Two years after the release of the second season of Marvel’s Daredevil and a year after the release of the first (and last) season of Marvel’s The Defenders, we finally learned what happened after The Defenders’ cliffhanger.
In the first half of this season, we saw Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) struggling as the collapses of Midland Circle’s building took away most his senses letting him in a critical state and, Wilson Fisk (Vincent d’Onofrio) was released from prison.
Throughout the season we met new characters such as Special Agent Ray Nadeem (Jay Ali) and Special Agent Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter (Wilson Bethel). The former is a federal agent with money issues and a lovely family to take care of, and the latter is also a federal agent granted with a ridiculous precision (capable of killing a man with a pen or a baseball ball) and psychopatical tendencies.
We also saw how reporter Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and District Attorney Franklin “Foggy” Nelson (Elden Henson) Matt’s best friends, dealt with their friend’s supposed death. When Fisk first met Nadeem, both of them agreed on a deal that will allow the F.B.I. to arrest other big mobs in New-York thanks to Fisk, if he can live in a well-decorated penthouse. Of course this deal was well-calculated by Fisk, thus allowing him to have the F.B.I. eliminate his competition. One of the federals is Poindexter who will, as he loses his north star and control and keeps drowning throughout the season, feel closer to Fisk, allowing him to be manipulated. Soon after the events Nadeem with the help of Matt will find out that Dex has been hiding something anout his mental health. His curiosity will allow him to discover a lead about the corruption of the F.B.I. by Fisk, now known as the “Kingpin”, who will use Dex as “Daredevil” to commit mass murders in New-York’s Bulletin and in Father Lantom’s church.
The downfall of the vigilante Daredevil orchestred by Dex in the second half of this season led Matt to rethink his methods, and convince him that Justice can’t stop Fisk and the only way to do so is to kill him. When Vanessa, Fisk’s true love, came back, she immediately agreed to help him take over the city, and planned the death of Agent Ray Nadeem. Those events led a free-for-all fight between the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen, the Kingpin and Dex’s Daredevil.
Afterwards Dex his spine back shattered to pieces, Fisk got lock behind bars, and Matt got his personnal and professionnal life back along Karen and Foggy. In order to prevent Vanessa to go to jail for the murder of Agent Nadeem, Fisk swore to neither ever touch Foggy or Karen nor reveal Matt’s secret to the rest of the world. In the ending scene we saw Dex opened his eyes during a surgery to renforce his spine with Cogmium steel, therefore foreshadowing him become Bullseye and hunting Vanessa.
Jack Greenfield 