“I expected more of you,” he says, shattering Matt Murdock. Stick crumples it up and abruptly ends their training. I haven’t mentioned Skylar Gaertner at all through my recaps, and while I think he’s been great for a child actor in most respects as “Young Matt,” when he gets emotional, the overacting is painful, as it in the aftermath of their training.Īfter time has passed in the flashbacks, Matt gives Stick a bracelet, made from the ice cream cone wrapper from their first bonding moment. Now we see an old man beat the shit out of said 9 year old boy (who can still do crazy kicks and leaps!). Daredevil started with a 9 year old boy sipping scotch at the behest of his bloody Dad. Of course, that’s because Stick projected his entire life and mantra onto a 9 year old boy. Stick warns him that he needs to cut loose all relationships, friends, women, whatever. He follows Matt to his apartment, disappointed to see the kid gone soft, because he has a bed and “soft stuff.” Women are a distraction, he barks, then goes for a crappy German beer, hypocrisy incarnate. Why is he back now? Well, to save everyone from a horrible death, silly. On the subject of the vigilante, Urich pontificates: “There are no heroes, no villains, just people with different agendas.” Urich just drops truth all goddamn day.Īpparently, Stick’s been absent from Matt’s life for 20 years. Then, the training montage begins, because Matt needs “skills for war.”īen Urich, meanwhile, is pulling the gruff mentor routine on Karen Page, with an eerily similar message: “Stop complaining.” It’s a hard case, and complicated, they just gotta “straighten out that spaghetti.” Okay, so Stick would never say that.Īpparently Detective Blake is in a coma, surviving the gun shot. Ignorance is bliss when it comes to food chemicals.
I’d never want to eat anything if I had that kind of knowledge. Speaking of, Stick hilariously points out the flavors inherent in the dessert: can taste the specific diaries, the dirt off the hand of the server, the chemicals…no wonder Stick is so skinny. It’s a no nonsense approach to the ice cream social. Immediately, he changes Matt’s attitude: that he’s lucky to be alive, to have these gifts, and that nobody’s going to feel sorry for him and he should stop feeling sorry for himself. Enter Stick, a man who wants cash to help. In the past, Matt’s living with nuns, a sitcom waiting to happen, and they’re desperate for help with this poor screaming kid. Instead, Stick does the wise/ass/gruff mentor thing. But still, you’d think Leland would maybe shoot/attack DD while he’s down, considering how much trouble he’s caused and how much he’d be rewarded by Fisk. Leland had a chance to finish this show right then and there (though Stick wouldn’t have let him). When Matt hears someone using a walking stick approach, he’s distracted enough for Leland to taze him and drive off. Last episode, DD got the name of “Leland Owlsley,” the accountant in charge of the money dealings in Fisk’s empire. He invites Karen to go to the batting cage, but she rebuffs his offer for a “thing.” Foggy thinks she’s up to something, because everybody is (except for Foggy, who’s gloriously transparent). He’s right, but also pretty darned biased, and we all know life doesn’t work like that.įoggy’s antsy and wants to do something, and that apparently means starting a law firm softball team, which would be awesome, even though they have 3 members and one of them is blind. Matt believes the MIB should be defended in court and not in the press. The man in the shadows asks after “Black Sky,” a mysterious weapon being transported to New York.įoggy’s busy ranting about “the devil of Hell’s Kitchen.” He’s a “terrorist without the ist,” and he wants to punch him, believing him to be a coward, turning into the J. “Stick” opens in Japan, with a man in the shadows chopping the hand off and then the head, of a panicked Japanese man. One scene with Glenn and we know immediately how Daredevil is so awesome from the moment we see him.
Marvel eschewed the traditional origin story at the top, and instead, sprinkled it across the first three episodes in pretty damn effective flashbacks.īut how the hell can Matt Murdock fight? How is he such a badass? Well, part of the answer finally comes in the seventh episode of the series, where we’re introduced to Stick ( The Silence of the Lamb‘s Scott Glenn), the also-blind, also-badass gruff mentor to a young Matt Murdock. While he wasn’t (and still isn’t) called Daredevil, the Man in the Mask was more than a competent fighter. “Rabbit in a Snowstorm” Episode 3 Recapĭaredevil was so successful right off the bat because it threw the audience right into the action.
Now the billy club has been passed on to me. David has shepherded us through Frank Miller’s classic run, two of DD’s most famous origin stories and the not-classic Daredevil movie. Daredevil Week(s) continues with the arrival of Netflix’s Marvel’s too many apostrophes’ Daredevil.