In Paris, Elektra stalks
a bounty, who is then killed by a ninja. She recognizes the ninja as one of The
Hand and follows him back to his base. She overhears that the Hand’s next
target is Matt Murdock and his client! Though their lives have taken different
paths and she tells herself she’s put all her old feelings behind her, Elektra
still finds herself on the next flight to New York. Meanwhile, Matt struggles
to defend Melvin Potter in court, which Ben Urich theorizes to be due to his
split with Foggy. Several hours later, Matt makes his way home, dwelling over
the case and his current separation from Foggy. Matt reaches his apartment,
only to find several Hand ninja waiting to ambush him! Matt stylishly defeats
the ninja, much to their surprise. Matt questions one of them but discovers
that Hand ninja dissolve when they fail or are defeated. He finds yet another
dissolving body in an adjoining room, clueing him in that someone must be
looking out for him. Unbeknownst to Matt, Elektra keeps watch over him from
across the street.
Elsewhere, the Kingpin
reveals to one of his men that he commissioned the Hand to target Matt Murdock,
through a third party. The Hand had been taking up a lot of his contracts and
Daredevil had consistently been getting in his way. So, noticing Daredevil’s
interest in Matt Murdock and Melvin Potter, he secretly hired the Hand to
eliminate them, planning for Daredevil to intercept the Hand, thereby pitting
all of his enemies against each other, while he remains untouched! Some time
later, the Hand continue to stalk Matt as he makes his way to the Nelson and
Murdock law offices. There, Matt finds Foggy cleaning out his desk and asks
once more what’s been going on. Foggy admits that they haven’t had a good
paying case in a long time and they don’t have the money to maintain their
office. Their grant got cut and Foggy couldn’t find anyone else to sponsor
them, feeling like it was all up to him to keep it going and he failed. Matt
assures Foggy that he needs him and that he doesn’t blame him for anything as Foggy
sobs into Matt’s arms.
All the while, Elektra
takes on the Hand ninja watching over Matt. However, she’s unable to prevent
one from throwing an explosive that blows up the offices, injuring Matt! Matt
awakens in the hospital with Heather there watching over him. Matt overhears on
the radio that due to the risk of attack, Melvin is being moved to another
facility. He attempts to head out but trips over something he couldn’t detect,
which is when it hits him…his radar is gone! Meanwhile, Elektra intercepts the
convoy moving Melvin and returns his Gladiator armor to him, just in time for
them to defend themselves against the Hand. Elektra fights valiantly against
the Hand but Melvin has found that he’s lost his killer edge and quickly gets
overwhelmed.
Daredevil arrives shortly
after, needing to focus more than ever on his senses to make up for his lost
radar. As such, he can only detect the Hand by indistinguishable heartbeats and
sword swings and doesn’t even realize Elektra is there. She keeps Daredevil
from getting killed and drives the rest of the Hand away while Matt thinks he
did it by himself. Daredevil checks on the injured Melvin, who tells him about
the woman with the sai, which finally clues him in. Later, three remaining Hand
ninja return to their leader to report the incident. They are killed for their
failure by the Hand’s most powerful member, Kirigi. Kirigi then receives his
next target, none other than Elektra! To be continued!