History Recap / Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing

That first client comes in the form of Karen Page (Creator/DeborahAnnWoll), a young woman found in her apartment by police, standing over a dead body and holding a bloody knife, and arrested despite her tearful pleas of innocence. Matt and Foggy are tipped off to the potential client by Sgt. Brett Mahoney (Royce Johnson), a police officer at the 15th Precinct and childhood friend of Foggy's (Foggy regularly bribes Brett with cigars for his mother Bess in exchange for information), and the pair are able to convince Karen to hire the firm and be their first client. In tears, Karen explains that she and the victim, Daniel Fisher, worked for a construction firm called Union Allied, and after meeting up for drinks the night before, she blacked out and woke up a moment before the police arrived. From her heartbeat, Matt can tell she's innocent.

A middle-aged cop named Clyde Farnum is eating lunch in Abe Lebewohl Park when he's approached by James Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore). Wesley explains that his employer's organization has acquired the $28,957 debt that Farnum owes to Rigoletto, a mobster who has recently "[[DeadlyEuphemism retired]]"; and shows him a live tablet image of Clyde's daughter Tracy in a park with an assassin stationed not ten yards away from her, who they are going to give a kill order to if Clyde doesn't use his position to do a job for them.

A disparate group of organized criminals meet on the roof of an under-construction high rise: elderly financial expert Leland Owlsley (Creator/BobGunton), Russian mobsters Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov (Creator/GideonEmery and Nikolai Nikoleff), Yakuza enforcer Nobu Yoshioka (Peter Shinkoda), and elderly Chinese drug manufacturer Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho). Wesley is the last to arrive as a representative of his employer, whose name he refuses to allow be spoken aloud. When Wesley asks why the Russians are short on their payments, they explain the recent incident with the masked vigilante. Owlsley is dismissive, but Wesley shows more interest in this vigilante and demands details. The Russians get defensive when the others seem skeptical of their story, and when it's mentioned that Wesley's employer will be displeased with them, and they fire back by asking about the situation with one of their rivals, Prohazska, which they're just as displeased about. Wesley insists that his organization is handling Prohazska, but the Russians don't seem to have been placated.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Wesley shows Farnum a live video of Farnam's daughter in the park [[ImpliedDeathThreat with Rance nearby]], to coerce him into killing Karen.

** When Farnum calls his daughter, she says she's coming around over the weekend to drop off her laundry. She does...and discovers her father's body.

* DeathByIrony: The first attempt on Karen's life involves Farnum trying to make it look like she hanged herself with a noose made from the bedsheets in her cell. Following the second attempt on Karen's life, this is the fate given to Rance.

** Despite the fact that [[ObfuscatingStupidity they seemingly need translators]], Nobu and Madame Gao react at several points to the exchanges Vladimir, Anatoly, Wesley and Owlsley are having in English. Both of them give Owlsley [[DeathGlare dirty looks]] when Owlsley [[InterchangeableAsianCultures asks Nobu to translate for Gao]], both turn to stare intently when Vladimir and Anatoly throw the Union Allied affair into Owlsley and Wesley's faces, and at one point Wesley translates a question Gao asks...a question that was in response to something that had only been discussed in English.
** Vladimir and Anatoly bring up the whole matter with Prohaszka, a rival of theirs who will come into play in later episodes.

* NotSoDire: Foggy says he's going to bribe a cop. Brett turns out to be a childhood friend (or maybe frenemy) and he's just bringing cigars for his mom, in exchange for letting them know of any interesting cases that come across his desk.

* PullTheThread: Foggy's absolutely correct that Karen's case is open and shut, ''and'' that there's a good reason she hasn't been charged yet (it's the weekend). However, Matt is correct that Karen's case is ''so'' open and shut and so violent that it should be a sensational case splashed across all the tabloids, not a silent nothing being dealt with as quietly as possible.

** And later when a masked man in black appears out of nowhere to save her from a hitman, Karen can only gasp out an incredulous "Who...what the hell?!"
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Matt works out that the only reason the people who've set Karen up haven't killed her is because [[IMadeCopies she copied the pension file]] and they're hoping to pressure her into giving it up. They only changed their plan after [[SpannerInTheWorks Matt and Foggy]] turned up out of nowhere to defend her.

The next morning, Matt meets up with Foggy Nelson (Creator/EldenHenson), his best friend, fellow lawyer and new business partner, to sign a lease on a small office for their law firm Nelson & Murdock, getting a good price due to the general damage and reconstruction going on in Hell's Kitchen after [[Film/TheAvengers2012 "the Incident"]]. Now they only need clients, but that's been difficult due to Matt's insistence they only defend the innocent; at this point, he'd settle for a single client.

That first client comes in the form of Karen Page (Creator/DeborahAnnWoll), a young woman found in her apartment by police, standing over a dead body and holding a bloody knife, and arrested despite her tearful pleas of innocence. Matt and Foggy are tipped off to the potential client by Sgt. Brett Mahoney (Royce Johnson), a police officer at the New York City Police Department's 15th Precinct and childhood friend of Foggy's (Foggy regularly bribes Brett with cigars for his mother Bess in exchange for information), and the pair are able to convince Karen to hire the firm and be their first client. In tears, Karen explains that she and the victim, Daniel Fisher, worked for a construction firm called Union Allied, and after meeting up for drinks the night before, she blacked out and woke up a moment before the police arrived. From her heartbeat, Matt can tell she's innocent.

A middle-aged cop named Clyde Farnum is eating lunch in Abe Lebewohl Park when he's approached by James Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore). Wesley explains that his employer's organization has acquired the $29,000 debt that Farnum owes to Rigoletto, a mobster who has recently "[[DeadlyEuphemism retired]]"; and shows him a live tablet image of Clyde's daughter Tracy in a park with an assassin stationed not ten yards away from her, who they are going to give a kill order to if Clyde doesn't use his position to do a job for them.

Meanwhile, at Nelson & Murdock, Matt is convinced that something's amiss: [[OrgyOfEvidence if the case against Karen is so open-and-shut]], why are the police dragging their feet on charging her and why haven't any news outlets reported on the crime? Foggy suspects Matt's reluctance is because Karen is just his type (a beautiful woman of "questionable character"), but he agrees to dig deeper into the matter.

In the middle of the night, Farnum attacks Karen in her sleep. He tries to stage a suicide by strangling her with a bedsheet tied into a noose, but Karen fights back, drawing blood from his right eye, and manages to scream for help. The next morning, Matt and Foggy meet with the investigating officers in Karen's case, Detectives Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman, and demand Karen's immediate release from custody, since she's not been charged and has grounds for a civil suit against the precinct. They begrudgingly acquiesce, though not before Blake threatens physical violence against Matt. In private, Matt suspects the attempted murder was part of an attempt to cover up evidence that would exonerate Karen.

At the office, Karen admits to knowing why someone would want to frame and kill her. The construction firm where she worked, Union Allied, has made millions off government contracts to rebuild much of Hell's Kitchen. Karen was accidentally emailed a "pension file" that was actually a ledger for what she presumes was criminal activity. Her boss, Mr. [=McClintock=], laughed off her concerns, so Karen asked Daniel Fisher from the legal department to advise her on what to do next. When they met up at the bar to discuss it, someone drugged their drinks and staged the murder. Blaming herself for Daniel's death, Karen tearfully insists on leaving, not wanting Matt or Foggy to suffer because of her, but the pair resolve to keep her safe, and Matt offers to let her stay at his apartment.

A disparate group of organized criminals meet on the roof of an under-construction high rise: elderly financial expert Leland Owlsley (Creator/BobGunton), Russian mobsters Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov (Creator/GideonEmery and Nikolai Nikoleff), Yakuza enforcer Nobu Yoshioka (Peter Shinkoda), and elderly Chinese drug manufacturer Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho). Wesley is the last to arrive as a representative of his employer, whose name he refuses to allow be spoken aloud. When Wesley asks why the Russians are short on their payments, they explain the recent incident with the masked vigilante. Owlsley is dismissive, but Wesley shows more interest in this vigilante and demands details. The Russians get defensive when the others seem dubious about their story, and when it's mentioned that Wesley's employer will be displeased with them, and they fire back by asking about the situation with one of their rivals, Prohazska, which they're just as displeased about. Wesley insists that his organization is handling Prohazska, but the Russians don't seem to have been placated.

A few days later, the Union Allied story is front page news in the ''Bulletin''. Over the phone, Wesley assures his employer that the scandal won't be linked to their operation, since Owlsley has cleared out the dirty money and the key people with evidence, such as Clyde, Rance, and Karen's boss, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness have been or will be dealt with]]. Farnum is shot in his basement and his death staged as a suicide, Rance is hanged in his jail cell with a bedsheet, and Karen's boss is force fed a lethal dosage of pills. His employer is curious about how Rance was subdued, but tells Wesley to leave Karen alone, since she doesn't know anything beyond what has already been exposed, and to keep an eye on Nelson & Murdock in case they'll be useful in the future.

Karen cooks Matt and Foggy a celebratory meal to celebrate her acquittal, and offers to work at Nelson & Murdock as their secretary. However, despite the firm's victory, the criminal enterprise is continuing unabated. That night, Matt waits on the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen in his vigilante suit and listens for trouble; hearing the sound of a child being abducted from his father by the Russians, Matt pulls on his mask and goes to work.

* BattleInTheRain: The fight between Matt and Rance outside of Karen's apartment is this.

* CantStopTheSignal: Faced with a possible [[WeAreEverywhere widespread criminal conspiracy with police involvement]], Matt decides to just go to the newspapers.

* CopKiller: Clyde Farnum, a guard who owes money to Fisk, is threatened by James Wesley into attempting to hang Karen Page in her jail cell. When the attempt fails due to Karen clawing out one of his eyes, Fisk has Farnum bailed out, and then killed by a hitman who stages his death to look like a suicide.

** Despite the fact that [[ObfuscatingStupidity they seemingly need translators]], Nobu and Madame Gao react at several points to the exchanges Vladimir, Anatoly, Wesley and Owlsley are having in English. Both of them give Owlsley a ''look'' when Owlsley [[InterchangeableAsianCultures asks Nobu to translate for Gao]], both turn to stare intently when Vladimir and Anatoly throw the Union Allied affair into Owlsley and Wesley's faces, and at one point Wesley translates a question Gao asks...a question that was in response to something that had only been discussed in English.

** A poster in the gym is for one of Matt's father's fights "Murdock vs. Creel". We'll see exactly what that means in the next episode.

* NotSoDire: Foggy says he's going to bribe a cop. Brett turns out to be a childhood friend (or maybe enemy) and he's just bringing cigars for her mum, in exchange for letting them know of any interesting cases that come across his desk.
* OrgyOfEvidence: A variation--it's not the evidence that is suspicious, but the fact that Karen has not been charged immediately despite overwhelming evidence of her guilt.

* RevealingCoverup: The attempt to murder Karen only proves to Matt and Foggy that there really is a conspiracy, as well as [[NiceJobFixingItVillain giving them the leverage to get her released.]] It's a... not a subversion, but there's something, because the cover-up only reveals because it fails.

-->'''Turk:''' Now, if you keep quiet, I'll let you have a bucket. If not... [sparks up cattle prod]

In the early 1990s, boxer "Battlin'" Jack Murdock races to the scene of an accident to find his nine-year-old son Matt amidst an overturned truck carrying chemical waste. Matt saved an old man from being hit by the truck by pushing him out of the way, but in the process his eyes were splashed with chemicals that blind him, and Jack is left to comfort his now-disabled son.

In 2014, Matt Murdock (Creator/CharlieCox) visits the Hell's Kitchen church his father attended and takes confession. He tells the priest, Father Lantom, about his father's record as a "tough as oak" boxer, and how sometimes Jack would "let the devil out" on his opponents. Matt didn't understand what that meant at the time, but he does now. When Father Lantom asks what Matt has done that he wants to confess, Matt admits that he doesn't want forgiveness for what he's done, but rather what he's going to do.

That night, at the docks, a gang of human traffickers, lead by Turk Barrett, are loading captive young women into a shipping container. Matt intervenes in a black suit and mask that hides his identity, using heightened senses and advanced martial arts to dispatch the traffickers and free their captives.

The next morning, Matt meets up with Foggy Nelson (Creator/EldenHenson), his best friend, fellow lawyer and new business partner, to sign a lease on a small office for their law firm Nelson & Murdock, getting a good price due to the general damage and reconstruction going on in Hell's Kitchen after [[Film/TheAvengers2012 "the incident"]]. Now they only need clients, but that's been difficult due to Matt's insistence they only defend the innocent; at this point, he'd settle for a single client.

Meanwhile, at Nelson & Murdock, Matt is convinced that something's amiss: [[OrgyOfEvidence if the case against Karen is so open-and-shut]], why haven't the police formally charged her or reported on the arrest in the papers? Foggy suspects Matt's reluctance is because Karen is just his type (a beautiful woman of "questionable character"), but he agrees to dig deeper into the matter.

In the middle of the night, Farnum attacks Karen in her sleep. He tries to stage a suicide by strangling her with a bedsheet tied into a noose, but Karen fights back, drawing blood from one of his eyes, and manages to scream for help. The next morning, Matt and Foggy meet with the investigating officers in Karen's case, Detectives Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman, and demand that Karen be released immediately, since she's not been charged and has grounds for a civil suit against the precinct. They begrudgingly acquiesce, though not before Blake threatens physical violence against Matt. In private, Matt suspects the attempted murder was part of an attempt to cover up evidence that would exonerate Karen.

At the offices, Karen admits to knowing why someone would want to frame and kill her. The construction firm where she worked, Union Allied, has made millions off government contracts to rebuild much of Hell's Kitchen. Karen was accidentally emailed a "pension file" that was actually a ledger for what seems like criminal activity. Her boss, Mr. [=McClintock=], laughed off her concerns, so Karen asked Daniel Fisher from the legal department, to advise her on what to do next. When they met up at the bar to discuss it, someone drugged their drinks and staged the murder. Blaming herself for Daniel's death, Karen tearfully insists on leaving, not wanting Matt or Foggy to suffer because of her, but the pair resolve to keep her safe, and Matt offers to let her stay at his apartment.

Matt's lofty apartment is sparse and cheap, partially because of a bright and gaudy electronic billboard on the building across the street. After Karen [[SexyShirtSwitch changes into one of Matt's dress shirts]], they talk about his blindness, and Matt admits that he misses his eyesight. Their talk turns to the Union Allied business, and Matt's theory that Karen was framed – rather than killed outright – because she knows too much. And she has something the conspirators want: a copy of the pension file. Karen denies it, but Matt senses the lie.

A disparate group of organized criminals meet on the roof of an under-construction high rise: elderly financial expert Leland Owlsley (Creator/BobGunton), Russian mobsters Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov (Creator/GideonEmery and Nikolai Nikoleff), Yakuza enforcer Nobu Yoshioka (Peter Shinkoda), and elderly Chinese drug manufacturer Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho). Wesley is the last to arrive as a representative of his employer, whose name he refuses to allow be spoken aloud. When Wesley asks why the Russians are short on their payments, they explain that a shipment was stopped by a masked vigilante in black. Owlsley is dismissive, but Wesley shows more interest in this vigilante and demands details. The Russians get defensive when the others seem dubious about their story, and when it's mentioned that Wesley's employer will be displeased with them, and they fire back by asking about the situation with one of their rivals, Prohazska, which they're just as displeased about. Wesley insists that his organization is handling Prohazska, but the Russians don't seem to have been placated.

In the middle of the night, Karen sneaks out to her apartment to retrieve a flash drive containing a copy of the pension file. Rance—the assassin that Wesley had used to threaten Farnum's daughter—is waiting and attempts to kill Karen after taking the drive, but Matt has followed her in his vigilante outfit and fights Rance. Bolstered by memories of his father, Matt defeats Rance and retrieves the flash drive with Karen looking on, though she doesn't recognize him. He promises to get the drive into the right hands, bypassing the cops, and telling "everyone" by delivering the assassin and the flash drive to the offices of the ''New York Bulletin''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: After Turk's numerous appearances as a comic relief HarmlessVillain across the MCU Netflix shows, it's pretty weird to see him doing something as despicable as human trafficking in his first appearance.

** Despite the fact that they seemingly need translators, Nobu and Madame Gao react at several points to the exchanges Vladimir, Anatoly, Wesley and Owlsley are having in English. Both of them give Owlsley a ''look'' when Owlsley [[InterchangeableAsianCultures asks Nobu to translate for Gao]], both turn to stare intently when Vladimir and Anatoly throw the Union Allied affair into Owlsley and Wesley's faces, and at one point Wesley translates a question Gao asks...a question that was in response to something that had only been discussed in English.

-->'''Wesley:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis We don't...say his name]].

That first client comes in the form of Karen Page (Creator/DeborahAnnWoll), a young woman found in her apartment by police, standing over a dead body and holding a bloody knife, and arrested despite her tearful pleas of innocence. Matt and Foggy are tipped off to the potential client by Sgt. Brett Mahoney (Royce Johnson), a police officer at the New York City Police Department's 15th Precinct and childhood friend of Foggy's (Foggy regularly bribes Brett with cigars for his mother Bess in exchange for information), and the pair are able to convince Karen to hire the firm and be their first client. In tears, Karen explains that she and the victim, Daniel Fisher, work for a construction firm called Union Allied, and after meeting up for drinks the night before, she blacked out and woke up a moment before the police arrived. From her heartbeat, Matt can tell she's innocent.

At the offices, Karen admits to knowing why someone would want to frame and kill her. The construction firm where she worked, Union Allied, has made millions off government contracts to rebuild much of Hell's Kitchen. Karen was accidentally emailed a "pension file" that was actually a ledger for what seems like criminal activity. Her boss, Mr. [=McClintock=], laughed off her concerns, so Karen asked Daniel Fisher from the legal department, to advise her on what to do next. When they met up to discuss it, someone drugged their drinks and staged the murder. Blaming herself for Daniel's death, Karen tearfully insists on leaving, not wanting Matt or Foggy to suffer because of her, but the pair resolve to keep her safe, and Matt offers to let her stay at his apartment.

* TastesLikeFriendship: In this case used to seal a friendship rather than establish it, when Karen serves the lasagna her mother told her [[ShipTease only to serve to her future husband]], and offers to work at Nelson and Murdock given that she has no money to pay them.

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Karen passes out after having a drink with a colleague, then wakes up in her apartment next to his corpse, [[BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon clutching the knife that killed him]], just as the police burst into the room. She uses this trope to Matt and Foggy knowing full well how screwed she is.

* BookEnds: The episode begins and ends with a child in danger, and a helpless father.

--->'''Karen Page:''' Better. Thanks for getting me out.\\

* TheDulcineaEffect: Foggy is not impressed by his legal partner getting them involved with a client with no money and a hopeless case, which he thinks is not entirely unrelated to the fact that she's a good-looking DamselInDistress. Even Matt admits he has a point, though points out he (supposedly) has no way of telling she's beautiful.

** The realtor manages to commit this three times with Matt in the span of 30 seconds. Luckily, both Matt and Foggy take it in good stride and humor, and proceed with the tour of the property without issue.

A middle-aged cop named Clyde Farnum is eating lunch in Abe Lebewohl Park when he's approached by James Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore). Wesley explains that his employer's organization has acquired the $29,000 debt that Farnum owes to Rigoletto, a mobster who has recently "retired"; and shows him a live tablet image of Clyde's daughter Tracy in a park with an assassin stationed not ten yards away from her, who they are going to give a kill order to if Clyde doesn't use his position to do a job.

Meanwhile, at Nelson & Murdock, Matt is beginning to think something's amiss: [[OrgyOfEvidence if the case against Karen is so open-and-shut]], why haven't the police formally charged her or reported on the arrest in the papers? Foggy suspects Matt's reluctance is because Karen is just his type (a beautiful woman of "questionable character"), but he agrees to dig deeper into the matter.

In the middle of the night, Karen is attacked in her sleep by Farnum. He tries to stage a suicide by strangling her with a bedsheet tied into a noose, but Karen fights back and manages to scream for help. The next morning, Matt and Foggy meet with the investigating officers in Karen's case, Detectives Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman, and demand that Karen be released immediately, since she's not been charged and has grounds for a civil suit against the precinct. They begrudgingly acquiesce, though not before Blake threatens physical violence against Matt. In private, Matt suspects the attempted murder was part of an attempt to cover up evidence that would exonerate Karen.

At the Nelson & Murdock office, Karen admits to knowing why someone would want to frame and kill her. The construction firm where she worked, Union Allied, has made millions off government contracts to rebuild much of Hell's Kitchen. Karen was accidentally emailed a "pension file" that was actually a ledger for what seems like criminal activity. Her boss laughed off her concerns, so Karen asked Daniel Fisher from the legal department, to advise her on what to do next. When they met up to discuss it, someone drugged their drinks and staged the murder. Blaming herself for Fisher's death, Karen tearfully insists on leaving, not wanting Matt or Foggy to suffer because of her, but the pair resolve to keep her safe, and Matt offers to let her stay at his apartment.

A disparate group of organized criminals meet on the roof of a partially-constructed building: elderly financial expert Leland Owlsley (Creator/BobGunton), Russian mobsters Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov (Creator/GideonEmery and Nikolai Nikoleff), Yakuza enforcer Nobu Yoshioka (Peter Shinkoda), and elderly Chinese drug manufacturer Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho). Wesley is the last to arrive as a representative of his employer, whose name he refuses to allow be spoken aloud. When Wesley asks why the Russians are short on their payments, they explain that a shipment was stopped by a masked vigilante in black. Owlsley is dismissive, but Wesley shows more interest in this vigilante and demands details. The Russians get defensive when the others seem dubious about the tale and when it's mentioned that Wesley's employer will be displeased with them, and they fire back by asking about the situation with one of their rivals, Prohazska, which they're just as displeased about. Wesley insists that his organization is handling Prohazska, but the Russians don't seem to have been placated.

In the middle of the night, Karen sneaks out to her apartment to retrieve a flash drive containing a copy of the pension file. Rance—the assassin that Wesley had used to threaten Farnum's daughter—is waiting and attempts to kill Karen after taking the drive, but Matt has followed her in his vigilante outfit and fights Rance. Bolstered by memories of his father, Matt defeats the assassin and retrieves the flash drive with Karen looking on, though she doesn't recognize him. He promises to get the drive into the right hands, bypassing the cops, and telling "everyone" by delivering the assassin and the flash drive to the offices of the ''New York Bulletin''.

A few days later, the Union Allied story is front page news in the ''Bulletin''. Over the phone, Wesley assures his employer that the scandal won't be linked to their operation, since Owlsley has cleared out the dirty money and the key people with evidence, such as Clyde, Rance, and Karen's boss, have been or will be dealt with. Farnum is shot in his basement and his death staged as a suicide, Rance is hanged in his jail cell with a bedsheet, and Karen's boss is force fed a lethal dosage of pills. His employer is curious about how Rance was subdued, but tells Wesley to leave Karen alone, since she doesn't know anything beyond what has already been exposed, and to keep an eye on Nelson & Murdock in case they'll be useful in the future.

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Wesley shows Farnam a live video of Farnam's daughter in the park [[ImpliedDeathThreat with Rance nearby]], to coerce him into killing Karen.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Matt works out the only reason the conspirators didn't just kill Karen is because [[IMadeCopies she copied the pension file]] and they're hoping to pressure her into giving it up. They only changed their plan after Matt and Foggy proved a SpannerInTheWorks by turning up out of nowhere to defend her.

** When Farnum calls his daughter, she says she's coming around over the weekend to drop off her laundry. She's does...and discovers her father's body.

-> ''"You know, I'm supposed to say I don't miss it. That's what they teach you in tramua recovery--define yourself by what you have, value the differences, make no apologies for what you lack. And it's all true for the mort part...but it doesn't change the fact that I...I'd give anything to see the sky one more time."''

-> ''"You know, I'm supposed to say I don't miss it. That's what they teach you in tramua recovery, define yourself by what you have, value the differences, make no apologies for what you lack. And it's all true for the mort part...but it doesn't change the fact that I...I'd give anything to see the sky one more time."''

* AdultFear: All over the place. From Matt's dad finding him lying in the street after getting hit with chemicals and being ''blinded,'' to Farnum being threatened with his daughter's life if he doesn't do what Wesley wants, ending with a father getting pulled out of his car and beaten while his son gets kidnapped.

* VillainDecay: Arguably played for the better. We first meet Turk Barrett here. Later he'll become the butt-monkey of the MC-TVU, but here he's trafficking slaves for $1000 a head.

* ContinuityNod: Matt and Foggy's new office is one of the few places in Hell's Kitchen to have largely escaped damage during [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the alien invasion]], which the locals are now just calling "the incident."

* RevealingCoverup: The attempt to murder Karen only proves to Matt and Foggy that there really is a conspiracy, as well as [[NiceJobFixingItVillain giving them the leverage to get her released.]]