Matt is caught off-guard during a prison visit, and while Poindexter tries to figure out Fisk, Foggy and Karen take steps in stopping the Kingpin.
Poindexter starts things by searching Fisk's room, and though the latter complies, the former gives him a strange look before leaving.
Over at Matt's place, our protagonist gets in with a hidden key, gets one of his suits, and leaves to catch a taxi. Angry over his sudden arrival and demands, Foggy vents to Marci, as he worries that Fisk will come after them, and he has multiple law officials on his side. Knowing Tower won't do anything, Marci suggests Foggy run for DA to bring attention to the issue, since he's already a target. Though the deadline is up and they both know he can't win, she says he could get at least a few votes with a campaign focus to put Fisk behind bars again. This definitely sounds better than watching the locks, as he had been doing, and when Marci suggests they go out, Foggy realizes his wallet is missing. Matt uses his wallet to pay the taxi to wait for him outside a prison, where he uses Foggy's New York Bar number to get in to see their old client Michael Kemp. Though Kemp is appreciative of what they did for him, he becomes terrified when Matt requests an introduction to Albanian Vic Jusufi. While other prisoners watch, Kemp turns Matt down, then punches him; though Matt says it's a misunderstanding, an officer requires him to file an incident report.
Ray's wife Seema visits him at work with food and other supplies, and he is confused when she doesn't want his son to come up and says he'll be staying with her sister.
She explains that Sami is afraid something is going to happen to Ray, and she shares this fear because of meeting the dead agents' families. She tries to continue, but Ray says they'll talk later, so she asserts that Sami is staying with her sister and leaves after telling Ray to make sure he eats. Back in the prison, Matt is led past rows of angry inmates to the Nurse's station, while Foggy visits Karen at her office. She has found a lead on how Fisk has avoided having his assets frozen, but he stops her with the news that Matt's alive. We cut to Karen storming into Matt's apartment, but Foggy knows for sure he's not there; she demands to know why Matt would let them think he was dead. Foggy says something felt off about Matt when he saw him; she says she came to realize his tough nature is just who he is, but Foggy says it's different now. Upset by Matt's deceit, they agree there isn't room for them in his choice, but when Karen leaves to focus on Fisk, Foggy sees Matt's glasses, realizing he was there.
At the prison, the nurse finally checks Matt, who narrowly dodges a bullet when the nurse wants to check his pupils to see if he's concussed.
Noticing something about the room's camera, Matt reacts just in time to stop the "nurse" from completely injecting him with something, and fights him off. With no way out, Matt can only pick up a strange phone call, which turns out to be Fisk, who points out his quick reflexes and refuses to say what he was injected with. Fisk reminds Matt of a threat he made about preventing him from seeing Vanessa again; this is something he says he can't oblige before he hangs up. The door opens, and Matt finds himself cornered for a brawl, and though outnumbered, he defeats the inmates, partially from using the needle from before. Walking down the hall, two armored officers force him to the ground, and when he incapacitates them as well, an alarm goes off to send the prison into lockdown. As rioting prisoners toss flaming things from their cells, another pulls Matt into another room against a wall for a meeting with Vic. Vic says Fisk still controls half the guards and inmates, and Matt desperately explains he put the Kingpin away before and will do it again. Though Vic doesn't want to talk, Matt points out how they've been trying to kill Fisk, and promises they can do what they want once Fisk is locked up again. Convinced, Vic explains that Fisk set up the shanking; the man who stabbed him was a lifer he bribed and then helped get out so he could be moved out of prison. Though Vic notes Matt can barely stand, he agrees to help on the condition Matt find the inmate, since the motorcade attack spilled the blood of one of Vic's cousins. Vic gives the name Jasper Evans, and with one of the Albanians dressed as a guard, Matt uses his senses to direct them out of the prison. Occasionally forced to fight, the two weave through the maze of halls and Matt is eventually handed to some honest cops, who help him to his cab. While Foggy announces his attentions and Karen looks for a source, Poindexter tries to deal with an internal investigation and Matt faces new danger.
I had been waiting for this episode to come, though I didn't know it was this particular one I'd be seeing the moment I'd heard about.
Since this season came out, I kept hearing about an impressive prison fight scene and people unanimously singling it out had me excited. First off, I should mention how impressive the fighting is, as it has essentially always been, with Matt never seeming invincible but defeating overwhelming odds. Charlie Cox deserves all the praise he's gotten for playing this part; I was surprised how pumped I get as soon as he realizes what's going to happen when Fisk hangs up. The look on his face feels like the situation is an annoyance to him, but quickly fills with fighting rage that shows he's going to dish out some pain. After just the first fight, Matt is left bleeding, and then he deals with the two guards, and does a bit of fighting later while being led out. The more impressive part of this scene, however, comes from the fact that the entire scene, following the point that Matt hangs up, is one continuous shot. It can be easy sometimes to get sucked into a show, and things like cutting, when done with proper editing, don't feel jarring to the viewer. Most of the time, however, different angles of a single scene are spliced together, especially during conversations, like when Matt and Fisk are talking. As good as the best actors are, it can be difficult to get through a long scene with no problems, and cutting can help cover those up. Therefore, it's quite an impressive feat that this scene, which goes on for over 10 minutes and goes through a lot of chaos in the whole prison, is one shot. Every movement had to be perfect, and this means movements for two fight scenes and a bit of random fighting during Matt's escape, otherwise, it's time to restart. You can see a shakiness to the camera throughout this, because the crew obviously couldn't use any kind of dolly to move the camera around, but it really just works with the wild ferocity of the scene. It's definitely the crowning achievement for this episode, and is definitely one of my favorite moments from the show overall. The numerous revelations in this episode about Fisk are a perfect addition as well, as no one could honestly think the Kingpin would be such a pushover in this situation. True to how the real crime world can often be, Wilson Fisk has tons of people tucked away in his pocket, so it makes sense that he'd be orchestrating everything. What's interesting to note is that, because he's the one who led to his being moved out of the prison, he's even more responsible for the deaths of the agents, who he is now using to manipulate Poindexter, who seems to want to be viewed as a hero. Before, the biggest aspect behind Fisk having control of the hotel seemed to be he can now live a more luxurious life. Now that we know he's actually behind his own stabbing, and is able to watch and call Matt when he's in the prison, he's even more menacing than before. I liked Marci's interesting logic in this episode to convince Foggy to run for D.A., and honestly, despite it being risky, it makes sense. Even if Foggy is more of a target, he really already was one, and now he can bring attention to the situation rather than getting taken out silently. He takes a bold step in getting this done later, and along with his firmness to do something, I admired Karen's tenacity in this episode as well. She's already working hard to figure out the exact connections on Fisk laundering his money, and now she's got Matt's return to deal with. Aside from being a shocking discovery for her, it's gotta be a lot to deal with that Matt didn't come back into their lives. This makes her rage more than justified, and yet she's not letting it stop her from continuing her work on the Fisk case. With one of the most ambitious and impressive scenes so far in this entire show, this episode was a tremendous success for me.
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