6th most-quoted character in Iron Fist: in 8 of its 65 quotes
Most scenes with: Danny Rand (5), Colleen Wing (2)
Scenes with Bakuto 8
Bakuto
You weren't taught how to recharge your qi?
Let's just say my training went a little sideways.
Bakuto
Fair enough, then step this way. Just follow my lead. I've studied many traditions, so you'll recognize most of the moves, but in this order they're gonna take you somewhere else. I call it harnessing the Five Elemental Energies.
[Bakuto and Danny start doing tai chi]
Bakuto
Why are you frowning?
Bakuto
But you are. Our bodies always give away our inner truth. Release whatever's binding you: pain, lack, fear, and replace it with energy, abundance, trust. You are rooted, tied to the force that binds all life. Let it course through you. Let it replace everything that is broken.
Bakuto
Colleen has spoken to me about you quite a bit.
That's funny, she's never mentioned you.
Bakuto
She's just being protective. Does that bother you?
No, but why keep all of this a secret?
Bakuto
There's a difference between "secret" and "secure". You see, we take in people from all walks of life who need safety. They need that because their lives were complicated, even dangerous sometimes. Because of that, we try and keep a low profile. We give them a safe have, and much more.
Bakuto
Well, each person needs a purpose, something to believe in, a place to belong, a community that can help you become all that you can be.
Bakuto
[laughing] Yes, just like the Girl Scouts, so be prepared.
Bakuto
I don't need a guard Danny, I need a partner. With you at my side, no one would stand against us. The Gaos of the world would be destroyed.
So what do you know about Gao?
Bakuto
I've been trying to stop her for a long time. I have seven students here rehabbing from her drugs. When you ask me what's in it for me, that's what it is. There are Gaos everywhere. I need you to train and lead a group of people who will take care of those that our culture's left behind: The marginalized and forgotten. People like Colleen, people like you.
:[laughing] Come on, I'm a billionaire.
Bakuto
Is that how you feel? Inside? You know you don't fit in at Rand. I've read the news, you can use help there as well. I can provide that, but your destiny is here, doing something only you can do.
[being led strapped to a chair] Is this detention, huh? Why won't you answer me?
Bakuto
Because I ordered them not to, and you taught your students how to respect the chain of command, something you seem to have forgotten.
Bakuto, what the hell is this?
Bakuto
You were supposed to tell me when you found Danny. I blame myself for this.
Bakuto, I believe in The Hand!
Bakuto
I don't know if I believe in you. Not anymore. You've let Danny infect you with doubt about our cause, and there's no cure for that.
Bakuto
We are living in a new age, where governments aren't the true controllers of man's destinies. It's corporations like Rand Enterprises that govern the world.
So you want to run Rand, like Gao?
Bakuto
No, not like Gao. She's all stick and no carrot. I want you in charge, because Harold has become−
Bakuto
He can't be trusted. Our relationship would be more... quid pro quo.
Bakuto
This is all very touching, but... time is up. [draws his sword] This blade has cut down kings, emperors, lords and tyrants. If you would've told me I might use it on a... businessman−
Well, I wouldn't want to desecrate the integrity of your blade.
Bakuto
Hmm. [swings and misses on purpose] You're not going to want to move Harold. I don't want to have to swing twice. Any last words?
Yeah. Ward, I invested my life into you, to raise you to be a great man. You've been the biggest disappointment of my life. Joy, I apologize for choosing Ward over you, it was a mistake. Never trust him again. Joy, I love you.
Bakuto
Those people upstairs are a pit of vipers. You should thank me for getting you away from them.
What use do you have for the Iron Fist?
Bakuto
When I was a child, my mother told me the story of the Sack Man, a sort of boogeyman who shows up at disobedient children's homes and steals them away in his sack to sell them. It's nonsense really, but it kept us in line, nobody wanted to be captured by him.
So what? You want your own personal Sack Man?
Bakuto
Not just mine. There's someone in our organization who's very anxious to work with you. We're going to change the world. The promises I've made you are still in place. I'll help you realign your qi, so you can access the Iron Fist again. I'll help you become what you were meant to be.
I don't even know what I'm meant to be, how are you going to help?
[raises her sword to kill Bakuto, but stops herself] You were right Bakuto, I never was cut out to be Hand.
If we kill him, we're no better than them.
So, what? We call the police?
We have enough on him, he'll be the first leader of The Hand to ever get arrested.
Danny, we do what we came to do.
Bakuto
Is this really who you want to be? A living weapon? An assassin for K'un-Lun? Is that what your father had in mind for you, when he was raising you to be Danny Rand? If you kill me, then all you'll ever be is K'un-Lun's Iron Fist, in a long line of living weapons, whose only purpose is to be used by others.
[speaking Chinese] We stay the course. [stabs Bakuto in the heart]
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