In the Ironheart episode 3 finale, Riri Williams suffers another panic attack, because circumstances caused her to do something she never would have done in her wildest dreams. Riri had killed a man. During the Hunter Mason mission, Parker Robbins' cousin, John, discovered what Riri was up to. He caught her red-handed with a piece of his cousin's magical cloak. Riri knew these shady cousins were hiding something, and she wanted to get to the bottom of the truth by analyzing Parker's, aka the Hood, cloak and finding out more about his powers, but before she could, John tried to silence her, just as the brothers killed Rampage (presumably) to tie up loose ends.
Then Riri fought John in the locked greenhouse chamber that was rapidly filling with carbon dioxide. As they both began to suffocate, Natalie, the AI created from Riri's memories, arrived to help her and save her life. Riri, for her part, decided to leave John behind and let him suffocate to death, not wanting her secret to get out. Riri knew that if Parker found out about her little trick, he would literally kill her, just like Rampage.
Creator: Chinaka Hodge
Stars: Dominique Thorne, Anthony Ramos, Lyric Ross
So, to save her life, she had to make a difficult decision, and this particular decision will weigh heavily on her in the upcoming episodes. That said, let me speculate on everything we can expect from Ironheart Episode 4. Also, I haven't read the comics, which means my theories are strictly based on the show, but I'd love to hear your thoughts and theories in the comments, so feel free to drop by.
The ending sequence of Ironheart Episode 3 suggested that Parker had been hearing voices in his head, which seemed to be the same entity (alien or demon) that gave him the magic cloak and had taken over his body. Well, Satan or the devil himself negotiates, right? So I'm guessing Parker made a pact with an evil entity to grant his every wish, in exchange for a price. And it's not just about the magic cloak; this evil entity has also been telling him things. At the end of episode 3, whispering voices showed Parker the "giant robot" that killed John and how it happened. The final shot hinted that perhaps Parker now knows it was Riri who left her brother in the greenhouse to die, and in the upcoming episodes, he'll seek revenge for his cousin's death. This means Riri abandoned John for no apparent reason. It was a bad decision, right? She could have saved the boy's life, and he could have let things go and kept his secret.
Parker's original plan was to threaten Hunter Mason, the CEO of Heirlum Bio Technologies, and force him to sign a contract, which would have made him an anonymous co-owner of his company. Well, a similar ruse to the one he pulled on TNNL CEO Sheila Zarate. However, Hunter refused to bow down to the thief, and so Parker killed him in cold blood, which will obviously start a full-blown homicide investigation with Ezekiel Stane's biomesh and John's corpse at the center of the crime scene. During the fight with John, Riri accidentally dropped her mini-blaster, which she had brought to cut through Parker's cloak.
In Episode 3, Ezekiel told Riri that all of her black market technology could easily be traced back to him, which brought her the attention she'd been trying to avoid because her father, Obadiah Stane, was a supervillain who had tried to kill Tony Stark in the past. She didn't want her father's criminal past to overshadow her own life, which is why she warned Riri multiple times not to get involved in any crimes. But it seems like Riri just lured the police to Ezekiel's doorstep, and with how weird he is, he might end up blaming them for ruining his life.
Also, I'm not sure about this. If Marvel is doing any DNA analysis with their investigators, then that mini-laser gun probably had Riri's DNA on it, and to top it all off, the police had already contacted her for the Rampage murder investigation, which means they've already got their eyes on her. Well, I'm not surprised she had that severe panic attack in the end. Throughout the first three episodes of Ironheart, Riri's friends and supporters, particularly Natalie and Xavier, had been telling her not to mess around with going after the money for her suit, but in her childish pursuits, she ignored their advice and ended up joining a criminal gang of "Robin Hood" gangsters who steal from the tech rich. Well, a crime is a crime, which makes Riri a criminal, no matter what her reasons are for committing them.
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