Daredevil: Born Again Episodes 5 6 BREAKDOWN - Marvel Easter Eggs You Missed!

exactly what kind of a lawyer are you a really good one hey welcome back to screen Crush I'm Ryan Ary and this is all of the Easter eggs references and little things you might have missed in Daredevil Born Again episodes 5 and six now if you've only seen episode 5 don't worry we're going to be spoiler free for the first half of this video and then you can come back and watch the episode 6 section later on chapters are marked below now before we get rolling don't forget that you can listen to screen crush on

all of your favorite podcast platforms we are liquidating a lot of our old stuff plus we have Daredevil parody merch and this new the thing shirt in the style of John Carpenter's The Thing links are below now like past episodes we begin with shots of the streets of New York but this time celebrating Irish culture to celebrate St Patty's Day we even see the St Patty's Day Parade which causes the traffic problems that detective Kim mentions later in the episode side note after they reshuffled and refilmed much of the series first four episodes there was

some speculation that episode one was actually now mostly re-shoot which would mean that this episode was originally meant to stream the day after St Patrick day so this episode was one of my favorites of the season so far because it's just a classic self-contained episode of Television it's also a bottle episode referring to an episode of TV that takes place in one location usually to save money tell your disappointment to suck it I'm doing a bottle episode in this case it uses a classic format the bank robbery now they had a lot of fun taking

the structure of great films like Dog Day Afternoon but asking how would Matt Murdoch handle this if he were in this situation the episode starts with him using his senses to sweep the bank and we get small moments with the hostages to kind of humanize them come on it's St Patrick's Day what do you mean you don't want to come up for drinks with us watch the game Rangers took the OB Woodshed last night one of the few connections to the ongoing story is Matt Still fidgeting with his broken Daredevil horn setting up how this

episode proves that the city still needs Daredevil to protect the people and then Yousef Khan is revealed to be the assistant bank manager now in case you didn't know he is the father of kamalan aka Miss Marvel all I didn't know that you didn't well luckily he brings her up just a few times in this episode my daughter Camala crack it open like it's a piggy bank I gave Kamala and my daughter ah the famous Kamala yes and notice how he has a mug that reads World's okayest dad which is definitely the kind of mug

that Camala would buy for him Camala who's that oh that's his daughter Kamala Khan she's m Marvel all right so I like this detail that he makes noise with the candy so Matt knows where to reach for it and of course this says up that Matt knows exactly where to hide the gemstone later in the episode now while Yousef is talking about his daughter Kamala he says she's in California visiting some friends there now I love this tiny detail he could be talking about her visiting Bruno who went to Caltech but notice he says friends

in California so remember the last time we saw Kamala she was actually recruiting Kate bishop and said did you know Amon had a daughter so it makes sense that while she was in the Golden State maybe she and Kate swung up to San Francisco to meet Cassie Lang to ask her to join the Young Avengers Yousef even shows off the custom Miss Marvel Funko Pop and I bet you that Super Fan Kamala Khan made that specifically for her dad so Matt is having trouble getting a bank loan which is kind of a superhero tradition we

saw it with Peter Parker you do not have the assets to justify this loan the Falcon I know your family has bang with us for Generations but we cannot approve you and of course the Human Torch the Human Torch was denied a bank loan but when he describes his law office he says we serve a vital function in a city that desperately needs us and our co-writer Ethan Inc pointed out that in the past this is exactly how he would have described his identity as Daredevil and to underscore this we hear the theme in the

background after he Compares their fight to David and Goliath so yeah we may be over leverage for now and it's tle that Matt chose a Biblical reference to frame himself here because after David defeated Goliath he became King of Judea and in the comics there was a point where Matt Murdoch defeated the Kingpin and then declared that he would be the new Kingpin of crime in the city now we've talked about how the opening sequence is representative of how everything breaking apart and reforming as Daredevil symbolizes how each of these things is a piece of

Matt the theme playing as Matt talks about being a defense attorney demonstrates that even without Daredevil defending the innocent is always what he'll do just like we see in this episode it's interesting how Matt's relationship with his Daredevil identity also keeps filtering into his speech in different ways now last week I talked about how I think the Matt hasn't really processed foggy's death and something similar also happens in the comics after Bullseye killed Karen pagee Matt allowed the anxiety to build up until he had a nervous breakdown and man oh man can I relate to

anxiety building up my work life balance is incredibly hard to manage when we get busy on shows like Daredevil and not to mention that as soon as it gets nice outside there is suddenly an intense amount of social pressure to go out and do things and like I always think like I got to go to the gym I still have to run the channel I got to write this video like for an inside kid introvert like myself it is so easy for me to get overwhelmed now I used to internalize all this anxiety and lose

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until in the show Hawkeye his Protegé Maya shot him in the head his recovery was very long and he was temporarily blinded then he went to Oklahoma to find Maya and Vanessa took over his business you know because she had to when Wilson returned he seemed to have no interest in running the mob except he wanted to leave this one part of New York Red Hook off limits this is because he wants to renovate it with huge new buildings but then the Irish mled in on another mob so Wilson told Vanessa to leave it alone

let them fight it out but instead she insisted that the leader of the Irish Luca pay Vincent restitution of 1.8 million but she let them think that this was coming from Wilson I don't work for the may I work for the man outside Matt hears the bank robbery and tells Kirsten to call 911 but he doesn't actually say why call 911 and when he re-enters he listens to everyone's heartbeats and notice how the woman in the blue jacket has a steady heartbeat so this let Matt know immediately that she was in on the bank job

so they call Matt a solicitor which is what lawyers are called in the UK and Ireland now you probably noticed that this episode also had a similar structure to the movie Die Hard the robbers show up they take hostages they break into into a vault while a Lone Hero hiding a secret picks them off one at a time and just like in Die Hard we also follow the cops on the outside this is detective Angie Kim who's Cherry's partner who we met in the first episode at Josie's bar just like in Dog Day Afternoon the

robbers offered to release a few hostages as a show of good faith now last week the episode was all about showing us how the system is broken and doesn't serve Ordinary People and in this episode we see that the cops are largely powerless Angie says you know half a force has face down a pool of Guinness by now and the traffic caused by Patty's day has clogged the streets so in a way both Fisk and Daredevil are offering a way to cut through this inefficient system Daredevil with vigilante justice and Fisk by demanding the road

workers fix this hole she calls him Jesse James the famous Outlaw who was killed by Robert Ford as dramatized here sorry that was Boo Boo killing Yoki bear Devin says that he doesn't like the way lawyers twist the truth and he doesn't even know how right he is Matt is somebody who is constant telling lies because he's hiding his double identity he says he doesn't know which part of Ireland his people are from because he grew up in an orphanage not 100% true though since he wasn't orphan until he was around 10 years old and

then they call him a regular we Charles Dickens character aren't you a NAU Dickens novel Oliver Twist and there's another Dickens Easter egg here with this hostage that's your mom so I should also note that this episode is a classic superhero conundrum the hero is trapped and has to reveal their secret identity to help out others just like in Spider-Man 2 when Peter needed a distraction to change into Spider-Man Peter don't leave me one of the hostages Johnny Santini mentions that there are only safety deposit boxes in the vault saying and I got a 1994

Mark Messier signed puck now Messier is hockey royalty in New York because in the 1994 Stanley Cup he not only promised the people of New York a championship but he scored a hattick in game six to push them to a game seven Victory and earlier Matt actually heard this guy talking about his Rangers watch the game P just took the O Woodshed last night so when Matt goes to the L we get our first fight in a long time the fight starts when he collapses his Kane now in the comics Daredevil's cane actually detaches to

create his billy clubs but here it just disappears into Hammer space until he and youf re-enter the bank instead Matt takes off his tie symbolically saying that he is ditching his lawyer Persona and then he lifts it over his head grabs the guy by the lapel and uses the outstretch tie to knock away the gun and this is where the score stops and all the sounds in the scene are now diagetic to place us in the moment also his collar magically unpops from shot to shot Matt rests his foot on the gun to keep it

from falling and discharging and then he Loops the tie around his neck to choke this guy out the thug then pulls a knife to create distance between him and Matt Now Matt needs to be in control of the other guy's movements to win the fight so he spins him around crashing his head onto the banister to disorient him and then rolls him down the stairs so he can end up on top now there's a bit of a cheat cut here where suddenly they're both standing thought we wouldn't notice but we did he uses the knife

to cut Matt's tie and I love this detail that Matt puts his foot on the stairs for leverage like the most realistic part of this fight is that most fights are won just by staying on top so the key here is for Matt to not get knocked down it's the same fighting spirit that made his dad a competitive boxer it never got knocked out my dad a knocked down sure but he always got back up after trading punches Matt chokes him out and as he hears the gun Teeter rolls their bodies using his momentum to

tighten the choke hold and then catches the gun so it doesn't discharge and alert the others bringing the fight full circle now like I was saying I Doug what are all these boxes doing up here oh that's all of our old merch we ran out of room in the basement so now it's got to be up here okay well we have a basement I didn't know that and also we du we can't make videos with all of this stuff in the way all right then let's set it on fire uh no but I got an

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now we have the no fear hallway fight the FIS will fix it shirt and yard sign the Battle of New York newspaper Recreation of the New York bulletin cover from the original series and of course the classic n in Murdoch teas shopping our merch store is the best way to directly support our Channel you can find links for all of these sales down below after reuniting with Yousef he pulls off a decent Irish accent I needed the bank manager to be sufficiently motivated to open the vault and that made me smile because Charlie Cox's Big

Break was playing an Irish enforcer named Owen Slater on Boardwalk Empire someone's going out of business now Matt uses his powers to open the vault just like we've seen throughout this season he's getting more and more careless about showing his powers in public this is because I think he is desperate to embrace his Daredevil identity it's a compulsion and he just can't help himself now as Matt picks the lock I love the cutaways to the tumblers inside similar to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone when we see the intricate locks at Green Do's Vault and

look this has to be one of the all-time clumsiest lines of dialogue I have ever heard you can't just crack it open like it's a piggy bank I gave Camala to instill in her the value of saving what's so bad about that it reminds me of a movie that I gave my friend Randolph to teach him about the value of friendship because people don't talk like that or but I'm not people I'm a little dark but then USF says we just try to impart what we know to the Next Generation and that really was the

lesson that Yousef and Mana learned in Miss Marvel they couldn't control Kamala but they could help to guide her career as a superhero and after cracking the safe he asks exactly what kind of a lawyer are you and his reply a really good one is a call back to when he showed Peter Parker his powers and no way home how did you just do that I'm a really good lawyer when Devon talks to Angie he says but you don't seem to know Jack sh about the significance of St P's day for a Protestant what does

that mean well look I don't want to get too deep into this topic because I am not an authority on The Trebles that's the long period of violence between Ireland and Northern Ireland throughout the 60s to the90s and during this time St Patrick's Day Celebrations were largely held by Catholics leading to the tragic 1976 Hillcrest bar bombing on St Patty's Day so when Devin says that St Patrick's Day means nothing to him that's what he's referring to but when Angie hears that he's a Protestant she uses this knowledge to tell off-color joke at the expense

of Catholics ah blly me he says I just penguin and downstairs Matt says I never knew my mother until much later in life he's referring to his mother the nun Nam Maggie who we met in season 3 of the original show now just before YF opens the correct box he says insh now this is an Arabic term for the Isha the fifth and final Islamic prayer of the day in other words he saying this is our last chance similar to when Kamala started her driving test by saying which has always said before reciting a daily

prayer oh his daughter Camala yes that's her and when they found the gym did you notice this cartoon glimmer sound effect it's very much the kind of stylistic flourish that we would have gotten in a show like M Marvel so it didn't feel too out of place in a grounded show like born again after a brief standoff the cops storm in which like they said at the start of the heist was always the plan Devon was always going to sacrifice his men and dress in the Blues to stroll outside and we've seen this kind of

bait and switch in movies before like in the movie Quick Change where the robbers pretended to be hostages and this is when we find out that one of the hostages was an accomplice which is why she tried to stoke fear earlier in the episode I don't think the manager's here please don't shoot us Matt tracks down delin and has a hard time taking him down so I think we're going to see a few episodes where Matt is not in the best shape just like in the comics when Electra had to retrain him after he stopped

being Daredevil for a while in the fight delin keeps throwing Matt against the railing to back him into a corner which also prevents Matt from using his acrobatics but Matt takes after his old man in a fight and battlin Jack Murdoch was never more dangerous than when he was backed into a corner and had nothing to lose now the high point of this fight was Matt breaking a bottle with this guy's face which should have made him bleed like a stuck pig by the way and then he pulls off a finisher by forcing his leg

to bend the wrong way afterwards Matt checks back in on Yousef who invites him to a family dinner now that is a season ending cookout with a young Avenger that I want to see e he offers to ser fresh parathas which we saw Aisha eat and flashbacks in M Marvel episode 5 so let's move on to what you're all been waiting for episode 6 this is when Daredevil finally finally returns because Matt Murdoch just couldn't be bothered reading the comments anymore the BB on the street interview opens with the graffiti artist who talks about misconceptions

around their art so this is all building up to the villain Muse who is portraying a very anti- capitalist message like the artist Banky but uses the literal blood of the city to spread his message Muse sees himself as a vigilante like Daredevil which is why his artwork celebrates vigilantes in the show and in the comics so in this opening we also see footage of a new vigilante called The Swordsman so this is like a poor man's introduction to an actual superhero from the comics The Swordsman AKA jacqu Duan now we first saw this character

in the show Hawkeye as elanar Bishop's boyfriend where Tony Dalton used some of his character skills now I'll talk about his Cameo a little bit later in the video but for now it's just fun to see that he's actually putting on a mask and doing silly sword stuff around the city we also hear keep doing the good work cuz our cops here uh they don't really do much so and I'll be honest these BB interviews are kind of starting to annoy me they shortcuts for the writers to tell us how people feel instead of like

using character stories to show us things like you know how the cops don't do much to help Ordinary People and it's a shame because the entire show hinges on this concept when the cops don't do anything to help Ordinary People Vigilantes have to step up but there's a fine line between vigilante helping out and MOB Rule now the movie Joker explored this connection between vigilantism and the mob rule in its third act and I really hope that born again is able to give us a little bit of a deeper analysis than a few man on-

the street interviews then a sanitation worker finds Muse's victim that we saw him carrying onto the train line last episode he is wrapped in a canvas away for Muse to say that he views his victims as artwork and he carves out their eyes to make it seem like they're crying blood just like on his mask and this is a reference to how Muse blinds Daredevil's sidekick blind spot in the comics but also in the context of the show Muse could be making a commentary on the state of the city the citizens are blind to the

truth about Fisk and Fisk is blind to the suffering of ordinary people so Muses murals have mostly been in the background this season but now they're getting larger and larger to taunt Fisk in the comics after Fisk forms his anti-vigilante task force Muse paints an enormous mural of Daredevil reading I am not a crook directly across from the mayor's office now Muse doesn't know this but Fisk already has this ironic association with art he met Vanessa when he bought the painting rabbit in a snowstorm the pallet made him feel clean like how he was trying

to remake the city into something clean we even see this in his model for Red Hook it's all white buildings that to him embodies this clean look he wants to give the city but in season 3 the painting is Tainted red with his blood just as Fisk is building his new city through the blood of his victims in the comics Muse believes that his victims are giving their lives for a greater calling to be a part of his art and that this artwork is now immortalizing them so it's appropriate that the blood actually does make

art Immortal and impossible to clean off of the walls so Muse like Fisk is an artist who uses blood to create his art one works with paint the other with buildings now Johnny Santini the hostage from last episode leads the cleanup crew working on the giant mural it shows Fisk kissing the ass of the Wall Street blue which is made up of a dollar bill now the Wall Street bull is a famous statue near Wall Street often held up as a symbol of a bull market you know when the stock market is thriving however the

statue like Muse's art was actually created as a protest and initially was placed illegally before they moved it over to Bowling Green Fisk kissing its ass represents how he's a shill to the wealthy of the city and indeed later this episode we see him kissing the asses of New York's wealthy Elites but the crown above him unlike Fisk is also a part of this dollar bill and includes a question mark this is showing that Fisk wants to be king of the city but he's not part of their elite club and coincidentally the sun symbol that

Maya wears on her jacket is behind the bull perhaps hinting that something else Fisk wanted but lost the love of his Protegé Maya from the show Echo meanwhile Matt recites a prayer do I make us intercession steadfast in the pursuit of justice so this prayer is called the Litany of St IES who was the patron state of lawyers he was an advocate of the poor and a protector of widows and orphans and the prayer is calling for St Ives to protect people in this instance I think this is Matt asking for the strength to help

his city as a lawyer and not as a vigilante he's trying to honor foggy's memory by not putting on that mask again but then he says lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit a common ending to a Catholic prayer as he remembers all of the recent acts of violence that he has committed now you could take this to mean that his time as simply a solicitor is ending and his time as Daredevil is about to begin as he prays he remembers the last time he saw foggy the faces of the

innocent hostages at the bank who were also praying and he also remembers two other symbols of recent Injustice Hector who was punished for doing good and Fisk who was rewarded for doing evil this is all building up to his final decision to put on the mask at the end of the episode and when Heather is surprised to hear that he prays he says yeah I've stopped a few times over the years but always end up coming back to it and this also reads as a metaphor for him being Daredevil it's a part of him that

he always returns to to feel better about the world around him now at the mayor's office Fisk gets a visit from Luca who sent his men to steal the gym in episode 5 now he is not a leftover member of the tracksuit Mafia like I said a few episodes ago I just think he's a guy who likes cozy Leisure wear so this opening like the ending of the episode intercuts between Fisk and Matt as each of them have to walk a delicate balance between their two lives for Fisk he has to appear as the legit

mayor while ordering around a mobster but for Matt he's trying to hide his abilities from Heather I knew I was going to be okay I can't really explain it just like Faith something like that but then she starts to press Matt for help with her new book Vigilantes why we rever The Mask you know that she talked about at her book signing a few episodes ago both Fisk and Matt are getting pushed to reveal their true eles but Fisk responds with strength demanding more money for himself while placing the mayor's pen on Luca a way

of symbolically branding him as his own property while Heather is challenging Matt to think about why he chooses to wear a mask does a mask allow us to be our true selves or does it strip away our identity and allow us to act like animals so this is the question that has always bothered Matt is Daredevil a burden for him or is it a release now Kingpin is also wearing a mask pretending to be a legit politician and he really really wants to take that mask off while Matt secretly wants to put his mask back

on and Luca and Heather both want to use Wilson and Matt for financial gain Heather wants to use Matt's connection to Vigilantes for her book she mentions Frank Castle Who Matt represented in season 2 and then she says how about Daredevil you've worked with them right remember as far as the rest of the world knows Nelson and Murdoch did work with Daredevil to bring down Kingpin in season 1 and also remember he argued a case against She-Hulk in episode eight of that show so he's got a few known connections to vigilantes so this opening establishes

that both Matt and Wilson Fisk are projecting successful personas but their inner selves their IDs are suffering to continue this false identity so in this episode we see that Wilson is trying to live two lives and neither of them are working out for him very well this also happens to him when he becomes mayor in the comics without a Kingpin to control the mobs they descend into a gang war while the wealthy power Brokers of the city never do accept Wilson as one of their own as we'll see later on in this episode and then

we see a larger version of the Fisk mural that we saw in episode one that depicted two Wilson FIS the mayor and the Kingpin note how their colors are inverted with each of them displaying the dollar bill that Muse uses for a symbol of government finance and the law showing how the system only exists to help the rich get richer or to help the mobs get more power and then Mr Santini reveals that like in the comics Muse is making murals from human blood making them impossible to wash clean I think there's also an element

here of MCB Beth in all of this see after her pursuit of power leads to Bloodshed lady McBeth says who's the the smell of the blood still all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little H and in the same way Muse is saying that the crimes of the Kingpin cannot be washed away there is too much blood on his hands back at Matt's law office he too is dealing with spilled blood that can't be washed away the death of Hector iala his niece Angela shows up wanting to carry on her uncle's Legacy this

is what he would have wanted someone finishing his work now in the comics she does continue this Legacy wearing the magical amulet and becoming the white tiger maybe the inclusion of Yousef Khan last episode is hinting that she could become a superhero and part of the Young Avengers she's looking for someone to finish her uncle's work and she condemns Matt for here to help the little guy right only on your terms in other words he's not willing to do everything to help he's not willing to become Daredevil and notice how here we catch just a

little bit of the Daredevil light Motif in the background but what do you want me to do about it um because when Angela says this the music is reflecting that Matt is thinking about becoming Daredevil once again Matt does admit therapy talk was I doing that straight up and I hate that [ __ ] sure kind of hate it too which is probably because he still feels uncomfortable about the talk he had with his therapist girlfriend that morning Vigilantes you've represented a few how about Daredevil you've worked to them right then we get a look

at more Muse murals now I'm not going to explain the ones that we've seen in previous episodes just go back and watch your old breakdowns if you haven't seen them already but this one shows the skyline of New York created from the outline of a stock market graph with the symbolism being that the city is shaped and ruled by Financial interests but in the center we see the Statue of Liberty painted white and holding a gun and as we'll see later this is M's self-portrait he is saying the corruption of the city shaped him but

he's willing to fight against it and the text upward Mobility is ironic upward Mobility is usually a term that represents job advancement or a good economic state but notice that the first part of Mobility is in Black to spell out mob which calls out Fisk for receiving this job advancement through his TI to his Crime Boss days after learning there is a serial killer in the city Fisk decides to keep it quiet which actually leads to the death of Muse's next two victims these two super fans so this scene is a reference to the comics

but in the comics the women ask for a selfie Muse grants their request but then leaves them alone now as the people suffer Fisk is preparing to entertain the 1% he puts on his cuff links which must make him think of his father and how his father had his own failed political Ambitions in fact I think half the reason he became mayor was to show up his old man who lost a race for public office in the 70s now for Fisk and Vanessa this is like old times he was holding a fundraiser for Public Works

in season 1 when Vanessa was poisoned and this is actually where the two of them start to rebond together he tells her that he understands what the wealthy actually want not influence but vanity and other words they just want fist to cow out to them to show that he is actually beneath them now this is adapted from from the comics by Charles Soul when Fisk had to court the favor of a family called the storm winds they were Rich political operatives who basically run the country instead though they look down on Fisk for losing his

temper and murdering one of their Inner Circle and overall they just treat him like a child and not a legitimate threat and then we get the return of Tony Dalton's jacqu Duan and an ultimately pointless Cameo but notice he is wearing an ascot and remember back in season one Vanessa talked about an ex-boyfriend she had tall man in a white suit and Ascot ascot that's a bit much so maybe The Swordsman like Adam has a lot in common with Fisk now he warns Fisk one phone call to the right person and well bye-bye greasy mansion

that's a threat no it's a warning but is he talking as a wealthy elitist or is his alter ego the Vigilante The Swordsman by the way I really hope we see more of the swordsman after this in the comics it gets super weird he marries mantis so she can give birth to like the the space Jesus it's really really weird and I love dton and I hope he's in this universe a lot more and after this woman dresses him down but the people in this room still decide who gets to eat I suggest you don't

side of that she follows up with an even bigger insult tell your wife the flowers were Exquisite tonight if you would Now Vanessa is already a better mobster than Wilson and now she's also moving around in High Society better than him afterwards his jacket rips literally showing us that he is not a good fit for this kind of world and then we see Muse's new mural now we see the dollar bill and Flames repeated again which represent the two sides of fist the mayor and the mobster but now they're inverted from one another now to

accentuate this the two victim's wardrobes are also inverted colors one wearing a white jacket over dark the other wearing a dark jacket over white and Muse frames himself as the hero vigilante he is the Statue of Liberty in the center with the eyes running down into the red chest and the statue is also holding open handcuffs because MW sees himself as a liberator and the other hand is holding a torch that actually looks like a microphone because he sees himself as sending a message to the people also notice how this is all overlaid by Wilson's

reflection as if he has seen himself reflected in Muse's work but the message is lost on Fisk and he only sees a way to use this to create his own private vigilante task force now Fisk knows a thing or two about how to Curry favor from police officers half the force was on his payroll in episode one but now he's able to use his skills as a politician he finds a group of men who feel disaffected by the system men who feel like they are suddenly out of power so he is empowering them with this

total fascist Authority now when shows their file to Gallow he says officers have a subculture amongst them people like to use the word gang I prefer motivated individuals and that subculture is likely the Punisher Fanboys we've seen officers with Punisher tattoos and a crooked cop probably killed Hector at the end of episode 3 now the files we see are officer pal who accidentally ran into to mat's fist in episode 2 there's also Jared polus who must be named after the governor of Colorado who happens to be a huge geek and a Marvel fan even making

appearances at ComicCon and and finally there's Cole North who is a key part of the story in the comics just like in the show he was a Chicago cop who transferred to the NYPD his first case was hunting down Daredevil after he accidentally killed someone now North came to New York with a hatred for Vigilante so while other cops revered Daredevil he actually captured him but after Daredevil escaped North was assigned to hunt down Spider-Man and eventually he does become an ally of daredevils against Fisk and I just got to shout out after Fisk tells

Gallow he will personally oversee the task force look at this subtle twitch to nfo gives like you're not sure if he's containing Rage or Joy at this moment brilliant piece of acting so when he meets with his new task force Wilson follows the axom that he told Vanessa earlier he knows what the men want and he gives it to them you are New York's finest this city it's yours and you're not going to let some Mass criminals take it away from you and this touches on another reason they Fanboy Over The Punisher he doesn't wear

a mask in fact the vest may already have the Punisher logo painted on them then we go to the train tunnel notice the steam vent above to give the indication that Angela is venturing into hell she walks past this Punisher graffiti and then we cut to Matt who is researching the tunnel because he just can't let this go after solidad calls Matt tries to do the right thing and call the cops but he's been in this situation before he only ever put on the mask to begin with after the police failed to stop a child

molester who lived in his building and when she asked him to do something we hear the light Motif from the old show it's all that it's okay just stay where you are but when he suits up we get the new theme by the Newton Brothers which points to a new era of Daredevil as he is born again so he leaves the horn on foggy's memory card like he's apologizing to his friend or like he's making him a promise to always serve the will of justice and then we get a sequence straight out of the comics

with Matt swinging by and running across rooftops now the CGI is a little uncanny valley but it's good to be back now Muse takes Angela and notice how his costume is canvas staple to together because he considers himself a literal work of art in his layer he has victims hanging from meat hooks just like he does in the comics and this entire final fight is intercut with Wilson confronting Adam just like in episode four Wilson stands at the top of the stairs like he's descending from Heaven into hell he tells Adam a simple tool it

can be a great equalizer and the tool he's probably referring to is the hammer that he used to murder his dad he tosses Adam the axe to give him a fighting chance but there's a lot to unpack here now one this is straight from the comics Kingpin is always fighting a lot of dudes all at once to prove how strong he is but also by giving Adam the hatchet he knows exactly how Adam will attack him with wide violent swings and this makes it easier for Kingpin to counter him later in the fight so let's

break down these fights now they are innercut together as Wilson and Matt are using similar fighting moves this is highlighting how these characters really are mirror images of each other they both grew up in Hell's Kitchen they were raised by violent fathers and they both work outside the law to make the City a better place their dichotomy was also shown in M's artwork the Flames of the Daredevil and the dollar bill of Fisk are always mirror opposites of one another Now Matt Begins the fight by using his grappling hook to whip himself forward to hit

Muse which frankly should have knocked him out right away but he comes up punching Now Matt continuously tunes into to Angela's heartbeat just like in the season opening fight against Bullseye where Matt stayed focused on foggy's heartbeat Matt is staying focused on Angela so he can focus on saving her life Wilson Dodges the axe as Matt Dodges a knife and then they trade blows and grapple now fisk's hands are twitching but moments like this are why his hands are always twitching when he's in the mayor world and is told he can't do something his hands

twitch because this is what he actually wants to be doing committing violence channeling his rage into hurting others now I love the in cutting here between their headbutts underscoring the theme of this episode the fight lets Matt and Wilson rip away their masks and show their true selves Matt is Daredevil and Wilson is the Kingpin Matt takes Muse's legs out from under him and the camera shows Muse inverted on the ground like how Kingpin was introduced in episode 1 but then the camera rotates with him making his movement seem almost alien and otherworldly now in

the comics Muse does have Supernatural powers and this kind of movement also makes us feel uneasy like Muse is a supernatural force that can't be stopped Matt easily Dodges his next blow but the momentum lets Muse kick him away and then we see Muse's true motivation he doesn't want to escape he wants to make sure that Angela dies because remember musees her death as a work of art unto itself that's messed up yes it is now my favorite part of this fight is when he keeps punching Matt but he just takes every hit just like

his old man who wasn't the best fighter but he knew how to take a punch Matt lets out this Primal scream just like after his fight in episode two now remember Matt opened the original series talking about his family's reputation she used to say be careful of the Murdoch boys they got the devil in and here like Fisk he's finally able to let the devil out they both pick up their opponents and toss them down but Fisk throws Adam onto the dinner table like he's about to carve him up for a meal and then he

yells M then he yells his own Primal scream which is just perfect Vincent denafo famously described Wilson Fisk in two words monster and child and here we see how he really views Vanessa as a toy an object that only he gets to play with so they both toss their opponents against the wall as Muse tries to run and Matt blocks off his escape with his billy club and then he hangs him with the cable just like in his fight with Bullseye he hears the victim's heartbe get fainter and now he has a choice he could

kill Muse and save countless lives or he could let him go and save one life Angela it's similar to his fight with Bullseye but this time Matt chooses life then Matt performs CPR on Angela like he's trying to perform a miracle and breathe life back into her SS establish St IES as a judge in the midst of his Brethren making him a friend and advocate of the poor and then we hear his prayer from earlier to St IES the patron sa of attorneys as he pleads for justice now this is intercut with Fisk performing his

own kind of Justice imprisoning Adam but fisk's idea of justice is a perversion of this idea because it's actually Vengeance and that is what separates Matt from people like the Punisher or the crooked cops on the task force they are all out for revenge for themselves while Matt is trying to bring Justice to the poor and downtrodden he brings Angela back and I just I want to note that if this were the comics he probably would have brought her back with the amulet and this whole thing would be her origin story as the new white

tiger next time baby Fisk ends the episode in a jail cell bathed in light as a choir plays so I love this dichotomy on the one hand he is in a prison cell and he should feel trapped earlier in the episode The Wealthy Elites made him feel like that he didn't belong with them but in this tiny room he knows he belongs he knows who he is and he likes it now Muse gets away maybe hinting that he does have powers like in the comics and then Matt tells Angela and the world yeah I'm here

the devil is back in the kid well guys big shout out to Ethan in who co-wrote this video with me you can find his Social Links below and we want to know what you think on our free to join Discord server and if it's your first time here please subscribe smash that Bell for alerts for screen Crush I'm Ryan ery