go well until The Hood gets made, the Buffy whispers start up, and The Hood goes invisible, picks Hunter up into the air and snaps his neck. Meanwhile, the crew is trying to get out which leads to HILARIOUS moments of the Blood Siblings trying to break out with some of the fakest WWE attacks I've ever seen.

Back at The Hood, Riri tries sneaking out via airduct while The Hood takes out the entire security crew a few at a time while Riri finds herself trapped in the vents as security closes down the vent hatches. If everything isn't already going poorly, Riri hurts her leg coming out of a vent and then runs into Cancer who discovers that Riri stole a cloak piece. He decides he's going to kill her with the knives that, if you remember, he's super good at despite not ever using them for everything.

The two eventually figure out that the oxygen is going as he suffocates in the room and Riri leaves him for dead which I'd totally believe if it wasn't for the fact that the director made it a point to show Riri dropping her welding laser in the same greenhouse.

At least Cancer never got to look as stupid as he did in the comics.

But now the team also doesn't know that Riri had stolen the cloak piece. But also...The Hood is PISSED. If you couldn't tell, it's also suddenly a thunderstorm so...if you can't figure out things are bad there is nothing else we can do for you.

Afterwards, Riri makes it home where she's struggling to not freak out about having killed Cancer, then freaks out even worse as she realizes she lost both her specially designed laser AND the experimental biomesh at the scene like a special evidence care package.

Meanwhile, back at The Hood's place, The Hood is screaming to whatever powers him about Cancer being dead and says he's done. The demon decides to show him images of Cancer, his cousin, choking to death. He thinks the scene is to torment him until the demonic presence reveals that it's basically showing him EVERY part of how his cousin died, including the fact that Ironheart was more in the room where it happens than Hamilton.

So we end with the knowledge that The Hood knows about Ironheart leading to his cousin's death, and Ironheart knowing about The Hood's violence. Good end to act one.

Honestly, this was a lot better than the others. Still not the kind of action I'd expect from superhero in suit versus demonic magic, but it's getting better. Plus, Cancer was REALLY annoying. I'm gonna do an 8/10 on this one since it gave me hope for the series.