Professor Horatio Piper
stares up in fascination at the large statue of Mow and the spike trap that
nearly killed Becky just days earlier. He tells Micah Synn that he’s set up an
interview for the following day. On his way out, Debbie tries to get Piper’s
attention from another room but she’s pulled back inside. Piper chooses to turn
a blind eye to what’s right in front of him, as Synn confirms with the Vikah
that a trap they set for Daredevil is ready to proceed. At that moment,
Daredevil scopes out an abandoned subway station, his radar sense alerting him
to four of Synn’s men waiting in the station, with one hidden in the bushes
nearby. Daredevil had heard from one of Kingpin’s informants that the Kingorge
would be there with evidence of their criminal activity. Knowing it’s a trap,
Daredevil jumps down the hole into the station and encounters the men. He hits
the lights, giving him more of an advantage, and takes out the four Kingorge,
when the last drops a torch into the hole, setting the whole place ablaze!
Daredevil is able to wrap
his swingline around a lamp post up top to haul the four Kingorge men out of
the fire. The final one flees and ends up being stopped by the Kingpin.
Daredevil relays that there was no evidence after all, and it ends up being reported
that Synn’s men were led there and framed by the Kingpin! Back at his
penthouse, Micah Synn waxes about the usefulness of lying, while Debbie is made
to scrub the floors. Debbie tries talking with Micah’s remaining wife M’Lee
about her situation. She claims she eventually found Foggy boring, and was
attracted to Micah because he’s everything that Foggy isn’t. She thinks she’s
bonding a bit with M’Lee who doesn’t register a thing she said and dumps the
bucket of water on her head. Meanwhile, Piper walks with his colleague, happy
about the $10,000 advance check he got for the book he plans to write on Micah
and the Kingorge. They end up walking by a crime in progress and Piper’s friend
ends up getting shot and killed!
Piper walks back to his
apartment, depressed, where Daredevil is waiting for him. Daredevil warns him
not to continue blinding himself to the evil Micah Synn has been committing,
telling him that he’s better than that. Daredevil reports back to the Kingpin,
unsure if his pep talk for Piper was effective but figured it was worth a shot.
As he leaves, he overhears Kingpin discussing plans to take him out as soon as
things with Synn are finished! Daredevil’s words ended up hitting home, as
Piper sets a fire as a distraction at Micah’s penthouse, and gives Debbie the
key to escape out of the back stairwell. She runs back to Foggy, telling him
everything that happened, and what a fool she’s been. Not long after, Matt
arrives back at the office, where Becky tells him that Synn’s restraining order
against Daredevil is going to be lifted! Debbie told everyone what happened,
painting Micah Synn as the criminal he is, and Foggy went to give Micah a piece
of his mind. Knowing how dangerous Synn is, Matt rushes out to reach Synn’s
penthouse as soon as possible.
At Synn’s penthouse,
Micah finds Piper’s burnt check as the cause of the fire. He chases Piper,
knowing he was the perpetrator. Piper ends up getting blocked off by Synn’s
men, and ends up running right under the spike trap that was to be used for the
sacrifice, and is killed when it falls on top of him! Foggy gets there just
after and discovers the scene. Daredevil rushes in and stops the Kingorge from
killing Foggy. He takes them all out, including the Vikah, while demanding to
know where Micah Synn ran off to. Foggy points out that the Vikah is mute and
that they won’t learn anything from him. The two of them mourn Professor Piper,
while Daredevil points out that his death will at least be something that they
can pin on Synn and his men, and reinforcing that in the end, Piper proved that
he was better than all of them! To be concluded!
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