A helicopter containing
an armed death squad descends upon a cruise ship. The gunmen state they’re only
looking for one man, Bruno Ponchatrane, a murderer who was released on a
technicality. Bruno has just been tucked away by a disguised Matt Murdock when
Matt changes to Daredevil and tackles the gunmen. He notes they’re the same
group who recently killed two other mobsters who had walked free and now
they’re after Bruno. Daredevil incapacitates the men on the boat and jumps
aboard the helicopter when it tries to get away. Daredevil’s scuffle with the
remaining gunman causes the helicopter to crash into the Brookyln Bridge before
plummeting into the ocean, as Daredevil leaps to safety. Matt feels conflicted
about saving Bruno, considering he murdered a little girl but was gotten off by
Foggy because the arresting officer made a mistake.
Back at their office,
Foggy agrees that he doesn’t like the guy, but felt they couldn’t ethically
refuse him, as it’s their job to defend him. That evening, Heather Glenn is
approached at a party by a man named Tarkington Brown, who introduces himself
as working for the mayor’s office. Heather and Brown end up talking the night
away, with a drunk Heather telling him about her former relationship problems
with Matt. She then drunkenly lets slip that Matt is Daredevil and Brown
rushes her home before heading to another secret address! Here he meets with
several cops, revealing that they are the death squad that’s been killing
mobsters and he is their leader! Brown tells them that their new target is Matt
Murdock!
The following morning,
Heather suddenly remembers what she told Brown and rushes over to see Matt at
his office. She tells him that she told Brown his secret and Matt angrily
throws her out before looking up everything he can on Tarkington Brown. Later, Heather
stops in on Brown just after a meeting with his doctor, who reveals that Brown
is dying. Heather tries to pretend that she was just trying to impress Brown
when she said that Matt is Daredevil, but Brown isn’t buying it. Brown reveals
that his death squad is currently waiting to ambush Matt at his apartment, and
that as soon as that’s done, he’ll kill Heather too for knowing too much!
Meanwhile, Daredevil stealthily takes out the sniper stationed across the
street from his apartment, confirming his suspicions that Brown controls the
death squad.
Daredevil heads into his
apartment through his skylight, his senses and radar telling him exactly where
the other members of the squad are waiting for him. He stealthily takes out the
remaining members of the squad, until there’s one man left, the one with a gas
weapon. Daredevil swipes the gas mask from one of the other gunmen and takes
out the remaining guy, before getting the now gas mask-less one out of the
building. Daredevil then makes his way to Brown and stops him just as he’s
going to kill Heather. He confronts Brown about why he’s doing all of this, and
Brown reveals that he only has a few months to live. He feels that the
criminals of the city are winning the war against the honest people and this
death squad is his contribution to society, to eliminate as many of them as
possible with the time he has left. Daredevil then decides to make a deal, to
keep each other’s secrets until Brown dies, provided he doesn’t try anything
else like this in his remaining months.
The following day, Matt
arrives at his office and Foggy tells him that the death squad has been
identified and apprehended. There’s bad news too though. Bruno, the guy Foggy
got off on a technicality, killed another little girl that morning. Matt can
only hang his head in sorrow…
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