History Recap / Daredevil2015S3E5ThePerfectGame

** The scene with Matt's cab being fished out of the water only for Fisk to discover Matt's body is missing is taken straight from ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]''. There's even the repeated line of "There is no corpse", something that, owing to writer Creator/FrankMiller's love of repetition in dialogue, was repeated frequently in the scene in the comics.

* SuperOCD: Along with the {{Undercrank}} to make his movements look alien and robotic, the opening scene underscores how odd Dex is by showing how everything in his apartment has to be absolutely perfect. When he's done reading the newspaper, he puts it on a perfectly squared pile of other newspapers. He rinses his coffee cup, puts it on a rack to dry, then makes sure the handle is perfectly aligned with its neighbor. When he closes the door to his apartment, that causes a photo to fall off-kilter, so he opens the door back up to fix it.

* {{Undercrank}}: The opening shots show Dex in his apartment, and focus on showing how weird he is. Some of this is accomplished by showing his SuperOCD, but the rest of the time his actions are filmed ''slightly'' undercranked, so he's moving just a ''little'' too fast. The effect makes him look alien, weird, unnatural. The scene is very subtle about this; he is undercranked, but the objects in his apartment aren't. It's very well done.

* PunchAWall: Dex bloodies his knuckles doing this, getting [[WhiteShirtOfDeath blood on his pristine white shirt]] that he then [[SuperOCD frantically tries to clean]].

* NiceHat: Dex wears a Bullseye hat as he kills Bradley.

* ConfessInConfidence: Foggy has Karen pay him five dollars so her confession to killing Wesley will be covered under attorney-client privilege.

* PunchAWall: Dex bloodies his knuckles doing this, getting [[WhiteShirtOfDeath blood on his pristine white shirt]] that he then frantically tries to clean.

* BullyingADragon: Karen tries to coerce TheFixer working for Fisk to reveal his secrets by threatening to expose him in the Bulletin, only to be visibly frightened when he reveals a whole lot of information about her and implies his job is to ''[[DeadlyEuphemism solve]]'' problems, not fix them.

** We get another hint at Karen's past, with TheReveal her once being a drug addict and the suggestion that it had something to do with the death of her brother.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: We learn about Benjamin Poindexter's past through Fisk's investigation.

* NotHelpingYourCase: James Wesley hiring Nelson & Murdock in "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E3RabbitInASnowstorm Rabbit in a Snowstorm]]" is cited as proof of Fisk's claim that Murdock was working for him, and Matt stealing Foggy's ID so he can to contact the Albanians in prison doesn't look good either.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Nadeem suspects Matt is leading a double life, that said double life caused Matt and Foggy's split, and that his and Foggy's taking a case of a criminal back in Season 1 was in service to that. He is in fact absolutely right except that he thinks Matt is a gangster, not a vigilante.

* NotHelpingYourCase: James Wesley hiring Nelson & Murdock in "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E3RabbitInASnowstorm Rabbit in a Snowstorm]]" is cited as proof of Fisk's claim that Murdock was working for him, and Matt using Foggy's ID to contact the Albanians doesn't look good either.

* MoralityChain: Dr. Mercer advises Dex to find one for himself, and we see this when Dex is about to talk a potential suicide into killing his abusive stepfather, only to do a VerbalBackspace on realising Julie is nearby.