Black Widow fights
against the SHIELD agents tasked with keeping her on the premises. Though Fury
told her to sit back and let them investigate everything, she’d prefer to find
her own way out of her predicament. She knocks out several agents before making
her way to the apartment of her friend and associate Ivan. She tells him about
getting poisoned but quickly realizes that he won’t be able to help her. She
heads out, knowing SHIELD will check there next, determined to handle things
her way. She contemplates what to do and her thoughts drift to Matt, deciding
to go to him for help. She enters his apartment through the skylight only to
find it empty. She briefly considers heading down to the basement but reasons
he likely isn’t there.
Unknown to her, Daredevil
is indeed down in the basement, in a sensory deprivation tank, being watched
over by Stick. He explains what happened to Stick while the other members of
the Chaste feel Stick is wasting his time. With his apartment a bust, Natasha
tries looking for Matt at Heather’s apartment. Instead, she only finds Heather
drowning her sorrows over the complicated state of her and Matt’s relationship.
Meanwhile, a jonin of The Hand tasks the newly resurrected Kirigi with
eliminating Stick! Natasha then tries checking the Nelson and Murdock offices.
She finds Becky and an especially frustrated Foggy pondering the nature of
Matt’s disappearance, one among many. Back with Matt, Stick tells him that the
Hand are coming for him but Matt feels he can’t leave the tank. The other
members of the Chaste feel it was a mistake to involve Daredevil in this but
Stick feels he could be the best of them, given time.
Elsewhere, the Kingpin is
handling a dispute with some of the other mob bosses, when Black Widow stops
in. She quickly handles the Kingpin’s men before Fisk tells her he has no idea
where Daredevil is. Natasha then starts to dissolve and runs out, the effects
of the poison speeding up, which does not go unnoticed by Fisk. Back at the
apartment, Stick tells Matt that he can leave the tank any time he wants. Stick
says that the radiation has long since worn off and reiterates that it was
never the radiation, Matt was simply opened up to senses that everyone has but
had long since let decay. Matt suddenly stops being able to sense Stick’s
presence and musters the courage to exit the tank, finding Stick in combat with
Kirigi. Shaft, Claw, and Stone then coordinate their attacks and quickly and
efficiently take out Kirigi, this time for good. Before Stick can explain
further, Natasha stumbles in and collapses, succumbing to the effects of the
poison! To be continued!