Iron Fist related

[sholio]

Hi, I had a terrible thought I felt compelled to share, which is this:

It's canonically plausible and even likely that video exists of Harold abusing Ward. We know Harold had cameras everywhere, and while I don't think there's a point in the show when camera views are actually shown of Harold's penthouse (other than the approach to it), as a Came-Back-Wrong paranoid control freak, it's not unreasonable that he would've wanted it as a security measure, as blackmail material against the Hand or just a backup recording of events in case things went sideways. Or, heck, Harold being Harold, recording it on purpose to maintain control of Ward isn't unreasonable either. (I mean, by his standards.)

Which means those recordings could easily exist, and therefore, there are two possibilities I can think of for what happened to them:

- Ward deleted them himself, which means he knows they exist and probably had to spot-check the contents, or:

- They still exist on some hidden backup server of Harold's somewhere, and could be stumbled onto at any time by anyone.

Comments

[rachelmanija]

They could both be true - Ward spot-checked and deleted them, only to discover that there was a duplicate set on a hidden server when someone else stumbled upon them.

[sholio]

I appreciate that I came up with something terrible and you made it worse. This is true friendship.

[recessional]

In regards to the question elsethread: this makes the best story.

[booksarelife]

Seconding this comment!

[sovay]

I appreciate that I came up with something terrible and you made it worse. This is true friendship.

This is a beautiful marriage of comment and icon.