History Recap / ThePunisher2017S02E10TheDarkHeartsOfMen

* UndyingLoyalty: Russo's men are now ready to die for him. Which turns out to be literally, because he's setting them up just to lure Frank into his trap. Curtis even compares them to the Hashshashin.

* OffTheWagon: After the brutal fight with the Nazis, Pilgrim finally has a glass of scotch after refusing to drink in the previous episode. Then he steals some cocaine from a dead Nazi. Then he goes into the hotel room next to his and steals a prostitute away from the poor sap who hired them. Essentially, he goes right back to his old habits due to the massive amount of pain he was in.

* RightThroughTheWall: The person in the hotel room next to Pilgrim's seems to have hired a prostitute and called someone to get Molly.

* VillainHasAPoint: While Dumont is obviously in no position to judge, given her affiliation with Billy, she does have a point about Frank, in that what he does is still clearly not right, no matter his motivations.

* CruelMercy: Billy doesn't kill Frank when had the chance because he wanted to trick him into thinking he'd killed a pair of innocent women who were still in the building.

* BlindedByTheLight: Frank is lured into a dark room, then disoriented with strobe lights.

** Frank suffers from a HeroicBSOD when he believes that his attempts to kill Billy led to him killing two innocent people. He doesn't even attempt to flee the police who came to arrest him.

** Frank suffers from a HeroicBSOD when he sees that his attempts to kill Billy led to him killing two innocent people. He doesn't even attempt to flee the police who came to arrest him.

* CruelMercy: Billy doesn't kill Frank when had the chance because he wanted to trick him into killing a pair of innocent women who were still in the building.
* DownerEnding: Frank fails to kill Billy, who escapes again. Even worse, his attempts to kill Billy led to him accidentally killing innocent people, so he makes no attempt to flee the police when they come to arrest him.
* {{Flashback}}: Of Billy and Frank as young men in the military, being given some kind of initiation beating by their comrades.

* BlatantLies: After the Pilgrim killed off his old Nazi gang, Danny, who set the Pilgrim for an ambush, claims he had no idea they'd try to kill him.

* BondVillainStupidity: Billy has Frank dead to rights and doesn't finish himself. Turns out to be justified, he had something much worse in mind.

* DownerEnding: Frank fails to kill Billy, who escapes again. Even worse his attempts to kill Billy led to him accidentally killing innocent people, so he makes no attempt to flee the police when they come to arrest him.

* HeroicBSOD: Combined with MyGodWhatHaveIDone, when Frank sees that he accidentally killed a bunch of innocent women. He is so shocked that he doesn't even react when the police comes to apprehend him.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Pilgrim kills the leader of the Nazi's by ''brutally'' bashing his head in, with his bare hands (more specifically, ''one'' hand).

** Madani and Krista appear to form a bond until TheReveal that she's just using her to find out Frank's weaknesses.

* UndyingLoyalty: Russo's men are now ready to die for him. Which turns out to be literally, because he's setting them up just to lure Frank into his trap. Curtis even compares them to the Hashshashin.

* BarBrawl: Pilgrim is confronted with his former Nazi gang who try to kill him. It doesn't end well for all involved.

* NotSoDifferent:
** Repeatedly pointed out by several people in regards to Billy and Frank.
** During his drug-fueled rambling, Pilgrim shows himself to be no different from the men Billy has recruited into Valhalla, who are looking for a brotherhood to cope with pain and self-loathing.

* TheMedic: Frank points out that Curtis trained to put people back together and not to kill, like the rest of them.

* NotSoDifferent: Repeatedly pointed out by several people in regards to Billy and Frank.
* NotSoSimilar: However, both Madani and Curtis point out that there is still a ''lot'' that separates Frank from Billy, most notably his unwillingness to hurt innocent people.

* BrokenPedestal: Danny had looked up to the Pilgrim when he was part of the Nazi gang, until he left the group.

* HookersAndBlow: The already high and drunk Pilgrim takes over an orgy from a neighbor at whatever seedy building he's based at.

* AfterActionPatchUp: At the beginning of the episode, we cut back and forth between Pilgrim tending to his wounds and the fight with the Nazis which show how he got said wounds. This includes pulling [[TheToothHurts teeth out of his scalp]] after a [[UseYourHead headbutt]] he gave a punk earlier in the night.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Frank suffers from a HeroicBSOD when he sees that his attempts to kill Billy led to him killing two innocent people. He doesn't even attempt to flee the police who came to arrest him.

* UndyingLoyalty: Russo's men are now ready to die for him.

* BlatantLies: After the Pilgrim killed off his old Nazi gang, the man who brought him to the bar to be killed claims he had no idea they'd try to kill him.

* DirtyCoward: The man who brought the Pilgrim to the bar to be killed tried to runaway when the Pilgrim killed the Nazi gang, claiming he had no idea they'd try to kill him.

* ItsPersonal: The Nazi gang didn't take kindly that Pilgrim left them.

* YourCheatingHeart: Pilgrim steals some prostitutes and has one perform oral sex on him thus cheating on his wife. Though he obviously doesn't enjoy it one bit. (Especially when he eventually [[{{Hallucinations}} sees his wife's face on the prostitute]]--[[MindScrew with messed-up makeup and all]].)

* DownerEnding: Frank fails to kill Billy, who escapes again, and arrested by the police.