Film guide · 2025

Daredevil: Born Again (Season 1): The Full Story, Scene by Scene

The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.

Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.

Episode 1: Heaven's Half Hour

A night out

Lawyers Matt and Foggy and their friend Karen are enjoying a night at a bar.

Bullseye

The assassin Bullseye appears and shoots Foggy. Daredevil chases him down, they fight brutally, and Matt throws him off a roof. Foggy dies.

A year later

A year later, Matt has given up being Daredevil and works only as a lawyer. He and Karen have drifted apart.

Mayor Fisk

Wilson Fisk, Kingpin, back from hiding, is elected mayor of New York.

Episodes 2–4: Matt the lawyer

White Tiger

Matt defends Hector Ayala, the vigilante White Tiger, who's accused of attacking a police officer.

Fisk and Matt

Matt and Fisk meet at a city event and have a tense conversation.

Heather

Matt is dating therapist Heather Glenn.

Fisk's marriage

Fisk's wife, Vanessa, ran his criminal empire while he was away.

Episodes 5–7: Daredevil returns

Hector's death

After the trial, Hector is murdered.

Muse

A mysterious serial killer called Muse terrorizes the city.

The mask again

Matt decides to become Daredevil again.

Fighting Muse

Daredevil hunts down Muse.

Episodes 8–9: The mayor's order

The Task Force

Fisk creates a special police unit to hunt vigilantes and tightens his grip on the city.

Bullseye returns

Bullseye, out of prison, targets Fisk, and Matt ends up protecting him.

Karen and the Punisher

Karen returns to Matt's side. Frank Castle, the Punisher, has been captured by Fisk's unit.

Martial law

Fisk declares martial law over New York. Matt begins gathering allies to fight back.