On a street corner,
Daredevil jumps down on Turk, looking for information about a thief named
Alarich Wallenquist. Wallenquist witnessed a murder that an innocent man is
being charged for, and he hired Eric Slaughter and his men to protect him.
Another one of Slaughter’s men throws a bottle full of nitroglycerin at them,
in order to keep Turk from spilling what he knows. The man, Bilge, makes a run
for it only to get intercepted once more by Daredevil, who got clear of the
explosion though with a clearly injured arm. Daredevil interrogates Bilge about
Wallenquist, while a mysterious red-clad woman watches from above. With
Daredevil’s senses dulled by the explosion and the pain, the woman is able to
sucker punch him and captures Bilge for herself, stating that there’s a bounty
out on Wallenquist that she intends to collect. Matt recognizes her voice as
his former lover Elektra, just before he loses consciousness.
Fading into
unconsciousness, Matt’s thoughts drift back to when he was a college freshman.
Walking with his roommate Foggy Nelson, Foggy drops his books all over the
library steps, right in front of the dean escorting around a new student named
Elektra Natchios. Matt is instantly enamored with Elektra and a few days later,
he has Foggy distract her bodyguard, Athos, so he can talk to her. Matt learns
that Elektra is the daughter of a Greek ambassador and he tells her about his
enhanced senses. Matt asks her out and the two begin a passionate romance,
spending the next year very much in love. However, one day Matt and Foggy come
upon the administration building, where they learn Elektra and her father have
been taken hostage inside by terrorists! Matt realizes he has to do something
and slips away from Foggy, donning the scarf he was going to give Elektra as a
mask, and climbs an adjacent building to surveil the situation.
Matt hears that they’re
planning to kill Elektra and makes his move, sneaking into the building and
stealthily taking out the terrorists. Matt storms the room Elektra is in, and
she and Matt work together to take out her captors. However, Matt miscalculates
and accidentally knocks one of the men out of the window, which makes the
police think the hostages are being killed. As a result, they fire on Elektra’s
father when he steps in front of the window, accidentally killing him. Then,
and all through her father’s funeral, Elektra never cries. She tells Matt that
she’s leaving the country, unable to continue studying laws she no longer
believes in, unwilling to let the world hurt her anymore, leaving Matt
heartbroken. Matt then regains consciousness to find that Elektra bandaged his
shoulder, showing that some of the woman he knew is still in there. Even still,
he knows that Elektra has become something he can’t condone and that he must
bring her to justice!
Meanwhile, Wallenquist is
being hidden away by Eric Slaughter, when Bilge calls in to say that everything
is fine. He gives the secret signal that tips off Slaughter that Elektra has
him and Slaughter plans to lay a trap for her. Shortly after, Daredevil
interrogates one of Slaughter’s men for the location and time they’re supposed
to be sneaking Wallenquist out of the country, the pier at 4 AM. 4 AM rolls
around and Slaughter and his men find Elektra waiting for them. She easily
takes out his men before being surprised by a tranquilizer dart. Daredevil then
arrives, crashing the seaplane they were planning to use and taking out of rest
of Slaughter’s men. However, Wallenquist has a gun on Elektra and promises to
kill her if Daredevil tries anything. He has Daredevil walk away, before
pointing the gun at him. Daredevil hears Elektra stirring and reacts right when
Wallenquist is about to fire. He calls out to Elektra by her old nickname,
saying the same thing he did years ago, spurring her memory and allowing the
two to take out Wallenquist together. This confirms to Elektra that Daredevil
really is Matt and the two share a kiss. Matt takes Wallenquist away and only
then, after the weight of everything catches up with her, does Elektra finally
cry.