Daredevil: Born Again (2025) s02e07 Episode Script

1
- [groans]
- [guard] Come on!
[Dr. Merati]
"They that love beyond the world
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies."
[Governor] With Vanessa, at least
I had a sense someone had his ear,
someone could rein him in.
Pressure on my office is immense.
I'm getting it from all sides.
Hi, Marge. I am here to solve
your City Hall problem.
[Buck] We work for a man
who can change your life.
All he asks in return is loyalty.
Make a choice.
- What is this?
- Daniel, please.
I don't even know
if I can protect you anymore.
Protect me from what?
- [cell phone buzzes]
- From him.
[Fisk] We have reason to believe
that Matt Murdock survived the attack.
Help find the lawyer from Hell's Kitchen.
Let's bring this hero home.
Thank you.
- [groans]
- I can't let you do it, Karen.
[Karen] What if this doesn't end
until one of you goes down?
Push those motherfuckers back!
Holy shit.
Karen fuckin' Page.
[sirens wailing in distance]
[man] One avocado.
[reporter 1] According to
city officials, vigilantes
[reporter 2]
riots at City Hall
[reporter 3] Last night's attack
on City Hall by criminals
- [man yells indistinctly]
- [sirens wail, helicopter hovers]
- [reporter 4] Protesters
- [reporter 5] attacked by Task Force.
- Three injured.
- [reporter 4] Two dead.
[reporter 6] Mayor Fisk vows
to restore order to this city.
[psychedelic rock music playing,
David Bowie "It Ain't Easy"]
When you climb
to the top of the mountain ♪
Look out over the sea ♪
Think about the places, perhaps
where a young man could be ♪
Then you jump back down
to the rooftops ♪
Look out over the town ♪
Think about all of the strange things ♪
Circulating 'round ♪
It ain't easy ♪
It ain't easy to get to heaven
when you're goin' down ♪
Well, all the people
have got their problems ♪
That ain't nothin' new ♪
With the help of the good Lord ♪
We can all pull on through ♪
[inmates chattering indistinctly]
And get there in the end ♪
Sometimes it'll take you right up ♪
And sometimes down again ♪
It ain't easy ♪
It ain't easy to get to heaven
when you're goin' down ♪
- [door buzzes open, closes]
- It ain't easy ♪
[woman] I don't know.
Come on, everybody.
Hey, where are my cigarettes?
It ain't easy to get to heaven
when you're goin' down ♪
[Fisk] Hello, Miss Page.
You have taken people from me.
And out there, they believe that you're
a hero.
Yet I believe in order.
And you are a criminal.
Worse,
you're the sidekick
of a deranged vigilante.
You,
broken and deluded,
you abet his crimes.
For what?
Love?
Ha!
You know,
I've never seen you scared before.
I kinda like it.
No, not fear.
[gasps, winces]
- [choking]
- Order,
Miss Page.
Order.
No, no.
No, you took it too far last night,
and you know it.
And the city knows it!
[choking]
[gasps and coughs]
You have one phone call.
Choose it wisely.
[pants, chuckles softly]
[theme music playing]
[snoring]
- [gasps]
- Good morning, sunshine.
Jessica.
Wait. Hold, hold, hold on.
Listen, before you choose violence--
You sent your assholes to my house.
That was a mistake. They were
just supposed to tell you to back off.
With my daughter there.
I would never hurt your kid--
I love children.
You listen to me.
If you ever come at me
or Danielle ever again,
- I swear to God, I will kill you.
- [groans]
- Do you understand me?
- Yeah.
Please don't kill me.
Also, I'm not really sure you can anymore,
'cause a little birdie said your powers
ain't what they used to be.
Speaking of little birdies,
you're talkin' a lotta shit
for a guy sittin' there in his underwear
with very limited options.
Don't forget, I am the only one
that can connect you
with Luke.
Where is he?
He is overseas.
He's doin' the Lord's work,
so you don't have to.
- You're behind Fisk's arms deal.
- No, I'm not.
Because a couple
anti-social vigilantes blew 'em up.
No arms, no deal. [scoffs]
- Thanks for that, by the way.
- Why are you covering for him?
I'm not, not anymore.
It's actually the opposite.
The Governor wants Fisk
- out.
- Good, that's
That's great news.
Yeah, except he just went apeshit
on his own voters.
I don't think she can do it.
The way I see it,
this goes all kinds of wrong
for Governor McCaffrey.
[scoffs] Oh, Christ.
[Matt] Fisk is gonna kill the Governor?
[Jess] That's what Charles suggested.
Very strongly.
And you believe him?
This guy was working with Fisk
until about a minute ago.
I don't believe a word that asshole says,
but in this case
- Yeah.
- it does track.
[sighs] She's the only one
who can revoke the Freeport's charter.
If Fisk puts one of his puppets
in the Governor's office,
New York is his.
And we are on another rooftop.
Yeah, I'm meeting a friend.
Cherry, Jessica. Jessica, Cherry.
Hey, big fan of your work.
Go on.
And?
- Karen's at the 15th Precinct.
- Nice, thank you, Cherry.
All right, now, hold on there, cowboy.
They booked her legit.
Prints, photo, phone call, the works.
They're fast-trackin' her
to Vigilante Court.
You go in there and bust her out,
you are the criminal he says you are.
She's not safe there.
If he was gonna hurt her,
he'd have done it already.
Look, I'm told he went to the precinct,
they talked, he left.
Fisk?
Son of a bitch.
He's making it legal.
We have anybody at the 15th?
We do. Come on, Matt, I'm all over this.
And you? You stickin' around?
I haven't decided yet.
City needs you.
Tsk. I've heard that before.
[chuckles] Me, too.
- Nice to meet you, Cherry.
- You, too.
Matt.
So, what do ya think?
Are you gonna hit the 15th?
I don't know. There might be another way.
- We--
- I can't help you there.
I did what I came here to do.
I got Charles off my ass.
I need to get home. I have Danielle.
I know, you don't need to explain.
I understand.
Fisk isn't gonna stop.
Unless someone puts him down.
Forgotten how encouraging you were.
Don't get yourself killed.
The city needs you.
[bones cracking]
So
what now?
You wanted one good deed, right?
So we could balance the scales?
- Yeah.
- All right.
- Sure.
- I got it for you.
But first, know this.
I hate you for Foggy.
I hate you for Father Lantom,
for Agent Nadeem.
And every life you've wasted for no reason
other than your own twisted soul.
Part of me wants to kill you.
And
part of me needs to forgive you.
Yeah.
Well [clears throat]
Thanks.
Don't do that.
It's not for you, it's for them.
Now go, disappear,
die, I don't care.
But if you mean what you say,
you wanna do one good thing
in a life full of shit,
I got it for ya.
You know I can't make any promises, right?
Wouldn't believe you if you did.
What do you want me to do?
[suspenseful music playing]
[police sirens wailing]
[footsteps approaching]
Brett.
- Hey.
- Hey, Karen.
It's been a while.
Yeah.
[sighs] Wondered why
they brought me to the 15th.
Hey, you know, Chief of Detective
gets to pull a few strings.
Yeah, yeah. Hotshot, huh?
Fisk was here.
I know.
Only so much I can do.
I know.
- What are you doing?
- [unlocking]
Come with me.
Come.
Let's go.
[Daredevil sighs in relief]
- I'm so sorry.
- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry,
I shouldn't have said what I did.
You know
we all gotta stop meeting up like this.
I can't cover for that long, but
you got one minute.
- Okay.
- Thank you.
Listen, we don't
have much time,
- I need--
- I can't go with you.
No, I know. I didn't come to get you.
Fucking great minds, huh?
Look, I don't know what this is, but
it feels like an opportunity. I think
I have to stay.
I have to face him in court.
They tell you he came to see me?
- You okay?
- [sighs] I'm alive.
He's different.
I don't know
what's going on in his mind,
but he's scheming, and he's planning,
and he's way the hell ahead of us.
I just don't think we can run.
Yeah.
'Cause he's losing the city
and he knows it.
So, he's gonna prosecute you
and humiliate you.
Publicly, legitimately,
and make everyone cheer for it.
Can't say it's not smart.
- That means there'll be cameras.
- Mmm-hmm.
- Exactly.
- Holy shit.
Turns out,
we may have to cross lines
to stop him. Just
not the ones you think.
Well, then
No. No.
Matt, you can't.
Yes, I can.
[Brett] All right, time's up.
Let's go.
- I'll be there when you need me.
- [sniffles]
Better be.
[Hochberg] Aiding and abetting murder,
providing material support
to known terrorist, Daredevil.
And that's to say
nothing of inciting a riot.
Just a matter of picking
our strongest charges.
Charge her on all of them.
Convict her on all of them.
- Well, sir, given the time crunch--
- All of them.
Right.
Sir.
Do you know the AG
is gonna want to be involved?
Oh, uh
Well, what he and Albany wants
is irrelevant at this point.
[knocking on door]
- Dr. Glenn.
- Sir, you asked to see me?
[Fisk] Yes, please come in.
Mr. Hochberg and I,
we were finished, weren't we?
Uh Of course.
Dr. Glenn,
it's always such a pleasure.
I
might need a little of your expertise
on this trial, if I may.
Of course.
District Attorney Hochberg is
an interesting fellow, isn't he?
He's a very skilled litigator.
He makes my skin crawl.
[chuckles softly]
Lawyers, you know, they
use words to twist the truth, don't they?
I think I know what you mean.
I imagine you do.
I wanted to check on you
person-to-person.
How are you, sir?
I I don't know.
I haven't been asked that.
I always
accepted love as a prison.
I just never expected
to be in it alone.
[Heather] Condolences are meaningless.
Thoughts and prayers do nothing.
No one tells you the truth
in times like this,
which is
This is gonna hurt.
And
we don't know when,
or if it's going to end.
No.
Well, I
I, uh
I appreciate your words.
Mayor Fisk, I am so sorry,
- I was--
- You don't have to apologize.
It's curious, isn't it?
When we act on impulse
we surprise even ourselves.
I'd like to think I have
more self-control than that.
But you didn't.
No. [chuckles softly]
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [sirens wailing]
- [camera shutters clicking]
- [crowd clamoring indistinctly]
[clamoring continues]
- [BB] Can I get my shit back?
- No.
This is kidnapping, you know.
Okay, look, I understand that you're mad,
- but--
- No, I'm not mad.
I'm more than mad.
Mad doesn't even begin to cover it.
I can't keep stalling Buck.
Dude, fuck him!
Fuck him? Fuck you!
Look, I get it, you used me, I used you.
But I'm sorry, I thought
we actually had each other's backs.
Your City Without Fear bullshit?
It fucked us.
So, what, you were working
with Karen Page?
Wow.
- How could you?
- How could I?
I started The BB Report in my dorm room.
I put every dime
and every hour of my life into it.
Okay, people trusted it. It was real.
And you turned it into some plastic
commercial for Fisk's fascist New York.
- I didn't see you complaining.
- Okay. Well, clearly,
you didn't see City Without Fear.
That's complaining.
And all for what?
So that you can get outta Staten
- and get a douchebag condo?
- Stop!
He killed my uncle.
- You don't know that.
- Yes,
I do. And you do, too.
You've just decided to turn a blind eye,
and that is your problem.
Fine.
Whatever. I did.
It is, but you don't understand.
That doesn't matter anymore.
Because right now, Buck Cashman
is waiting for me to hand you over to him.
And if I don't,
then he comes after me.
And then you,
and my mom,
and anyone I care about.
So, BB, you should be fucking terrified
right now, 'cause I am.
Then
we should probably get out of here.
Yeah, we probably should.
- Give me my phone.
- No.
- Why?
- Because I don't trust you.
Just give me a second to fucking think.
Just sit there and let me think.
[scoffs] Okay.
We need a safe house.
What are you, Jason Bourne?
No, just
Some place Buck doesn't know about.
I have a friend. A finance buddy.
Works mostly in Hong Kong. I'll text him.
Great.
[sighs]
[vibrates]
[reporter] Assistant District Attorney
Kirsten McDuffie
Daniel is proving to be
quite a team player.
Yes, he is.
It's not easy to make the hard decisions.
You think Karen Page knows?
[Buck] Knows what, sir?
That she is the wounded soldier
screaming in the field,
drawing her comrades
into the line of fire.
- [people chattering indistinctly]
- [woman] Really?
- That's good.
- Either way
[court officer] All rise.
[Chief Justice Waters]
District Attorney Hochberg,
your opening statement.
Your Honors
I stand before you today
to ask that you convict
and that you punish this woman,
this criminal, Karen Page,
for the crime she has committed
against our great city.
Your Honors, I could argue
my client's innocence.
I could argue
the illegitimacy of this court.
I could argue against
the Safer Streets Act.
But first, I want you to think on
one very important concept.
What is a vigilante?
Is it he or she who breaks the law
in order to get
their own version of justice? Or
is a vigilante the last resort
to obtain the justice
that a broken society
can no longer supply?
The evidence will show that
Miss Page is not a hero.
She's not a "freedom fighter"
for a noble resistance. No.
No, she's
a criminal
responsible for the destruction
of innocent human lives.
[Kirsten] Your Honors,
you have a duty to this city,
and you have a duty
to the ideals of this court,
and fulfilling that duty
can only come to one conclusion.
Guilty.
Not guilty.
Thank you.
Prosecution can now call
its first witness.
Your Honors, before we proceed
I'd like to bring in my co-counsel.
[Hochberg] What-- Co-counsel?
What, already calling for backup?
[audience gasps]
Matthew Murdock
for the defense, Your Honors.
- [woman 1] Oh, my God!
- [man] Is that Matt Murdock?
- [woman 2] Matt Murdock?
- [woman 3] My God. It's Matt Murdock?
[Chief Justice Waters] Order in the court.
[reporter] In a shocking turn of events,
Matthew Murdock,
the missing lawyer from Hell's Kitchen,
has just walked into the courtroom.
Despite a citywide search,
Murdock has not been seen
since the destruction of
his Brooklyn apartment months ago.
Murdock is well known for
his heroic act of saving Mayor Fisk
from vigilante gunfire.
But he has now reappeared,
apparently, to support
[Matt] Officer Powell,
tell me, what is the mission statement
for the Anti-Vigilante Task Force?
To interdict, apprehend,
and prosecute extra-legal vigilantes
to the fullest extent of the law.
"To the fullest extent of the law"?
That sounds serious.
As a heart attack.
[Matt] Huh.
And, Officer Powell,
who formed the Task Force, and
created these, uh, parameters?
Mayor Fisk.
Of course.
[Kirsten] Can you tell me about
those scars on your face?
I got these in a firefight
with Daredevil and Frank Castle.
- In Mr. Murdock's apartment?
- Yes.
[Kirsten] Why were you there?
Um, we were performing a welfare check.
Welfare check?
With assault rifles
and MRAP personnel carriers?
I don't know, seems like
a lot of hardware for a blind lawyer.
[audience chuckles]
Was the defendant there?
I was told she drove the getaway vehicle.
You were told?
What else did Officer Powell
tell you to do?
Did he tell you to kill Hector Ayala?
- Or maybe that was Mayor Fisk.
- Objection.
Immaterial, misleading, and prejudicial.
Sustained. Ms. McDuffie,
I will caution you against these theatrics
and remind you that
there's no jury to play to here.
Sure about that, Your Honor?
No further questions.
Thank you.
- [line rings]
- [woman on phone] Alan Steverud's office.
It's me.
I need the Attorney General.
- [AG Steverud] Steverud.
- Alan,
I think it's time we move forward
on the suspension paperwork.
Fisk's reign is over.
But we do need to move quick, though.
No, it's-- It's gotten outta hand. It's
Yeah-- Our window is now.
Okay.
Daniel?
What's going on?
Daniel!
You know, it's not just Fisk and Buck.
It's me, too.
I've done things.
Really, really fucked up things.
What're you talking about?
I went upstate with Buck,
to the Catskills, and we buried a body.
Jesus.
And I wish I didn't know I did that.
But I can't
have anyone else knowing I did that.
Come on.
This isn't a safe house, is it?
Daniel. Daniel!
Daniel, please! Daniel!
Is this really the person you wanna be?
[breathing heavily]
Fuck! Fuck.
Come on. Come on, before he sees.
Here, take this
and go. Don't go home.
Don't tell me where.
And do not go anyplace
he would look, okay?
- What're you gonna do?
- Doing the right thing. Just let me.
Thank you.
Of course.
Just make it count.
[Chief Justice Waters] This court
is adjourned until tomorrow morning.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
I've got it. You focus on the rest.
- That went as well as I thought.
- Yeah, I know. It's okay.
It's okay.
Be careful.
[Matt] You, too.
They're not leaving, are they?
No, they're not.
[Cole] Cameras are all off, sir.
[sinister music playing]
Hold here.
Come on!
[guns clicking, engine revving]
Run! Cherry!
Look out!
[suspenseful music playing]
Get down!
- Holy shit!
- Fuck!
Take the wheel! Take the wheel!
Now! Get her outta here!
[Kirsten] Matt!
[groans]
[winces]
[grunts]
[ominous music playing]
[gasps]
[choking]
[groans]
[strains]
[groans]
- [body thuds]
- [breathes heavily]
[groans]
[sirens wailing]
[door closes]
Hey.
Where is she?
She's not coming.
Where is she, Daniel?
I think she had a birthday party.
[sighs]
[scoffs]
[sighs]
[rips]
Now, sooner or later
we both know
you're gonna tell me.
Fuck you, Buck.
[sighs]
[both grunting]
Fuck!
[Daniel coughing]
[Daniel groaning]
[Daniel] No! No!
[door buzzes open]
Miss Page,
it's nice to finally meet you.
Ms. Glenn.
Are you here for Fisk?
I'm part of the Mayor's office, yes.
I also conduct psychological evaluations
for the District Attorney's office.
[scoffs]
I'll pass.
Doesn't really work that way.
I'm gonna ask a series of
true or false questions.
Please
answer truthfully.
There are no wrong answers.
True or false?
"I like mechanics magazines."
You know, the Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventory is out of date.
- I can game it.
- Mmm.
Most people can.
Maybe we should try something else.
What did you have in mind?
I'm in love with this man.
He's completely inaccessible. He's
distant, complicated.
There are nights where I
I fall asleep in bed next to him,
totally unsure of who he is.
Worries me.
As it should.
It's also totally hot.
I'm sure you can understand.
So,
- what does that say about me?
- [clears throat]
[beeps]
That's a very good question.
I mean,
what kind of person
kills their own brother?
The Mayor's office has detailed files.
Fratricide is very rare.
- Was Kevin molesting you?
- Don't.
No.
No, it wasn't like that.
[Heather] I'm sure.
[chuckles] Did you feel powerful
when you murdered James Wesley?
After a lifetime of, I don't know,
being used as a puppet by all these men.
Daddy,
brother,
- Frank Castle.
- Fuck you!
[chuckles] Funny.
That's where the nerve is.
Does Matt know?
- You wanna know what I think?
- Mmm.
I know that Matt, that mystery beside me,
loves me in a way
that makes every contradiction,
every conflict in him
and in me a part of us.
And I'm willing to bet that that's
the part that you can't really understand.
Professionals call that transference.
Yeah, well, I call it the truth.
You were friends
with Vanessa Fisk, weren't you?
I'm not answering any personal questions.
That's unprofessional.
She had my friend Foggy killed.
You know that? Is that in those files?
Jesus.
Matt really hurt you, didn't he?
Enough that you'd run to them
to feel safe.
Please.
Look, I get it. I'm so sorry.
[groans]
[yells in pain]
- [groans]
- Don't pity me.
[chuckling] Too late.
[groans, laughs]
Is that all you got?
Not even close.
[chuckles]
- We should do this some other time.
- I can't wait.
- [groans]
- [Buck] Where, Daniel?
I don't enjoy this.
I don't know where she is.
- [gun clicks]
- [Daniel] Oh, fuck!
This isn't Helmand, Buck.
[gun cocks]
Last chance.
[Matt groaning]
[breathing raggedly]
[panting]
[grunts]
[pants]
[Daniel] What is followin' his orders
gonna do for you?
How long till you're on the floor
with a gun pointed at your head?
- [groans]
- [Matt] Saint Jude
patron of difficult cases
[chuckles dryly]
of things almost despaired of
pray for me.
I am so helpless and alone.
Please pray for me that God come to me
in my hour of need,
and I receive consolation
in all my tribulations and sufferings.
And that
I may bless God
- with the elect for all eternity.
- [groans]
[breath trembling]
Amen.
[sighs]
[panting]
[door opens and closes]