History Recap / ThePunisher2017S01E013AM

* DropTheHammer: Frank uses a sledgehammer to dispatch Lance and his two buddies, who are all armed with guns.

Picking up where we last saw him in ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 2, [[Creator/JonBernthal Frank Castle]] is traveling around the country killing off members of the gangs involved in his family's death. We first see Frank chasing down a pair of Dogs of Hell bikers on an Alabama backroad, then running them over with a van. Later, he snipes a cartel member who was there that day in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...from across the border in El Paso. Lastly, he takes out the last member of the Kitchen Irish by strangling him in a toilet stall at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he's preparing to leave for Dublin. His revenge complete, Frank tosses his skull vest in a trash can and burns it.

Meanwhile, Frank finds Donny trying to make friends with Lance, the leader of the workers who regularly harass Frank. Lance, it turns out, owes money to a loan shark from the Gnucci crime family, who is threatening to break his legs and seize his car. His buddy Paulie manages to get patched in from his cousin about a poker game that a Gnucci outfit gang is holding. It should be a simple job with a jackpot of $70,000. None of the players will be armed as no guns are allowed at the table. The only gun is held by the single guard at the door. Lance and his crew are able to persuade Donny to join along with them for the robbery.

The robbery doesn't go smoothly, as in the midst of frantically scooping cash up from the poker table, Donny accidentally drops his wallet, revealing his driver's license to the Gnucci boss in charge of the game. With the gangsters now knowing Donny's real name, Lance and his buddies take Donny back to the construction site and decide to drown him in the cement mixer. They are stopped by Frank, who proceeds to kill Lance and his friends with his sledgehammer, after getting Lance to give up the location of the poker game. After dropping a rope to Donny, Frank heads to the poker game and guns down all of the gangsters in attendance just as they're getting ready to hunt Donny and torture him for the names of his accomplices. He doesn't notice that his departure from the scene afterwards has been caught on a surveillance camera, which is being monitored by David "Micro" Lieberman. Confirming that he is indeed seeing Frank by comparing the footage from the Gnucci shootout to footage from Frank's attack on Karen Page and Grotto at Metro-General Hospital last year and running a gait recognition comparison, David smiles and says, "Welcome back, Frank..."

** When Micro notices Frank leaving the scene of a shootout, he says "[[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Welcome back, Frank]]".

-->'''Boss:''' Shit. You really screwed this up, Donald.

* StupidCrooks: Played for drama with Donny, Lance, Paulie, and Leo raiding the Gnucci poker game. If not for Frank killing them all, Donny and his grandmother would probably have been killed by the gangsters... and the only reason he was able to save Donny was the last three were going to kill him in the construction site to try to clean their tracks after he let his wallet drop and allowed all of the gangsters to read his driver's license in the middle of the theft (although the fact that they were all talking about the heist right in the middle of their work place during business hours was pretty dumb as well... lucky for them that only Frank [who was in the middle of his "don't give a crap" funk] was able to overhear them).
* TastesLikeFriendship: Donnie attempts to invoke this by offering to share his sandwich with Frank after Lance trashes Frank's lunchbox. Frank thanks him for the gesture, but insists he's not looking for a buddy.

** It's safe to say that Lance and his gang are not the sharpest tools in the box. Their utter incompetence and stupidity would have lead to them easily being found out and killed by the Gnuccis had Frank not killed both factions first to protect Donnie.
** Donnie wasn't the brightest bulb either, during the robbery somehow managing to drop his wallet in a way that it falls open with his driver's license exposed to the whole Gnucci crew.

* DropTheHammer: Frank uses a sledgehammer to dispatch of Lance and his two buddies, who are all armed with guns.