History Fanfic / TheSinsOfTheFather

** When Fisk shows up at the charity gala, Matt's first instinct is to try and grab Elektra and run so they can avoid a confrontation with him.

Elektra cradled Matt's head with her left arm, covering his right ear with her hand. With the gun in her other hand, Elektra aimed at Fisk's chest and squeezed the trigger. As each bullet struck him, Fisk momentarily recoiled, halting his advance before taking another step forward. He was inexorable. His suits are bulletproof, Elektra recalled Matt saying.\\

As Fisk slammed her against the wall, Elektra punched and kicked at him to no avail. He only needed one hand to wrap around her throat and choke her. She gasped and gagged and could clearly make out what was supposed to be a smile on Fisk's face, but it just looked like an animal baring its teeth.\\
"After her, [[AndYourLittleDogToo I'll pay a visit to Nelson! And then Miss Page! What about the cop that arrested me? Mahoney? That nurse you rescued from the Russians? I'll destroy every last one of them! I will erase you!]]"

** Matt goes to meet Larry Cranston in a parking garage to find out how much he knew about Fisk's plan to kill Hoffman. He beats up Cranston before leaving. Unbeknownst to him, Cranston was savvy enough to have a dashcam when Matt asked him to come alone. Cranston sells the footage to the press and claims that Matt took credit for killing Hoffman.
--->It seemed Cranston had outsmarted him after all. Matt had spent all day berating himself for not noticing the camera in the dashboard, even if there was no way he could have short of going inside the vehicle. He knew a lot of people didn't buy what Cranston said, but it still made him furious.

** When Matt and Elektra track down Cranston to his hiding place, Elektra notes that his .22 caliber pistol wouldn't be that effective against Fisk on account of his size (and, as she finds out later before the church ambush, he wears bulletproof suits at any rate). In the climax, Elektra takes a gun off of one of Fisk's bodyguards and uses it to shoot Fisk several times in the chest as he advances on her. This doesn't slow him down all that much. And when Elektra shoots him in the head after Matt beats him to a bloody pulp, Fisk manages to survive even ''that'', and is left in a coma.

* IWantThemAlive: Fisk and Vanessa's wedding gets crashed by Matt, Elektra, and Bullseye. As he wants to kill Daredevil himself, and get back the incriminating ledger Elektra has regarding her father's dealings with Fisk, he orders his guards to kill Bullseye but capture Matt and Elektra. Bullseye makes short work of the bodyguards, but is defeated by Matt and Elektra and subsequently arrested. Fisk initially participates in the fight, but is forced to withdraw from the fight when he hears the police approaching. He thus waits for a few days, and then has Matt and Elektra abducted on Christmas Eve so he can torture them into giving up Daredevil's identity.

* MortonsFork: When Fisk kidnaps Matt and Elektra, intent on torturing her into giving up Daredevil's real identity and her father's ledgers, he gives her two options: she can refuse to talk, and he'll beat both her and Matt to death. Or she can talk, and he'll have his men shoot her and Matt. Elektra notes to herself that that's not much of a choice Fisk is giving her.
* MouthOfSauron:

* SpottingTheThread: Elektra and Matt figure out a way to get to Cranston's hiding place when his secretary mentions to Matt that Cranston isn't taking on [[ExactWords any new clients]] at the moment. The wording leads them to realize Cranston probably has a contact address that he only gives out on a need-to-know basis that allows him to continue doing business but also reduces the chance of Fisk finding him and murdering him.

** Elektra gets out of Fisk choking her with his fists in the climax by jamming one of her nails into his eye, drawing blood. [[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E1IntoTheRing Karen did the exact same thing]] to the guard sent by Fisk to attack her in her jail cell.

* LoanShark: When Hugo Natchios started his shipping company, no bank was willing to loan him the money he needed to purchase his first ship because, as a Greek immigrant, he had no property to his name to offer as collateral. In desperation, he borrowed from Don Rigoletto, a loan shark based out of Hell's Kitchen. At the time, Wilson Fisk was Rigoletto's henchman, and was responsible for collecting from Hugo after each shipment until the debts were repaid. Fisk later took over Rigoletto's operation after Rigoletto was sent to prison in the 1990s, and eventually had him killed after he got out in the early 2010s. In 2013, when Fisk began his partnerships with the Ranskahov brothers, Nobu, and Madame Gao, he needed a partner to transport Madame Gao's heroin from China to New York City. He leaned on his past acquaintance with Hugo, and blackmailed him into transporting the heroin by threatening to expose an import tax evasion scam that Hugo and his business partners at the docks had been running for years. Hugo was able to temporarily shut down the operation after Fisk was arrested and Gao was forced to flee the country, but less than a year later, Fisk decided to resume the operation with a new local gang, the Enforcers, distributing. He had Vanessa approach Hugo to try and coerce him into restarting the pipeline. Rather than cave, Hugo tried to get out by offering to give up incriminating records he'd made of every one of Fisk's shipments, in exchange for Fisk giving up the dirt he had on Hugo. Fisk promptly had Hugo killed, and coerced Eric Slaughter into resuming the operation by threatening to have his wife killed.

** Larry Cranston appears in two chapters early on, where we see his part in Fisk's plan to discredit and then kill Hoffman. After managing to outsmart Matt by getting him on tape, he doesn't show up again until after Fisk gets out of prison, when Foggy brings up information suggesting that Cranston might have some dirt on Fisk.

* ConfessingToALesserCrime: Of all the crimes Fisk is being charged with, the only one he pleads guilty to is a charge of resisting arrest (from his attempt to escape custody, before he was stopped by Matt and taken back into custody by Brett Mahoney). He pleads not guilty to everything else, and as a result of his sabotaging the trial by arranging Carl Hoffman's murder, ends up being acquitted on those charges.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Hugo ran an import tax evasion scheme with his associates at the docks, which involved bribing duty officials to declare shipments were only a fraction the size of what they actually were. He even roped Elektra into the scheme when she was an adult, with her job being to carry out the actual bribing since [[FavorsForTheSexy the officials were likelier to take a bribe from an attractive woman]]. This later indirectly contributed to his death, as Fisk found out about the scheme and used it to blackmail him into letting Fisk use his company's ships to transport Madame Gao's heroin from China to New York.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Matt has to [[SaveTheVillain save Fancy Dan and the Enforcers]] from being slaughtered by Melvin Potter as revenge for Betsy's death, it turns out that while Dan had no qualms about killing anyone who could prove he snitched on Ox, or about killing Toby Edwards, he drew the line at being asked by Fisk to kill Betsy. Some of his guys went behind his back to do it anyways, and Dan implies that he killed those guys afterwards.

* {{Expy}}: This fic's characterization of Larry Cranston is largely based on Creator/BobOdenkirk's portrayal of [[Series/BreakingBad Saul]] [[Series/BetterCallSaul Goodman]]. He's a corrupt attorney in the service of aiding powerful criminals, has billboards all over town with his face on them, and while the epitome of everything that makes the legal system a target of mockery, is far from a mere ambulance chaser.

* MortonsFork: When Fisk kidnaps Elektra, intent on getting her to give up Daredevil's real identity and her father's ledgers, he essentially gives her two options: she can refuse to talk, and he'll beat both her and Matt to death. Or she can talk, and he'll have his men shoot her and Matt. Elektra notes to herself that that's not much of a choice Fisk is giving her.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During Hoffman's trial, Matt realizes something is off when he doesn't hear Cranston, media attention whore, among those near Hoffman as Hoffman is being escorted to the van to take him back to jail. Seconds later, Hoffman is assassinated.

* SaveTheVillain: Matt has to save Fancy Dan and the other Enforcers when Melvin Potter goes after them with a set of chainsaws to get revenge on them for killing Betsy on Fisk's orders, since they won't be able to rat on Fisk if they're dead.

All he ever wanted to do was keep her safe, keep her far from Fisk's notice. Even with the sniper behind bars, it didn’t mean she wasn’t squarely in Fisk’s crosshairs now. And worst of all, Matt knew what she was thinking: ''Come and get it''. Fisk had thrown her across that church like a rag doll, and still she wanted to confront him. And, of course, with Wilkerson keeping his mouth shut, it meant there was no legal alternative Matt could convince her was the right - and safer - course of action.

* BloodstainedGlassWindows: Learning from Cranston that Fisk and Vanessa's wedding will be taking place at an Episcopalian church in Hell's Kitchen, Matt and Elektra decide to crash the wedding and attack Fisk. Unfortunately, Bullseye hears about the wedding as well and decides to crash it too so he can settle his beef over the fact that Daredevil made him miss, and also demand that Fisk give him the money he's owed for killing Hugo and Hoffman. He ends up killing several of Fisk's guards and wounds Matt and Elektra before Matt overpowers him and carves a bullseye into his forehead.

"What?" Matt knew about Darnell, but had Dan killed the other man down in the basement that night to keep his secret? He knew the answer without having to ask.

* JuryAndWitnessTampering: Fisk gets himself acquitted by having Carl Hoffman assassinated in public on the courthouse steps, so that Hoffman can't testify to being directly ordered by Fisk to kill his partner Christian Blake. It's implied that afterwards, this also served to intimidate many of the other witnesses into not testifying. And since Fisk was typically very careful to put several layers of insulation between himself and the people who carried out his orders, the prosecution is left with a weak case that's largely built on circumstantial evidence.

** Karen's reaction in particular when the news breaks that Fisk has been acquitted, since she's afraid of Fisk coming after her if he finds out that she killed Wesley.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Foggy realizes that Fisk's decision to hire Bullseye is a weakness in his criminal enterprises. Fisk hired Bullseye to assassinate Hugo Natchios and Carl Hoffman because he's a skilled marksman capable of making impossible shots. But the guy is also an egotist who wants to make a name for himself.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: When Matt calls Cranston to arrange a meeting, he plays into the fact that Cranston, as someone who loves hogging the media spotlight, will never pass up the opportunity to maybe defend Daredevil in court.

* BruceWayneHeldHostage: On Christmas Eve, Fisk kidnaps Elektra, and plans to torture her into giving up information on Daredevil. In an attempt to get her to talk, he has his men kidnap Matt, and threatens to kill Matt if Elektra doesn't tell him what he wants to know. Of course, Matt himself is Daredevil...and Fisk realizes that when [[CoverBlowingSuperpower Matt headbutts him, then viciously disarms and beats up Francis]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Foggy realizes that Fisk's hired hitman is a weak spot in Fisk's organization. Fisk hired Bullseye to kill Hugo and Hoffman because he's a skilled marksman capable of making impossible shots. But the guy is also an egotist who wants to make a name for himself.
-->"He hires a guy to kill Hoffman and, uh...well…"\\

* ChekhovsGunman: Larry Cranston appears in two chapters early on, where we see his part in Fisk's plan to discredit and then kill Hoffman. After managing to outsmart Matt by getting him on tape, he doesn't show up again until after Fisk gets out of prison, when Foggy brings up information suggesting that Cranston might have some dirt on Fisk.

** Fisk blackmailed Hugo Natchios into smuggling heroin for him by threatening to expose a tax evasion scheme Hugo was running.

** Bullseye, as usual, goes for headshots.

* {{Expy}}: This fic's characterization of Larry Cranston is largely based on Creator/BobOdenkirk's portrayal of [[Series/BreakingBad Saul]] [[Series/BetterCallSaul Goodman]]. He's a corrupt attorney in the service of aiding criminals, has billboards all over town with his face on them, and while the epitome of everything that makes the legal system a target of mockery, is far from a mere ambulance chaser.

* LoanShark: When Hugo Natchios started his shipping company, no bank was willing to loan him the money he needed to purchase his first ship because, as a Greek immigrant, he had no property to his name to offer as collateral. In desperation, he borrowed from Don Rigoletto, a loan shark based out of Hell's Kitchen. At the time, Wilson Fisk was Rigoletto's henchman, and was responsible for collecting from Hugo after each shipment until the debts were repaid. Fisk later took over Rigoletto's operation after Rigoletto was sent to prison in the 1990s, and eventually had him killed after he got out in the early 2010s. In 2013, when Fisk began his partnerships with the Ranskahov brothers, Nobu, and Madame Gao, he needed a partner to transport Madame Gao's heroin from China to New York City. He leaned on his past acquaintance with Hugo, and blackmailed him into transporting the heroin by threatening to expose an import tax evasion scam that Hugo and his business partners at the docks had been running for years. Hugo was able to stop the operation after Fisk was arrested and Gao was forced to flee the country, but less than a year later, Fisk decided to resume the operation with a new local gang, the Enforcers, distributing. He had Vanessa approach Hugo to try and coerce him into restarting the pipeline. Rather than cave, Hugo tried to get out by offering to give up incriminating records he'd made of every one of Fisk's shipments, in exchange for Fisk giving up the dirt he had on Hugo. Fisk promptly had Hugo killed, and coerced Eric Slaughter into resuming the operation by threatening to have his wife killed.
* MortonsFork: When Fisk kidnaps Elektra, intent on getting her to give up Daredevil's real identity and her father's ledgers, he essentially gives her two options: she can refuse to talk, and he'll beat both her and Matt to death. Or she can talk, and he'll have his men shoot her and Matt. Elektra notes that that's not much of a choice Fisk is giving her.

** Karen's reaction in particular when the news breaks that Fisk has been acquitted, since she's afraid of Fisk coming after her for Wesley's death.
** Elektra's reaction when Eric Slaughter reveals the whole scope of Hugo's involvement with Fisk. It really sinks in when Slaughter reveals that the money Fisk made from the smuggling was laundered through the company and paid back to him in the form of stock dividends, as he owns shares in the company under a series of dummy accounts.

* SaveTheVillain: Matt has to save Fancy Dan and the other Enforcers when Melvin Potter goes after them with a set of chainsaws to get revenge on them for killing Betsy on Fisk's orders, since they won't be able to give up Fisk if they're dead.

* VillainousBreakdown: In the final fight, Fisk has one as he engages Matt.

* WorkingTheSameCase: Matt and Elektra in the first few chapters. Elektra is busy trying to find the hired sniper who killed her father. Matt is also trying to find the sniper because Fisk hired him to kill Carl Hoffman. When Matt tracks down Cranston and interrogates him, Cranston reveals that Fisk also was behind Hugo's murder.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Matt entertains the idea of trying to turn the Enforcers against Fisk by giving them warnings of the fact that Fisk will eventually discard of them like he does everyone else he has no further use for.

* YourHeadAsplode: Hoffman's death in particular plays out like this, as his head explodes like a watermelon when Bullseye shoots him on the courthouse steps.

** Larry Cranston turns out to be blackmailing Fisk by sitting on evidence linking Fisk to the murders of Don Rigoletto and several other mob bosses.

"Sorry," Foggy muttered. "He hires this guy to kill Hoffman and...Elektra's dad. Then that guy goes and shoots up a public event and kills a bunch of random people? He only made it out because the cops screwed up. That's not someone who's covering his tracks very well. But crazy or not, the guy is some kind of professional hitman. He's not going to be someone Fisk can just take out when he becomes a liability."\\

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Foggy realizes that Fisk's hired hitman is a weak spot in Fisk's organization. Fisk hired Bullseye because he's a skilled marksman capable of making impossible shots. But the guy is also an egotist who wants to make a name for himself.
-->"He hires a guy to kill Hoffman and, uh...well…”\\
“My dad,” Elektra said. “I’m not going to fall to pieces if you say it.”\\
“Sorry,” Foggy muttered. “He hires this guy to kill Hoffman and...Elektra’s dad. Then that guy goes and shoots up a public event and kills a bunch of random people? He only made it out because the cops screwed up. That’s not someone who’s covering his tracks very well. But crazy or not, the guy is some kind of professional hitman. He’s not going to be someone Fisk can just take out when he becomes a liability.”\\
Only Matt and Foggy knew the full circumstances behind that awful night at Fall Fest. Matt still considered his choice to take on the sniper incredibly foolish, but the gunman’s plan was every bit as reckless. And Matt also knew that this guy wanted to make some kind of public name for himself, which pretty much ran one hundred percent counter to Fisk’s priority of keeping all his illegal activity silent and buried. For the first time since the verdict was read, Matt could actually feel a little bit of hope flickering in his chest.

** Since Larry Cranston is just a slimy attorney here, he never goes by the name "Mr. Fear."

* DirtyCoward: When Matt and Elektra find out where Larry Cranston is hiding, Cranston is initially smug and defiant...but immediately tips over to panic mode when Elektra threatens to burn his illegal money.

** Matt has a moment of this when he realizes that his and Elektra's plan to get the Enforcers to turn on Fisk for Betsy Beatty's death and the smuggling operation would've probably worked if they hadn't destroyed the last shipment of heroin being sent to the Enforcers. As Fancy Dan points out, the police will find the Enforcers all maimed from being attacked by a chainsaw-wielding Melvin (which will make the judge more likely to be sympathetic towards them), and the only thing the cops will find are guns. So the only thing they'll be found guilty of is a bunch of illegal weapons possessions charges.

"I'm Hugo Natchios's daughter. And I'm going to kill you both."
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Matt has to [[SaveTheVillain save Fancy Dan and the Enforcers]] from being slaughtered by Melvin Potter as revenge for Betsy's death, it turns out that while Dan had no qualms about killing anyone who could prove he snitched on Ox, or about killing Toby Edwards, he balked at being asked by Fisk to do his dirty work. Some of his guys went behind his back to do it anyways, and Dan implies that he killed those guys afterwards.

* JuryAndWitnessTampering: Fisk gets himself acquitted by having Carl Hoffman assassinated in public on the courthouse steps. This damages the prosecution's case because Hoffman took direct orders from Fisk. The case falls apart as other witnesses are implied to have been intimidated into not testifying, so the prosecution's case is largely built on circumstantial evidence that points at the people who did Fisk's dirty work for him.
* LoanShark: When Hugo Natchios started his shipping company, no bank was willing to loan him the money he needed to purchase his first ship because, as a Greek immigrant, he had no property to his name to offer as collateral. In desperation, he borrowed from Don Rigoletto, a loan shark based out of Hell's Kitchen. At the time, Wilson Fisk was Rigoletto's henchman, and was responsible for collecting from Hugo after each shipment until the debts were repaid. Fisk later took over Rigoletto's operation after Rigoletto was sent to prison in the 1990s, and eventually had him killed after he got out in the early 2010s. In 2013, when Fisk began his partnerships with the Ranskahov brothers, Nobu, and Madame Gao, he needed a partner to transport Madame Gao's heroin from China to New York City. He leaned on his past acquaintance with Hugo, and blackmailed him into transporting the heroin by threatening to expose an import tax evasion scam that Hugo and his business partners at the docks had been running for years. Hugo was able to stop the operation after Fisk was arrested and Gao was forced to flee the country, but less than a year later, Fisk decides to resume the operation with a new local gang, the Enforcers, distributing. He had Vanessa approach Hugo to try and coerce him into restarting the pipeline. Rather than cave, Hugo tried to get out by offering to give up incriminating records he'd made of every one of Fisk's shipments, in exchange for Fisk giving up the dirt he had on Hugo. Fisk promptly had Hugo killed, and coerced Slaughter into resuming the operation by threatening to have his wife killed.

--->If Matt had been anywhere near the edge of the deck, he definitely would have fallen overboard. ''"Working with the Chinese. Your father knew."'' All the pieces suddenly clicked into place. Her father had smuggled heroin for Gao. And Fisk had him killed, probably because he knew too much, or maybe just because he was no longer needed when Gao left the country. Fisk killed Hugo Natchios. ''Fisk.'' It always came back to Fisk, hurting all the people Matt ever cared about.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In the backstory, Hugo Natchios is revealed to have kept a ledger with incriminating details on the heroin shipments Fisk made him smuggle into the United States, which he tried to blackmail Fisk with. Fisk responded by having him killed, and then had people go about the process of trying to track down the ledger since its existence could ensure his conviction. And to keep the smuggling operation going, Fisk makes sure to have a spare on hand and simply extorts Eric Slaughter into continuing it by threatening his wife.
** When Matt and Elektra sneak up to Cranston's hideout under the cover of darkness, Matt forgets that while his heightened senses allow him to find his way around, Elektra doesn't have this advantage.
** Bullseye being arrested and locked up after Matt and Elektra defeat him in the process of trying to confront Fisk to collect his money (and killing several of Fisk's guards in the process) doesn't automatically mean Elektra is out of Fisk's crosshairs. Matt realizes this after overhearing Elektra take a call from the police about Bullseye's arrest, and from the details the detective tells her, notices that Fisk didn't tell the police at all about Elektra being there. Matt concludes that the reason why Fisk isn't sending the police after Elektra is because she knows too much, and he knows she's got Hugo's ledgers, which he won't be able to beat out of her if she's in jail. Sure enough, Fisk waits for a little over a week before he makes his move. He does so by having his men kidnap Elektra while she's paying a visit to her parents' graves, and they then abduct Matt from his apartment as he's returning home from work. They then tie Elektra up to a pole in an empty warehouse, where Fisk threatens to personally beat Matt to death in front of her to get her to cooperate.[[note]]These circumstances are almost identical to how Karen killed James Wesley in season 1, the only difference being that Fisk doesn't make the mistake of leaving Elektra unrestrained where she could easily get a weapon[[/note]]
** When Matt regains consciousness, he engages Fisk in a one on one fight while slipping Elektra a knife from one of the two henchmen Fisk brought with him for her to free herself. The circumstances of this fight are very much identical to the first time Matt fought Fisk (after getting flayed by Nobu), and since Matt is unarmored and only wearing work clothes, Fisk has the upper hand for most of the fight. It's only after Elektra joins in and [[EyeScream jabs her fingernail into Fisk's eye]] that the fight turns in Matt's favor. Afterwards, Matt is prepared to call the police to arrest Fisk, since he abducted them and tried to kill them. Elektra decides to shoot Fisk in the head with a gun she picked up off one of the henchmen, since Fisk now knows Matt is Daredevil.
** Elektra shoots Fisk in the head, but the bullet doesn't kill him as his skull is very dense, keeping the bullet from passing all the way through his head. He is, however, in a coma, and Karen notes that at least he can't give orders while he's unconscious.
** Before leaving the warehouse, Elektra takes the step of planting the gun she used to shoot Fisk on one of the henchmen, with the intent of framing them, but she's aware that all of the injuries she and Matt inflicted on the two henchmen and on Fisk are likely not going to lead the police to believe that Fisk was beaten up then shot in the head by a disgruntled bodyguard.

* NotMeThisTime: After the inept police response to Foggy's tip about a pending attack on Fall Fest, causing the situation to turn into a bloodbath, Foggy wonders if Fisk still has cops on the take. Matt doesn't think so, given that the cops on Fisk's payroll were calm and collected, but the cops who responded to Fall Fest were confused and had no idea what to do.
-->''Any cop on Fisk’s payroll never would have tried to arrest Daredevil when they could have shot him.''

** Before leaving the warehouse, Elektra takes the step of planting the gun she used to shoot Fisk on one of the henchmen, with the intent of framing them, but she's aware that all of the injuries she and Matt inflicted on the two henchmen and on Fisk are likely not going to lead the police to believe that Fisk was shot in the head by a disgruntled bodyguard.

-->It seemed Cranston had outsmarted him after all. Matt had spent all day berating himself for not noticing the camera in the dashboard, even if there was no way he could have short of going inside the vehicle. He knew a lot of people didn’t buy what Cranston said, but it still made him furious.

-->"Well, well, well," Poindexter drawled, turning his head in her direction. Fisk was looking at her too. "What have we got here? She don't look like one of yours, Billy-boy."\\

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Matt pretends to be Brett so he can call Cranston's law firm from the 15th precinct to fish for information about where Cranston might be.

* SteelEardrums: Averted. Matt is rendered disoriented when Bullseye fires a sniper rifle not too far from his head. In a later confrontation, when Matt confronts Bullseye while he and Elektra are crashing Fisk's wedding, Bullseye shoots his rifle at a giant church bell, the loud ringing sound further disorienting Matt. In the subsequent showdown between Matt, Elektra, Fisk and Bullseye, Bullseye kicks things off by taking Matt as a human shield, and uses Matt's left ear to stabilize his pistol as he kills Fisk's bodyguards. This renders Matt partially deaf as he subsequently takes on Fisk in a one on one fight, and it is several days before he gets his hearing back.
** In the climax, Fisk abducts Matt and Elektra with the intention of killing them. While Matt fights Fisk, Elektra gets ahold of a gun from one of Fisk's guards that Matt had just disarmed. At one point, Fisk throws Matt at Elektra, and they pile up in a heap. As Fisk advances on them, Elektra uses one hand to cover Matt's right ear while using the other hand to shoot at Fisk, so as not to deafen him again.

-->If Matt had been anywhere near the edge of the deck, he definitely would have fallen overboard. ''"Working with the Chinese. Your father knew."'' All the pieces suddenly clicked into place. Her father had smuggled heroin for Gao. And Fisk had him killed, probably because he knew too much, or maybe just because he was no longer needed when Gao left the country. Fisk killed Hugo Natchios. ''Fisk.'' It always came back to Fisk, hurting all the people Matt ever cared about.
* WouldHurtAChild: Fancy Dan, the leader of the Enforcers who replaced Ox, has Toby Edwards killed for snitching to the police.

When the assassination of her father brings Elektra Natchios back to New York, Matt Murdock must face more than one ghost from his past. Crossing paths with the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, Elektra will stop at nothing to exact her revenge, and Matt will stop at nothing to protect her - from the killer, the cops, and herself. Season 2 AU.

-->“Why didn’t Fisk tell the cops I was there? Why didn’t the priest?”
-->“Well, I’m sure the priest said whatever Fisk told him to,” Matt said, cradling his ear. “As for Fisk, well…” Matt thought for a moment. Any answer he could come up with wasn’t comforting. “You know too much. And you still have something he wants.”
-->“The ledgers,” Elektra said. Matt nodded, then flopped onto his back with a groan.
-->All he ever wanted to do was keep her safe, keep her far from Fisk's notice. Even with the sniper behind bars, it didn’t mean she wasn’t squarely in Fisk’s crosshairs now. And worst of all, Matt knew what she was thinking: ''Come and get it''. Fisk had thrown her across that church like a rag doll, and still she wanted to confront him. And, of course, with Wilkerson keeping his mouth shut, it meant there was no legal alternative Matt could convince her was the right - and safer - course of action.

-->"He hires a guy to kill Hoffman and, uh...well…”
-->“My dad,” Elektra said. “I’m not going to fall to pieces if you say it.”
-->“Sorry,” Foggy muttered. “He hires this guy to kill Hoffman and...Elektra’s dad. Then that guy goes and shoots up a public event and kills a bunch of random people? He only made it out because the cops screwed up. That’s not someone who’s covering his tracks very well. But crazy or not, the guy is some kind of professional hitman. He’s not going to be someone Fisk can just take out when he becomes a liability.”
-->Only Matt and Foggy knew the full circumstances behind that awful night at Fall Fest. Matt still considered his choice to take on the sniper incredibly foolish, but the gunman’s plan was every bit as reckless. And Matt also knew that this guy wanted to make some kind of public name for himself, which pretty much ran one hundred percent counter to Fisk’s priority of keeping all his illegal activity silent and buried. For the first time since the verdict was read, Matt could actually feel a little bit of hope flickering in his chest.

-->“Fisk kept himself pretty well insulated from all the illegal shit he was doing. He had that Owlsley guy handling all the money and his assistant - that guy who hired us -”
-->“James Wesley,” Foggy provided.
-->“Right. Wesley. He had Wesley acting as his mouthpiece. Who’s to say they weren’t doing all this behind his back?”
-->“Not the two of them, because they’re conveniently dead,” Foggy said. “Along with just about everybody else who took orders from Fisk directly.”
-->“It might be enough for reasonable doubt,” Matt said with a shrug.

-->"Well, well, well," Poindexter drawled, turning his head in her direction. Fisk was looking at her too. "What have we got here? She don't look like one of yours, Billy-boy."
-->Elektra knew she should have been afraid. But she felt exhilarated. Vindicated. ''Finally, they see me. Finally, they will pay for what they've done.''
-->She pulled her own mask away from her face. Matt had a good reason to conceal his identity; she didn't. Not from these two.
-->"I'm Hugo Natchios's daughter. And I'm going to kill you both."

-->“That lady?” Dan swore under his breath. “Shit, man. I already took care of that!”
-->“Took care of it? What do you mean?”
-->“Man, Fisk asking us to take out his trash, like we’re his personal hit squad or something.” Dan sucked on his teeth.
-->''Well, you call yourself the Enforcers, so…'' Matt decided it was no time to be pedantic when someone was outside the door with a chainsaw.
-->“I said, ‘hell no,’” Dan went on. “Couple of my boys went behind my back and done it anyway. And I took care of that.”
-->“You didn’t have a problem taking me out for Fisk,” Matt said. Still, he didn’t think Dan was lying.
-->“Shit. You was open season. And I owed you for my boy, Charles.”

** Elektra's reaction when Eric Slaughter reveals the whole scope of Hugo's involvement with Fisk. It really sinks in when Slaughter reveals that the money was laundered through the company and paid to Fisk in the form of stock dividends, as he owns shares in the company under a series of dummy accounts.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Fisk's obsessive hatred for Daredevil is such that when he finds out Matt is Daredevil, in the process of trying to get Elektra to give up her father's ledger or Daredevil, that any thought of getting the incriminating ledger goes out the window.

-->“You two deserve each other!” Fisk shouted as he stomped toward them. "You deserve this city and all its squalor!"
-->Elektra cradled Matt’s head with her left arm, covering his right ear with her hand. With the gun in her other hand, Elektra aimed at Fisk’s chest and squeezed the trigger. As each bullet struck him, Fisk momentarily recoiled, halting his advance before taking another step forward. He was inexorable. His suits are bulletproof, Elektra recalled Matt saying.
-->Before she could take aim at his head, Fisk was upon them. He knocked the gun from her grasp with one slap from his colossal hand. The other hand grabbed Matt by the collar, pulling him away from Elektra and tossing him aside like trash.
-->“Is she important to you, Murdock?” Fisk screamed. Elektra tried to scramble away from him, but Fisk grabbed her by the ankle, dragging her back across the concrete. “Watch me tear her apart!”
-->As Fisk slammed her against the wall, Elektra punched and kicked at him to no avail. He only needed one hand to wrap around her throat and choke her. She gasped and gagged and could clearly make out what was supposed to be a smile on Fisk’s face, but it just looked like an animal baring its teeth.
-->"After her, [[AndYourLittleDogToo I'll pay a visit to Nelson! And then Miss Page! What about the cop that arrested me? Mahoney? That nurse you rescued from the Russians? I'll destroy every last one of them! I will erase you!]]"

* YouJustToldMe: Al Wallenquist gives away to Elektra that Fisk was behind her father's murder.

** Fisk's hired sniper never calls himself Bullseye. The name is given to him by the press, who dub him "The Bullseye Killer".

* DramaticUnmask: Elektra finds out Matt is Daredevil when she rescues him from a severe beating at the hands of the Enforcers.

* {{Expy}}: This fic's characterization of Larry Cranston is largely based on [[Series/BreakingBad Saul]] [[Series/BetterCallSaul Goodman]]. He's a corrupt attorney in the service of aiding criminals, has billboards all over town with his face on them, and while the epitome of everything that makes the legal system a target of mockery, is far from a mere ambulance chaser.

* MouthOfSauron: Al Wallenquist, Eric Slaughter's assistant, functions as one for him in board meetings while Slaughter is unexpectedly on vacation (ostensibly trying to stay as far away from Fisk as possible).
* MythologyGag: The majority of the new characters, including the Enforcers and Larry Cranston, are lifted directly from the comics.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: During Hoffman's trial, Matt realizes something is off when he doesn't hear Cranston, media attention whore, among those near Hoffman. Seconds later, Hoffman is assassinated.

** Matt has a moment of this when he realizes that his and Elektra's plan to get the Enforcers to turn on Fisk would've probably worked if they hadn't destroyed the last shipment of heroin being sent to the Enforcers. As Fancy Dan points out, the police will find the Enforcers all maimed from being attacked by a chainsaw-wielding Melvin (which will make the judge more likely to be sympathetic towards them), and the only thing the cops will find are guns. So the only thing they'll be found guilty of is a bunch of illegal weapons possessions charges.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: When Matt has to [[SaveTheVillain save Fancy Dan and the Enforcers]] from being slaughtered by Melvin Potter as revenge for Betsy's death, it turns out the Dan balked at being asked by Fisk to do his dirty work. Some of his guys went behind his back to do it anyways, and Dan implies that he killed those guys afterwards.

-->If Matt had been anywhere near the edge of the deck, he definitely would have fallen overboard. ''Working with the Chinese. Your father knew.'' All the pieces suddenly clicked into place. Her father had smuggled heroin for Gao. And Fisk had him killed, probably because he knew too much, or maybe just because he was no longer needed when Gao left the country. Fisk killed Hugo Natchios. ''Fisk.'' It always came back to Fisk, hurting all the people Matt ever cared about.

* WhamLine: Matt is eavesdropping on Elektra as she and a ship captain are inspecting a new shipment of drugs arriving in New York: "This never happened back when we were working with the Chinese. They’re real professionals, the Chinese. And your father knew what he was doing too. I’ll be honest, Miss Natchios. I don’t even want to be involved in this at all anymore. The money’s just not worth the risk.”