Foggy and Karen meet the District Attorney, who wants to meddle with their client, but Foggy’s not having it and has one of his signature, “In case you forgot, I’m actually an incredible lawyer,” moments, which she’s not thrilled with. Mentions that Daredevil vigilante copycats have become pretty common, covering all of our “Daredevil is basically Batman” bases as the series movies forward. This leads to more friendship angst, but everyone gets on with their day anyway as Foggy and Karen try to keep their new client safe.

That leaves Foggy to frantically find Matt’s unconscious body on a rooftop the next morning and get him home at the beginning of the second episode. Of course, Matt shows up as Daredevil to save the day just in time, which he does before he gets shot by Punisher, because for some reason having a gun pulled on him at a short distance puts a stop to him, unlike the beginning of the episode. Matt eventually tracks down a barely-living Punisher victim hanging from a meat hook in a freezer who clues him in that whoever’s going around shooting up criminals is just one guy-basically introducing Punisher like a horror movie monster-and that one guy shows up at the hospital where Karen is keeping watch over their client/his intended victim.Ī chase through the hospital ensues, and Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle/Punisher is pretty much perfect. This first episode very much feels like a re-introduction to the standard street-level superheroics of Daredevil, but with good reason: as the gang goes through their normal paces, there’s an undercurrent of something more sinister and dangerous than they’re used to going on, and things are about to change.

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