Daredevil once again has
his senses go haywire while he’s high over the city causing him to fall and
land rather ungracefully in an alley. He theorizes that it’s a result of the
radiation he absorbed recently, the same kind that gave him his hyper-senses in
the first place. He then decides to go looking for the only man who can help
him once again: Stick! Meanwhile, Black Widow encounters a few Hand ninja while
they’re in the process of stealing Kirigi’s body from the city morgue. She’d
been tasked by SHIELD to track them across several countries, finally finding
them making their move now. She stylishly takes out as many ninja as she can
but a couple still escape with Kirigi’s body after she steps on the caltrops
they threw as a distraction. She alerts Nick Fury as to the situation before
revealing that she thinks the caltrops were poisoned, collapsing right after!
Elsewhere, Daredevil
visits Duke’s Pool Hall looking for Stick. He’s told Stick’s moved his business
to Josie’s before his senses act up again. He’s forced to flee while being
followed by a couple goons looking to capitalize on his clear misfortune. Speaking
of Josie’s, Stick himself is attacked by four Hand ninja right outside the bar.
He takes them all out with no problem. Daredevil continues to head to Josie’s
and finds himself facing his most daunting task yet: crossing the street! While
he’s halfway across the street, the sounds all around him become deafening once
more and he’s caught by the thugs following him. DD is saved by a cabbie who
notices the fracas and hits one of the guys from behind with a metal pipe.
Daredevil knocks out the other guy and the cabbie offers to give DD a ride to
where he’s going.
At SHIELD headquarters,
Nick Fury converses with the doctor who looked over Natasha. He says that
whatever poison was in the caltrops she stepped on is rapidly killing her,
estimating she’s got a week at most. Fury then decides to relay the bad news to
Natasha himself. Daredevil arrives at Josie’s and finds out Stick isn’t there.
However, once again his hyper-senses go wild at the worst time. The thugs in
the bar capitalize on the situation and Daredevil ends up getting thrown out of
Josie’s window! Meanwhile, Stick has called a meeting with the other members of
the Chaste in Matt’s apartment of all places. He warns them that the Hand is
hunting them down and he feels Daredevil could be useful, in time. Just then,
Daredevil stumbles in and collapses, asking for Stick’s help. Finally, in an
abandoned church, the Hand perform a ritual that brings Kirigi back to life,
telling him there are many he must kill! To be continued!