Matt and the others plan to exonerate him and prove Fisk's guilt, but the derailing Poindexter chooses to take a new path in life.
Karen wakes the morning after telling Foggy what happened with Wesley; she became frustrated when he focused on legal aspects and asked him to be a friend.
She wanted him to say she's a terrible person, but he said she isn't; he just hates that his incredible friend went through something so awful alone. After recalling how she admitted it wasn't just self defense because she shot Wesley seven times, she hears a noise int he apartment and finds Matt climbing in a window. He tells her where he's been and says he knows he can't protect her or himself from Fisk, and when he expects her to yell, she tells a story ending with "what's the point?" Realizing he only went to Foggy to get something, Karen asks Matt what he needs from her; he tells her about Jasper Evans and that he wants her to break the story. Though offering a way to exonerate him and get Fisk again, Karen gives a hard "no," saying she just wants him to pay back his rent. Meanwhile, Dex wakes up from a rough night and gets Mercer's tapes from his safe, which is also full of numerous ranged weapons. On the other hand, Fisk has a great morning, with people setting up the apartment more lavishly and allowing him to dress in a fancy suit. Karen is distracted at work wondering about Matt's proposal, and meets with Foggy, who suggests she help on the condition Matt turn himself in. Pointing out the FBI can't know Matt is Daredevil, Foggy says it'll get the cops off their backs and they can prove his innocence with Evans. Despite Karen's unwillingness to forgive Matt after what he's put them through, Foggy says he won't be a bad friend who abandons Matt like others in his life have done.
Unable to sleep, Dex goes to the hotel, watching Fisk on the cameras while drowning out his concerned coworker, whom he has get him coffee while he feeds Fisk.
After turning the cameras off, he confronts Fisk about Julie suddenly getting hired at the hotel, and declares that Fisk doesn't know anything about him. He becomes angry when Fisk says nothing, then the Kingpin tells him how he killed his father and that Dex has had to create an image for society to accept him. Dex is mad that Fisk "ruined what they had," but Fisk says it couldn't have been ruined if it was real, and that she and society wouldn't accept him, but that they're similar. While Dex thinks this over later, the other agent enters with a Bulletin newspaper with a front-page article about the investigation into him. Karen finds Sister Maggie at the church and asks if he's there, and though Maggie hasn't seen him, she starts a conversation about Karen's writings about Daredevil. Realizing Maggie knows Matt's secret, Karen admits it wears her out saving Matt from himself, and she doesn't think she can do it anymore. Maggie tells her how despite being a tough kid, Matt was all alone when he arrived and had constant nightmares; she chose not to check on him one time because of all the kids she was watching, and after that he shut down and wouldn't let anyone in. She therefore advises Karen that when someone who needs you tries to push you away, you have to hold on tighter.
The highers ups at the FBI try to let Dex down easily, and though he leaves seemingly calm, he is remembering Mercer's advice about a structured life.
As he leaves amidst stares, he talks to Ray, who says he gave a good review of him in his shooting report, but Dex drowns him out as well as Julie's voice says he's alone. Karen gets into a drug den and finds Jasper Evans; Matt swoops in when he and two others attack, as he knew Evans's last-known address and hoped she'd show. She gives him the deal Foggy suggested, and Matt agrees, saying it's the smart move, tossing out a dark joke that if the FBI knows who he is, he could get lucky and be locked up next to Fisk. Matt points out Evans's confession would be considered coerced if gotten here, so Karen suggests they take him to the Bulletin, as Ellison would want to hear it. Matt gives Evans two choices: he calls the FBI about Evans and lets Fisk kill him, or Evans tells Karen everything on record and gets to escape. Evans claims Fisk would kill his son, one of the attackers, if he talks, and his son is already on a bad path; Karen gives the same two options, saying she'll print the story pretending he talked if he doesn't, which surprises Matt. ​While Foggy gives news of Matt's surrender to Nadeem and Matt prepares to do so, Karen gets Evans to the Bulletin, but Fisk's manipulations give Dex a new calling that puts him in everyone's path.
As usual, this episode gave us a lot of great character advancement and great action, especially now that Dex and Matt are going head-to-head.
With the FBI already under his thumb, Fisk is now continuing to work on Dex, and managing to chip away at the sharpshooter's fragile psyche. I forgot to mention it for the last episode, but Dex brought up a key point about Fisk's manipulation: Julie mentioned she suddenly got a job offer at the hotel, but had to take it immediately, a sure sign of Fisk's work. Realizing this was probably a terrifying moment for Dex, especially considering how he came to Fisk about it, since Fisk has found very private information. While Dex points out he has counter-training for this kind of thing, it's really still at Fisk's advantage to do this, as the former is becoming more unstable as he works. One of the big advertising points for this season was that someone would be taking on Daredevil's disguise in a villainous way, and it's been obvious it would be Dex. At this point, he's on leave, the woman he was infatuated with has turned him down, and he's got a certain newspaper making the investigation into him known. His job and Julie were two things he looked to to cope with his issues, and now without them, he's spiraling out of control. Earlier this season he expressed annoyance that if he were wearing a mask, he'd be hailed as a hero, and now the Bulletin is looking into the investigation, which he understand will likely cause people to see him negatively. Fisk's first scene in this episode was a perfect way of showing that his manipulation has worked out completely, as he's dressing elegantly in a fully furnished area now. The scene is reminiscent of scenes in season one, when he was definitely at the top, particularly with a shot where the camera focuses on his cuff links. At the same time that this is all working for Fisk, there are things going on throwing wrenches into his plans; he already noted that the public's hatred is a problem. Both Foggy and Matt have a point that Matt could be proven innocent of his so-called "crimes," though there's a problem now, and the FBI is aware of Evans. The fact that a prison lifer who stabbed Wilson Fisk is now out is likely to give the FBI, especially Nadeem, a million red flags about what's going on. While a big part of the show is focused on Matt's inner turmoil, we also got a lot of specific insight into his past with this episode. We know how he came to the orphanage and everything, but Maggie's story about his nightmares and Matt feeling completely alone shows why Matt is so solitary. To him, it has seemed like he's been abandoned all throughout his life when he needed people the most, and now it seems like he can't protect those he cares about. Therefore in his mind, it makes sense that he should avoid people so they don't get attached to him and he doesn't get attached to them. Foggy and Karen's reactions to this are a good example of typical superhero ideology about being the bigger person. Usually there is a thinking of needing to be better than the villain, often by not killing them, so the killer can prove they're the better one. Here, it's Foggy and Karen having to decide what to do about Matt: Karen doesn't want to forgive him, and Foggy admits that Matt has been a terrible friend. In spite of that, Foggy has decided he won't act the same way, deciding to be a better friend, especially because he knows Matt is pushing them away out of fear. This is another one where a massive fight happens that I don't want to spoil, but as a tidbit, I'll say that Dex shows off even more prowess than he did saving Fisk. Both he and Matt get great hits in during their battle, but Dex shows us exactly why his comic counterpart is called "Bullseye." With that said, the episode has excellent combat and character progression as usual, and things are more complicated now that Dex's mind has basically shattered.
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