By Nermeen Nabil Khear 
The eighth episode of Daredevil: Born Again had many reveals, as Matt Murdock learns who really killed his best buddy Foggy Nelson, and the Fisks share the sordid truth of their misdeeds with each other. This is how it all went down in the penultimate chapter of Daredevil: Born Again season one, episode eight.
The Return of Bullseye
The episode opens on the image of a rare blue rose in a garden filled with similar flowers. As sad music plays, they show that this peaceful garden is actually outside a maximum security prison. Inside his cell, we see Benjamin Poindexter (Wilson Bethel), looking longingly out the window. Turns out, they are moving Poindexter, a.k.a. the assassin Bullseye, to gen pop, clearly under the direct orders of Mayor Fisk. He knows he won’t last long in there, and hopes to make his big Poindexter problem go away.
Wilson Fisk and Vanessa Return to Power Couple Status
That same morning, outside of Red Hook Port, Wilson and Vanessa Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio and Ayelet Zurer) walk along the run-down streets. He informs her that he’s received almost all of the funding he needs for his new redevelopment project. Fisk acknowledges that he couldn’t have done any of it without her. She tells him she still can’t understand why he threw his criminal empire away. He then brings her to a secluded brick building and says he brought her to this location for a reason.
The Aftermath of Muse’s Attack on Dr. Glenn Causes a Rift Between Heather and Matt
Meanwhile, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) is getting ready for work at his apartment, and his girlfriend Heather (Margarita Levieva) is with him, still recovering from Muse’s attack in episode seven. She’s struggling with having killed a man, and makes the argument to Matt that all these masked men are the same. She doesn’t differentiate between Muse and Daredevil, who actually saved her. This clearly agitates Matt, but he can’t say anything, because doing so would give away his big secret.
Fisk’s right-hand man, Buck Cashman (Arty Froushan) then knocks on Matt’s door, looking for Heather. He offers Dr. Glenn an invitation to Mayor Fisk’s inaugural Black and White Ball, and this is how Matt learns that his girlfriend is probably Fisk’s marriage counselor. Fully disgusted, he realizes that Mayor Fisk wants to co-opt her story as propaganda for his anti-vigilante crusade, and doesn’t want any part of it. But he reluctantly agrees to go as her guest before he storms out of his home.
Mayor Fisk Reveals the Truth About Adam to Vanessa
Inside Fisk’s secret bunker, he reveals to Vanessa that he’s been keeping her lover Adam (Lou Taylor Pucci) as a prisoner there. Adam pleads for his life, stating he didn’t know about their relationship when he hooked up with Vanessa. She then tells her husband, “He’s not a part of us.” As Adam begs for his life, Wilson screams for him to shut up. He can barely continue allowing him to live a moment longer. But he promised Vanessa, back in episode one, that he wouldn’t kill him. “If I cannot be with you, Vanessa, then I cannot be.”
Vanessa Fisk Pulls the Trigger
Vanessa struggles with what to do next, as it seems that her husband is offering her the choice to let him go. She stares at the key to his prison cell, but then pulls a gun out instead, shooting him multiple times and killing him in cold blood. She knows that if Adam lives, it would mean the end of their lives as she knows it. Fisk holds his wife, promising to never leave her again, as her lover’s dead body lies in his cell. It’s all pretty dark, and shows that Vanessa’s soul is a dark as Wilson’s, if not darker. Across town, Matt arrives late to his office, annoying his partner Kirsten McDuffie (Nikki M. James). She tells him that Bullseye got moved to gen pop by Mayor Fisk, and that he now wants to talk to Matt.
Daniel Blake Gets an Unearned Promotion
At a morning meeting in Mayor Fisk’s office, Sheila (Zabryna Guevara) reveals that in the wake of his new special task force taking care of their Muse problem, his poll numbers have gone up. Despite the civil liberties issues with what they are doing, Fisk reminds everyone that “Extreme measures work.” He then promotes Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini) to Deputy Mayor of Communications, which shocks Sheila, as he’s little more than a kid. Is he setting him up, in case things go south? All Mayor Fisk seems to care about is that his desk was once Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s desk. For him, it’s all about the symbols of power, and making them his. Actual governing interests him little.
Matt Returns to Josie’s Bar, and Makes a Startling Realization
After Matt insults one of his (lying) clients, Kirsten asks what the hell is wrong with him. Why would he blow up a potential client like that? He goes over all the injustices from recent episodes — Hector Ayala, Leroy Bradford, Muse attacking Heather— and tells his partner they aren’t serving justice, they are just “Babysitting chaos.” Everything they do feels useless. Matt leaves the office and goes to Josie’s Bar in Hell’s Kitchen, which has been closed since Foggy’s death. But the owner, Josie (Susan Varon), is still there, and they have a drink together.
Cherry (Clark Johnson) comes in to check on him, knowing he’s in a fragile state of mind. Cherry reminds Matt that he’s never been able to find a connection to Fisk and Bullseye’s murder of Foggy, and that he was just trying to settle old scores. But Matt is not convinced. Josie pulls out a bottle of O’Melveny’s Whiskey to finish Foggy’s final round of drinks. He was the last person to order in her bar before it all went to hell. But Matt can’t accept that it was that particular brand of whiskey. Matt realizes that Foggy only ever drank O’Melveny’s to celebrate an early victory, so he knew he was winning a case against someone. And that someone probably silenced him. It wasn’t just Poindexter out for revenge.
Matt Meets Bullseye, Face to Face, and Mayor Fisk’s Big Party
Matt meets Poindexter in prison, the man who murdered his best friend. He asks him if Fisk hired him to kill Foggy, but Bullseye doesn’t answer. He refuses to tell Matt who really did it, unless Matt finds a way to protect him. Matt angrily busts his face against the table several times and leaves. Later that night, at the Black and White Ball, the city’s elite dress up and party, surrounded by armed guards. Daniel Blake goes to talk to BB Urich (Genneya Walton), who doesn’t exactly want to see him. He apologizes for pushing so hard in the previous episode. Her reluctance to publicize that Daredevil stopped Muse, not Fisk’s task force, helped get Daniel the new gig. Yet she’s genuinely shocked at his (unearned) promotion.
Mayor and First Lady Fisk arrive at the ball, dressed to the nines. Soon after, Vanessa Fisk sees Heather Glenn at the bar and thanks her for coming to the ball. She notices she’s gone solo, as her date is nowhere around. Vanessa thanks her for her help as their marriage counselor. But she then tells her that she doesn’t need her help anymore. “Sins of the past are now dead and buried.” She’s not being metaphorical in the slightest, but Heather doesn’t know that.
Meanwhile, Poindexter uses his injury at Matt’s hands to escape the prison, in the most Bullseye way possible. While in the prison infirmary, he’s getting stitches for his busted mouth, and using his own broken-off tooth, he spits it out as a weapon. This takes out the prison guard. He then kills the guard and the doctor and escapes, using the guard’s key card and dressed in a correctional officer’s uniform. Matt finally arrives at the party and finds Heather. She seems like she’s done with him and all of his lame excuses and evasive behavior.
Fisk’s “Anti-Vigilante Task Force” Becomes His Own Private Army
As Heather tries to get him to listen to her, Matt hears millionaire Jack Duquesne (Tony Dalton) and Fisk talking privately. Fisk tries to extort a large donation from him for his Red Hook Port project. He tells him that he knows he’s the vigilante Swordsman in his spare time. He has no choice now but to bend the knee. At the same time, Officer Powell, one of Fisk’s task force of crooked cops, finds a reporter with his cell phone out. This is despite a strict no-press rule. He takes him into the kitchen and savagely burns his hand in a deep fryer. His boss, Commissioner Gallo (Michael Gaston), sees this go down. Enraged, he says that what they are doing is pure dereliction of duty. But Powell reminds him that he doesn’t answer to the police chief anymore, he only answers to Mayor Fisk.
Daniel looks around at the party filled with New York’s elite, in awe of Fisk’s power. But BB just sees corruption. She slips away and says she’s going to the ladies’ room, but actually follows Gallo. She asked him if the Mayor consulted him when he created his anti-vigilante task force. He tells her he read her piece on the Muse killing. He knows that she omitted the truth in that article, under pressure, to give credit to the task force when she knows it was Daredevil. Gallo asks her if she knows that Fisk was the primary suspect in her uncle Ben’s murder, which took place in the original Daredevil series. She says “Why do you think I’m here? Not everything I write is under my real name.” She gives Gallo her email, and he tells her he has files on every crooked cop on Fisk’s task force.
Matt Discovers the Truth About Vanessa Fisk and Who Killed Foggy Nelson
Matt goes to the dance floor, right as Mayor and Mrs. Fisk take their first dance in front of their party guests. He and Heather dance close to the Fisks, and he can hear Wilson whispering in a way only Matt can hear. Fisk says “What were you looking for, Devil? I told you there would be consequences.” At that moment, Buck Cashman is informed that Bullseye escaped, and he knows exactly where he’s heading — straight to the party. A terrified Vanessa tells her husband she has something to tell him. At that moment, Matt realizes that it was she who had Foggy killed, when Wilson was away and she was running the show.
Murder on the Dance Floor?
Matt realizes that Foggy’s client must have known something about the Red Hook Project. Something that Vanessa Fisk wanted kept secret. Matt cuts in and dances with Vanessa, and tells her that he knows the truth now, that she hired Poindexter to kill Foggy. This happens right as the escaped Bullseye appears in the rafters, dressed as security, ready to kill Fisk. But Matt jumps in front of the bullet, and takes the shot for him, saving his mortal enemy’s life. As Matt lies bleeding out on the floor, with a traumatized Heather at his side, the Fisks are rushed out of the ballroom. And that’s where we end this chapter.
Is Matt Murdock dead? Ok, probably not, but how fast will he recover? And what becomes of Daredevil and Fisk’s relationship now? We’ll find out as Daredevil: Born Again season one concludes next week.
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