#Daredevil episode 3 summary full

Now he has to get out, with the help of an Albanian in a guard uniform and the camera, never resting, following them all the way through a full-on prison riot, back to the taxi Matt paid to wait outside for him. Matt asks for this former inmateвЂ™s name if he can find him, he can get a confession, and evidence that Fisk is playing everyone. HeвЂ™s accosted by another inmate, and brought into a locker room - still styled as a continuous tracking shot, making the whole affair extremely intense.В Matt finds he has the attention of Vic, who tells him that Fisk put out a hit on himself while in prison, offering to arrange freedom to a man with a life sentence if he would shank him, giving him the pretense to push for his current arrangement. The prison goes into lockdown, red lights begin to strobe. He finds some guards and thinks heвЂ™s safe - just kidding, he has to fight them too. Matt fights some inmates, who have been told to take him out. Matt fights the orderly, who nearly drugged him. Doubly impressive is the fact that director Alex Garcia LГіpez and crew decided to pull this off with Matt out-of-costume, making it that much more difficult to swap out Charlie Cox and his stunt double - if youвЂ™re looking for it, itвЂ™s not hard to notice, but since itвЂ™s all in the service of putting together a terrific action sequence, it works. ItвЂ™s 10 brutal minutes of escalating violence and desperation, raising the stakes as Matt gets closer to his goal. Thus begins the most ambitious action sequence Daredevil, or any Marvel/Netflix show, has attempted thus far. He tells Matt that heвЂ™s never letting go of the threat against Vanessa he made during their encounter in season two, hangs up, and unlocks the door, leaving Matt to fight вЂ¦ pretty much the entire prison. Then Wilson Fisks calls - by means not quite clear to us, he can tap into the security cameras to see Matt, and also call him. Only the exam room is deep in the prison, and the orderly locks him in the room and attacks him, partially drugging him with a syringe. It goes down like this: After getting punched, heвЂ™s made to see an orderly in an exam room for liability reasons.

This is where everything goes wrong for Matt.

Using FoggyвЂ™s credentials and his powers to pass as a sighted man, Matt tries to get his source to tell him about Vic Jusufi, the Albanian leader locked up there with him, and thatвЂ™s when he gets scared, and punches Matt, lest he be seen as a snitch. He does this by stopping by his old apartment to don an old suit (the double-breasted kind) and catching a cab up to the prison where an old client of his is an inmate. This is all to say that the centerpiece of this episode, a continuous prison fight in which Matt takes on a small army of inmates and guards, out-of-costume, through multiple corridors, is maybe the best fight a Marvel/Netflix show has pulled off since вЂњCut Man.вЂќ Narratively, the fight is about MattвЂ™s dogged quest to answer a question: Why is Fisk targeting the Albanians, specifically? Unfortunately, none of them worked as well as вЂњCut Man,вЂќ because none of them really bothered to root themselves in an episodeвЂ™s narrative - вЂњCut ManвЂќ works not because itвЂ™s impressive, but because thereвЂ™s a kid at the end of the hallway, and 40 minutes preceding it underlining how Daredevil is a hero that pushes himself through tremendous physical abuse to do what he does. Maybe they werenвЂ™t all continuous shots, but put a Defender in a corridor (or all of them in a corridor) and a fight was never far behind. It was a good play, even if it was nakedly chasing a trend spurred on by True DetectiveвЂ™s famous single-take shootout of the year before, and riffing on OldboyвЂ™s signature desperate corridor brawl.ДЇunny thing though: Daredevil didnвЂ™t just keep doing it, just about all the Netflix/Marvel shows kept doing it.

#Daredevil episode 3 summary full

вЂќ Daredevil wasted no time in doing this in 2015, closing out its second episode, вЂњCut Man,вЂќ with a dramatic, continuous hallway fight in which an exhausted Matt takes out a whole apartment full of bruisers on his way to rescue a kidnapped child. A standout episode or moment that does a thing thatвЂ™ll encourage viewers to give it a Friends name when they talk about it - you know, вЂњThe One With the. In the streaming era of television, you need a calling card to get noticed.