DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN 2x06 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Welcome back to New Rockstars. I'm Eric Boss. And this is a breakdown of Marvel's Daredevil: Born Again, season 2, episode 6, Reququiam. Our prayers have been answered and Jessica Jones has arrived right as the city is about to explode. Also, why is the government hunting her and her 99 friends? Is this going to lead to the mutant saga? You know me, I think everything in the show is. So, let's go back through this episode scene by scene for all the details, the Easter eggs, and the connections that you might have missed.

[00:00:24]And yes, this is the first born again episode I have seen after seeing the Avengers Doomsday trailer at Cineon. So, if my general MCU hype just feels different, that would be why. Because, yep, I've now seen the new Avengers Tower in the daylight, and I don't know how all these New Yorkers on the show are not constantly staring up at it in awe. Now, of course, the moral core of this season, and in this episode, more than any thus far is the still beating heart of Nelson, Murdoch, and Paige. And that's why I love wearing this shirt while talking Daredevil. You can grab one of these shirts exclusively from our merch store, nerdride.shop, and support New Rockstars directly. Episode 6 opens with the grieving mayor of Fisk with his hands clasped seemingly in prayer for the soul of his recently departed wife.

[00:01:03]This episode is titled Reququiam which in Catholicism means a mass held for the repose of the souls of the dead. It also refers to the composition by Wolf Gang Amadeas Mozart Reququiam in D minor K626 from which this episode later samples the iconic hunting lacerosa section.

[00:01:19]More on that in a bit. But Fisk here is really just seconds after the end of episode 5 when we ended with Fisk in a kind of ragefilled anguish. And based on the way he's digging those thumbs between his eyes and shaking his head, he's got some killing energy he's going to need to put somewhere. And that somewhere is Dr. Morati, who after dropping some deep thoughts about where the spirit meets the body last episode, now quotes William Penn.

[00:01:41]>> They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Yes, this is from William Penn's More Fruits of Solitude, and it's a line often quoted at funerals. This surgeon is once again trying to offer some academic solace, but the man he's talking to only understood the arts when an art dealer like Vanessa was there to translate it for him. And the look Fisk gives this doctor when he places his hand on his shoulder. Yeah, Fisk made up his mind right this moment how he was going to be leaving this room. Moratti refers to the beautiful darkness that awaits us all.

[00:02:14]That beautiful darkness will be coming for him sooner than he thinks. But it's an interesting choice of words because typically death is described as going into the light. But Marotti takes comfort in it being a gorgeous unknown.

[00:02:24]It's almost like a surgeon like him has had some patients with near-death experiences described something that looks like Aubrey Plaza. Notice how there's a massive bouquet of white roses on Vanessa's bedside. And her nightmare of bullseye coming for her. She saw a single blue rose and then awakened to a single red rose. Now Fisk tried to comfort her with a whole bunch of white roses. But it's actually kind of an arrangement that you would have already put on a casket. Hippie Dr. Marott goes in for a hug and Fisk turns it into a spine crusher. The sounds of this surgeon's bones crunching is sickening.

[00:02:53]And I appreciate the detail of the red dots on the skin around his eyes. These dots would be there from broken blood vessels to show how this guy suffocated in addition to all the other internal bleeding he suffered. Fisk leaves it to Buck Cashman to clean up this scene. I get that Buck is a professional, but I assume a lot of medical staff, not to mention this guy's loved ones, are going to notice when this senior surgeon goes missing. But I suppose just fear of this thug mayor is going to keep everyone in line. And episode 5 revealed that Buck has been working for Visk since before season 1 of the Netflix era. So, who knows how many bodies he's made disappear over the last 15 years. At Vanessa's funeral, the normal NYPD stands to the left, while the AVTF Goon Squad stands apart from them on the right on Fisk's side. While it's customary to wear black at funerals, at least in America, Fisk dons full kingpin white, the color he would default to before becoming mayor. As the priest reads a Latin prayer, the camera dollies right and transitions through other scenes as we hear the lacrimosa section of Mozart's recquum in D minor. This was Mozart's final unfinished masterpiece, and the choir lyrics translate to the following.

[00:03:57]It goes, "That day will be one of weeping when from the ashes shall arise the guilty man to be judged. Therefore, spare him, oh God. Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest. Amen." I mean, really, this whole episode is a reququum for how the survivors try to grieve the death of any goodness and civility that might have remained in Fisk. We dolly past Karen and Matt and Frank Castle's hideout as a bound deck stirs awake and then into the Red Hook Warehouse where Mr. Charles always snacking this time on a Granny Smith apple brings in some not dead CIA guys and finds the weapons and munitions they wanted to send to Guinea Basau have now all been cleared out. The weapons instead are relocated to a new AVTF warehouse where Powell sets eyes on officer Saunders the turncoat goon who in episode 3 allowed Daredevil to take his ID to get through the Red Hook prison and free those prisoners. I'm really glad that they did not let that detail go. As Fisk lays the single red rose on Vanessa's white casket, maybe even the one that was always on her nightstand, we flash back to their first meeting in front of the rabbit in a snowstorm painting in season 1, episode 3 of the Netflix era. And then to their rooftop marriage that we saw at the end of season 3 in the Netflix era. Then after the credits, we see this suburban home with this girl whom we later learn is named Danielle playing in this living room with a notable number of purple things all around this house. While in general, purple was Jessica Jones color in the pallet of the four defenders, originally that color did come from the purple man, Kilgrave, and the foundational impact that villain had on Jessica's superhero life. Armed gunmen, not the task force goons, but rather men from Mr. Charles and the CIA, we later learn, arrive, and Jessica slides up in her purple socks. We stay, though, in Danielle's point of view as her mom beats up all these dudes outside. And we just stay for a terrifyingly long amount of time with Danielle holding this explosive. Now, I understand these dudes are violent, but throwing a bomb in the house where a little kid is plainly visible from the outside, the CIA doesn't exactly go to suburbs doing that, but I think it just shows how the war on allen enhanced people in the MCU has truly escalated. Thankfully, this bomb gets diffused.

[00:05:55]>> This is not a toy.

[00:05:57]>> Aha! That three note tune is the first part of the Jessica Jones opening credit theme music from the Netflix era.

[00:06:08]Yes, Jessica Jones is back. It's so great seeing Kristen Ritter in the show.

[00:06:12]And the fact that Jessica Jones has a daughter and that she's named Danielle.

[00:06:16]Ah, I think we just have to be okay saying this at this point because anyone watching this video probably already knows or definitely should be able to guess. Danielle Cage is the daughter of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage. So, this is a house in the suburbs that Jessica and Luke have together. And both Jessica Jones and Luke Cage were pretty public about their enhanced abilities. So, the fact that the government is going after them and their daughter right now is something we need to keep our eye on as we are trying to figure out what the hell is going on. Now, later on in this episode, Jessica describes Danielle as a handful. And while we don't know if Danielle has powers, there are comics set in Earth 15061 where Danielle Cage does inherit her parents' powers and becomes an alternate reality Captain America. So, remember the way Steve Rogers famously jumped on the grenade to prove himself worthy of the shield?

[00:07:02]Maybe this moment with the bomb was going to be Danielle's origin moment.

[00:07:06]More on Jessica Jones and her daughter Danielle later in this video. Meanwhile, it turns out the nurse that Matt said could help Dex is not Claire Temple, unfortunately, but rather Angela's aunt Solidad, who staples together the laceration that Vanessa shot through Dex's gut. Matt unmasks after Soladod and Angela leave because remember they don't know that Daredevil is Matt Murdoch. And Matt debates with Karen on whether Dex is worth sparing. Karen reminds Matt of the night in the Clinton Street church, referring to season 3, episode 10 when Dex killed Father Lantam. I really appreciate that this debate happens while Karen sits on Frank Castle's weight bench while Matt leans against the wall where Frank's Marine reconnaissance paddle is hanging. These are awarded among Marines to celebrate things like retirement or promotion where the service ribbons are typically embedded. And in Frank's case, I assume that square is for Frank's Cberus squad.

[00:07:47]But really, these two parts of Frank's hideout are just kind of like the two hemispheres of Frank's whole approach to justice. the honor of his marine service, leaving no man behind that Matt represents in this argument versus the hours that Frank now spends pumping iron, probably alone, trying to avoid the sounds of his kids saying, "Get him, daddy." Matt tells Karen that vengeance isn't justice. And as he turns to leave, she says, "Hey." as if she's about to tell him that she loves him. But she instead just says nothing. So Matt says nothing in return and leaves. It's like she's afraid to say, "I love you." When she knows what she's going to be tempted to do when he's not there. At Vanessa's wake, Governor McAffrey hints to Sheila Rivera that this governor's office might have no choice but to pull her support from Bisk now that Vanessa isn't there to keep him sane. McAffrey wants Sheila to take over the mayor's office. And yeah, since we do see Sheila Rivera handing Spider-Man the key to the city in the Spider-Man Brand New Day trailer, something like that is going to happen.

[00:08:36]Meanwhile, Buck tells Lieutenant Governor Juan Gomez to expedite his campaign to replace Governor McAffrey.

[00:08:41]It's kind of hinting that Buck might help with that succession if it means getting a governor who supports his mayor. After BB comes on a bit too strong, inviting herself to Daniel's birthday plans of dinner with his mom on Staten Island, Buck tells Daniel about the barerium meal test, referring to a real world procedure to diagnose things like ulcers, tumors, or reflux in the digestive tract by having the patient drink a barerium contrast fluid, which does glow on an X-ray. But this is also used in intelligence. A barerium test is also referred to as a canary trap. It's used to identify leakers by putting out intentionally false information. You may remember in Game of Thrones Tyrion and Lannister doing this in season 2. And I think it's what Disney might have actually done with that bogus leaked Avengers Kang Dynasty screenplay with Zeb Wells name watermarked on the pages.

[00:09:22]Actually, if you want to see a recording of our staged reading of that very silly screenplay and my live TED talk on what it actually is, it's one of many benefits you can get by subscribing to the NR Underground at nr.supcast.com.

[00:09:34]We match cut from Daniel biting his nails to Fisk touching his chin deep in thought. When Mr. Charles calls, Fisk doesn't really say anything. In fact, until his final scene with Daredevil, Vincent Denafhrio does not utter a word of dialogue for any of his scenes leading up to that. Fisk's supporters lay flowers, candles, photos, plushies, and other items on the steps of city hall to memorialize Vanessa, including a few blue roses. And these supporters hold these light up white roses for this vigil. But as Angela told Karen, there's far more people in the city agitated over the increased goon raids and arrests. So Javi and his buddies use this gathering as a front line to protest. One of their signs reads, "No king." Yes, also the term used for the anti-Trump protests in 2025 and 2026.

[00:10:13]Daredevil and his increasingly red suit as a black paint chips away. Meets Jessica Jones at top a Storage Plus building overlooking the new Goon warehouse. Jessica's back in her iconic boots, her leather jacket, and her torn jeans. She tells Matt he promised this conflict with Fisk would never touch her since she's outside of his jurisdiction.

[00:10:31]It's not clear here if she's the same Jess, whom Karen referred to in episode 1, who had pulled the Northern Star manifest. But as a private investigator, Jessica Jones does have impressive research skills, and she learned that the guys who attacked her were not from the task force, but rather part of Mr. Charles CIA linked group. Matt speculates who's been supplying Fisk with guns and giving him cover.

[00:10:50]>> I'm assuming a dozen different warlords in half a dozen countries.

[00:10:53]>> That's an interesting line. Is Matt saying that there's six failed states with at least two warlords each on both sides of the civil wars, and Fisk is kind of currying favor with both of them, or is he just saying that in places like Russia, there's just like a lot of warlords? Either way, it's a lot more international meddling than I would assume from Mayor Fisk. But then again, the guy does own a volcanic island somewhere in the Pacific. Jessica says that Mr. Charles called her home recently.

[00:11:16]>> He was interested in people like us. I told him to [ __ ] off. Not everyone I know did.

[00:11:24]>> Oh, intriguing. So, two things we have to talk about here. I people like us. I have to assume that Jessica is referring to enhanced individuals, what she referred to in season 1 of her Jessica Jones series on Netflix as her 99 friends who lived in the New York area alone. But starting with Spider-Man: Brand New Day and maybe as soon as this series, it seems like Marvel Studios is going to start referring to all enhanced people, at least the ones born with their enhancements, as mutants. And really, government agencies like the DODC might not even distinguish whether people got their powers from their genetics or something later like an accident, radiation exposure, super soldier serum, or a super suit that they built. But either way, this confirms that Mr. Charles and the CIA and Val are definitely tracking enhanced people for recruitment to create just a general government registry. Probably both. The second thing we have to talk about though is it sounds like Mr. Charles and Val called Jessica Jones for recruitment based on what Jessica says here. and the person she knows who took them up on it.

[00:12:19]Who could that be? Could it be Jessica's husband Luke Cage or Iron Fist Danny Rand? Maybe Jessica's friend Trish Walker aka Hellcat, who did fight her in season 3 and ended that season imprisoned on the raft prison, which would technically put her in the same facility that former President Thaddius Ross Red Hulk is in at the end of Captain America: Brave New World. I mean, Luke's not there at the house with her, and I guess we'll find out in the next couple episodes. I just don't know if Luke would have joined Mr. Charles, even if that did cause some rift between the married couple, because if that were the case, I don't think this CIA unit would have attacked his wife and daughter. I also do not see the Powerman voluntarily joining any federal organization after what he's been through. I don't know. So, this kind of elevated Trish on the cameo possibility list. But overall, it sounds like after Val fell into assembling the new Avengers in the Thunderbolts film, she's also now using her connections in the CIA and the Ox Group to try to recruit a group of enhanced super soldiers, either to join the new Avengers or to form another team. Everybody I know has kind of just accepted that their credit card info will be leaked by some website with shoddy encryption and that having your info be part of a data breach someday is just the cost of buying things online.

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[00:14:52]Sign up for Privacy to control who charges you and when. And get peace of mind every time you pay online. Click the link in the description to make privacy part of your daily routine. Matt tells Jess that based on her breathing, she might have cracked a rib. I kind of like how even by the way her boots splashed in the puddle. Matt's like, "I'll never forget the sound of the fiercest PI I ever had the privilege to clear a hallway with." Jessica says that with her daughter Danielle, sometimes her powers drop out and come back. So, in the Jessica Jones series, specifically in season 2, episode 1, we learned that after Jessica survived the car crash as a girl that killed her father and brother, she was brought to the clinic owned by IGH and experimented on by Dr. Carl Malice, who it turns out also experimented on her mother, who it turns out survived. And it was from this experience with Dr. Malice that Jessica gained her strength and invulnerability powers. So, maybe having a daughter of her own now is triggering her memories of her mother, Alisa, and subconsciously she doesn't want to hurt her daughter, Danielle. Since Luke and Jessica both got their powers as a result of experimentation, I don't know if Danielle would have inherited any kind of mutant gene because I don't think they were born with that. Or maybe you could say they were born with a mutant gene and it was only those experiments that activated those genes. But either way, it seems like Marvel Studios might have plans for this girl. Matt hears the ticking watch that he had put in the weapons crate on the Northern Star in season 2, episode 1 to track the guns.

[00:16:07]Jessica asks, >> "So, do you want to cause a little trouble?

[00:16:15]I love this transition. They really just team up in this episode to disrupt a weapon supply and then they just go their separate ways, I guess, until they'll need each other again later in the season. But for this episode, I'll take it. This scene was awesome. I like how one goon screams, "It's Daredevil."

[00:16:28]And then on that, Jessica smashes her hand in a crate to hit him with it.

[00:16:32]Almost like she's insulted that this guy doesn't know her name, too. Now, notice that the crates that they throw are all stamped with Russian cerillic script that translates to volutric explosives or munitions. So, I'm guessing part of Mr. Charles and Val's deal was to ship these boom booms from some Russian contact to Guinea Basau. And the shot of Jessica whacking a goon with a lid. In the lower left corner of the shot, you can see an oxe logo in one of the crates. Yes, that's Val's ox group that she supposedly shut down in Thunderbolts, the group that was responsible for getting the drug addict Bob Reynolds his injection of overpowered super soldier serum that turned him into Sentry. This logo just being right here on the crate suggests that this group is still functioning and probably part of Val and Mr. Charles CIA Black Ops dealings. Thunderbolts will not be the last time we hear from that group. Jessica evades fire, hiding behind a stack, and then Daredevil jumps in with his billy club, parkouring off the side of a crate, and he just kind of stays airborne for most of his takedowns in the shot. I just love how brightly lit this all is, and how aerial all the fighting is. The stunts look super heroic, but also practical and in camera. And then I just love how Daredevil and Jessica are synchronized here, him thumping the goon on the head with his club precisely as she kicks the other goon through the crate. The latter of the two is a really effective maneuver by the stunt actor whom Kristen Ritter kicks to seem like he's passive and reactive, but actually he's throwing himself backward through that balsa wood. Now Jessica leaps behind a stack of what are clearly explosives and we see this one aggro goon screaming idiotically as he fires machine gun rounds at these things. So we feel less bad when Jessica kicks one at him and it bounces off him and is about to explode and fry this other goon. But Daredevil uses his Daredevil sense to see this coming and tackles that goon out of the way of the explosion. And I love how with this and with the team up with Jack Dukane in episode 3, Matt is always working extra hard to keep their enemies from actually dying. Now Jessica punches Powell and oo nothing. She hurts her hand. Now remember, she did tell Daredevil on the rooftop that her powers are coming and going since having Danielle. And I assume that's what this is. But is it possible that Powell has begun juicing on some of that ox group super soldier serum? He's just been increasingly crazy and increasingly murderous in season two compared to how he was in season 1. It's kind of like John Walker using Cap Shield to crush a Flag Smasher head crazy. And maybe some of that could be the blue goo at work.

[00:18:43]Now again, it's probably just Jessica's powers fading. And unfortunately, it's right when she's punching the goon that we most want to see KO'ed. And unfortunately, this probably gives Powell even more confidence to do evil [ __ ] But also remember, after Daredevil knocks him out with the bazooka, Powell just kind of rubs his head later and tells Cole North he's fine. Oh yes, Matt does whack Powell on the head with a bazooka that I really wish he just blew him up with. Punisher war zone style, but this would have come from the crate that we see a few seconds later marked with the German word rackantoner, which translates literally to rocket launcher.

[00:19:12]So Mr. Charles and Val also have some German weapon suppliers, too. As the goons flee the exploding warehouse, I like how one has to help another just out of a crate that Jessica punched him into, and then the whole place goes kabooy. Then in this shot of the passing subway, we see a fiscu stencil on the ground. And if you look closely, some red RR letters on the columns in the same design of the DD of Daredevil. Kind of looks like PR, but no, it's actually RR, which is for resist and rebel of Karen and Solod's video that they'll display later. We can also see no more martial law written on the passing train car. Heather Glenn takes Vanessa's death particularly hard this episode and steals only one of Vanessa's diamond and ruby earrings. I assume with the red and white, there's some connection here with the red and white of the muse mask that Heather Glenn still has. She looks in the mirror and the camera rotates around her. She's clearly expecting Muse to step in the reflection behind her, but instead it's Buck. Buck does a very unhealthy thing of inviting Heather to walk back through what Muse did to her by having her choke him as opposed to try to empower her, but this is really Buck manipulating a very unwell PTSD victim to probably become a killer herself. Daniel tells BB at the Staten Island Fairy, a background that seems to be green screened in and shots of them talking, the barium test phony leak that Fisk isn't running for office again.

[00:20:22]Notice how every time he tells her this, he breaks eye contact and looks away. A classic tell of dishonesty, which might be part of what gives BB the instinct later to not spread the info to Ellison.

[00:20:32]Last episode, it was Buck suspecting Daniel and riding along with him. This episode, it's Powell suspecting Saunders, replacing his ID and riding along with him, but with far more tragic results for Saunders. Karen impatiently kicks Dex awake. Above his cot seems to be a drawing that Frank Castle's kid might have drawn. We did see his daughter in the Punisher: One Last Kill trailer. Maybe we'll learn the origin of this drawing in that. I love the acting between Deborah Anne Wool and Wilson Bethl here. Bethl plays a guy who just wants to die now that he feels he's acquired his final target. Whereas Deborah Anne Wool plays it like an addict haunted by her first hit who thinks scratching this itch will be the last time she needs to do it as she presses a gun to Dex's head. We see one of the first times Karen met Foggy in season 1. And then the Nelson Murdoch and Paige napkin from the finale of season 3 in the Netflix era. And then Karen's point of view of Foggy bleeding out in a Daredevil born again pilot episode. Dex closes his eyes, but then Matt intervenes.

[00:21:26]Yeah, you definitely heard a gunshot there. Karen was in the process of squeezing the trigger. And that is why Matt kind of pauses for a bit before he tells Karen that he couldn't let her do this. After hearing the gunshot, he was kind of just listening for Dex's heartbeat. Now Karen lets her rage boil over as she screams at Matt for choosing and protecting the wrong people. Fisk decks while the people he loves die.

[00:21:47]That means that for Karen, her actions are in part out of self-p protection because she fears that Matt is going to jump in front of a bullet for Fisk before he would ever do that for her.

[00:21:54]The anti-fisks protest escalate with more signs and a poster for one of the innocent looking missing people. It's actually fun to rewatch his scene and look at all the pro- Vanessa mourners who are still hanging out just really pissed off at the anti-fisk protesters.

[00:22:07]Daniel's mom Staten Island home has a red Fisk banner with five stars above and five stars below the name. Like another certain flag design you'll see on many homes in Staten Island.

[00:22:16]Vanessa's mom sells BB on her multi-level marketing vitamin supplements based on the spectrum of colors. BB's green coat is the same one that she was wearing on fight night when Javi slipped the SD card in her pocket.

[00:22:27]BB nearly texts her contact Daniel's leak. But when she sees all of Daniel's very basic and charming high school bedroom posters, including if you look closely, a poster for the movie How High, and she sees this photo of him with his dad, >> your father would be so proud of you.

[00:22:41]>> Yeah, considering Michael Gandle's real father, it's a bit emotional to go through this. So BB deletes her text to Ellison. This would be Mitchell Ellison, editor of the New York Bulletin and boss of Ben Urick and Karen Page for a time, who initially shot down all of Ben's stories, but then had a pretty good redemption arc in season 3. The anti-fisks protests have now fully blown up. Protesters wear homemade daredevil masks and some pig masks to mock the AVTF. Mr. Charles meets with Governor McAffrey sitting shoes off by her fireplace and his ring clinking against the glass of his scotch that he gave her. If Mr. Charles already had a relationship with Governor McAffrey and new Mayor Fisk from some past interaction, it stands to reason that this CIA contact knows every power player in American politics. But yes, this will lead to McAffrey pulling her support and probably Buck assassinating her next episode. Daniel hands BB back her green coat and learns that BB bought some of those vital spectrum vitamins, which he can only see as BB trying to establish another inn to his family.

[00:23:35]Karen arrives to the protest in one of her wigs to set up a 4K projector to display her prisoner interviews onto city hall for Fisk. This causes an interesting red and white light to shine on his face in a specific way that kind of makes him look like an animal with blood on his mouth. As Fisk rides away, he hears Solod's story. I was detained for weeks, caged like an animal, beaten under the safer streets act.

[00:24:01]>> And I love how the reflection of her face superimposes directly over his face. Fisk returns to his basement where he used to dine with Vanessa and sits right in front of the bloodied rabbit in a snowstorm painting. Then the shadow of Matt's devil cowl appears over Fisk's head. Matt tries to appeal to the poison that their fight is spreading. And we see the deaths of Vanessa and Foggy and Wesley right as Matt says, "The people we love." And I love the acknowledgement that Fisk did love Wesley. Matt invites Fisk to imagine if they never met, who would still be alive. And then after Vanessa comes up, Fisk cannot take it.

[00:24:30]And Denafhrio raises his hand in the same gesture of rage that he gave at the end of episode 5. So now Matt has to dodge the chair. And Fisk's early punches. Meanwhile, Buck gives Powell the green light to open fire, and Powell grabs Saunders.

[00:24:43]>> I know it was you, you Fredo. [ __ ] >> Now, we can't show it, but he does paint this humpy window with Saunders very ethical brains. Fredo of course is Pal referencing the end of the Godfather part two how Michael knew it was his brother Fredo who betrayed him. I actually think that Felix Torres Pon was probably hired because he is kind of a John Kazali look. Cole North sees this go down and definitely does not buy it when Powell just kind of shrugs it off as a Dina vigilantes and Powell uses it to tell his goons to use lethal force on these protesters. Fisk and Matt continue to fight and the choreography here is so good. Like Fisk shows the impressive agility that he showed against Matterhorn. Matt makes the mistake of letting Fisk grab his arm, allowing the mayor to pull him in and hook him. Then Fisk grabs him by the leg and swings him right into the painting, tearing this precious canvas. Blaming Matt for this, he punches blood out of Matt's face. The blood that was already there was from Matt punching Fisk nearly to death and saying, "I beat you, you fuck." At the end of season 3, now the white paint is also stained with Matt's blood. Both of their blood is dirtying up the snowstorm. Fisk says this is a fight they both want. So now when Matt pulls out his clubs, we're reminded both of that finale fight at the end of season 3 and the season 1 finale fight in the alley. Matt drops his body to the floor and then Cable zips himself backward so that Fisk punches through solid brick and it hurts his hand, but the fact that he could still break a lot of that brick with just the force of his fist. Kind of like Bane punching the column in The Dark Knight Rises. It's insane. Now Matt uses this awesome combination to knock Fisk back and sling his cables to go fully aerial and slow motion knee Fisk in the face. The way Fisk punched the bloody spit out of Matterhorn's mouth in episode four. Now Matt does it to the mayor. And we end in kind of a state of uncertainty between the two. Arrest me.

[00:26:23]You cannot kill me.

[00:26:28]You will not. Meanwhile, in the chaotic protest, Javi takes a concussive hit to the head, but he survives. But Karen loses her wig, which allows Powell to recognize her and arrest her. Honestly, I'm kind of more worried for Powell when it comes to Karen. This episode is titled Reququum. Again, referring to Mozart's unfinished work. And it does kind of feel like Matt and Fisk's relationship is a passionfilled, sorrowful song that's never meant to definitively resolve. Something does not have to have a firm, clear ending for it to matter. Similarly, for the white painting to continue to get stained with blood suggests that it's a painting that's going to continue adding more layers and complexity to it. Kind of a visual inverse to the disintegration from black to red on Matt's suit. Grand designs often do continue to undergo the process of change. Comment down below with your thoughts on this episode. And a special thanks to one of our in our underground subscribers, Frederick Price, whom I had the pleasure of meeting last weekend at our live show in Los Angeles. Huge thanks to Frederick for being a longtime executive producer supporter of our channel. You can get all of our exclusive bonus content by clicking on the link in the description below or going to nrunderground.supcast.com.

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