Late at night, Daredevil
stops by the local Armory to check in on a Sargeant friend of his. He finds the
Sarge bleeding out from a gunshot wound, having just tried to stop a robbery.
He reveals that men disguised as soldiers ransacked the place and stole a
couple cases of new anti-tank missiles called Dragons! Not only that, they took
Sarge’s prized gun given to him by his father, “Bitsy.” Sarge tries to tell
Daredevil once more of how that very gun saved his life, as Daredevil hears his
heartbeat slow and finally stop. Outside, after loading the missiles into a
truck, the leader of the heist drives off without his men! Daredevil leaps down
and takes out the robbers, leaving one guy to interrogate. The last guy tells
Daredevil that the exceptionally tall man who planned the job and just drove
off is named Carmine Pesca and that he’s planning to use the missiles somehow
to rob a cruise ship called the S.S. Madagascar that’s leaving the following
morning.
Two days later, Matt
finds himself aboard the S.S. Madagascar so that he can hopefully foil the
robbery attempt. Matt learns from another attendee that Pesca is apparently in
the diamond business and brought quite a lot of equipment with him in his room.
Matt notices as Pesca is slapped by an equally tall woman before walking off. He
introduces himself and learns that the very tall woman is named Willow, and
she’s the magician hired to be the main entertainment for the cruise. She asks
Matt to be the guest for her show that night, and later Matt finds himself
acting as the participant for one of her tricks. She straps a harness and
pulley around Matt which lifts him high into the air behind the curtain, making
it look to the audience as if he disappeared! After the show, she shows Matt how
her tricks were done, demonstrating the pulley and revealing she used a
hologram projector to make it look like she made an elephant appear.
Later that night,
Daredevil decides to surveil Pesca some more, when suddenly one of the stolen
missiles comes careening at the ship, striking the main radio tower! The
reverberating radar frequencies end up heavily messing with Daredevil’s own
radar, leaving him truly blind! Just after, a submarine rises out of the
distance and demands the diamonds stored on board be transferred to them,
without any hassle. To preserve the safety of the passengers, the Captain of
the ship agrees. Meanwhile, Daredevil uses an axe to smash the radar dish,
solving his radar issue. However, the dish starts falling towards Pesca and
Daredevil just manages to knock it out of the way in time. Daredevil
interrogates Pesca and learns that he’s an actor that Willow hired to act as
her double for one of her tricks!
Meanwhile, Willow uses
the same pulley system as earlier to hoist the diamonds to her and her
partners, while revealing that the submarine was just a hologram all along.
Daredevil arrives to discover her scheme, and her two associates rush him.
Daredevil takes them out without much hassle, leaving just him and Willow. She
pulls the Sarge’s gun Bitsy on Daredevil, who tries to warn her that the gun
doesn’t work. Willow doesn’t believe Daredevil and pulls the trigger, causing
the gun to backfire and explode in her hand! Daredevil then explains the real
story of how that gun saved the Sarge’s life. In Vietnam, he was rushed by a
foreign solider with a grenade. The grenade went off prematurely, lodging a
piece of shrapnel in the gun barrel and saving his life. Since then, he never
fired it and kept it around as a good luck charm. At least, until Willow came
along…