Daredevil: Born Again (2025) s01e09 Episode Script

1
[MATT] We put Poindexter
away and it changes nothing.
We defend Hector Ayala
and he's still murdered.
Heather's assaulted by Muse
and she thinks Fisk is right.
This, us, what what
we do, it feels useless.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- [GUN COCKS]
- [MATT] It occurs to me that justice
will not be served today,
because whatever sentence is passed,
Foggy Nelson will still be dead.
[KAREN] What're you
gonna do about Daredevil?
[MATT] I'm not him anymore.
And I won't let myself be.
- [GUNSHOT]
- [BULLET CLATTERING]
[MATT] A client of mine was shot.
Guess whose logo I found
on the bullet casing?
[FISK] A task force. Hand-picked by me.
[GALLO] This is every
bad apple in the barrel.
I prefer "motivated individuals."
[MATT] He was celebrating.
Foggy knew the night he
died he was gonna win,
and somebody silenced him.
Everyone thought you were
just a shooter on a rampage.
You did it for Fisk.
[VANESSA] I took over the business.
Then he returns and I really
don't know how I feel.
[MATT] But I need you to know,
he sought you out to get to me.
Matt, you're starting to worry
me on a professional level.
[BUCK] Ben Poindexter
killed a prison guard
and used his badge to escape.
I know you had Foggy killed.
Your husband, does he know?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYING, FLORIDA
MASS CHOIR "STORM CLOUD RISING"]
- I see the lightning flashing ♪
- I see the lightning flashing ♪
- Heard ♪
- Heard the thunder roll ♪
- [FLIES BUZZING]
- [GUN COCKS]
[GUNSHOT]
- [PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
- [CHIME OVER SPEAKERS]
The whole FBI corruption
scandal, Agent Nadeem, all that.
It's why my husband was acquitted.
It's only fair it
should benefit you, too.
[POINDEXTER] "Release on appeal."
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Fisk,
he knows about this?
I haven't seen my husband in a while.
I had you released
because I need a favor.
You want me to
kill someone.
A thief called Benjamin Cafaro
and his lawyer, Foggy Nelson.
I remember him.
Escape the past, do we?
[VANESSA] The case he's
involved with would shine
unwanted light on some
of my business practices.
It has to be soon.
In the next few days.
[WOMAN OVER PA] Dr. Jane,
seven-five-three-three.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[VANESSA] Benjamin,
I'm offering you a chance
to get your mind back.
Your self
This is no way to live.
You are the very best
at this type of thing.
That's why I came.
Your history with my
husband isn't part of this.
He's always part of this.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
It's a simple offer.
[ANNOUNCER OVER PA] Dr.
Patel, six-six-three.
[VANESSA] Trust me.
[TENSE, UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCRIBBLING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[VANESSA] You're free.
[GOSPEL MUSIC PLAYING, THE FLORIDA
MASS CHOIR "STORM CLOUD RISING"]
I see the lightning flash ♪
[GUN COCKS]
See the lightning flash ♪
[MUFFLED CONVERSATION]
Heard the thunder roll ♪
Storm cloud ♪
- [GUNSHOT]
- [HEATHER] Matt!
- [PEOPLE SCREAMING]
- [HEATHER GASPING]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[THEME MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[MONITOR BEEPING]
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMEN
PLAYING OVER PA]
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[COUGHS SOFTLY]
[FLINCHES]
Karen?
It's the drugs.
Heather.
You okay? [GULPS]
- Fine.
- [MATT EXHALES]
I
[SWALLOWS, EXHALES]
Water?
[EXHALES, SIPS]
Fisk?
You saved his life.
Yeah.
I heard someone scream "gun"
and I just reacted. Poindexter?
[KIRSTEN] He's still at large.
Kirsten, Vanessa Fisk
ordered the hit on Foggy.
Listen, the case Foggy was working on,
can you get me access to it from
Hey, listen, you're
on a ton of medication.
[MATT] I know how this sounds.
I really don't think you do.
I don't think you do. Okay?
- [LIQUID POURING]
- [VANESSA SHUDDERS]
[VANESSA] I'm still shaking.
- All I care is that you're still alive.
- [VANESSA SIGHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[COUGHS]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Vanessa
I know.
I know.
[SIGHS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[VANESSA SIGHS]
[MATT] Foggy knew he
was gonna win his case.
I talked to Josie. He'd already
opened a bottle of O'Melveny's.
I remember him drinking it.
- [MATT] Right?
- He was saying that he was
celebrating an early win, but
I think it was just bluster.
No, it wasn't. I think he
was sitting on something
the Fisks didn't want exposed.
You do realize they were
the ones getting shot at.
- I know. Hey. I know it was them.
- [KIRSTEN] Yeah.
I just don't know why.
Do you remember anything
else from that night?
[SIGHS] Um
I remember him saying that he was
gonna be filing a motion to dismiss.
I need to see it.
You can't, because it wasn't filed.
[MATT] Then I need to get
out of here and find it.
[KIRSTEN] Hey, hey. Just
[FISK] You moved millions
through Red Hook.
Now that I'm mayor,
we can move billions.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- Gallo and the police.
- Luca. Hmm.
- And the gangs?
- All of it architecture.
I-I ran to save the city.
But opportunities present themselves.
Matt, just You gotta
take it easy, Matt.
[MATT] I'm not losing it, Heather.
However much you think
you know Fisk, you don't.
And it's really dangerous.
I'm sorry you don't believe me,
but I'm telling you the truth.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[HEATHER] I think it's better
I come back once you've
had some rest.
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
[KIRSTEN] I'll be out in a second.
[MUSIC TURNS EERIE]
[FISK] They're gonna go out there
and hunt down not only
Poindexter, but all vigilantes!
There'll be no body cams,
no due process, no warrants!
[GALLO] Sir, that not only goes against
the operating principles of the NYPD,
it's illegal. I mean,
next, you'll be condoning
- the use of lethal force.
- "Condoning"?
Absolutely not. Encouraging,
Gallo! Encouraging!
I want the bridges shut down!
I want the tunnels closed!
Sir, a lone gunman attacking
the mayor is a massive affront.
Of course, I see that.
But to seal the city,
you need a large scale, real, and
present threat to public safety.
Sheila, your concerns are noted.
Now you all have a job to do.
Buck, one moment, please.
Tell me, what's Matt
Murdock's condition?
Stable. Recovering at Metro-General.
Murdock saving you does complicate
the optics of things, somewhat.
No.
Quite the opposite.
Imagine if our fearless
lawyer from Hell's Kitchen
were to succumb to his wounds.
Wounds he's sustained by
trying to save the mayor.
In this case,
a dead hero is better
than a live vigilante.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[KIRSTEN] Matt, I'm really, really glad
that you're gonna be okay. I am.
But we're gonna have to
have a serious conversation
on the other side of this, all right?
[ANNOUNCER OVER PA] Dr.
Calvinson, three-zero-six.
- Dr. Calvinson, three-zero-six.
- [FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
[[TENSE, DRAMATIC MUSIC] playing]
I've been giving thought to what
you said earlier about threats
and public safety.
[SHEILA] I'm so glad, sir.
Sometimes our reactions are worse
than the offenses that cause them.
[FISK] Sheila, I've
In business, there's always a
tipping point in a negotiation.
We are in that place with this city.
It just needs a little push
and they'll come to us with open arms.
And what would that push be?
You're a very perceptive woman.
I imagine that you know who in
my staff is loyal and who is not.
People talk to you.
Yeah, yeah, you can say that I've
got an ear to the ground here.
Good.
Send everyone who's not
completely on board
home.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Yes, sir.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
On your way out, can you send
in our friend from Con Ed?
[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[ANNOUNCER OVER PA] Outpatient
department manager, please dial 5-7-3.
Outpatient department manager.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[GALLO] We need to talk.
Okay.
[GALLO] I mean, you see
what's happening, right?
I know you do.
- First, he guts the force.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
- Crime spikes,
probably due to friends of his.
And then [CHUCKLES]
he turns a bunch of rogue
cops into his own personal militia,
sends them out as a kill
squad against the vigilantes,
and now he's trying to get his hands
on the power switch to the city?
It sounds like you've
got ears in the walls.
There are still sane
people in the building.
And I am betting that
you're one of them.
[MUSIC PLAYING, THE SPINOWITZ EXPERIENCE
"KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG"]
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]
[MUSIC TURNS EERIE]
[GALLO] I'm going up the ladder.
The Governor, State Supreme Court.
Uh, th-this is still the mayor's
office. Not the Kingpin's.
And he is still subject to the law.
- [SIGHS]
- And I'm hoping for your support.
[MUSIC PLAYING, THE SPINOWITZ EXPERIENCE
"KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG"]
[MUSIC TURNS TENSE]
- When?
- Tomorrow. I leave for Albany first thing.
Yeah, well, there's no
way I can go with you.
But if you need me to
put in a word, you got it.
- I appreciate that, Sheila.
- Yeah.
[GALLO] We'll get through this.
- The city always does.
- Hmm.
- [GALLO] You watch your back.
- [SIGHS]
Always. You too.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING, ROBERTA FLACK,
"KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG"]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
[CLOCK TICKING]
[LOUD CLANG]
- [ALARM BLARING]
- [PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
Strumming my pain with his fingers ♪
Singing my life with his words ♪
Killing me softly with his song ♪
Telling my whole life with his words ♪
Killing me softly ♪
Oh ♪
[TENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
[SIREN BLARING]
[HORNS HONKING]
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[SIRENS CONTINUE BLARING]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GROANS SOFTLY]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING CONTINUES]
[EXHALES]
You're pretty much the last person
I expected to find here. [SIGHS]
[FRANK] You know you're
a wall-to-wall asshole?
Power goes out,
you got nothing to make a goddamn
pot of coffee in this house.
Well, not everyone lives
in a fallout shelter, Frank.
Is that a new costume?
What do they call you now?
"Nightgown man"?
[MATT] What about you? Aftershave
and a haircut. That all for me?
[FRANK] Yeah. Yeah, I did it for you.
I thought this wasn't your fight.
[FRANK] Yeah, well, I got a
phone call that changed my mind.
Care to be more specific?
No, I do not.
I made a promise I was gonna
get you out of here alive.
That's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Northwest side of the house,
there's a van full of shit bags.
- You clocked that?
- Yep. [GROANS SOFTLY]
I'll tell you right now, they come
up here, I'm not playing patty cake
with these fan boys. I'm choppin'
'em up. You understand me?
I'm not sure I want
that kind of help, Frank.
- Well, that's the kind of help you've got.
- [MATT GROANS]
Hey, Red.
Yeah.
Why would you take a
bullet for that asshole?
[MATT EXHALES] That is a good question.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
We'll surprise him on
inspection. Now, let's move.
[INDISTINCT POLICE CHATTER OVER RADIO]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR CLANGS OPEN]
[CHOIR VOCALIZING]
All right. They're on the move.
You're not gonna do it
with your ass hangin' out?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [INDISTINCT SCREAMING]
- [OFFICERS GRUNTING]
- [RAPID GUNSHOTS]
- [OFFICERS SCREAMING]
[GRUNTING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING, GRUNTING]
- [OFFICER] Shit.
- [BOTH GRUNTING]
- [THE PUNISHER GRUNTS]
- [SCREAMS]
- [DAREDEVIL] Frank, stop.
- [GRUNTS]
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [OFFICER GROANING]
[THE PUNISHER GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[RAPID GUNFIRE]
[THE PUNISHER GRUNTING]
[THE PUNISHER GROANS]
[BULLETS CLANGING]
[GROANING, SCREAMING]
- [SCREAMS]
- [RAPID GUNFIRE]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [GROANS]
- [KNIFE CLINKS]
- [GRUNTS]
- [FLESH SQUELCHING]
- [OFFICER SCREAMING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[OFFICER GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[OFFICER SCREAMS]
- [CABLE WHOOSHES, REELS]
- [GRUNTS]
- [GUNSHOT]
- [GROANS]
[BOTH PANTING]
- [THE PUNISHER] You good, Red?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[BREATHING HEAVILY] Yeah, you?
[THE PUNISHER] Yeah.
[BOTH PANTING]
- [COLE GROANS]
- [THE PUNISHER] Hey, we found your guy.
[BULLET CLINKS]
[TENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[COLE GROANS]
[OFFICER OVER RADIO] Cole,
come in. Do you need backup?
Frank Castle's here. [GROANS]
[CONTINUES GROANING]
[DAREDEVIL] That yours? Huh?
- Yeah. You recognize that?
- [COLE PANTS, GROANS]
You killed Hector Ayala.
[RECEIVER CHIRPS, CLICKS]
He was a good man.
[GROANS] Do what you gotta do.
I stood with my own. I can die easy.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[DAREDEVIL BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [SCREAMS]
- [BLOOD SPLATTERS]
[DAREDEVIL PANTING]
[OFFICER GROANS]
[CONTINUES PANTING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXHALES] Yeah.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
[IMPERCEPTIBLE]
[GRUNTS]
- Do it, Red.
- Yeah.
- Come on, he's right there.
- You're not worth it. Not worth it.
[BOTH PANTING]
No, Frank. No, no, no. Please
don't. It's not what I want.
You get in front of a bullet
for this piece of shit too?
- Is that what you do now, hero?
- He's not worth it, Frank.
- [OFFICER GROANING]
- Not worth it. How about him?
- He worth it? How about that? Huh?
- [GROANS]
What is wrong with you? You
can't help yourself, can you?
Goddamn hands off of me!
You're a goddamn liability every time.
- Good for you, blind boy.
- What is wrong with you? Shut up!
[METALLIC CLINK]
- Grenade.
- Huh?
- [GRENADE CLATTERING]
- [DAREDEVIL] Run. Run, run!
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[THE PUNISHER GRUNTS]
- [OFFICER] Oh!
- [GLASS CLATTERING]
- [THUD]
- [THE PUNISHER GRUNTS]
- [EXPLOSION]
- [FIRE SWOOSHING]
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
[SIRENS BLARING]
[BOTH PANTING]
[EXPLOSION]
[OBJECTS CLATTERING]
[CAR ALARMS BLARING]
[DAREDEVIL PANTING]
[DAREDEVIL] You're an asshole, Frank.
[THE PUNISHER] Yeah, I know.
- [BOTH PANT]
- [ENGINE REVS]
[TIRES SCREECH]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Come on, get in.
- Shotgun.
- [CHUCKLES]
[THE PUNISHER] Don't
wanna hear your shit.
[OFFICER 1] Copy, Three-Adam,
we need a couple more units
- over here to help clear the area.
- [FRANK WINCES, GROANS]
[OFFICER 2] Roger that, Charlie.
Three on point, assistance bare.
[OFFICER 1] Copy that. Confirmed.
How's it look?
Well, you've been prettier. [SIGHS]
[MATT CHUCKLES]
[FRANK WINCES]
What's going on? You called Frank, huh?
[KAREN] Uh-huh. I heard
Poindexter escaped.
Called Frank and hopped on a plane.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
- [FRANK GROANS SOFTLY]
- You couldn't call me?
[KAREN] I needed someone
to look out for you.
You definitely wouldn't have liked that.
[GROANS, SIGHS]
- You okay over there?
- [FRANK SIGHS]
[FRANK] Never been better. [SIGHS]
[KAREN] Come on. Let me take a look.
- [PILLS RATTLING]
- Nah.
- [WOMAN VOCALIZING]
- [CRUNCHING]
[FRANK] You know somethin', Karen?
Nothin' in this world a
good cup of coffee can't fix.
You want a cup?
[CLICKS TONGUE] Uh, no, thank you.
[SIGHS]
[FRANK] How about you,
Red? You want some coffee?
- Got any oat milk?
- [FRANK CHUCKLES]
- [OBJECTS CLATTERING]
- [COFFEE TRICKLING]
So, he went after Matt
Murdock, not Daredevil.
That's bold even for Fisk.
Listen to me. Karen.
Turns out it was a hit
- on Foggy.
- [KAREN] Holy shit.
[MATT] Vanessa Fisk hired
Poindexter to take him out.
- Why?
- [MATT BREATHES DEEPLY]
[MATT] I think there's something
in the motion he was about to file.
He was moving to dismiss the case,
and Vanessa made sure
he never got to it.
I think maybe I missed
something back then.
You know, the files have been
in storage as far as I know.
That's right. Will you be my eyes?
- Hey, anytime.
- [MATT] Let's go.
You comin', Frank?
Got shit to do.
[MATT] Realize Fisk will
be coming for you, too.
[FRANK] That right?
I'll tell you what. If he does,
I'll put a bullet in his
fat head. How about that?
You know something? Inspector
Gadget bullshit [SIGHS]
it's not for me.
You guys can show yourselves out.
[KAREN] You know what, Frank?
I'm not buyin' it.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
I don't believe you don't care.
[FRANK] Hey, Karen.
You asked me for a favor. I did it.
Yes, you did.
Thank you.
Stay safe.
[WOMAN] What the hell's going
on? It's the middle of the night.
[DANIEL] You've all had
an opportunity to look over
Mayor Fisk's "Safer Street" initiative?
Yes [CLEARS THROAT]
- and it's insane.
- [DANIEL] Oh.
This makes "Stop and
Frisk" look like daycare.
Deputy Speaker, "insane."
What are you doin'?
Mayor Fisk is super interested
in what the Council thinks.
Especially those members who
aren't in enthusiastic support
of his response to the city's crisis.
That sounds like an enemies list.
[DANIEL] No, just outreach.
Mayor Fisk cares deeply about the
City Council. Like you, Miss Speaker.
He was so, so impressed
with, um [CLICKS TONGUE]
What was it again?
[BUCK] £540,000 stashed
in a Swiss Bank account.
[DANIEL] Right. Real estate
investments in Kips Bay, right?
That, now, that's smart money.
We should, you know, sit
down and share tips some time.
Matter of fact, Mayor
Fisk is very interested
in all the Council's accomplishments.
We'd like to set meetings
with each and every one of
you when the crisis has passed.
Our office will reach out
to each of you shortly.
Thank you, Buck.
[SIGHS]
The mayor will be addressin'
the city in a couple of hours.
He hopes that Safer Streets
has your full support.
If not, let us know.
[TENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
We'll make arrangements.
[INDISTINCT SCREAMING, SHOUTING]
[BB] How are you holding up out here?
[MAN] Yeah, so it's a blackout,
obviously, and there's
- [SIRENS BLARING]
- This one is that we have people
actually boarding up
their windows and doors
instead of metaphorically, and then
you have people who are looting,
and then you have people like me
who are just kind of
watching everything happen.
Like, what else am I gonna do?
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [OFFICER] Freeze! Show me your hands!
- [OBJECTS CLATTERING, THUDDING]
- Hey.
- [METAL ROD RATTLING]
[GRUNTS]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
Jesus, Burt, he's just a kid.
No. It's not a kid.
It's a masked vigilante.
[MATT] I can't believe I didn't
check what he didn't fill out.
[KAREN] Matt, don't
beat yourself up, okay?
We were all hurting.
[MATT] So [CLEARS THROAT]
you talk to Frank a lot?
[CHUCKLES]
What?
You sound like you're jealous.
You know, back at his place,
I heard your heartbeats.
God, that is really not fair.
You heard his too?
Oh, yeah.
It's just adrenaline, I'm sure.
[SOFT, MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
You hear mine when I saw you?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Adrenaline, I'm sure.
Oh, wow.
[OBJECT RUSTLING]
I packed this one.
Oh, man. "Avocados at Law."
You know, I never got that joke.
- Abogados.
- [KAREN] Abogados!
[BOTH] Spanish for "lawyers."
- [MATT] Right?
- Of course.
Foggy was really drunk one
night and [BREATHES DEEPLY]
I don't know, it was stupid,
- it somehow became "Avocados at Law."
- [CHUCKLES]
- [OBJECT CLATTERS]
- [MATT] Hmm.
[SOFT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
I'm glad you're back.
[SIGHS]
[KAREN] Hey, this is it.
- [STRAINING] A year and a half ago.
- [BOX THUDS]
Yes! Okay, here's the
motion Foggy filed.
- Right.
- Good work, Karen Page.
Well
Foggy was gonna argue that Whoa.
"Due to the unique nature of
the Red Hook Port location,
no crime was committed
in the state of New York
or even the United States of America.
Therefore, the court has no
jurisdiction to prosecute."
- What?
- Wait, there's a photocopy.
Aah.
"Red Hook Charter, 1855."
Holy crap, it's a free port.
Exempt from the
jurisdiction of the city,
and the country, for that matter.
What would that have
to do with the Fisks?
[EXHALES] Well, Vanessa has used
the port to store art for years now.
I mean, if it's a free
port, she's doing it
without customs, without taxation,
without fear of seizures.
- She could launder money legally.
- Right.
And now, our mayor is
building a new complex there.
This charter would make it untouchable.
Gambling, smuggling, you
name it, all of it legal.
God, Foggy had no idea
what he stumbled into.
He thought it was a truck robbery.
No, this is about the Fisks
building their own city state.
Let's go see what they're hiding.
[SHUTTER RATTLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
- [EXPLOSION]
- [GLASS BREAKING]
[OFFICER 1] What's the status report?
[OFFICER 2] No eyes on
Murdock and the blonde.
Daredevil and Punisher got away.
[OFFICER 1] Jesus. Fall back
to Red Hook. Let's go huntin'.
- [SIGHS]
- [RADIO BEEPS]
Copy that. Falling back to
rendezvous one, Red Hook.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [MUFFLED GROANING]
[BLOOD SQUELCHING]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [OFFICER 1] What if he's actually here?
- [OFFICER 2] Oh, shit!
- It's Punisher!
- [OFFICER 3] It's Castle.
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[THE PUNISHER GRUNTING]
- [OFFICER 1] Non-lethals only.
- [OFFICER 2] Don't shoot!
[OFFICER 1] Frank, stay calm.
- We just wanna talk.
- [THE PUNISHER GRUNTS]
[ALL GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
[ALL GRUNTING]
- [GUNSHOT]
- [WEAPON CLANGS]
[OFFICER GROANS]
- [GRUNTS]
- [THUDS]
[ALL GRUNTING]
[METAL CLANGS]
[OFFICER, STRAINING] No, no! No, no, no!
- [GRUNTING]
- [BLOOD SPLATTERS]
- [GUNSHOT]
- [GRUNTING]
- [GUNSHOT]
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[OFFICER 1] Get him!
- [OFFICER 2] Get him!
- [SCREAMING INDISTINCTLY]
[OFFICER 3] Get him up!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [BLOOD SPLATTERS]
[OFFICER 1] Get him!
[THE PUNISHER GRUNTS]
[SCREAMING INDISTINCTLY]
[GALLO] I'm going up the ladder.
Governor, State Supreme Court.
Look, this is still the mayor's
office. It's not the Kingpin's.
And he is still subject to the law.
And I'm hoping for your support.
[SHEILA] When?
[GALLO] Tomorrow. I'm leavin'
for Albany first thing.
[SHEILA] Well, there's
no way I can go with you.
- [SNIFFLES]
- But if you need me to put in a word,
you got it.
[GALLO] I appreciate that, Sheila.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHES DEEPLY, EXHALES]
Just take me home,
Mario. [BREATH TREMBLES]
[DOOR OPENS]
[MAN] Mario got sick.
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[GALLO] Wait, Luke?
[CHUCKLES] Haven't
seen you in a long time,
not since you were a rookie, huh?
- [LUKE] Yeah long time ago.
- [SIREN BLARING]
It's fresh ink, huh?
You're part of the Task Force?
The mayor recruited me.
- [CAR ENGINE STARTS]
- [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[LUKE] Just tryna survive.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Yeah, I know.
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- [METAL RATTLING]
- [SIGHS]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[POWELL EXHALES]
It's an honor to meet you,
Castle. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I'm a big admirer of your work.
Jesus Christ.
[POWELL] And I lost a lot
of guys 'cause of you today.
And I'm hopin' that
this is fuckin' worth it.
Listen, Frank, everything that you do,
you know, you can do that with us,
and you don't gotta run anymore.
These guys fuckin' idolize
you, man. We all do.
It'd be an honor to
serve with you, Frank.
[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[GALLO] You know, you'll
never get away with this.
I'm still the goddamn Commissioner.
[BUCK] New York is
standing with Mayor Fisk.
[FISK TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
It's made its choice.
We're just honoring it.
Oh, you're outta your goddamn mind.
[FISK] You understand?
[GALLO] There are easier
ways to see me, Mayor Fisk.
Not me.
They see you
But you were never really there
for the rank and file, were you?
You know, the men and
women on the front line
risking their lives to
keep New York safe
keep you safe.
I wonder, can we blame the Commissioner?
I mean, after all, he's just
a cog in a broken machine.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- You admire me, huh?
- [POWELL] Yeah.
Yeah. Hey
Out of your fuckin' mind, you know that?
You're a bunch of clowns, you know that?
You fuckin' clowns.
Admire me.
You think you know my pain?
You think you know my loss?
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
Yeah, I was right.
You never stopped being Kingpin.
You can't.
[THE PUNISHER] You admire me?
What do you know about me?
How I see the world? You
know how I see the world?
[GROANS, CHOKES]
[GROANS]
It's just a circus. A bunch of clowns.
I ain't gonna serve with you.
I won't fuckin' piss on you if
you were on fire, you got that?
I'm sorry to hear that, Frank.
- [THE PUNISHER] Are you?
- Yeah.
[THE PUNISHER] What's that?
What about you? You sorry?
[GROANING]
Not so bad.
- [GROANING]
- [BONES CRACKING]
[FISK] We
- We will keep this city safe.
- [BONES CRACKING]
- [GALLO GROANS]
- [THE PUNISHER SHOUTS]
- [PUNCH THUDS LOUDLY]
- [THE PUNISHER GROANS]
I'm still here. [PANTING]
- [OFFICER GRUNTS]
- [GROANS]
- [BONES CRACKING]
- [FISK] We will not let anyone
[GROANING]
- threaten our homes.
- [SCREAMING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [BLOOD SPLASHING]
- [OFFICERS GROAN]
- [BLOOD SPLUTTERING]
[JAW CLATTERING]
[EXHALES]
[SIGHS]
Any questions?
Good. Good.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIRENS BLARING]
[PEOPLE TALKING INDISTINCTLY]
[SIGHS] Shit. It's
crawling with Task Force.
[GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
- [OFFICER] Hey, 40! Spread out! Let's go!
- [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[GROANS]
All right, I'm goin' in,
stay here, stay out of sight.
No! Look, it'll be
Josie's all over again.
You go in there, you will die
- or you will kill.
- [MATT GROANS]
Now you're hurt.
You will not survive.
Is that what you want?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Look, Fisk has the courts
He's got the cops, he's got an army.
Now, you can go down there,
and you can fight him,
and you will probably die,
but you can't beat him. Not
like that. You have to be smart.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING DISTANTLY]
I'm right there with you, okay?
I feel lost, I feel angry,
I feel fucking helpless.
The whole city is there.
Do you remember I once asked you
what it was like
living in the darkness?
Do you remember what you said?
It's not dark.
It's like a thousand suns.
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Yep. [INHALES DEEPLY]
Yeah, you're right.
But we can beat him.
I'm gonna take this city back, Karen.
- Where do we start?
- [MATT SHUFFLING]
We need an army.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[MACHINERY SWITCH CLATTERING]
[HORNS HONKING]
[TRAFFIC BUSTLING]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[FISK] Thank you, Buck.
Are you all right, sir?
Yeah, I'm fine. You?
[SIGHS WEARILY]
Dr. Glenn You know I'm
going to change this city.
I'm gonna turn it into a place
that we're proud to
live in, but I need help.
I would like for you to be
my administration's
Commissioner of Mental Health.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
It would be my honor, Mayor Fisk.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
- [HORNS HONKING]
- [PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [DANIEL] Ten seconds.
- [CREW] Mic is hot!
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
Sir?
- Sir?
- Come on! We're live.
Good morning.
We survived together.
As you may know, there
was an attempt on my life
by a vigilante last night,
and in the act of sabotage, our
city's power grid was disrupted.
While facing rampant lawlessness,
Commissioner Gallo
he chose to resign.
To turn his back on
the people of New York.
The thin blue line has broken.
[HESITATES] I will not allow
you to live in fear, though.
I am enacting my Safer
Streets initiative.
Effective immediately, all
vigilante activity is illegal,
and it will be dealt with accordingly.
Curfew is at 8:00 p.m.
[SIRENS BLARING]
And in the immediate future,
New York City is under
martial law. Now
with the rule of law restored,
we can go back to our
pursuit of life and liberty,
happiness together in the
finest city in the world.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC PLAYING]
Never forget, I love New York.
[ELECTRONIC BUZZING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[MATT] You know, when I was a kid,
after the accident,
I thought God had taken my sight.
When I grew up
[BREATHES DEEPLY] I came to
believe that in exchange,
He'd given me a special destiny
Like a mask and a purpose
could save my life.
Didn't it?
No.
It wasn't the mask.
It wasn't me needing to
believe in it that saved me.
My mistake was thinking I
was immune to the darkness.
And I let it creep inside me.
I let the dark power me.
I threw Poindexter off that rooftop.
- Karen, I wanted to kill him.
- [SIGHS]
The truth is,
ever since Foggy died
- I didn't know who I was anymore.
- [KAREN SIGHS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY] Foggy believed in you.
Whatever you wanna call
yourself. Whatever's
Behind the mask, behind your eyes
[BREATH TREMBLING]
that's wrath, and that's mercy.
That's the dark and the light.
He knew all of it. All of it.
He knew you.
I do, too.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING, RADIOHEAD
"EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE"]
Kid A, Kid A ♪
Kid A, Kid A ♪
Everything ♪
Everything ♪
Everything ♪
Everything ♪
[MATT] I can't see my city.
In its right place ♪
[MATT] But I can feel it.
In its right place ♪
[MATT] The system isn't working.
And it's rotten.
Corrupt.
Yesterday, I woke up sucking a lemon ♪
Everything ♪
Everything ♪
In its right place ♪
In its right place ♪
Right place ♪
There are two colors in my head ♪
[MATT] But this is our city.
Not his.
And we can take it back, together.
Tried to say ♪
[MATT] The weak
Tried to say ♪
[MATT] The strong
Tried to say ♪
[MATT] All of us
Resist.
Rebel.
Everything ♪
[MATT] Rebuild.
Because we are the city.
Everything ♪
[MATT] Without fear.
[SONG CONTINUES PLAYING]
Everything ♪
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[CHAINS RATTLING]
[FRANK] How's it goin'?
What do, uh
What do they call you?
- Anthony.
- Anthony.
You got a last name?
- [ANTHONY] Anthony Petruccio.
- There you go. Anthony Petruccio.
It's a good name. It's strong.
Where [GROANS]
Where you from, Anthony Petruccio?
- [GROANS]
- [ANTHONY] Jersey.
Ah Jersey. [CHUCKLES]
You know, I, uh, I thought so.
I had a feeling, you know?
- [ANTHONY] You too, yeah?
- That's right. That's right. [SNIFFS]
You know, uh
You know a little about me, Anthony?
- [ANTHONY] A little bit, yeah.
- A little bit, right. [CHUCKLES]
Oh, boy. Uh You
know, I appreciate you
You gave me a minute like this.
It's a
It's an It's an honor to meet you.
[WATER DROPLETS DRIPPING]
Thank you, Anthony.
- [BONES CRACK]
- [ANTHONY GROANING]
- [THE PUNISHER GRUNTING]
- [BONES CRACKING]
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMEN VOCALIZING]
[MUSIC ENDS]