Marvel's Netflix Defenders · Daredevil

Daredevil

Season 1

TV · 2015

Blinded as a boy but left with heightened senses, lawyer Matt Murdock works by day with his friend Foggy Nelson in Hell's Kitchen and fights crime at night in a black mask. The rebuilding of New York after the alien attack has created a gold rush, and crime boss Wilson Fisk is quietly uniting Russian, Chinese and Japanese criminal groups to seize the neighbourhood's redevelopment. Their firm takes on Karen Page, who is framed for a murder in Fisk's orbit, and with reporter Ben Urich she begins digging into his operation. Around mid-season Matt's old mentor Stick arrives, kills the young boy known as Black Sky who is central to the Hand's plans, and departs after Matt fights him, leaving their bond wrecked. Foggy then discovers Matt's secret and walks away from the firm, hurt at having been lied to, and soon after Fisk murders Urich himself. Karen kills Fisk's aide James Wesley in self-defence, Fisk is arrested by federal agents, and corrupt officers help him try to escape; Matt, now in a Potter-built armoured red suit, beats him in a brutal fight, the press christens him Daredevil, and Matt and Foggy reconcile and open their own practice.