The following contains spoilers for Episode 3 of Cobra Kai Season 6!
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The stakes were already high in the final season of Cobra Kai . The Sekai Taikai is rapidly approaching, John Kreese is planning his next big moves behind the scenes and… Johnny’s working at the dealership? (We were just as surprised as you, trust.) But no one was expecting the Episode 3 revelation that shakes Daniel to his core and “sets the character off his axis,” according to Ralph Macchio.
While preparing Miyagi’s dojo for Chozen to move in, Daniel, Amanda and Chozen unearth a hidden floor board under the bed housing an entire box full of buried secrets. Inside is yet another of Miyagi’s mysterious scrolls, but that’s not all! They also find a newspaper article from 1947 chronicling a police hunt for robbery suspect Keisuke Miyagi, and a passport that lists the sensei’s name as such. ( Karate Kid fans will recall his name as Nariyoshi.) His birthday on the document is also wrong, or at least not what Daniel was told as a teen. When they visit address on the passport (which is now a boxing gym), they meet a man who claims his grandfather was friends with Miyagi, until the sensei fled the States after stealing a valuable necklace.
All of these reveals are almost too much for Daniel to bear, and never knowing Miyagi’s full story makes him question his entire youth and karate upbringing. Was Miyagi a good man or was he a guy who lied to Daniel about his identity for years?
“[Daniel] questions why he was never told of this, and instinctively, [his reaction] becomes knee jerk in a way,” Macchio tells TVLine in the video embedded above. “He goes down this path of wanting to learn more. He says in a scene in Episode 3, ‘Why didn’t you tell me the truth?’ He’s talking to a picture of Miyagi. ‘I know there are things that I’ll never know, but how come you just weren’t upfront with me?’ That sets him off on this path of trying to understand these things and the deeper he dives, the more concerning and alarming it may be, whether it’s the truth or not. All of a sudden, your mind starts playing tricks on you, and now your mentor is not all you thought he was.
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While Daniel begins to spiral, he’s simultaneously trying to hold it together and mentor his students who are training for the upcoming international tournament. Whether he’ll be able to handle everything on his plate and be the sensei his kids need remains to be seen.
“Daniel has, from the very beginning of the series, tried to emulate Mr. Miyagi and tried to teach Miyagi-Do philosophy to the next generation, and the big issue has been [that] his mentor isn’t there to help him in that quest,” says co-creator and executive producer Hayden Schlossberg. “When he finds information about Mr. Miyagi’s past that doesn’t sync up with the man he knew, it throws him. It puts Daniel in a bad headspace at a time when the students need him the most. As the season goes on, he’s going to learn more and more, and we’ll find out whether it’s something that alleviates him or makes it even worse.”
Thoughts on Daniel’s findings? Any predictions about Mr. Miyagi’s past? Watch the full video above, then drop some comments !
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