Irisa (Stephanie Leonidas) tries to get away from Irzu's (Katie Douglas) influence and break the deal she made with her because she does not want to kill anymore, but she fails.
Nolan gets there in time to stop the fight and later, Amanda goes to Niles (James Murray) to ask for some of the Blue Devil he has in his office.
Alak visits Datak at the E-Rep Camp to inform him about Christie's pregnancy and ask his permission to step out of the family business and concentrate on music.
Datak denies him that when he realizes that his fears that Stahma keeps him in prison so she can have power and money are true, he gets furious.
Yewll agrees to start working on her project that is on the diary but refuses to do anything more that has to do with Irisa and also puts as term Datak's release to be her assistant.
The aesthetics of the Castithan house, with its pure white and its cleanliness shaking the dirt off of Datak, add even more weight.
And as Irisa and Amanda struggle with their personal demons, the show is making better use of its full cast as it did in Season 1".
[4] Billy Grifter of Den of Geek gave a good review to the episode saying that the second season has some interesting new story threads and character developments to follow.
"Having laid out the new status quo and character motivations in the first two episodes, in The Cord And The Ax the writers set out on a destructive path to destabilise just about every cosy structure they’d previously created.