Matt Murdock fights for
his life as he groggily remembers what happened to him, and everything the
Kingpin took. After briefly flatlining, Matt’s heart starts beating once more,
as Sister Maggie rejoices that he’s alive! Meanwhile, each of the other major
players think about Matt. Karen Page travels with her companion, finally
reaching America, and thinks about Matt as the only one who can save her. The
Kingpin trains, obsessively thinking about how Matt is alive. Foggy signs on to
a new job, and he and Glori talk about how long Matt’s been missing. And
finally, still shellshocked from being threatened, Ben Urich refuses to even think
Matt Murdock’s name, cradling his broken fingers as the paramedics load
Nick Manolis onto a stretcher. Matt determines that he can’t give up, while
Karen finally reaches New York. She tries to have her escort Paulo drop her off
at Penn Station, but he’s not so eager to let her go quite yet.
Fisk finishes his
training and orders his aide Wesley to locate a dangerous operative named Nuke.
Back at their shared apartment, Ben’s wife Doris worries that he may be killed,
and Ben urges her not to say or even think Matt’s name. As Matt heals, his rib
back in place, and the bleeding stopped, he uses his senses to try and
ascertain where he is. He determines that he’s still in Hell’s Kitchen, in the
basement mission of a church. He tries to get up but finds he has no energy and
Sister Maggie forces him back into bed. Elsewhere, while Paulo is asleep, a
scared Karen gets a number for Foggy and calls him up, looking for Matt. Foggy
tells her that no one knows where Matt is, and agrees to meet up with her to
talk. At the Daily Bugle, an angry J. Jonah Jameson chews out Ben for his
decision to drop the Kingpin story. Ben doesn’t say a word as Jameson kicks Ben
out of his office, and a janitor outside tells Ben that he better keep his
mouth shut and reminds him that the Kingpin always has someone watching!
At the church, Matt
fights through a terrible fever, and notices the cross made of gold that Maggie
wears. Ben faces more issues as he can’t muster the motivation to make the
deadline for a simple puff piece, causing his editor to yell at him. While Joe Robertson
tries to figure out what’s going on with him, Ben gets a call from Manolis at
the hospital, claiming he’s ready to give his official statement on helping the
Kingpin frame Matt Murdock. Still scared and numb, Ben pretends to not know
what he’s talking about, when the nurse that attacked them before barges into
the hospital room. With the bustle of the newsroom going on all around him, the
nurse makes Ben listen to her strangle Manolis to death over the phone, as all
he can do is sit there in stunned, terrified silence! Back at the church, Matt
recognizes the gold cross and realizes that Maggie must be the woman who came
to him when he was a boy, and wonders who she really is to him.
At a social event, the
Kingpin begins to develop a plan to lure Matt out of hiding and makes a call to
a psychiatric ward. Meanwhile, Ben can’t get the image of Manolis’s death out
of his mind and stumbles his way along in a daze, as back at the church, Matt’s
fever grows ever higher. Karen meets with Foggy and tells him that she’s in
deep trouble, while he in turn tells her everything that’s been going on with
Matt. Feeling responsible but not able to tell Foggy why, Karen breaks down as
Foggy invites her to come back to his place, telling her that she and Matt are
both family. At the church, Sister Maggie prays passionately to God, asking Him
to heal and save Matt, no matter the cost. In a random park, Ben sits at a
bench, still obsessing over everything that’s happened. Then, in a powerful
moment of reflection, Ben decides to stop living in fear, to fight back, and
for the first time in a long time, speaks Matt Murdock’s name! Downtown, a
couple of Kingpin’s guys threaten Melvin Potter into making an exact replica of
Daredevil’s suit. Finally, Matt sits in his bed, his fever having miraculously
broken and asks Maggie if she’s his mother. She responds that of course she
isn’t. He smiles, because he can tell she’s lying. To be continued!
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