Daredevil comes upon a
theft of a shipment of guns in progress at the docks. He beats up the goons
when their leader, called The Trump, seemingly surrenders. Daredevil senses
from Trump’s pulse his true intentions, allowing him to dodge Trump’s gunshot which
still stuns him due to his sensitive hearing. One of the goons named Stymie
uses the opportunity to try and run Daredevil over with their truck but
Daredevil retaliates, sending them both off the pier and into the river.
Without their truck to move their guns, Trump and his remaining men are forced
to flee. Moments later, Daredevil pulls himself and Stymie out of the river and
later goes to see Ben Urich for information on Trump. Urich digs up that he
used to be magician and kid’s show host named Carlton Sanders that moonlighted
as a heist man.
The next morning, Matt
arrives at the jail where Foggy is in the process of negotiating with Stymie.
Stymie is adamant he wants Nelson and Murdock to defend him and recognizes Matt
when he walks in, even calling him Daredevil! Matt realizes that Stymie is one
of the kids he grew up with that used to pick on him and jokingly call him
Daredevil to taunt him. Matt agrees to take his case against Foggy’s
objections, and Matt claims that he owes a lot of who he is now to Stymie, in a
way. Later, Trump tries to figure out another way to get the guns he needs to
sell and decides to rob the mob’s armory. He heads out, promising to tie up the
loose end that Stymie represents. Later, at the office, Foggy and Becky are
worried as Matt seems to have become obsessed with Stymie’s case. Foggy
realizes the way Matt is turning down bargains, he seems to be trying to get
Stymie the worst sentence possible! Matt denies this but Foggy runs out in a
hurry to check on something.
Later still, Matt heads
to the jail to meet with Stymie but recognizes a passing guard’s heartbeat as
Trump’s! Realizing what that means, he finds Stymie dead in his cell but still
warm. Matt resuscitates Stymie and quickly heads out in pursuit of Trump as
Daredevil. He quickly finds Trump and their chase leads them onto a subway
train. Trump manages to distract Daredevil and slip away, though Daredevil is
left with a clue as to where he might strike next! That evening, Foggy visits
an old candy shop and asks the shop owner there about Matt. He remembers both
Matt and Stymie, claiming that Stymie and many of the other local boys acted
very cruelly towards Matt. About that same time, Daredevil snatches up Turk for
information on where Trump could be hitting next.
Not long after that,
Trump and his men sneak into the mob hideout in disguise and quickly take
control of their assortment of guns. Daredevil arrives shortly after, leading
to a brawl with Trump. Trump ties Daredevil up and electrocutes him with his
cane, leaving Daredevil at his mercy. He begins to beat him down with his cane,
which just reminds Matt of when Stymie used to beat him up when they were kids.
This gives Daredevil the strength fight back and put Trump on the back foot.
Trump tries one last trick, a blinding flash that obviously has no effect,
allowing Daredevil to punch him out. Later, Foggy calls Matt to the shop to
confront him about his plans for Stymie. He knows that Matt plans to tank the
case on purpose to get revenge. Once Matt realizes where they are, he runs out
of there, his bad memories of that neighborhood causing him to freak out and
break down, when Foggy quickly finds him to take him home. The next morning,
Matt meets with Stymie to tell him that he won’t be taking his case after all.
He asks Stymie why he picked on him so much and Stymie admits he never gave it
much thought, and still doesn’t. Though the past means nothing to him, it still
weighs heavily on Matt.
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