Daredevil Season 2 Recap With Spoilers: Semper Fidelis

Frank washes himself in preparation for court. Various witnesses offer their opinions of Castle’s work as The Punisher. Some strongly approve while others strongly condemn it.

Matt and Foggy negotiate with the Judge, concluding they are content with the jurors selected for the trail.

Frank is escorted into the courtroom. It’s crowded. He stands with an American flag centered behind him, ready for trial.

Later, Karen, Matt and Foggy go over files at the office. Foggy reveals that they are considering an insanity plea. Karen claims Frank might be not be crazy and Matt agrees with her. Karen wants to get Reyes kicked off the case. Matt plans to cite PTSD as a root of Frank’s problems. Karen is going to go talk to Frank. Matt assures her she doesn’t have to do it alone but she says Castle doesn’t scare her. They kiss and Karen leaves.

Karen heads to Frank’s room, first through security where a couple of paper clips are confiscated. She’s escorted to a room where Frank is cuffed to a table and left alone inside. She tells him she wants to bring a character witness to the stand but Frank doesn’t want to bring up PTSD because it will insult people who are actually going through it. He tells Karen he wants answers but Karen tells him it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t help because he’ll go to jail for all of these murder charges. Frank tells her to find his Colonel but to drop the PTSD defense.

Matt practices his opening speech but gets a call from Elektra. She found the man who encoded the Ledger they couldn’t understand and she wants to go beat him up. Matt turns her down but she insists he meet her in two hours.

A man follows to Asian women down the stairs, making Chinese remarks, but they insist they aren’t Chinese. He’s insulted them but he speaks in their language now and hands them some cash before kicking them out. As he tries to snort some cocaine, Elektra and Daredevil reveal themselves. They kick him to the ground and tell him they want him to translate the ledger for him. Daredevil pushes him against the glass wall and threatens to throw him down the 35 floors which eventually convinces the man to help. Elektra tosses him the book and asks him to translate for him. Daredevil watches the glass break. The man reveals how to decode the encryption and tells them there is shipment coming to the Bay Ridge yard tonight. Elektra thanks him for the help and kicks him in the face as they leave.

Foggy examines photos of dead people. Karen brings in some food but Foggy has no appetite but he’ll take some coffee. She asks where Matt is and Foggy tells her he’s working on his opening statements. She tells Foggy that Frank won’t go for the PTSD angle. Karen tells Foggy the chief medical examiner, who will be testifying for Reyes, reported that each of Frank’s family members were killed by one bullet but Frank remembers many more than that. She wants to help Frank because he is living in a nightmare. Foggy wants to attempt to get the medical examiner to corroborate Frank’s story on the stand.

A train rolls through the Bay Ridge yard as Elektra and Daredevil walk in. They find the train they’re looking for and open it but dirt pours out. Armed men approach. The men search for Daredevil and Elektra but find themselves on the receiving end of an a 2 on 4 ass kicking. Elektra is hurt afterwards but there are more men coming. Daredevil puts her mask back on and helps her up. The men sweep through the warehouse and a fight ensues. Several shots are fired but they’re all misses. Elektra pulls the trigger on a man but the gun is out of bullets. The fights continue until Daredevil and Elektra win. Elektra’s been cut on her arm and neck.

The two head back to Matt’s apartment where Matt stitches up Elektra’s neck. He gives her a towel and tells her to keep pressure on it. She asks Matt what he tells people about his scars but he dodge answering. He takes the towel and cleans up the cut on Elektra’s arm. Elektra puts her hand on a scar on Matt’s abs, then the two above his chest. Matt tells her that they’re from Nobu, as is the one on his side and the two on his back. She takes his hand and puts it on a scar on her leg. The conversatiin turns more intimate as Matt asks where she went in all the time. She says, “As far from you as I could.” He asks if she found what she was looking for but she only found that she was alone. She didn’t come back because he doesn’t know what she knows and he deserves better. Matt tells her to lay down and get some rest as he heads off the couch. He studies Elektra as she sleeps, struggling to sleep himself, but eventually fading to the sound of her breathing.

The next morning, Matt quickly readies himself for court. Elektra awkwardly leaves and wishes him luck in court. Karen and Foggy sit in the courtroom, questioning where Matt could be. Frank tells Foggy he is a man down. Foggy attempts to prepare himself for an opening statement. Reyes delivers her opening to the jury, citing 30 people that Frank tortured and executed. She claims justice is not Frank’s to serve but rather the court’s and the jurors’. It’s Foggy’s turn to give an opening statement. With a “screw it,” he stands up and proceeds. He nervously addresses the jurors, stumbling to find his words. Frank looks on. Foggy drops his note cards and starts a speech about being 19-years-old and enduring hot sun and danger because you have orders. He cites the desire to see the people at home who love you. He goes on to say that no one helped when Frank Castle’s family was slain but Reyes never helped resolve the issue. He concludes by asking the jury to keep an open mind.

Outside the courtroom, Foggy, Karen, and Matt compliment Foggy’s speech and plan for the medical examiner who will be called to the stand tomorrow. Matt wants to question him and Foggy is reluctant to give Matt a chance after he didn’t show up. Foggy is angered but allows Matt the chance.

Matt and Karen plan for the questioning back at Matt’s apartment. The conversation turns to Karen going to law school. Karen brings up the night they first met, which Matt claims to think about all the time. Karen says she sat in the police station alone, afraid of the world, until Foggy and Matt came along. They trusted her. They went back to Matt’s apartment. Karen remembers all of the details. She asks Matt if he believes in when the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen does. Matt says he believes in the law. She asks what he thinks about when the law fails and who will protect them, then. Matt tries to dodge the question. They have a different opinion on whether or not Frank should be in jail. Matt claims that no on has the right to kill and for that Frank should be behind bars. Karen brings up justice and says that vengeance works for Frank and the two have an awkward moment as their disagreement reaches a high point. Matt suggests Karen leave and she does.

As the door closes, Matt says, “How long were you listening?” Elektra reveals herself and claims she wasn’t listening. Matt is angered. Elektra found more clues about Roxon at various sites and Matt knows one of them. It’s tied to Wilson Fisk and he found blueprints before he fought Nobu. Matt turns down her invitation to go investigate and she goes to “do some recon.”

The next day, the medical examiner describes the deaths of victims of The Punisher. He looks nervous as Matt approaches, listening to his heartbeat. The medical examiner says he wants to say something on the record and the Judge clears the court room. He confesses to altering the case files on Frank’s reports and another case from the same day. Someone threatened him. A woman broke into his house last night and forced him to confess. The Judge strikes the doctor’s testimony and continues the trial.

Foggy and Matt go to the bathroom, where Matt reveals that it was Elektra who threatened the medical examiner. Foggy reflects on how dangerous she’s always been, prompting Matt to reveal that Elektra is trying to take down the Yakuza and Matt has been trying to help. He reveals that she is the “new client.” Foggy is bummed that Matt would lie. He flips his lid on Matt for wanting to take the trial and not being around to prepare. Foggy tells Matt, “Elektra is not the problem, Matt. You are.” Foggy starts to leave and Matt tries to keep him there but Foggy blows him off and says he won’t be coming back to him.

In the hall, Karen questions what happens. First, Foggy blows her off and then Matt does, too.

Elektra observes a pair of trucks in the streets. Daredevil attacks her and reveals how mad he is about what she did with the medical examiner. She claims Matt likes to take things in the dark and at night. Daredevil tells her to stay out of his business.

Daredevil marches downstairs and attacks the Yakuza men outside the building, brutally and with a huge focus on hurting them. He knocks over some scaffolding with one man’s body as Elektra finally walks up.

The enter a garage together. It’s dark. Matt tells her they’re alone. After a brief search, Elektra concludes the place is empty. Daredevil rules that the Yakuza were hiding something. He hears something and finds a massive hole in the ground further in the building. He drops the flashlight and it takes a very long time for the flashlight to hit the bottom.