History Recap / Daredevil2015S2E3NewYorksFinest

* FaceDeathWithDignity: After inelegantly begging for his life, Grotto realizes that he has no hope of survival after being shot by Frank and quietly asks Daredevil to put him down.

* NotSoDifferent: Frank tells Daredevil that he is "one bad day away" from being a guy like him.

->''Only I do the one thing that you can't! You hit em and they get back up, I hit em and they stay down! It's permanent! I make sure that they don't make it out on the street again! I take pride in that!''
-->-- '''Frank'''

!Tropes present in the episode:

* BlatantLies: Turns out Grotto has been downplaying his status on the hierarchy to Nelson & Murdock. To them, he's made himself seem like a low level grunt who just does deliveries. On the rooftop, Frank Castle makes him admit to actually being a hitman who has carried out a particular assassination.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Frank points out that his method makes sure criminals never hurt anybody ever again, while Matt responds that he is taking away their chance to change their ways. Their argument climaxes effectively around Grotto, a career criminal who the audience has got to known and shows the potential to redeem himself, is convincingly begging for mercy, but who nonetheless has killed innocents.
--> '''Daredevil:''' You run around this city like it's your damn shooting gallery-\\
'''Punisher:''' Yeah what do you do?! What do you do?! You act like it's a playground, you beat up the bullies with your fists, you throw em in jail, everybody calls you a hero, right? And then a month, a week, a day later, they're back on the streets doing the same goddamn thing!\\
'''Daredevil:''' So you just put em in the morgue.\\

-->'''Karen Page:''' Your boss said she could take down a firm like ours pretty quickly?
-->'''Blake Tower:''' She wasn't lying.
-->'''Karen Page:''' Huh. So....she could also take down someone like you?
-->''[Karen takes some manila folders out of her purse and puts one down on Tower's desk]''
-->'''Karen Page:''' ADA Elliott James. Took the fall after Reyes mishandled informants in the, uh, Teller case about a year ago. ''[pulls out another folder]'' Cole Kent. Got booted from your office after she failed to quiet the Ensent scandal. ''[pulls out another folder]'' And Chris Davidson. Did you meet him? Fired after the State Supreme Court disqualified ''her entire office'' from the Pell case due to "widespread misconduct". Widespread! But not everyone got fired. See, Reyes walked out in one piece. She's good at throwing people to the wolves. So sure. She can take down Nelson & Murdock this month. But how long before ''you'' are getting pulled into the shit with the rest of us?
* CombatPragmatist: Daredevil has a chain connected to one wrist and the other is wrapped up with an empty gun when he fights the bikers. He makes creative use of this by [[ChainPain using the chain]] [[WhipItGood as a lash]] and [[PistolWhip pistol whipping]] the villains.

** Removing Luke Cage from the hospital caused Claire to get stuck on emergency room duty during a graveyard shift.

-->'''Matt:''' Who did you lose? Huh? Was it someone you loved? Well boo-hoo. Let me tell you something, buddy: everybody's lost someone. It doesn't mean you have to do this.
* CrapsackWorld: Frank Castle's antics have caused some gangs to go to war with each other. The blood is so bad that they're trying to settle scores ''in the emergency room'' and don't care if ER staff or bystanders get hurt. One such scuffle breaks out while Foggy is at the hospital trying to look for Matt, and he's forced to use his lawyer skills to talk them down.

* FreudianExcuse: {{Defied}} by Matt, as he claims that everybody has lost someone and that this is still no excuse for Frank to kill. He even gives Frank a mocking boo hoo, akin to [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Rocket and Drax]].
* GiantMook: The big biker who beats up Matt and gives Matt a considerably tougher fight than his comrades.

* ImprovisedWeapon: A whole lot of them appear in this episode, most prominently Daredevil's chain and empty revolver.
* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Averted. The SadisticChoice offered to Daredevil by Frank is lifted from the comics, but this time, the gun really is loaded with a single bullet. Later played straight when Daredevil [[WeaponForIntimidation holds one of the Dogs of Hell at "gunpoint"]] in order to get a civilian out of harm's way before [[TheOner the smackdown in the hallway/stairwell]].
* JustFollowingOrders: Grotto tries to justify this when Frank brings up a very specific job.

* MythologyGag: Frank and Matt's confrontation is a direct reference to a scene between the two written by Garth Ennis in the acclaimed arc 'Welcome Back Frank', lifting several quotes. Although as the TV show is less biased towards the Punisher, the confrontation ends rather differently.

* NotSoDifferent: Frank tells Daredevil that he is 'one bad day away' from being a guy like him.

--> '''Matt:''' Let me ask you this.
--> '''Frank:''' What's that?
--> '''Matt:''' What about hope?
--> '''Frank (annoyed):''' Oh, fuck. What, like Santa Claus? You wanna talk about Santa Claus?
* RealityEnsues: Getting Luke Cage out of the hospital had serious consequences for Claire, who has been on emergency room duty for about a month with barely any time outside.

** Matt's fight with the Dogs of Hell is a direct sequel to the iconic one shot hallway fight in the first season, though this one actually has a few hidden cuts and doesn't maintain the concept the entire fight. Just as well, because it would have been impossible to film otherwise.

* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee: Tower handing the Punisher case file over to Karen
* TakeAThirdOption: Frank tells Matt he can either shoot Grotto or shoot Frank, but Matt shoots the chains holding him instead. He's unable to stop Castle from shooting Grotto, though.

* ShutUpKirk: Frank eventually has enough of Matt's speech about the inherent "goodness" in the people he kills and knocks him out with a punch to the noggin.

* WrenchWhack: Daredevil uses a wrench as a bludgeon against Frank. Later one of the Dogs of Hell attacks Daredevil with one.

* ContinuityNod: Removing Luke Cage from the hospital caused Claire to get stuck on emergency room duty during a graveyard shift.

* SadisticChoice: Frank gives Matt the choice to let him shoot Grotto or kill Frank to prevent it. Matt [[TakeaThirdOption shoots his chains instead]], but it doesn't work as well as he hoped.

-->'''Daredevil:''' Go to hell!\\

* VisualPun: A nicely subtle one, used during the montage of the Dogs of Hell descending on the rooftop. As the bar is pumping [[{{Music/Motorhead}} "Ace of Spades"]], it cuts away on the lyric "Read 'em and weep" to a shot of Karen in the act of pulling a photo of one of the Punisher's victims out of a manila folder -- showing us [[WaxingLyrical the dead man's hand, again]].

-->'''Karen Page:''' ADA Elliott James. Took the fall after Reyes mishandled informants in the, uh, Teller case about a year ago. ''[pulls out another folder] Cole Kent. Got booted from your office after she failed to quiet the Ensent scandal. ''[pulls out another folder]'' And Chris Davidson. Did you meet him? Fired after the State Supreme Court disqualified ''her entire office'' from the Pell case due to "widespread misconduct". Widespread! But not everyone got fired. See, Reyes walked out in one piece. She's good at throwing people to the wolves. So sure. She can take down Nelson & Murdock this month. But how long before ''you'' are getting pulled into the shit with the rest of us?

* CrapsackWorld: Frank Castle's antics have caused some gangs to go to war with each other. The blood is so bad that they're trying to settle scores ''in the emergency room'' and don't care if ER staff or bystanders get hurt. One such brawl breaks out while Foggy is at the hospital trying to look for Matt, and he's forced to use his lawyer skills to talk them down.

* VisualPun: A nicely subtle one, used during the montage of the Dogs of Hell descending on the rooftop. As the bar is pumping [[{{Music/Motorhead}} "Ace of Spades"]], it cuts away on the lyric "Read 'em and weep" to a shot of Karen in the act of pulling a photo of one of the Punisher's victims out of a manila folder -- in other words, showing us [[WaxingLyrical the dead man's hand, again]].

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Karen convinces Blake Tower to hand her information on the Punisher case by showing him that Reyes has a habit of stabbing others in the back to benefit herself.

* CrapsackWorld: Frank Castle's antics have caused some gangs to go to war with each other. The blood is so bad that two gangbangers try to settle a score in the emergency room proper, not caring if ER staff or bystanders get hurt, and Foggy has to talk them down.

* TakeAThirdOption: Frank tells Matt he can either shoot Grotto or shoot Frank, but Matt shoots the chains holding him instead.

* ContinuityNod: Claire acknowledges how she saved Luke's life during her appearance in ''Series/JessicaJones2015''.

* PipePain: Some of the Dogs of Hell have metal pipes.
* RealityEnsues: [[Recap/JessicaJones2015S1E13AKASmile Getting Luke Cage out of the hospital]] had serious consequences for Claire, who has been on emergency room duty for about a month with barely any time outside.

'''Frank:''' Yeah what do you do?! What do you do?! You act like it's a playground, you beat up the bullies with your fists, you throw em in jail, everybody calls you a hero, right? And then a month, a week, a day later, they're back on the streets doing the same goddamn thing!\\

'''Frank:''' You're goddamn right I do.

'''Frank:''' [[Tearjerker/Daredevil2015 Too late.]]

* ChainPain: Daredevil uses the chain still attached to his wrist against both Castle and the Dogs of Hell.

* KnightTemplar: Frank Castle is firmly this, unwavering in his commitment to and belief in his cause, stating that Daredevil's heroics are ultimately a futile half-measure that only prolongs the inevitable.

** The landlord being a Marine veteran from the Vietnam War is an allusion to Castle's original background.
** The large x-ray that Karen pulls from the "F. Castle" file shows a human skull, reminiscent of Punisher's symbol in the comics, albeit this one has a hole in the head reminiscent of a gunshot wound.

* WrenchWhack: Daredevil uses a wrench as a bludgeon against Castle. Later one of the Dogs of Hell attacks Daredevil with one.

'''Frank:''' Yeah what do you do?! What do you do?! You act like it's a playground, you beat up the bullies with your fists, you throw em in jail and everybody calls you a hero, right? And then a month, a week, a day later, they're back on the streets doing the same goddamn thing!\\
'''Daredevil:''' So you just put em in the morgue?\\

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Franks philosophy is made very clear.

* ShutUpKirk: Frank eventually has enough of Matt's speech about the inherent goodness in the people he kills and knocks him out with a punch to the gut.

* SemperFi: Frank says this to the old man, who was in the "Fighting Third" in 'Nam.

* TheOner: Matt's fight with the Dogs of Hell is a direct sequel to the iconic one shot hallway fight in the first season, though this one actually has a few hidden cuts and doesn't maintain the concept the entire fight. Just as well, because it would have been impossible to film otherwise.

** The landlord being a Marine veteran from the Vietnam War is an allusion to Castle's background.

* WhattheHellHero: With his last breath, Grotto asks Matt why he didn't stop Frank from killing him. Matt's only response is a despondent "I'm sorry."

* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Averted. The SadisticChoice offered to Daredevil by Frank is lifted from the comics, but this time, the gun really is loaded.
* JustFollowingOrders: Grotto tries to justify this when Frank brings up a very specific job.

* VisualPun: A nicely subtle one, used during the montage of the Dogs of Hell descending on the rooftop. As the bar is pumping "Ace of Spades", it cuts away on the lyric "Read 'em and weep" to a shot of Karen in the act of pulling a photo of one of the Punisher's victims out of a manila folder -- in other words, showing us [[WaxingLyrical the dead man's hand, again]].

* WrenchWhack: Daredevil uses a wrench as a bludgeon against Castle. Later one of the Dogs of Hell attacks Daredevil with one.