Show Analysis: Daredevil

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Daredevil Summary:

Daredevil follows the life of Matthew Murdock who got into a car crash at a young age causing him to lose his eyesight, but also enhancing his other senses due to the toxic acids that were spilled on the ground. The show follows him as an adult now well trained with his powers & fighting ability, working with his best friend Foggy Nelson as part of a small law firm “Nelson & Murdock”. They try to find more clients through a police friend who gives them the latest news on criminal cases around Hell’s Kitchen. He gives them the latest intel on a very recent murder case. This leads to them going to the police station to try to get the alleged murderer as a first client named Karen Page. When they meet with her she claims that she didn’t kill him & that there is some shady business going on at her work. Noticing the consistency of her heartbeat, Matthew concludes that she is telling the truth & says that he believes her, leading him to invite her to his house for safety. Later at Matthew’s house, he asked her if there is anything that she may still have that could make her a target to whoever is framing her & she denies it. Listening to her heartbeat, Matt knows she is lying. Karen decides to sneak out to her apartment to grab a flash drive but Matt hears her & follows her in his black suit. When she gets into her apartment & grabs the flash drive, she is predictably attacked as someone was waiting for her in her apartment. Matt then comes out & attacks the man & defeats him choking him unconscious. This makes Matt realize how dangerous the situation is. One night as Matt listens to the city, he hears a child being kidnapped & goes to rescue him. The interaction happens off camera as it ends when he hears the kid at the end of an episode, & starts with him beat up in a dumpster in the next episode. After some kid sees Matt in the dumpster, he calls his nurse neighbor named Claire Temple & she takes him into her home. Claire examines his body to find many injuries, including his pupils not dialating. Claire patches him up as much as she can while Matt explains that the kidnappers were waiting for him & he was jumped while trying to save the kid. While telling her all of this, he hears & smells a man checking all of the rooms, asking if they saw any suspicious activity. Knowing that it’s actually one of the men who jumped him, he hides until he makes his way down the stairs & Matt drops a fire extinguisher on the guys head, knocking him unconscious. They interogate this man on the roof, & find out that he is Russian, & he tells them where the kidnapped boy is. Matt then rushes to the location, fighting everyone until he saves the boy. A few days later another murder case happens & Matt suspects that the killer could connect him to the source of the shady business. he goes out at night to find & interrogate him. After doing this, the guy tells him that the man at the top of the shady business is named Wilson Fisk, the most powerful mob boss in Hell’s Kitchen who has connections to drug companies Russian cargo, lawyers, & crooked investors. After telling him this, He kills himself, sticking a metal rod through his own face.

Throughout this time, we start to see how life is for Wilson Fisk. We see him visit an art gallery run by a woman named Vanessa Marianna who shows Fisk around the place. Fisk becomes very fond of her & asks her out on a date which she agrees to. The date goes well until a few of Fisks Russian cargo people show up, telling him that a man in a mask has been beating up their men & freeing people from the cargo. Not wanting to be interupted, this upsets Fisk but he remains calm & ends his date to have his assistant bring a limo around the back for them. Fisk’s assistant brings him to a closed location near a bridge. Confused, the Russian asks what is going on. Fisk then angrily opens the door from the outside, beating the Russian up telling him that he embarrassed him in front of Vanessa. The Russian tries to fight back but it ultimately ends in Fisk crushing his head repeatedly in between the car door.

The next day one of Fisk’s lawyers goes to visit Nelson & Murdock as Karen is claiming to have a case against the company she worked for (who is working for Fisk.). Fisk’s lawyer tries to make a deal with them telling them that if they keep quiet that they’ll be clients for them, paying them enough to afford their office as they are near bankrupt competing with larger companies. They agree to these terms. Meanwhile, throughout Matt’s attempts to get closer to Wilson Fisk, he finds it difficult to balance his life as Matthew Murdock & Daredevil as he also has to keep it a secret from his friends. He has many encounters with Wilson Fisk’s men almost dying multiple times. One of these times, he came close to hurting Fisk, cutting into his suit only to find that it was heavily padded with thick protective material. Luckily, he got away by jumping out of a window into the water. When he gets back to his house he is exhausted & passes out on the floor. That night Foggy also went to Matt’s to check up on him only to find him in his black suit passed out covered in deep cuts & large bruises. This confuses & upsets Foggy, making him demand answers when Matt wakes up. Matt tells him that he feels the only way to stop what’s happening is to do what he does at night. Naturally, Foggy disagrees. He reminds him that he believes the right way for things to be solved is use of the law. Foggy then threatens to call Karen & tell her everything because he feels she has a right to know. But not wanting her to get involved, he refrains. The argument ends in Foggy leaving the “Nelson & Murdock” Law firm & leaving Matt’s house. Meanwhile, Karen is at the bulletin wanting to investigate the case herself she meets a man named Ben Urich, a tough investigative journalist working for the New York Bulletin. She gets information on locations where secret possibly illegal biding is going on & she decides to go to the location without his knowledge. When she goes to the location, she brings a notebook to draw the faces of people making buds until Ben sits behind her & tells her to stop.

During the flashbacks, it shows Matt’s young life fresh from his injury & his struggle to control his

Character Analysis

Matthew Murdock:

At the beginning of season 1, Matthew seems to have everything under control. His life as a lawyer is just getting started & he’s saving people at night without anyone knowing about his double life.

Wilson Fisk:

Wilson Fisk is the main antagonist of the series.

Foggy Nelson:

Karen Page:

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