Daredevil Recap: Hey Matt, Call up Your Friends?

Daredevil

Reunion

Season three Episode eleven

Editor'south Rating 3 stars

Daredevil

Reunion

Flavor iii Episode 11

Editor's Rating 3 stars

Photo: David Giesbrecht/Netflix

Daredevil tin't build momentum to save its life. Why does information technology take a baffling compulsion to follow up its show-stopper episodes by … stopping the evidence? When done right, this tin can admittedly exist effective—"Aftermath" was a very practiced episode that did a lot of work to do narrative justice to an human action of shocking violence — just near of the fourth dimension, Daredevil immediately follows big pivotal moments with episodes like "Reunion," where most of the bandage spends nigh of their time sitting in a room, talking.

For virtually its entire running time, "Reunion" doesn't leave the church building that Dex assaulted while dressed every bit Daredevil at the end of "Karen." Matt, who'south badly beaten, but not equally broken equally the end of the previous episode suggested, immediately goes to hide in the church basement with Karen after the FBI swarms the scene, making it incommunicable to make a clean go out while she's even so a target.

Dex has exited the church to change into his FBI uniform (unbeknownst to him, Sister Maggie spots Daredevil leaving) and with Nadeem, takes control of the scene, saying Daredevil is still in the church and that they must notice him — ignoring Maggie's account of the opposite. This tips her off to something being amiss with the Feds, who are looking for Karen Page and consider her a suspect, and and then she decides to get to Matt and run interference.

In the basement, Matt, wracked with guilt over Male parent Lantom'due south death, tells Karen how she has to run, because the human in the Daredevil suit is an FBI agent, and the FBI is at present in Fisk's pocket. And then the ii come clean to each other.

Karen tells Matt that Fisk knows. Matt tells her he knows — presumably he's idea and then since Fisk prepare him upwardly at the prison, but he doesn't really elaborate. What he doesn't know is why Fisk is targeting Karen. So she tells him almost her programme to get Fisk riled up, how she killed Wesley, and that she never told him because he ever thought of her as innocent.

"Information technology was nice you thought of me that way," she says.

Every once in a while, Daredevil simply straight up says what it's been trying to do all along, and that'due south oft a shame. This could have been a great line from Karen, one that cuts to the center of the Karen/Matt/Foggy dynamic, just it's really not backed up, because Karen'southward growth and agency in this season mostly takes identify in isolation from Matt and Foggy, who never really have to bargain with how patronizing of Karen they are.

At the very to the lowest degree, Matt knows he has no room to talk, telling Karen that he wants to impale Fisk, and that any judgment she has for him is deserved. Karen, however, is over blaming people. She simply feels sad for him, because killing —as she learned from getting her brother killed in a car crash considering she was drunk and high — isn't something you experience similar you tin can take back. It'll modify everything nigh how he feels about himself.

Meanwhile, the NYPD arrives at the scene, led by Detective Brett Mahoney. He tells Nadeem that his story isn't lining up, that Karen Page tin't exist a suspect, that besides many witnesses take said Daredevil was there to kill Karen. Nadeem rebuffs him, and Mahoney seems to know what that means.

All this time, Nadeem is struggling against his conscience, trying to rein in Dex and wrap up the scene — he didn't sign on for a night that would cease with a dead priest and another innocent in the crosshairs. Sister Maggie, similar any proficient Daughter of Christ, is very skilful at spotting guilt, and then she works on Nadeem'south, asking him if he's a moral person, telling him that Lantom died protecting Karen Page from evil, and whether he's going to assistance that same evil notice her. She'southward very practiced at this.

Inside the church building, Matt and Karen continue to hash things out: She knows Maggie is his mom, and notes that Matt is foolishly engaging in his favorite action, pushing people away. He has friends, and he'south dumb for ignoring them. That gives Matt an idea.

During all this, Fisk's power catch is at present complete. At the hotel, he holds a printing conference where his lawyer announces that Fisk's confidence has been overturned, and he is gratis. (I have a hunch that Daredevil is skipping some steps here, merely sure.) Fisk makes his first statement to the media as a gratuitous human being, placing all the blame on Daredevil, the monster who framed him, and who is now on a rampage through New York. In his eyes, Daredevil is the true Public Enemy No. 1.

Back in his penthouse, Fisk gets his talocrural joint bracelet removed and Hatley tells him that, every bit a DOJ asset, he'll go along to receive police protection. He asks most Vanessa, and is told she's beingness brought back to us. That leaves only one thing left for him to experience whole again: the white painting Vanessa had gifted him.

This leads to the episode'southward almost interesting scene, one that doesn't seem to be of much consequence but even so fascinates me. Fisk arrives in person in the townhouse of the adult female who now owns his painting, seeking to negotiate in person after she'due south turned him downward at any price. He tries to play to her sympathies, and says it was a gift from his married woman — when he'south with it, he says, he'southward with her. The painting was taken from him, and he wants it back.

The owner, however, tells Fisk that it was stolen from her first. Information technology belonged to her father, and when the Gestapo came, they killed him and took information technology. To her, the painting is a connection to the people she loves, people who are no longer here, thanks to wolves similar Fisk. She will not let him take it.

Fisk seems distressed, and for a moment, it's honestly difficult to tell which way the scene will go. Ultimately, Fisk decides to requite upwards, and says good-bye to the painting — he believes that Vanessa would desire the owner to keep it.

All this fourth dimension has passed and we still oasis't gotten to the titular reunion, which is in fact very brief. Foggy arrives following a phone call from Matt, and waltzing onto the scene, distracts Nadeem long enough for Karen to come out and surrender herself to Brett Mahoney and the NYPD. A pissing match follows. Dex is furious and can't abide failing his new authority figure, merely Nadeem relents, discreetly telling Mahoney that the FBI is compromised and Karen will die if she enters into their custody. Dex, in turn, tells Nadeem he messed up, implying that he'south not long for this globe.

With Karen out safely, Matt sneaks away from the church and meets his friends on a rooftop. Together, they figure out one last option for bringing Fisk down, by focusing on the homo who has everything to lose — Rahul Nadeem. Cut to Nadeem, who is speeding to his domicile, worried for his family. He tells them they accept to leave now — and then the attack comes. Simply he's able to become them to condom, and Matt arrives in costume to aid him defend them all.

Drastic for aid, merely suspicious that the homo sold out to Fisk would want to save him, Matt realizes he has to prove he trusts Nadeem. The guy saved Karen Page'south life, later on all, then he owes him 1. He takes off his mask. At present they're in information technology together.

Daredevil Recap: Hey Matt, Remember Your Friends?