History Recap / Daredevil2015S2E7SemperFidelis

* PoorCommunicationKills: Thanks to Matt keeping his work with Elektra secret, he has to explain to Foggy all at once that the former girlfriend who nearly caused him to fail law school is now in town and he's the well-funded client and a Yakuza-fighting vigilante he's helping to save this city when he should have been busting his ass on the case...unsurprisingly Foggy completely loses his shit over Matt's sheer irresponsibility.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Thanks to Matt keeping his work with Elektra secret, he has to explain to Foggy all at once that the former girlfriend who nearly caused him to fail law school is now in town and he's the well-funded client and a Yakuza-fighting vigilante he's helping to save this city when he should have been busting his ass on the case he got them involved in in the first place...unsurprisingly Foggy completely loses his shit over Matt's sheer irresponsibility.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elektra threatening the Medical Examiner and telling him to confess that he doctored reports involved in Frank Castle's past means he was put under duress and his testimony is inadmissible, eliminating a major witness for Nelson & Murdock. Matt rightfully calls her out on this action the very second he next meets up with her (quite violently).

* ProperlyParanoid: The security at the prison where Frank's being held don't even let Karen bring paperclips in with her.

%%* CallBack:
* ContinuityNod:

** The flashlight falls for 20 seconds between Matt throwing it and the credits rolling. Under standard gravity[[labelnote:*]] Ignoring air resistance and minor changes in gravity[[/labelnote]], the flashlight would have fallen 1,961 metres (6,435 feet). Of course, Matt's hearing is probably not good enough to hear a flashlight hitting dirt at that distance.[[note]]However, the sound would take 5.72 seconds to travel the 1,961 metres. If the hole was 1,292 metres (4,240 feet) deep, it would take 16.23 seconds for the flashlight to reach the bottom, and an additional 3.77 seconds for the sound to reach the top. Also, there's the question of air resistance and terminal velocity to consider.[[/note]]

!!Tropes present in this episode:

* BottomlessPit: Invoked by the massive digging the "Yakuza" have made. Matt throws a flashlight into it and we never hear it hit the bottom.
** The flashlight falls for 20 seconds between Matt throwing it and the credits rolling. Under standard gravity[[labelnote:*]] Ignoring air resistance and minor changes in gravity[[/labelnote]], the flashlight would have fallen 1961 metres (6435 feet). Of course, Matt's hearing is probably not good enough to hear a flashlight hitting dirt at that distance. [[note]]However, the sound would take 5.72 seconds to travel the 1961 metres. If the hole was 1292 metres (4240 feet) deep, it would take 16.23 seconds for the flashlight to reach the bottom, and an additional 3.77 seconds for the sound to reach the top. Also, there's the question of air resistance and terminal velocity to consider.[[/note]]
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Frank Castle is seen as this InUniverse. The beginning of episode has some people having a low view of what he does, while others go so far as to applaud him as an actual hero.

* EveryScarHasAStory: Matt shows the knife scars he got from season 1 to Elektra, and most scars are inflicted from Nobu.

* MythologyGag: Matt says the train cars don't have any "negative space," apparently meaning "voids." The artistic use of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_space negative space]] is a big part of the SignatureStyle of Creator/FrankMiller, and was one of the things that revitalized the {{Comicbook/Daredevil}} comic under his hand.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elektra threatening the Medical Examiner and telling him to confess he doctored reports involved in Frank Castle's past means he was put under duress and his testimony is inadmissible, eliminating a major witness for Nelson & Murdock. Matt rightfully calls her out on this action the very second he next meets up with her (quite violently).
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: It's subtle, but for a brief moment near the end when Matt and Elektra break into the Hand's hideout at Midland Circle, Charlie Cox slips back into his natural English accent when he says "We're alone."

* ShellShockedVeteran: Frank rejects using PTSD as a defense for his actions, because he sees it as unrelated and an insult. Not against ''him'', but all the veterans who are actually suffering mental trauma from their service and ''not'' going out and hurting people. Ironic, given when Karen later describes how Frank is reliving the deaths of his family over and over again, trapped in that moment, and this is a very common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder... it's just not related to Frank's combat experience.
* WhatTheHellHero: Foggy hands one out to Matt, combined with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, for lying to him again and possibly screwing up the entire trial.

** The flashlight falls for 20 seconds between Matt throwing it and the credits rolling. Under standard gravity[[labelnote:*]] Ignoring air resistance and minor changes in gravity[[/labelnote]], the flashlight would have fallen 1961 metres (6435 feet). Of course, Matt's hearing is probably not good enough to hear a flashlight hitting dirt at that distance. [[note]]However, the sound would take 5.72 seconds to travel the 1961 metres. If the hole was 1292 metres (4240 feet) deep, it would take 16.23 seconds for the flashlight to reach the bottom, and an additional 3.77 seconds for the sound to reach the top.[[/note]]

** Matt and Karen reminisce about [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1 the night they first met]].

** Matt recalls his fight with Nobu, and the building Fisk got for Nobu and his associates.
** Matt and Karen reminisce about [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1 the night they first met]].

-->'''Karen Page:''' Just for a minute... try... try to be Frank Castle. To be solely fueled by... by a single cluster of seconds. One moment in... in your entire life... [[ShowerOfAngst And every time you close your eyes, you relive that moment.]] [[CatapultNightmare And every time you open them, you find only the... the briefest peace before you realize that that nightmare is real.]] That nothing has changed. Your family isn't coming back. And so you watch them die... all over again right in front of you. We're not talking about something that happened to Frank Castle, we're talking about something that is happening to him.

* ContinuityNod: Matt recalls his fight with Nobu, and the building Fisk got for Nobu and his associates.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Frank Castle is seen as this InUniverse. The beginning of episode has some people having a low view of what he does while others go so far as to applaud him as an actual hero.

%%* ContinuityNod:

* LogicalWeakness: Matt's radar sense is largely dependent on his hyper-sensitive hearing. The Hand ninja are almost supernaturally silent when they want to be, rendering them effectively invisible to him. He can still hear their weapons, though.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Frank rejects using PTSD as a defense for his actions, because he sees it as unrelated and an insult. Not against ''him'', but all the veterans who are actually suffering mental trauma from their service and ''not'' going out and hurting people. Ironic, given when Karen later describes how Frank is reliving the deaths of his family over and over again, trapped in that moment, and this a very common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder... it's just not related to Frank's combat experience.

* ProperlyParanoid: The security at the prison where Frank's being held don'teven let Karen bring paperclips in with her.

* CallBack:
* ContinuityNod:

* EveryScarHasAStory:

* ShellShockedVeteran: Frank rejects using PTSD as a defense for his actions, because he sees it as unrelated and an insult. Not against ''him'', but all the veterans who are actually suffering mental trauma from their service and ''not'' going out and hurting people. Ironic, given when Karen later describes how Frank is reliving the deaths of his family over and over again, trapped in that moment, and this a very common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder... it's just not related to Frank's combat experience.

* EveryScarHasAStory: