This landmark issue opens
with Bullseye fantasizing about just how he’s going to kill Daredevil when he
gets out of prison. As he works out in his gym, Bullseye is approached by a TV
host who wants to interview him on his show, when Bullseye suffers a severe
headache, a leftover effect from his brain surgery. Bullseye gets secured and
given a pill for the pain, imagining Daredevil working out in his own gym,
hating him for the freedom he has. During the single afternoon a week Bullseye
is allowed in the yard, another inmate approaches him. Turk tries to warn the
guy, before realizing it’s the Punisher and hauling off. The Punisher tells
Bullseye not to expect to be freed anytime soon, as the Kingpin has a new
assassin working for him. Punisher admits he’s hoping Bullseye will do
something dumb and get himself killed.
Bullseye ultimately
agrees to appear on the talk show, but before it can really start, he fakes
another headache. He spits the pill in the guard’s face and positions himself
so that the guard’s errant shot breaks his chains. Bullseye takes the TV host
hostage and blasts his way into the yard, where more guards arrive in a
helicopter to apprehend him. Bullseye obviously uses his unique skills to take
control of the helicopter and ride to freedom, while he correctly predicts that
Daredevil will hear of his escape and head out looking for him. First off
though, Bullseye wants to take care of the assassin who took his place and goes
to Eric Slaughter for information. He takes out Slaughter’s men and Slaughter
informs Bullseye about Elektra and how she’s been assigned to kill Foggy
Nelson. Bullseye does some digging on Foggy then and notices how his law
partner Matt Murdock looks an awful lot like Daredevil! While he doesn’t know
for sure, Bullseye finds the fact that Daredevil could potentially be a blind
superhero to be the funniest thing!
The next day, Bullseye
covertly attends a trial that Matt and Foggy are participating in. Matt wins
the case, and Bullseye passes by Foggy, subtly placing a tracker on him as he
does. Bullseye steals a cab to follow Foggy and soon discovers from the bug that
Elektra is driving the cab Foggy got into. Elektra drives into a secluded
parking garage in order to kill Foggy. However, when Foggy recognizes her as
Matt’s old girlfriend, she finds herself unable to kill him and tells him to
get out of there. Bullseye sneaks up on Elektra and the two engage in an epic,
no-holds-barred fight! Bullseye quickly learns not to underestimate her, as the
two go blow for blow. Eventually, Bullseye gets the upper hand, cutting
Elektra’s neck with a playing card. He then grabs one of Elektra’s discarded
sai and stabs her straight through the chest! He follows her as she stumbles
through the streets, eventually collapsing on Matt’s doorstep. Elektra dies in
Matt’s arms as Bullseye watches amidst a crowd of shocked onlookers.
Later at the morgue, Matt
and Foggy identify Elektra’s body, and Bullseye continues to watch them,
disguised as a doctor. Bullseye notices that Matt seems to recognize his voice
and decides to test his little theory. He subtly throws a scalpel at Matt which
Matt just as subtly blocks with his cane. Seeing all he needed to see, Bullseye
heads to tell the Kingpin that Matt Murdock is Daredevil! Kingpin doesn’t
believe him and tells Bullseye that he must bring him Daredevil’s body if he
wants his old job back. Planning to do that anyway, Bullseye sneaks into Matt’s
apartment where he finds Matt going over something for a case. Just then,
Daredevil intercepts him, making Bullseye think he was wrong about Matt being
Daredevil. However, we see that Matt set up a dummy of himself in order to
throw Bullseye’s suspicions off.
Daredevil chases Bullseye
outside where Bullseye grabs Elektra’s sai that he had waiting there, hoping to
have killed Matt with his lady’s weapons. He takes what he can get, as far as
he knows, and the two engage in their most brutal fight yet! They crash through
a skylight, out another window, and eventually end up on top of the El train.
They tumble off, both catching themselves on a wire, as both climb to their
feet, balancing on the wire. Daredevil just does a little hop which causes
Bullseye to lose his balance and catches him before he falls too far. Bullseye
is insulted at being saved again and goes to stab Daredevil, prompting him to
drop Bullseye several stories to the ground below. Now in traction, unable to
move or even speak, Bullseye does the only thing he can do now: think, and
hate. He thinks about Kingpin burning his file and feels content at having at
least caused Matt pain by killing Elektra, as Matt stands in the snow at
Elektra’s grave. Bullseye promises that however long it takes, he’ll pay
Daredevil back for this. Just wait…