Matt Murdock awakens with
a start, trying to convince himself that Elektra could be alive. Though he
initially reminds himself that she died in his arms, his denial takes over and
he starts to reason that the Hand could have taught Elektra methods of forestalling,
or even faking, death. He suits up as Daredevil and heads out into the night to
find answers, and possibly Elektra herself! Meanwhile, at Ryker’s Island
Penitentiary, the Punisher is attacked in the showers by three men. He quickly
and easily kills them all. We then cut to sometime later, as the Punisher is
working out in his cell. He’s approached by a member of an unspecified agency
who tells him about a large narcotics shipment going on in New York the
following night. He’s been instructed by his superiors to do nothing about this
but reasons that the Punisher could covertly handle it, and plans to break him
out of prison for that purpose.
Elsewhere, Heather Glenn
is shown a new document by her board of directors to better maximize their
assets. She doesn’t really understand all of the details and asks if she can
show it to Matt before she approves anything. All the while, her board secretly
plans to take Glenn Industries for themselves. Meanwhile, Daredevil beats up
some guys in a bar, who tell him that the Kingpin is planning a summit for the
other big mob bosses. Matt heads to his office and has Becky go over the
coroner’s report on Elektra, looking for anything to suggest she could be
alive. Becky is astonished but Matt convinces himself that it could have been
the wrong body. Heather stops by and Matt rather rudely brushes her off,
demanding that Becky continue with her detailing of the report. Heather storms
out just as Foggy is arriving with a prospective client, but Heather’s anger
and Matt’s graphic questions about Elektra’s corpse scare the client off. Foggy
angrily asks Matt if he’s lost his mind, and a silence falls. All Matt can muster
is a quiet, “I don’t know.” He leaves while Foggy and Becky look worriedly on.
Back at Ryker’s, Turk and
Grotto attempt to escape while it’s pitch dark out. Their escape attempt
coincides with the Punisher’s own orchestrated escape, and Turk grabs onto the
ladder of the Punisher’s helicopter. Grotto is much smarter and decides to stay.
The Punisher cuts the ladder, leaving Turk to fall into the ocean below.
Meanwhile, Daredevil goes to see the Kingpin and wants to know where he’s
hiding Elektra. Fisk asks Daredevil if he’s perhaps ill and takes the whole
thing as an odd, elaborate joke. Daredevil angrily stumbles out, while the
Kingpin assures the other mob bosses, who have just arrived, that Daredevil
knows nothing about their plans. Turns out, the narcotics shipment is naturally
their operation, and Fisk is positive it will proceed smoothly now that
Daredevil is off chasing ghosts. Later in the night, Foggy is woken up by a
call from Judge Coffin. Apparently, Matt woke him up with an order to try and
exhume Elektra’s body, prompting Foggy to go searching for his friend!
Elsewhere on Long Island,
the Punisher lies in wait for the convoy transporting the drugs. He sets wire
traps and shoots tear gas to cause the truck to veer off the road. The Punisher
quickly guns down the whole convoy, until the last person attempts to surrender.
Punisher kills him too and only afterwards does Punisher realize that he was
only a child, a young teen. He knocks out his escort to avoid going back to
prison, convinced that he’s needed more than ever, now that the enemy enlists
children. Meanwhile, now that his efforts as both Matt Murdock the lawyer and Daredevil
have failed, Matt takes a shovel and digs up Elektra’s body himself. He touches
her face and breaks down, unable to deny any longer that this is indeed
Elektra, and she’s dead. Foggy finds Matt and he tells Foggy how much he loved
Elektra as they stumble off, nothing else able to be said.