Daredevil: Born Again - S01E09 - Straight to Hell
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So, we have reached the season finale. To be frank, they cut away 9 episodes from the original run and salvaged what they could with rewrites, editing and reshoots. And you can kind of sense it throughout the series. The Netflix run, all three of them were done marvellously, while this one tried to first reinvent the whole thing and then to emulate the original series.
Therefore, as you might have guessed it, I'm not exactly happy about it, even though I already know that the series 2 is on the books, and Disney claims this to be a successful series. If you compare this to Nick Fury, then the answer is yes. Against Loki's first season, the series comes under the bar. Against second one, over the bar.
The thing is, House of Mickey now also claims that they know what to do to make the second series better. What I'd say is that they really need to focus on the series, think about the angles, like for example in this one I never really covered BB Urich, because it felt a filler. Also, the city as third Point-of-View were left out as a character. What they focus were DD as antihero protagonist and the Kingpin as a villainous good guy. The rest again felt like a filler material.
Maybe the biggest blunder that they had was to kill Matt's team at the very first episode, because what followed with PI and the Partner never felt as if they were part of Matt's life. He didn't feel attached to them in the same way as he was attached to Paige or Foggy.
There I've said what's in my heart. Let's see how Devil handled getting shot in the chest...
The episode opens up with Deadeye scoping down the range and remembering the conversation between him and Vanessa. For one, I don't really get Vanessa vendetta. Why would she feel that way? I get if Wilson had beaten her and behaved badly, instead of trying to find a new way of life. She told Mr Poindexter, "The whole FBI corruption scandal. Agent Nadeen, all that. It's why my husband was acquitted. It should benefit you too."
Why? I'd have thought in his shoes. Instead, he read from the paper, "Release on Appeal." And then he raised his eyes, "Fisk, does he know about this?"
"I haven't seen my husband for a while," Vanessa stated. "I have you released because I need a favour."
"You want me to..." Deadeye tried to form a coherent sentence in his drugged mind. "...kill someone."
"A thief called Benjamin Cafaro and his lawyer, Foggy Nelson."
There we have it, the scene confirming the scenario Matt formed in his mind from a very few, fragmented pieces of evidence. Circumstantial pieces of evidence. Nothing he could have shown in the court. And Vanessa's motivation was that Foggy's case would have exposed her runnings as a Mob Godmother, and that would've been bad for the city's criminal underworld.
As a businesswoman of such controversial practice, she did good on hiring the best in the business, but as a smart woman she failed to see that she was also hiring a madman. A terrorist. A super villain level of vigilante.
"Your history with my husband isn't part of this," Vanessa stated.
Benjamin raised his gaze, showing bloodshot eyes with small pupils, and yet, he managed to form a glarification, "He's always part of this..."
So the deal was done and I swear, Deadeye was still on drugs, feeling vapours clouding his mind as he aligned the rifle scope to his mark and pulled the trigger to feel the edge as he eyed the mark, Kingpin. Going over, the bullet travelled down the range, missing the aimpoint and hitting the opposite side of the chest. Also, in the freeze-frame, DD didn't get shot.
Matt and his women, and yet, coming out from chemical come, the first thing he said, when he felt a female touch was, "Karen."
"It's the drugs," Matt's law partner tried to explain and yet, the both women knew that it was a lie. And they went with it as Matt tried to explain that he knew what was behind the assassination attempt. That he needed Foggy's case file to prove it all. He even tried to prove the point by bringing up Nelson's special whisky.
"I remember him drinking it," Kirsten said.
"Right!"
"He was saying that he was 'celebrating an early win,' but I thought it was just a bluster."
"No, it wasn't," Matt shook his head. "I think he was sitting on something that Fisk's didn't want to expose."
Oh, what a c*ck-up. First thing first, 308 on that range, under 30 meters would have hit Mr Fisk as well. The blood pattern on his chest doesn't match the freeze frame, with a blood splatter on the left side of the chest and nothing on Matt. And here, the patch is free of splatters and everything else is covered, even though Fisk and Vanessa fled the scene as soon as Matt was on the ground.
You can explain his good condition with the White Suit made from the special bullet-proof material, as that was established in the original series. And as always, he wasn't shaken, Vanessa was, as she'd been standing in the line-of-sight. The thing is, Deadeye would not have missed and averted the bullet by a meter and half from the score to nail her as well.
As they sat down together, next to each other, Wilson turned towards Vanessa and said, "You moved millions through the Red Hook (the port). Now, me as a mayor, we can move billions."
Vanessa smiled.
"Gallo and the police," Wilson began to explain.
"Luca, hmm," Vanessa grinned, finally figuring out the plot. She was nothing compared to the original Kingpin. Her doings just had been scrapings on things that the true mastermind could come up and yet, she played her role, "And the gangs?" she inquired.
"All of it, architecture," Wilson answered. "I-I ran to save the city. But opportunities presented themselves."
Opportunity makes the thief. Man, he is as corrupted as the orange turd. You can only imagine what comes out when we finally get rid of that monster. In the MCU, Kingpin is always the clear present threat. There is nothing good in him as you can see him from his abuse of power. The whole taskforce made of the 'worst' New York City Police Depart can offer is a good example.
"They're going to go out there not only to hunt Poindexter, but all vigilantes," Mayor Kingpin raged behind his antique desk in a new White Suit. "There will be no bodycams, no due process, no warrents!"
Gallo shouted back, "Sir, that not only goes against the operating procedures of NYPD, it's illegal. Next, you'll be condoning the use of lethal force!"
"'Condoning,'" Mayor Fisk repeated police commissionaire word, "Encouraging, Gallo! Encouraging," he shouted and smashed down his fist. "I want bridges shut down! I want tunnels closed!"
There was nothing nobody could say to change the Mayor Kingpin's mind. He was the king now without wearing the crown and his word was going to be the law in the city. After all Mayor Kingpin believed that it is his city, his kingdom. So he ordered "the lawyer from hell's Kitchen to succumb to his wounds," to happen amongst all the other things.
In other words, he ordered one of the Marvel's typical scenarios that all the masked heroes has to go through time to time. A nightmare scenario where the world is turned upside down. And yet, you can always assume that in a little while the city returns to normalcy due to heroic actions defeating the artificial nightmare. One of them being Gallo, going to Governor for help.
Murder of Matt the lawyer. You might have wondered what the kingpin's henchman was waiting in the hallway with syringing in his hand, until the lights went out. I have to say what a brilliant plan from Kingpin to use the city's resources to commit to the assassination. And where they fail is the communication bit, because the dialogue in mayor's office said nothing about the blackout. So how did Buck, the yes-man number 2 knew to wait for it?
The biggest thing, it wasn't just Manhattan's island, it was New Jersey as well. The whole metropolitan area. All swamped in the darkness.
A brilliant plan to kill a blind man, who just walked away thanks to his super senses. Didn't Buck knew he was trying to off the devil?
You like I can wonder how Matt managed to get on his feet with a hole in chest and body full of chemicals? I have no answer for you. And yet, thanks to the blackout, nobody stopped a blind man in a hospital gown walking down the street with bare *ss hanging out on his way home. All Matt could do was slump on his couch with a big smile on his face, while blood soaked through his clothes.
They must have pumped his full of the good stuff. Only the joy didn't last long as Matt sensed a presence in his flat and said, "You're the last person I expected to find here."
Frank, antagonized, threw back, "You know you're wall-to-wall a-hole? Power goes out, and you got nothing in your house to make a g*ddamn pot of coffee."
"Well, not everyone lives in a fallout shelter, Frank," Matt launched back.
"Is that a new costume? What they call you now? 'Nightgown man?!?"
"What about you?" Matt chuckled. "Aftershave and a haircut? Is that all for me?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I did it for you."
Man, that has to be the best scene in this series so far. It is the only joke that has made me to chuckle. And it si part of Castle's humour as much as it is part of the DareDevil. His explanation for the break in-and-entry was the phone call. A rescue call. Most probably from Ms Paige, guessing what was happening. So Frank didn't have to be a real detective to guess that Matt would his way to his home, his lair.
While on waiting, he had spotted "a van full of fanboys," waiting for Matt to arrive home, and he told the lawyer, "if they come up I'm going to chop them to pieces."
"I'm not sure I need that kind of help," Matt stated, drawing deep from his lawyer side, even though the devil knew that the pair had really no other choice. Yet, it was all that was on offer. And then Frank popped the question, "Why did you take a bullet for that a-hole?"
Matt exhaled. "That is a good question."
Moments later second van arrived at the house and full task force entered the house, armed to teeth, ready for war. It was in that moment when Matt realised that his bare bottom would be better protected in his suit. In the following fight, I get the reason for why they slowed down the frames, because the action in the dark is fast played in the normal speed that it would have been awful for the viewers. But grinding my teeth it took away the tension, a bit of the joy while they trashed the lawyer's apartment completely.
Grasping to a bullet casing with a punisher logo Frank looked at the guy wearing a copy of his Punisher armour, "Hey, I think we found your guy."
The devil kneeled down to look sergeant gasping in his pain and he picked up another casing, "Is that yours?" Then he pulled one his battons and pushed it against Cole's face. "You killed Hector Ayala. He was a good man."
"Do what you got to do," Cole groaned. "I stood on my own. I can die easy."
Devil unwilling to do the deed, stood up and smacked the sergeant once for good. It didn't kill Cole, but put him out for good. But Frank wasn't willing to let the bygone's be bygone's. He pulled a pistol and pointed it at the sergeant. The devil hearing the hammer cock, stepped in the way.
"Is that what you do now hero?" The Punisher shouted. "You take bullets for them too?" He shifted his aim and put a round in another that was still alive. The two heroes clashed momentarily, with the Devil trying to protect the only piece of hard evidence he could present in the court, and the man, who had seen the good turned bad too many times.
Thanks to the rage, someone from the task force, managed to sneak to the apartment and toss a grenade in the room. Both heroes bailed out from the building just before the explosion that ruined the whole floor. That's some hollywood nade, man
Did they follow the Mysterbuster recipe, "When in doubt add C4!"
I still have to say what a fight scene. Outside the building, the devil gave a piece of his mind to Frank before Karen Paige drove in, shocked by the explosion. She looked at the pair, standing in the headlights and said, "Come on. Get in."
At Frank's hide Karen told Matt that as soon as she heard Poindexter escaping, she called Mr Castle, because she needed someone protecting the Devil, even though she knew better. Neither one could protect either one, when they were opposite sides of the coin. And yet, it's all she has left in her hands, to protect the men she loves. Neither that she can live with, but it's the living without part that she cannot handle.
Figuring out that Foggy's filing was a way forward the Devil asked Karen to be his eyes, while they went to storage unit, where Matt confessed that he was aware of the love triangle between all of them. Ms Paige didn't deny, instead she pulled out Foggy's file and found out that Red Port had been a freeport since 1885. Matt two together and realized that Vanessa had been using it to launder money, and Kingpin's plan would only make them richer.
So they left the storage unit to check the port just as Frank heard in the police scanned Kingpin's Task Force going back to Redhook base. For reasons unknown he straight walked into the base, after taking out outside guard and tried to take them out in one 'fair' fight. Only he wasn't going to use non-lethal options as the fanboy went down. It's just there were too many of them, and he got captured to only hear them bleeding him to take the leadership position, while Gallo, the police commissiner was marched in to be standing in the firing line, while Mayor Kingpin hurled accusations on his face.
While both man refused to serve Kingpin's cause, it was only Gallo that went down in most cruesome fashion in Kingpin's hand, just before Karen and Matt arrived outside the base. Ms Paige tried her best to talk the devil out. She even said, "If you go in, you will die, or you will kill." She gave her best do-not-go speech, even stated that the city would stand behind the devil. All he needed was to ask.
But the devil never asks. He knows the pain and he's too damn proud to give friendly neighbourhood webslingers a call. He could even have called She-Hulk, but no. That thing wasn't happening. So Karen said, "Do you know I once asked you what's it like living in the darkness?"
"Do you remember what you said?"
"It's not dark," the devil answered. "It's like thousand suns."
"Yea." Karen smiled.
Taking a moment, the devil finally said, "Yeah, you're right. But we can beat him." Giving it a final thought the Devil stated, "I'm going to take this city back, Karen."
"Where do we start?" Karen said, almost whispered.
"We need an army," the devil answered.
Teary eyed Karen nodded.
Man, what a scene. I just wonder why the devil didn't lie, but instead stood by his word as he stoodback and let the night turn back to day.
"Good morning," Mayor Kingpin opened up his televised brief. "We survived ... together. As you know there was an attempt on my life, last night. And, in the act of sabotage, our city's power grid was disrupted. While facing rampant lawlessness, Commissioner Gallo... he chose to resign. To turn his back on the people of New York. The thin blue line is broken."
Hesitating he added, "I will not allow you to live in fear, though. I am enacting my Safer Streets initiative. Effective immidiately, all vigiliante activity in the city is illegal, and it will be dealt accordingly. Curfew is..." and so he settled to bring martial law and dictatorship into the city, making it his kingdom, without ever getting elected. All in one big power grab.
Why Americans allow dictatorship happening so easily in both real and in the fantasy life?
In the aftermath, the devil gave his reasonings to Karen and then told everyone in Josie's bar that he needed them to be his eyes, before he gave most heartfelt speech on corruption. I won't repeat it here. You'll have to see it yourself, because it brought tears in my eyes.
I give this episode 9 and series 7. The second season will follow this soon-ish.
Therefore, as you might have guessed it, I'm not exactly happy about it, even though I already know that the series 2 is on the books, and Disney claims this to be a successful series. If you compare this to Nick Fury, then the answer is yes. Against Loki's first season, the series comes under the bar. Against second one, over the bar.
The thing is, House of Mickey now also claims that they know what to do to make the second series better. What I'd say is that they really need to focus on the series, think about the angles, like for example in this one I never really covered BB Urich, because it felt a filler. Also, the city as third Point-of-View were left out as a character. What they focus were DD as antihero protagonist and the Kingpin as a villainous good guy. The rest again felt like a filler material.
Maybe the biggest blunder that they had was to kill Matt's team at the very first episode, because what followed with PI and the Partner never felt as if they were part of Matt's life. He didn't feel attached to them in the same way as he was attached to Paige or Foggy.
There I've said what's in my heart. Let's see how Devil handled getting shot in the chest...
The episode opens up with Deadeye scoping down the range and remembering the conversation between him and Vanessa. For one, I don't really get Vanessa vendetta. Why would she feel that way? I get if Wilson had beaten her and behaved badly, instead of trying to find a new way of life. She told Mr Poindexter, "The whole FBI corruption scandal. Agent Nadeen, all that. It's why my husband was acquitted. It should benefit you too."
Why? I'd have thought in his shoes. Instead, he read from the paper, "Release on Appeal." And then he raised his eyes, "Fisk, does he know about this?"
"I haven't seen my husband for a while," Vanessa stated. "I have you released because I need a favour."
"You want me to..." Deadeye tried to form a coherent sentence in his drugged mind. "...kill someone."
"A thief called Benjamin Cafaro and his lawyer, Foggy Nelson."
There we have it, the scene confirming the scenario Matt formed in his mind from a very few, fragmented pieces of evidence. Circumstantial pieces of evidence. Nothing he could have shown in the court. And Vanessa's motivation was that Foggy's case would have exposed her runnings as a Mob Godmother, and that would've been bad for the city's criminal underworld.
As a businesswoman of such controversial practice, she did good on hiring the best in the business, but as a smart woman she failed to see that she was also hiring a madman. A terrorist. A super villain level of vigilante.
"Your history with my husband isn't part of this," Vanessa stated.
Benjamin raised his gaze, showing bloodshot eyes with small pupils, and yet, he managed to form a glarification, "He's always part of this..."
So the deal was done and I swear, Deadeye was still on drugs, feeling vapours clouding his mind as he aligned the rifle scope to his mark and pulled the trigger to feel the edge as he eyed the mark, Kingpin. Going over, the bullet travelled down the range, missing the aimpoint and hitting the opposite side of the chest. Also, in the freeze-frame, DD didn't get shot.
Matt and his women, and yet, coming out from chemical come, the first thing he said, when he felt a female touch was, "Karen."
"It's the drugs," Matt's law partner tried to explain and yet, the both women knew that it was a lie. And they went with it as Matt tried to explain that he knew what was behind the assassination attempt. That he needed Foggy's case file to prove it all. He even tried to prove the point by bringing up Nelson's special whisky.
"I remember him drinking it," Kirsten said.
"Right!"
"He was saying that he was 'celebrating an early win,' but I thought it was just a bluster."
"No, it wasn't," Matt shook his head. "I think he was sitting on something that Fisk's didn't want to expose."
Oh, what a c*ck-up. First thing first, 308 on that range, under 30 meters would have hit Mr Fisk as well. The blood pattern on his chest doesn't match the freeze frame, with a blood splatter on the left side of the chest and nothing on Matt. And here, the patch is free of splatters and everything else is covered, even though Fisk and Vanessa fled the scene as soon as Matt was on the ground.
You can explain his good condition with the White Suit made from the special bullet-proof material, as that was established in the original series. And as always, he wasn't shaken, Vanessa was, as she'd been standing in the line-of-sight. The thing is, Deadeye would not have missed and averted the bullet by a meter and half from the score to nail her as well.
As they sat down together, next to each other, Wilson turned towards Vanessa and said, "You moved millions through the Red Hook (the port). Now, me as a mayor, we can move billions."
Vanessa smiled.
"Gallo and the police," Wilson began to explain.
"Luca, hmm," Vanessa grinned, finally figuring out the plot. She was nothing compared to the original Kingpin. Her doings just had been scrapings on things that the true mastermind could come up and yet, she played her role, "And the gangs?" she inquired.
"All of it, architecture," Wilson answered. "I-I ran to save the city. But opportunities presented themselves."
Opportunity makes the thief. Man, he is as corrupted as the orange turd. You can only imagine what comes out when we finally get rid of that monster. In the MCU, Kingpin is always the clear present threat. There is nothing good in him as you can see him from his abuse of power. The whole taskforce made of the 'worst' New York City Police Depart can offer is a good example.
"They're going to go out there not only to hunt Poindexter, but all vigilantes," Mayor Kingpin raged behind his antique desk in a new White Suit. "There will be no bodycams, no due process, no warrents!"
Gallo shouted back, "Sir, that not only goes against the operating procedures of NYPD, it's illegal. Next, you'll be condoning the use of lethal force!"
"'Condoning,'" Mayor Fisk repeated police commissionaire word, "Encouraging, Gallo! Encouraging," he shouted and smashed down his fist. "I want bridges shut down! I want tunnels closed!"
There was nothing nobody could say to change the Mayor Kingpin's mind. He was the king now without wearing the crown and his word was going to be the law in the city. After all Mayor Kingpin believed that it is his city, his kingdom. So he ordered "the lawyer from hell's Kitchen to succumb to his wounds," to happen amongst all the other things.
In other words, he ordered one of the Marvel's typical scenarios that all the masked heroes has to go through time to time. A nightmare scenario where the world is turned upside down. And yet, you can always assume that in a little while the city returns to normalcy due to heroic actions defeating the artificial nightmare. One of them being Gallo, going to Governor for help.
Murder of Matt the lawyer. You might have wondered what the kingpin's henchman was waiting in the hallway with syringing in his hand, until the lights went out. I have to say what a brilliant plan from Kingpin to use the city's resources to commit to the assassination. And where they fail is the communication bit, because the dialogue in mayor's office said nothing about the blackout. So how did Buck, the yes-man number 2 knew to wait for it?
The biggest thing, it wasn't just Manhattan's island, it was New Jersey as well. The whole metropolitan area. All swamped in the darkness.
A brilliant plan to kill a blind man, who just walked away thanks to his super senses. Didn't Buck knew he was trying to off the devil?
You like I can wonder how Matt managed to get on his feet with a hole in chest and body full of chemicals? I have no answer for you. And yet, thanks to the blackout, nobody stopped a blind man in a hospital gown walking down the street with bare *ss hanging out on his way home. All Matt could do was slump on his couch with a big smile on his face, while blood soaked through his clothes.
They must have pumped his full of the good stuff. Only the joy didn't last long as Matt sensed a presence in his flat and said, "You're the last person I expected to find here."
Frank, antagonized, threw back, "You know you're wall-to-wall a-hole? Power goes out, and you got nothing in your house to make a g*ddamn pot of coffee."
"Well, not everyone lives in a fallout shelter, Frank," Matt launched back.
"Is that a new costume? What they call you now? 'Nightgown man?!?"
"What about you?" Matt chuckled. "Aftershave and a haircut? Is that all for me?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I did it for you."
Man, that has to be the best scene in this series so far. It is the only joke that has made me to chuckle. And it si part of Castle's humour as much as it is part of the DareDevil. His explanation for the break in-and-entry was the phone call. A rescue call. Most probably from Ms Paige, guessing what was happening. So Frank didn't have to be a real detective to guess that Matt would his way to his home, his lair.
While on waiting, he had spotted "a van full of fanboys," waiting for Matt to arrive home, and he told the lawyer, "if they come up I'm going to chop them to pieces."
"I'm not sure I need that kind of help," Matt stated, drawing deep from his lawyer side, even though the devil knew that the pair had really no other choice. Yet, it was all that was on offer. And then Frank popped the question, "Why did you take a bullet for that a-hole?"
Matt exhaled. "That is a good question."
Moments later second van arrived at the house and full task force entered the house, armed to teeth, ready for war. It was in that moment when Matt realised that his bare bottom would be better protected in his suit. In the following fight, I get the reason for why they slowed down the frames, because the action in the dark is fast played in the normal speed that it would have been awful for the viewers. But grinding my teeth it took away the tension, a bit of the joy while they trashed the lawyer's apartment completely.
Grasping to a bullet casing with a punisher logo Frank looked at the guy wearing a copy of his Punisher armour, "Hey, I think we found your guy."
The devil kneeled down to look sergeant gasping in his pain and he picked up another casing, "Is that yours?" Then he pulled one his battons and pushed it against Cole's face. "You killed Hector Ayala. He was a good man."
"Do what you got to do," Cole groaned. "I stood on my own. I can die easy."
Devil unwilling to do the deed, stood up and smacked the sergeant once for good. It didn't kill Cole, but put him out for good. But Frank wasn't willing to let the bygone's be bygone's. He pulled a pistol and pointed it at the sergeant. The devil hearing the hammer cock, stepped in the way.
"Is that what you do now hero?" The Punisher shouted. "You take bullets for them too?" He shifted his aim and put a round in another that was still alive. The two heroes clashed momentarily, with the Devil trying to protect the only piece of hard evidence he could present in the court, and the man, who had seen the good turned bad too many times.
Thanks to the rage, someone from the task force, managed to sneak to the apartment and toss a grenade in the room. Both heroes bailed out from the building just before the explosion that ruined the whole floor. That's some hollywood nade, man
Did they follow the Mysterbuster recipe, "When in doubt add C4!"
I still have to say what a fight scene. Outside the building, the devil gave a piece of his mind to Frank before Karen Paige drove in, shocked by the explosion. She looked at the pair, standing in the headlights and said, "Come on. Get in."
At Frank's hide Karen told Matt that as soon as she heard Poindexter escaping, she called Mr Castle, because she needed someone protecting the Devil, even though she knew better. Neither one could protect either one, when they were opposite sides of the coin. And yet, it's all she has left in her hands, to protect the men she loves. Neither that she can live with, but it's the living without part that she cannot handle.
Figuring out that Foggy's filing was a way forward the Devil asked Karen to be his eyes, while they went to storage unit, where Matt confessed that he was aware of the love triangle between all of them. Ms Paige didn't deny, instead she pulled out Foggy's file and found out that Red Port had been a freeport since 1885. Matt two together and realized that Vanessa had been using it to launder money, and Kingpin's plan would only make them richer.
So they left the storage unit to check the port just as Frank heard in the police scanned Kingpin's Task Force going back to Redhook base. For reasons unknown he straight walked into the base, after taking out outside guard and tried to take them out in one 'fair' fight. Only he wasn't going to use non-lethal options as the fanboy went down. It's just there were too many of them, and he got captured to only hear them bleeding him to take the leadership position, while Gallo, the police commissiner was marched in to be standing in the firing line, while Mayor Kingpin hurled accusations on his face.
While both man refused to serve Kingpin's cause, it was only Gallo that went down in most cruesome fashion in Kingpin's hand, just before Karen and Matt arrived outside the base. Ms Paige tried her best to talk the devil out. She even said, "If you go in, you will die, or you will kill." She gave her best do-not-go speech, even stated that the city would stand behind the devil. All he needed was to ask.
But the devil never asks. He knows the pain and he's too damn proud to give friendly neighbourhood webslingers a call. He could even have called She-Hulk, but no. That thing wasn't happening. So Karen said, "Do you know I once asked you what's it like living in the darkness?"
"Do you remember what you said?"
"It's not dark," the devil answered. "It's like thousand suns."
"Yea." Karen smiled.
Taking a moment, the devil finally said, "Yeah, you're right. But we can beat him." Giving it a final thought the Devil stated, "I'm going to take this city back, Karen."
"Where do we start?" Karen said, almost whispered.
"We need an army," the devil answered.
Teary eyed Karen nodded.
Man, what a scene. I just wonder why the devil didn't lie, but instead stood by his word as he stoodback and let the night turn back to day.
"Good morning," Mayor Kingpin opened up his televised brief. "We survived ... together. As you know there was an attempt on my life, last night. And, in the act of sabotage, our city's power grid was disrupted. While facing rampant lawlessness, Commissioner Gallo... he chose to resign. To turn his back on the people of New York. The thin blue line is broken."
Hesitating he added, "I will not allow you to live in fear, though. I am enacting my Safer Streets initiative. Effective immidiately, all vigiliante activity in the city is illegal, and it will be dealt accordingly. Curfew is..." and so he settled to bring martial law and dictatorship into the city, making it his kingdom, without ever getting elected. All in one big power grab.
Why Americans allow dictatorship happening so easily in both real and in the fantasy life?
In the aftermath, the devil gave his reasonings to Karen and then told everyone in Josie's bar that he needed them to be his eyes, before he gave most heartfelt speech on corruption. I won't repeat it here. You'll have to see it yourself, because it brought tears in my eyes.
I give this episode 9 and series 7. The second season will follow this soon-ish.
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