While Matt infiltrates a prison to find information on the Albanians, Fisk puts Dex in his crosshairs and a fed-up Foggy goes on the offensive.
- Canned Orders over Loudspeaker: "Code 33...Code 33...Code 33... Lockdown is now in effect!" sounds throughout the scene where Matt is escaping from the prison through a riot.
- Bavarian Fire Drill:
- Matt gets out of a prison in Lock Down by having an Albanian steal a guard's uniform and escort him out as a civilian lawyer caught in the Prison Riot. Unlike other examples of this trope this is not presented as easy and they would have never made it without Matt's Super-Senses guiding them.
- Earlier Matt bluffs his way in for a prison visit using Foggy's stolen ID. Unfortunately, it doesn't work as Foggy is also on Fisk's hit list.
- Call-Back:
- The entire exchange between Matt and Fisk over the phone has strong vibes of when Matt spoke to Fisk on Officer Sullivan's radio while he was holed up with Vladimir.
- Fisk also reminds Matt of his threat to cut him off from Vanessa.
- Could Say It, But...: Ray invokes this to let Dex know that he's under investigation by OPR for the motorcade attack.Ray Nadeem: Dex, don't sweat this.
Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter: Sweat what, exactly?
Ray Nadeem: OPR wants a private interview with Fisk.
Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter: And I'm the only one asked to leave the room.
Ray Nadeem: It would be inappropriate of me to tell you that the Office of Professional Responsibility has launched an internal investigation into the motorcade attack. It would also be inappropriate of me to tell you that there was a slight discrepancy between your official report and the forensic analysis of the shooting.
Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter: Yeah, and it'd be inappropriate for you to tell me all this. - Crazy-Prepared: Fisk directs the guards and inmates in his pocket to start a massive riot if one of the lawyers who put him away should happen to stop by the prison asking questions about him. He bakes several contingencies into the riot in an attempt to guarantee Matt's death: first the nurse injects him with a sedative that's meant to slow his reflexes down so he can be jumped by a bunch of inmates in the hallway outside. Despite this disadvantage, Matt successfully fights them all off...and then does the same to some corrupt guards who've been instructed to take Matt out if the inmates' attempt failed. Matt then eventually encounters some of the incarcerated Albanians, who manage to escort him out of the prison. Then it turns out that while Matt was inside, Fisk replaced his cab driver with one of his henchmen on the off-chance Matt managed to escape the riot, and this henchman subsequently tries to kill Matt by driving the cab into the river.
- Crusading Lawyer: Marci encourages Foggy to run for District Attorney. While she doesn't think he can win this late into the election, it would surely draw attention. And it does, when he convinces Brett Mahoney to let him give a speech to cops attending a union gathering, who all are quick to throw their support behind Foggy because of their mutual anger over Fisk getting house arrest.
- Didn't Think This Through: Vic chastises Matt for not considering that Fisk would still be paying the guards and inmates at the prison even after his release.
- Enemy Mine: Matt and the Albanian boss Vic Jusufi make a deal. Vic helps Matt out of prison, in exchange for Matt seeing to Fisk getting incarcerated again, so the Albanians can get their revenge.
- False Flag Operation: Turns out the Albanians didn't shank Fisk. He paid Jasper Evans to do it so he could get an excuse to get out of prison.
- Foreshadowing: Tammy Hattley's advice on how to treat your loved ones is to hide scary information from them rather than attempt to be forthcoming, saying that even if the lies are made to hide danger, they can't be worried about something they don't know. She's purposely hiding information about her allegiance to Fisk from Nadeem.
- Hallway Fight: We get a great one at the prison Matt visits that is one lengthy 10+ minute continuous take.
- Internal Reveal:
- While she suspected it before, now Karen has confirmation by Foggy that Matt really is alive, as Foggy has no intention of lying for Matt again.
- Foggy tells Marci that Matt is alive, though stops short of revealing that he's Daredevil.
- If Fisk wasn't sure that Matt was Daredevil before, the ability of a blind man to fight off an attempted assassination, which Fisk is watching on CCTV, would have confirmed it.
- I Know You're Watching Me:
- After lying to the OPR investigator to cover for Dex, Fisk gives a Meaningful Look at the camera after they've left the room, showing that he intended for Dex to see the tape.
- Matt realizes he's walked into a trap when the CCTV camera in the medical room comes to life. Later he turns to look at it while talking to Fisk on the phone, further confirming to Fisk that he's not 'blind'.
- I Owe You My Life:
- Nadeem tips off Dex about the OPR investigation because he's grateful to Dex for saving his life.
- Fisk lies about Dex shooting the surrendering Albanians—though only with the aim of manipulating Dex in the long term.
- Lies to Children: SAC Hattley suggests to Nadeem that he use comforting lies to his son about the danger of his job rather than Brutal Honesty.
- Manipulative Bastard: Fisk lies to the OPR investigator to cover for Dex, claiming that he killed everyone during the convoy raid in self-defense. Dex watches the tape of the interview later, and correctly suspects that Fisk has an ulterior motive when he looks up at the camera after the interview is over. He storms into the penthouse to confront Fisk about this...and Fisk compliments him once more and diverts his attention to the slanderous way the Bulletin is presenting this as an FBI bungle, all to get closer to controlling the troubled agent. And although not stated, it's pretty apparent that Fisk also arranged the anonymous tip-off that Dex shot the surrendering Albanians.
- Might as Well Not Be in Prison at All: Fisk is able to organize an attempt on Matt's life and watch it on CCTV from the apartment the FBI are keeping him in, despite ostensibly being under 24 hour surveillance.
- Mythology Gag:
- Matt ending up in the river in the back of a cab on the orders of Fisk comes from Born Again (where this happened in the aftermath of Matt getting beaten up during a failed attempt to confront Fisk over him ruining his life). The show even procured a checkered cab of the kind that was used in this very scene in the original comic.
- Marci suggests to Foggy that he run for District Attorney, a position he held for several years in the comics.
- Not My Driver: Matt manages to get out of Rikers and into the cab that brought him there. But just as he recovers from the sedatives, he realizes too late that Fisk has replaced the driver who brought him there with one of his henchmen. The assassin bails out and the driverless cab flies into the river.
- Obvious Stunt Double: There are portions of the one-take fight scene where Matt keeps his back to the camera only to be knocked out of sight before Charlie Cox pops back into frame.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Already wound up about Fisk, and then finding that Matt is alive and has been hiding the fact for months, Karen deliberately confronts three gangbangers who are harassing passing women. Fortunately they're more interested in running away once she produces her gun.
- The Oner: The one-shot take goes beyond just the initial fight scene and keeps going as Matt eventually makes his way to the Albanians, learns everything he needs to know about Fisk, and then they hatch an escape plan — all in one take over 10 minutes! And it's a true one-take (with a few places where the directors put spots for cuts if issues cropped up).
- Prison Riot: Fisk has the guards and inmates on his payroll orchestrate a massive riot in an attempt to kill Matt.
- Stab the Scorpion: After fighting off several prisoners, a Giant Mook is able to get the better of Matt and puts a shank to his throat. However, Vic turns out to be working for the Albanian gang boss, who wants to know why Fisk's minions are out to kill Matt.
- The Paranoiac: Foggy is more than a little nervous after his run-in with Matt, constantly checking the lock as he is scared out of his mind of Fisk.
- Take Five: The first thing Supervisory Special Agent Winn does when he arrives at the hotel is tell Dex to get himself a cup of coffee. It's an excuse to keep him out of the room while Winn interviews Fisk regarding Dex's actions during the motorcade attack, and Dex immediately knows something is up (as Nadeem pulls him aside to tell him what's really going on). Later on, Dex uses the same line to get another agent out of the monitor room — even giving him a couple dollars — before he confronts Fisk.
- This Is Unforgivable!: During their phone conversation, Fisk makes it clear that while he was willing to let Matt's involvement in his downfall slide, he won't forgive Matt's threat to cut off his contact with Vanessa.
- Troll: Dex takes a bite out of Fisk's burger solely to see how he reacts. He is disappointed when Fisk just calmly cuts out the chewed off piece.
