History Recap / TheDefenders2017S1E2MeanRightHook

** One of the callers on ''Trish Talk'' says about the earthquake "we can't help but think it's [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the Incident]] or terrorism," ostensibly referring to both the aliens and also to Wilson Fisk's firebombing of Hell's Kitchen when he was eliminating the Russians.

** Matt snapping and shoving his medical supplies off his dining room table when his hands are too shaky to unwrap the bandage is staged (right down to the camera angles) identically to him sweeping his computer off the same table while he was listening to Wilson Fisk's speech.
** When Luke approaches Turk at Trouble in a Pair of Dice, Turk is in the midst of talking to an undercover cop, specifically, the very same cop that let Luke go when he escaped the armored prison transport following the standoff at Harlem's Paradise.
** The shot of Danny giving Luke a [[TitleDrop mean right hook]] with the Iron Fist is done in slow-motion and staged identically to when Amos did it in Genghis Connie's. Except whereas Amos broke every bone in his right hand and lower arm on Luke's skin, here, Luke is sent flying.

** Matt and Foggy meet at Josie's for drinks. It's apparently the first time Foggy has been back to Josie's since Nelson & Murdock closed.
-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' Been a long time, Josie. Can't tell you how much I miss this place.
-->'''Josie:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh! So Mr. Uptown misses our humble establishment]]...

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: On seeing Jessica Jones in the bomb stashhouse, Misty comments that she was expecting Jessica to be a lot bigger, given her reputation with the NYPD.

* MythologyGag: When Matt and Foggy's bar talk turns to Karen, Foggy says "After you told her your little secret, lucky she didn't freak out and have us both disbarred." In ''ComicBook/BornAgain'', Karen sold Matt's identity out to a drug dealer for a heroin fix, information that passed its way up to Wilson Fisk, who among other things then got Matt disbarred by paying a corrupt cop to deliver perjured testimony "accusing" Matt of paying off a witness.

-->'''Foggy Nelson:''' I talked to Karen. She said you guys [[UnusualEuphemism grabbed coffee]]. I don't mean to pry, but...where are you guys at? Relationship status?
-->'''Matt Murdock:''' We are ''[makes air quotes]'' "figuring ourselves out".

** Jessica to Matt when he shows up at the precinct to provide her impromptu legal counsel

* MythologyGag: When Matt and Foggy's bar talk turns to Karen, Foggy says "After you told her your little secret, lucky she didn't freak out and have us both disbarred." In ''ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain'', Karen sold Matt's identity out to a drug dealer for a heroin fix, information that passed its way up to Wilson Fisk, who among other things then got Matt disbarred by paying a corrupt cop to deliver perjured testimony "accusing" Matt of paying off a witness.

* WickedCultured: Alexandra has a taste for good music, as shown when she enjoys a private performance of Johannes Brahms' ''String Quartet Op. 51 No.1 in C Minor'' by a string quartet and gives lectures about Beethoven Brahms. Of course, she [[Really700YearsOld might have known both men personally]].

** Jessica still remembers what Hogarth did with Kilgrave and treats her openly hostile.

* FragileSpeedster:

* WickedCultured: Alexandra has a taste for good music, as shown when she enjoys a private performance of Johannes Brahms' ''String Quartet Op. 51 No.1 in C Minor'' by a string quartet and gives lectures about Beethoven and his time period.

* OhCrap: Danny when Luke [[NoSell tanks every punch and kick he throws without so much as flinching]].

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Jessica's response on finding out that the series of shell companies that owned the building where the explosives were found go back to the eighteenth century.

* WickedCultured: Alexandra has a taste for good music, as shown when she enjoys a private performance of Johannes Brahms' ''String Quartet Op. 51 No.1 in C Minor'' by a string quartet and gives lectures about Beethoven and his time period.

Matt and Foggy meet up at Josie's for drinks. It's apparently the first time Foggy has been back to Josie's since Nelson & Murdock closed. They make some small talk about Matt's latest victory in the Aaron James settlement. Foggy admits that while Hogarth Chao & Benowitz is a far cry from what he and Matt were doing at Nelson & Murdock, he and Marci Stahl are still dating, and that makes things much better for him. Foggy asks Matt how he and Karen are doing relationship-wise, to which Matt admits they're still "figuring things out". Foggy's still pleased that Karen didn't freak out when Matt told her that he was Daredevil. The conversation shifts to the earthquake. Foggy can tell Matt went out as he didn't cover up the bruises on his knuckles. Matt is offended, thinking Foggy is judging him for going out to crimefight again, but Foggy insists that's not the case. In fact, Foggy wants to pass some of his casework off to Matt, figuring that Matt will be less tempted to go out to beat up people if he's drowned in legal work.

As night falls, Luke walks into Trouble in a Pair of Dice. He quickly finds [[ButtMonkey Turk Barrett]] at the counter, talking to an undercover cop and trying to pawn off a stolen watch. Luke takes Turk out back and interrogates him about the recent murders, asking if Shades and Mariah are involved. Turk reveals that they're not involved, but the dead men are getting involved with some new gangster who's shown up in the midst of the power vacuum Diamondback created prior to his capture. No one knows the new guy's name, but on the streets, he's known to be an African immigrant named "White Hat" because of the white suit and Panama hat he wears. Luke leaves, but not without warning Turk that there will be consequences if his information is bad.

Despite the warnings, Hogarth believes Jessica won't listen to her advice. She doesn't want the heat from Jessica's investigation to blow back on the firm, so she takes Foggy aside and asks him to keep an eye on Jessica to make sure she stays out of trouble. Foggy hears Hogarth out, and as soon as she gets in her car and leaves, he gets on the phone and calls Matt. Jessica, meanwhile, is returning to her apartment, and takes a call from Trish. Trish fills Jessica in on what happened at the studio that morning, and is convinced someone wants to sweep the earthquake story under the rug, but Jessica is distracted because she sees that her apartment door is ajar. She is exasperated, thinking Malcolm has once again let himself in uninvited. Indeed he is there...and being held at gunpoint by John Raymond.

* ManInWhite: "White Hat", the mysterious gangster recruiting Harlem's youth for grunt work, is so-called because of his unique fashion sense: a white suit, Panama hat, and alligator shoes.

* GoodVsGood:

As night falls, Luke walks into Trouble in a Pair of Dice. He quickly finds [[ButtMonkey Turk Barrett]] at the counter, talking to an undercover cop and trying to pawn off a stolen watch. Luke takes Turk out back and interrogates him about the recent murders, asking if Shades and Mariah are involved. Turk reveals that they're not involved, but the dead men are getting involved with some new gangster who's shown up in the midst of the power vacuum Diamondback created prior to his capture. No one knows the new guy's name, but on the streets, he's known as "White Hat" because of his unique fashion sense: white suit, and a Panama hat. Luke leaves, but not without warning Turk that there will be consequences if his information is bad.

Despite the warnings, Hogarth believes Jessica won't listen to her advice. She doesn't want the heat from Jessica's investigation to blow back on the firm, so she takes Foggy aside and asks him to keep an eye on Jessica to make sure she stays out of trouble. Foggy hears Hogarth out, and as soon as she gets in her car and leaves, he gets on the phone and calls Matt. Jessica, meanwhile, is returning to her apartment, and takes a call from Trish. Trish fills Jessica in on what happened at the studio that morning, and is convinced someone wants to sweep the earthquake story under the rug, but Jessica is distracted because she sees that her apartment door is ajar. She is exasperated, thinking Malcolm has once again let himself in, and indeed she finds Malcolm in her office space...being held at gunpoint by John Raymond.

Jessica tries to talk John down, insisting that his family are worried about him. But John is terrified out of his wits. He found out that his employers were involved in very sinister criminal activity, and now they will come after him and his family. She tries to persuade him that he could tell the NYPD and his family why he started stockpiling explosives, but he shakes his head and insists that his employers will find him and kill him if he talks to the cops. John pulls back the hammer on his gun, and getting more desperate, says he was only trying to stop his employers, who are going to take down the city, but he still stubbornly won't tell Jessica who his employer is. Before John can say anything else, Elektra arrives at Jessica's front door and breaks open the lock with her katana. John levels his gun and fires at Elektra as she enters, swinging her katana, but she dodges every one of his bullets, grabs him by the neck with one hand, and prepares to stab him. John tells her, "You can't have this," and abruptly shoots himself in the head to deny Elektra the satisfaction of killing him. Jessica tries to grab at Elektra as she leaves, but Elektra manages to throw her aside without breaking her stride. Jessica regains her footing and chases after Elektra, but by the time she gets to the street, Elektra has vanished. She barely has time to process this when Misty suddenly arrives and draws her gun on Jessica.

After several minutes of waiting, Danny and Colleen break cover and overpower the gas mask wielding henchmen. They manage to subdue all of them except for one cleaner, who quickly flees into a nearby alleyway. Danny chases the cleaner down, pins him against a wall, and begins grilling him for information. The cleaner insists that he doesn't know who the Hand are and he is just doing clean-up. Frustrated, Danny rips off the cleaner's gas mask, revealing it to be Cole. Barely seconds later, Danny is interrupted by the sudden arrival of Luke, who shoves him aside and takes his turn. Luke isn't impressed that Cole lied to him about being "in between gigs", but before he can get answers out of Cole, Danny attacks him. A very one-sided fight unfolds with Luke having the upper-hand. That is, until Danny manages to muster up enough chi to summon the Iron Fist, and punches Luke in the side of the face. The impact of the Iron Fist is enough to send Luke flying into a nearby garage door. As Luke regains his footing, Cole tries to flee, only to run straight into a police car responding to the disturbance. Luke can only watch as Danny and Colleen flee, and slips away himself while the cops arrest Cole.

In an empty warehouse, Alexandra is seen speaking to a kidnapped man who has been handcuffed to a column and has a bag over his head. After a brief exchange, Alexandra takes the bag off the man's head, revealing that it's Stick, Matt's mentor.

Misty arrests Jessica and takes her to the 29th Precinct to have her interrogated. We see that she has quite the dossier on Jessica, as in ''two'' bulging file folders of information, compared to the rather small file folders for Malcolm and for John. Misty is not too pleased with Jessica's sassy attitude and her interference with the police investigation, with her stealing evidence from the crime scene, and getting John killed. Jessica insists that she was trying to help John, and he shot himself, and persistently asks if she's being charged as a murder suspect. Misty changes the subject and asks Jessica who she was chasing. After a brief pause, Jessica relents and tells Misty what she knows: this case is unusual and Misty is walking into something she's never seen before. Before Jessica can say anything further, Matt suddenly walks in and tells her to stop talking. Jessica, baffled, asks him who he is, to which Matt smiles and replies "My name is Matthew Murdock. I'm your attorney."

* ButtMonkey: Turk Barrett continues to be this, being violently interrogated by Luke.

** Matt snapping and shoving his medical supplies off his dining room table when his hands are too shaky to unwrap the bandage is staged (as in, right down to the camera angles) identically to him sweeping his computer off the same table while he was listening to Wilson Fisk's speech.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Before, the Hand has only had Asian members (Japanese and Chinese) with Bakuto (Latin American) being the only non-Asian leader. Now they have the ethnically white Alexandra and the African White Hat.

* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted. Matt's knuckles are visibly bloody after fighting vigilante store owners in the alleyway. He tries to bandage them up, but his hands are too shaky to do so, and Foggy can see the bruising despite Matt's efforts to hide it.

* SaveTheVillain: Matt goes to stop an instance of looting, only to end up having to save the looters from the pawnshop owner they just robbed from, [[DisproportionateRetribution who is trying to kill them with a shotgun.]]

* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted. Matt's knuckles are visibly bloody after fighting off the thieves in the alleyway. He tries to bandage them up, but his hands are too shaky to do so, and Foggy can see the bruising despite Matt's efforts to hide it.

** Elektra shrugs off Jessica's attempt to stop her from fleeing Jessica's apartment with a single kick to the chest.

** When Matt breaks up the robbery, he manages to overpower the looters, then disarms the store owners to stop them from shooting the looters.

* DrivenToSuicide

* SaveTheVillain: Matt goes to stop an instance of looting, only to end up having to save the looters from their victim, [[DisproportionateRetribution who is trying to kill them.]]

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Before, the Hand has only had Asian members (Japanese and Chinese). Now they have the ethnically white Alexandra and the African White Hat.