Ironheart - Episode 6

6. The Past Is the Past

FLASHBACK: Mephisto (Sacha Baron Cohen) helps Parker out of his predicament by offering him a Faustian deal: a tool in the form of a magical cloak in exchange for something that he wouldn’t miss. Zeke is held against his will at Parker’s mansion, his programming hacked to protect Parker at all costs. Riri finally completes her new magic-infused suit and heads to the pizza place where she squares off with Zeke and implants a virus on him to override his programming and have him reboot. He thanks her but tells her they aren’t quite done with their beef yet. Riri confronts Parker and her suit’s magic element undoes Parker’s invisibility. After successfully getting possession of the cloak, she leaves a “de-magic’ed” Parker in their once HQ. She finds Mephisto waiting for her downstairs and he tempts her to make a similar deal with him. Her heart’s greatest desire is obviously to bring Natalie back to life. She agrees. As she hugs her newly-resurrected BFF, veiny tattoos start to creep through her arms similar to those of Parker’s.

Ironheart - Episode 5

5. Karma's a Glitch

The mom’s friend’s witchy daughter assumes that Dormammu might be powering Parker’s cloak, pretty much like what Kaecilius was doing in Doctor Strange. Parker puts out a kill order on Riri. N.A.T.A.L.I.E. in control of the suit sits atop a government building with a full on existential crisis, which makes it easy for the suit to be captured by Slug. Riri manages to fend off Clown, Jeri, and Roz through improvisation, while N.A.T.A.L.I.E. breaks out of bondage right in time to save Riri as Slug is about to ram a van on her. A newly upgraded Zeke appears and zaps Riri, tearing her suit apart short of killing her. He tells her to get out of Chicago before Parker finds out she isn’t dead. Zeke decides to run off but Parker has all his tech hacked, giving him full control over him as his new puppet, just as the gang disbands after they find out that Parker killed their previous tech guy. Riri gets help from everyone to devise a new suit, enlisting mom’s friend’s witchy daughter’s help to infuse it with magic, which overwhelms the suit and erases N.A.T.A.L.I.E. before she can be fully downloaded.

Ironheart - Episode 4

4. Bad Magic

Parker holds a mini eulogy for cousin John at the pizza place and tells Riri he has plans for her. He later dismisses her saying that he is getting a new tech guy. Riri gets paranoid analyzing the patch of fabric from Parker’s cloak, discovering that it seems to be heat combustion at work but can’t determine where the energy is coming from. Her paranoia prompts her mom to take her to her friend’s sweets shop who turns out to be a Kamar-Taj drop out with a daughter engaged in witchcraft. They magically transport mother and daughter to their witchy workshop in a parallel dimension and magically analyze the patch of Parker’s hood. What they find out makes them panic, advising Riri about bad magic and how she should stay away from whoever owns that hood. Ezekiel is implicated in the HEIRLUM heist and detained. Parker breaks him out of prison and takes him back to their HQ. Ezekiel undergoes a procedure he designed himself to “upgrade himself”. N.A.T.A.L.I.E. fetches her brother when Riri has a panic attack. He isn’t pleased with what Riri did to his dead sister’s memory.

Ironheart - Episode 3

3. We in Danger, Girl

The gang’s next target is biotech company Heirlum, but John is hesitant. Even then, Parker gets his way. Heirloom’s HQ is composed of multiple greenhouses that activate an alarm upon detection of anything metal, which means Riri’s suit is a no-go. Police find her in her mother’s house for questioning regarding the death of the gang’s former tech guy, and she becomes paranoid. Joe invites Riri over to his house and she discovers that his real name is Ezekiel and is actually Stark Industries’ ex-COO Obadiah Stane’s son. She borrows his biomesh tech to sneak in a piece of metal device at Heirlum HQ so she could covertly extract a patch of Parker’s hood and analyze its energy signature. The CEO of Heirlum refuses to be blackmailed and is killed by Parker. Riri gets a patch of Parker’s cloak but the alarm is triggered, trapping everyone. John finds Riri with a piece of the cloak and a fight ensues. N.A.T.A.L.I.E. in control of the suit rescues everyone except John who is left to suffocate in one of the greenhouses. Riri drops and leaves Ezekiel’s tech behind, probably incriminating him.

Ironheart - Episode 2

2. Will the Real Natalie Please Stand Up?

Parker introduces Riri to his crew: drag queen and once Madripoor-based hacker Slug (Shea Couleé); pyrotechnics specialist Clown (Sonia Denis); brawny siblings Jeri (Zoe Terakes) and Roz (Shakira Barrera); and Parker’s cousin John (Manny Montana) who is good at throwing knives. Riri is still adjusting to Natalie being her new AI and is also trying to find prospective lab owners through the black market which leads her to Joe (Alden Ehrenreich), whom she blackmails and leads her to his covert lab under a silo storage space. There, Riri completes her new suit and Natalie forces herself to be its AI after a jailbreak operation from Riri’s laptop. The gang’s first mission with Riri is to hack and disrupt the test run of a tunnel car transport system under Chicago run by the company TNNL. The CEO is blackmailed by Parker after he glimmers into her car and forces her to sign an agreement putting all of them in the company’s payroll with monthly six figure salaries. Natalie warns Riri about Parker’s energy which she cannot pin down to any found on Earth.

Ironheart - Episode 1

1. Take Me Home

After her “internship in Wakanda” Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) goes back to MIT to continue her studies. While the inspiration is there, the cash just isn’t. She sells fully-working projects to other tech students to fund her own tech projects, something the academic community does not tolerate. Riri is expelled and heads back to Chicago flying in the Iron Man inspired suit she made on her own. The machine falls apart just as she is about to land, and her mother’s coming-home welcome is that of mixed disappointment and concern. As she is haggling for scraps at the local junk shop, she is recruited by some neighborhood thugs working for gang leader Parker Robbins (Anthony Ramos), who easily convinces her when he dangles a wad of cash from a box. His modus operandi is petty theft and burglary, and the team needs Riri to replace their tech guy. As Riri creates another Iron Man suit from scratch in her mom’s kitchen, an overnight brain scan produces N.A.T.A.L.I.E. (Lyric Ross) as her in-suit AI, modeled after her dead best friend.