2013 (Earth-515/Heitorfred1)

This is a timeline of events that occurred on Earth-515 in 2013.

2013

January

6th

• Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson celebrate the upcoming opening of their law firm "Nelson and Murdock".

9th

• Murdock visits Father Paul Lantom at confession and asks pardon for what he is about to do.
• Matt Murdock decides to use his abilities to make Hell's Kitchen a better place as a vigilante.
• Rescue of Kidnapped Women: As a masked vigilante, Murdock stops Turk Barrett and his men from kidnapping three women.

10th

• Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson meet with a realtor so they can start their law firm.
• Karen Page is found in her apartment with the dead body of Daniel Fisher, holding a bloody knife in her hand. She is accused of the murder.
• Murdock and Nelson are hired to defend Page as her lawyers.

11th

• James Wesley reveals to Officer Clyde Farnum that his associates can kill his daughter at any time. Under this blackmail threat, he orders Farnum to kill Page.
• Late at night, Farnum tries to choke Page to death, but she fights back and scratches his right eye. She then screams for help.
• Page is released into the custody of Nelson and Murdock after nearly being murdered in prison. She stays the night at Murdock's apartment.
• Believing Murdock had fallen asleep, Page sneaks out of his apartment to return to her own apartment and retrieve a flash drive that holds financial records of her previous employers Union Allied Construction.
• Attack on Karen Page:
  • In her apartment, Page is ambushed by a hitman named Rance, but saved by Murdock in his vigilante guise.
  • The disguised Murdock then takes the flash drive, ties up the hitman, and anonymously drops them both off at the New York Bulletin Building.

12th

• Karen Page is hired as secretary of Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson's law firm.
• Clyde Farnum is killed by men working for Wilson Fisk. When returning home, his daughter finds him in a way that suggests a suicide.
• Rance is found dead in his prison cell after being killed by men working for Wilson Fisk.
• Vladimir Ranskahov and some of his men assault a man and kidnap his young son.
• Murdock hears the screams of the boy who had been kidnapped by Ranskahov and goes to try to save him.

13th

• John Healy gets a gun from Turk Barrett so as to kill Prohaszka, a man he was hired to murder. Barrett promises him it will not jam.

14th

• Matt Murdock finally locates the boy kidnapped by the Russian criminals two days before, but he is ambushed and badly injured. He barely escapes and is forced to hide inside a dumpster.
• A young man named Santino finds the injured Murdock in the dumpster and quickly alerts his neighbor, the nurse Claire Temple. In Temple's apartment, she tends to his wounds, saving his life. Soon, Semyon, a mobster sent by Vladimir Ranskahov, arrives at the apartment complex and tries to find Murdock. With Temple's help, Murdock kidnaps Semyon and interrogates him to find out where the boy is being held. He then throws him from the roof, causing him to land in a dumpster and become comatose. Murdock tells Temple to move apartment so that the other gangsters do not find her. She gives him the location where she can be found in the future, in case he needs any more help. Murdock heads out to find the young boy.
• Nelson and Page go out drinking, helping Karen Page to forget about her case.
• Rescue of the Kidnapped Boy: After a lengthy fight between Murdock and nine thugs, Murdock saves the boy and brings him back to his father.
• Assassination of Mister Prohaszka: Healy goes to Whitestone Lanes bowling alley to murder Prohaszka. Healy quickly overthrows the mobster's body guards. He then tries to shoot Prohaszka, but his gun jams, forcing him to find another way to kill him. He eventually kills Prohaszka by repeatedly bashing his skull with a bowling ball. The police arrive shortly after and arrest Healy.

15th

• Matt Murdock talks with Father Paul Lantom outside of his church.
• Ben Urich talks with Silvio about a new criminal leader.
• James Wesley arrives at the Nelson and Murdock Law Office to consult them. He offers them a large sum of money to take the case of John Healy. Not trusting Wesley, Matt Murdock secretly follows him out of the office, but is forced to end the chase after his wounds begin to bleed.
• Upon meeting Healy, Foggy Nelson does not want to take the case; however, Murdock does.
• Ben Urich argues with Mitchell Ellison that they need to release a story about the gangs and crimes of the city, but Ellison refuses.
• Karen Page goes to a lawyer who represents her previous employer. He wants her to sign a non-disclosure agreement and take 6 months' pay. However, she refuses the offer.

16th

• John Healy's trial begins. When Healy enters the court, Murdock hears one juror's heartbeat increase. He follows her afterward and discovers that she is being blackmailed.
• Murdock dons his suit and interrogates the man blackmailing her, but he tells him that it is useless, as his employer will just blackmail another juror.

17th

• Karen Page visits Daniel Fisher's widow to give her condolences. Mrs. Fisher reveals that she had signed the Union Allied non-disclosure agreement in order to help raise her kids, so she tries to get Page to leave.
• Page goes to Ben Urich so that he can help her investigate against Union Allied Construction.
• During the trial, Murdock hears another juror's heartbeat raise when Wesley arrives. There is a hung jury, so Healy is set free.
• Attack on John Healy: Murdock dons his suit and confronts Healy. They fight, resulting in Murdock's victory. Pinned, Healy reveals that his employer is named Wilson Fisk. Knowing Fisk will kill everyone he cares about if he finds out, Healy commits suicide.
• At the Scene Contempo Gallery, Wilson Fisk meets Vanessa Marianna.

25th

• Matt Murdock begins his search for the Russian brothers, Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov. He finds Anatoly with some of his men and attacks. Anatoly barely escapes.
• Murdock goes to Claire Temple to tend to his wounds again.

26th

• Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov visit Semyon in hospital. He gives them the location of Claire Temple's Apartment, knowing it is connected to "The Man in Black".
• Wilson Fisk asks Vanessa Marianna to a dinner date. She accepts.
• Ben Urich decides to help Karen Page uncover the secrets behind Union Allied Construction as long as she can keep from being too obvious about the situation.
• Kidnapping of Claire Temple: Temple is kidnapped by mobsters hired by the Russians. Murdock goes to her apartment and discovers that she has been kidnapped. A beaten Santino tells Murdock that the car the thugs took Claire in had Veles Taxi painted on it.
• Temple is interrogated and beaten by her kidnappers. They ask her about the Man in Black. Soon Murdock arrives, defeats the men, and frees Temple.
• Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov arrive at the scene, seeing the destruction Murdock has caused to their men.
• Fisk and Marianna go on their date at a restaurant. Anatoly interrupts, requesting Fisk's help to fight against the Man in Black.
• Temple stays at Matt Murdock's Apartment for the night, since the mobsters know where she lives.
• Murder of Anatoly Ranskahov: Infuriated by his insolence, Wilson Fisk murders Anatoly Ranskahov by crushing his skull in a car door.

27th

• Having to depart for the law firm, Matt Murdock leaves Claire Temple at his apartment.
• James Wesley delivers Anatoly Ranskahov's body to his brother, Vladimir, blaming the Man in Black. Vladimir Ranskahov vows to kill him.
• Wilson Fisk meets with Madame Gao, Nobu Yoshioka, and Leland Owlsley. They are informed by Fisk that Vladimir and Anatoly Ranskahov are no longer members of their syndicate.
• Murdock, wearing his suit, follows a Veles Taxi to a warehouse. He is soon attacked by the mobsters, but eventually defeats them. He interrogates one of the men named Piotr, asking him where Vladimir Ranskahov is. Piotr reveals to Murdock that everyone thinks he killed Anatoly.

28th

• Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock accept Elena Cardenas as a new client.
• Trying to get more information on Cardenas' landlord, Murdock goes to the police department. He hears Detectives Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman interrogating Piotr in another room. Piotr tells them he works for Wilson Fisk.
• Since Blake and Hoffman are secretly also subordinates of Fisk, they kill Piotr since no one is supposed to reveal Fisk's name. Hearing the entire situation, Murdock realizes how corrupt the New York City Police Department is.
• In his black suit, Murdock attacks Blake and questions him.
• Turk Barrett tells Vladimir Ranskahov that a friend of his had cleaned a car of Wilson Fisk's that was covered in "blood and brains". He also tricks Ranskahov into thinking that the masked man and Fisk are working together. Ranskahov then demands his men get all of their weapons to prepare for a war against Fisk.
• Bombing of Hell's Kitchen:
  • Vanessa Marianna goes on her second date with Wilson Fisk. After getting her to trust him more, they watch from the Press Lounge Restaurant as four buildings explode. Fisk tells Marianna that these explosions were made to stop criminals.
  • Murdock, in his suit, goes to a warehouse owned by Ranskahov. A blind drug runner working for Madame Gao detonates a bomb that destroys the factory, causing the first of Fisk's Ranskahov and Sergei barely escape. Murdock follows them. He attacks, but the police soon arrive.
  • Murdock is forced to fight the officers and defeats them, escaping with Ranskahov.
  • After helping repair her home, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page are unexpectedly given a dinner date prepared by Elena Cardenas. The date is interrupted by one of Fisk's explosions in a nearby building. Nelson and Cardenas are injured and taken to Metro-General Hospital.
  • Ben Urich goes to investigate the explosions and interview officers near the wreckage.
  • Matt Murdock takes Vladimir Ranskahov to an abandoned warehouse to avoid being discovered by the police.
  • Murdock uses a flare to cauterize Ranskahov's open wound, making Ranskahov pass out. Soon Officer Sullivan arrives at the warehouse and calls for backup after Murdock attacks him. Police arrive outside, calling the circumstance a hostage situation. Soon Ranskahov awakens and attacks Murdock. To protect himself, Murdock tackles Ranskahov, making them fall two stories. Ranskahov's heart stops, forcing Murdock to revive him.
• Assassination of Vladimir Ranskahov:
  • Through Sullivan's two-way radio, Fisk contacts Murdock and says that he will blame the entire night's occurrences on him. Outside, a sniper shoots multiple officers, including Christian Blake. Murdock soon finds an opening into the sewers that connects to a series of access tunnels, which he uses for him and Ranskahov to escape.
  • Just after they escape, four officers enter the building. Working for Fisk, they kill Sullivan to blame it on the Man in the Mask. Just before Murdock and Ranskahov go into the access tunnels, they are attacked by two of the officers.
  • After they are defeated by Murdock, Ranskahov chooses to use their weapons to keep five other men from getting to Murdock, allowing Murdock to get away. Before he leaves, Ranskahov tells Murdock that Leland Owlsley controls the money of Fisk's cartel. When the men arrive, they kill Ranskahov. Murdock escapes.

29th

• Stick kills Aito while searching for Black Sky.

30th

• The Man in the Mask confronts Leland Owlsley, but is distracted when his former master, Stick, arrives. Seeing an opportunity, Owlsley tasers Murdock and escapes.
• Stick and Matt Murdock talk in Murdock's apartment. Soon they argue about the way Murdock is trying to protect the city. Stick offers Murdock a chance to fight beside him again. Murdock agrees, under the condition that Stick does not kill anyone.
• Karen Page brings groceries to Elena Cardenas at her apartment. As a way of thanks, Cardenas gives Page information about the repairman who worked on her apartment.
• Outside Cardenas' apartment, Page is attacked by two of Fisk's men, fitting the description given by Cardenas. She is saved by Foggy Nelson.
• Attack on Black Sky:
  • Murdock and Stick attack Nobu Yoshioka's men as they are retrieving a Black Sky potential, which happens to be a young boy. Stick tries to kill the Black Sky potential, but is stopped by Murdock.
  • Yoshioka and his remaining men flee the area with the Black Sky potential. Stick follows them and eventually succeeds in killing the Black Sky potential.
• When Murdock arrives home, he discovers that Stick is already there. Still outraged by Stick's lie, Murdock fights him and wins.
• Page lets Nelson in on her plan with Ben Urich to take down Union Allied Construction.
• Stick goes to Stone, who asks him if Murdock will be "ready when the doors open", to which Stick replies that he has "no idea".

31st

• Matt Murdock is told about Page and Nelson's investigation of Union Allied Construction. He tells them that in order to continue, they must try to keep their investigation within the legal system.
• Assassination of Christian Blake: Wilson Fisk orders Carl Hoffman to kill his partner, Christian Blake, in his hospital room. He injects him with a poison meant to kill him quickly. Seconds before it can, the Man in the Mask arrives. Wanting revenge, Blake tells him all he can just before dying

February

1st

• Wilson Fisk meets with Madame Gao in his penthouse. Gao tells Fisk he is becoming sloppy.
• Vanessa Marianna visits Fisk. He tells her about how he killed his father when he was young in order to protect his mother and earn his dignity. She understands and accepts his story.
• The Man in the Mask visits Ben Urich and tells him everything he knows about Fisk.

2nd

• Wilson Fisk publicly announces his mission to save Hell's Kitchen on WHiH World News, much to the dismay of Matt Murdock and Ben Urich.

3rd

• Elena Cardenas is murdered by Junkie Jake.
• Murdock goes to Scene Contempo Gallery to meet Vanessa Marianna and get to know the woman who loves his enemy. Surprisingly, Wilson Fisk, himself, arrives. Murdock speaks with him for a while, struggling to remain calm considering the pain Fisk has put him through under his guise as the Man in the Mask, and soon leaves the gallery.

4th

• Foggy Nelson and Karen Page show Murdock the Business Plate for Nelson and Murdock.
• Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, and Karen Page are informed of Elena Cardenas' murder.
• As the Man in the Mask, Matt Murdock searches for Cardenas' murderer. He eventually finds Junkie Jake and asks him why he murdered Cardenas. Jake, afraid of Murdock, tells him that he was paid for the job at a warehouse on Pier 81. When Murdock leaves, Jake is killed by Wilson Fisk's men for revealing information.
• Duel at Pier 81:
  • At Pier 81, Nobu Yoshioka attacks the Man in the Mask, inciting a fight. During the very lengthy duel, Murdock is injured multiple times.
  • Eventually, Yoshioka is accidentally killed when sparks from a light set his suit on fire. After Yoshioka dies, Wilson Fisk enters and reveals that it was his plan for Murdock to kill Yoshioka. They fight, but the injured Murdock stands no chance against Fisk. To escape, Murdock jumps out of a window.
• Upon entering Murdock's home, Nelson discovers that the Man in the Mask is there as well and is very injured. Nelson takes off his mask, revealing that the man is, in fact, Matt Murdock.
• Claire Temple arrives at Murdock's apartment and stitches him as Nelson watches.

5th

• Matt Murdock awakens after passing out from his injuries. Foggy Nelson is still in his apartment and feels betrayed that he had not been informed that Murdock was the Man in the Mask. For hours he begins to question their friendship and the validity of his blindness. Murdock tells him as much about his past as he possibly can, even about his first night as a vigilante.
• Tricking him into thinking they are going to look at a retirement home for his wife, Page takes Urich to the retirement home of Marlene Vistain, Wilson Fisk's mother. Vistain tells them that Fisk killed his father when he was twelve years old.
• Leland Owlsley meets with Madame Gao. They decide that Vanessa Marianna is having a negative effect on Fisk and they agree to poison her.
• Attack on Vanessa Marianna: At a fundraiser held by Wilson Fisk, Vanessa Marianna is poisoned after drinking champagne. The poison had been secretly placed in all of the drinks by Leland Owlsley. She is rushed to hospital.
• Foggy Nelson quits his job at Nelson and Murdock.
• Nelson calls Marci Stahl and sleeps with her.

6th

• Karen Page visits Matt Murdock and confronts him about his supposed "car accident" being a lie. She is kind, however, and gives him a balloon before she leaves.
• Marci Stahl wakes and bids Nelson goodbye.
• Leland Owlsley pretends to James Wesley that he believes the Japanese may be behind the poisoning. Wesley instead orders him to visit Madame Gao and question her.
• Claire Temple tells Murdock that she is taking some time away, and they could not have worked out as a couple. She wishes him well and leaves.

7th

• The Man in the Mask attacks Turk Barrett, asking him where Fisk gets his body armor. Barrett gives him the name "Melvin Potter".
• Infiltration into Melvin Potter's Workshop: The Man in the Mask goes to Melvin Potter's workshop. Potter attacks him, knowing that he is an enemy of Fisk. Once Murdock explains that he can help Melvin protect his friend, Betsy Beatty, from Fisk, Potter agrees to help Murdock by making him a protective suit.
• Karen Page reiterates the information given to her by Wilson Fisk's mother to Matt Murdock.
• Kidnapping of Karen Page: After being informed by Marlene Vistain that she was visited by Karen Page, James Wesley kidnaps Page for knowing the location of Wilson Fisk's mother, and the information about Fisk's childhood.
• After Wesley places a gun on the table, Page gets a hold of it and shoots and kills Wesley. To hide the evidence, Page throws the gun into the ocean.

8th

• Vanessa Marianna finally awakens after being poisoned. Wilson Fisk offers to move her out of the country to protect her, but she refuses, wanting to stay with him.
• James Wesley's corpse is found. Fisk is saddened by the loss of his assistant and friend. He thinks whoever killed him may also be responsible for poisoning Marianna.

9th

• Matt Murdock follows a blind woman working for Madame Gao to a guarded warehouse.
• Marlene Vistain is asked by her son, Wilson Fisk, what she said to James Wesley on the phone during the night of his death. To Fisk's disappointment, her mother has forgotten due to her dementia.
• Ben Urich's boss, Mitchell Ellison, refuses to post his story about Wilson Fisk murdering his father. Ellison eventually decides to fire Urich. Urich decides to write a blog revealing the information about Wilson Fisk.
• Infiltration into Madame Gao's Warehouse: Murdock, as the Man in the Mask, goes to the warehouse where blind people are being used to distribute heroin known as Steel Serpent. He is soon seen by Madame Gao, who has all of her blind servants attack him. After Murdock frees himself from them, he accidentally starts a fire. He later encounters Gao, but she escapes. Murdock has one of Gao's men save the blind workers from the fire as he departs.
• Murder of Ben Urich: Wilson Fisk discovers that Ben Urich visited his mother. Because of this, Fisk goes to Urich's house and murders him.

13th

• The funeral of Ben Urich takes place. Matt Murdock, Karen Page, Doris Urich, Silvio, and many of Urich's former co-workers go in order to give their condolences. The funeral is given by Father Paul Lantom.
• Murder of Leland Owlsley: After discovering that Leland Owlsley poisoned Vanessa Marianna, Wilson Fisk kills Owlsley by throwing him down an elevator shaft.

14th

• Rescue of Carl Hoffman:
  • Police officers working for Wilson Fisk go to kill Carl Hoffman so that he does not leak any information about Fisk's operations.
  • The Man in the Mask stops them and has Hoffman go to Officer Brett Mahoney so he can hire Nelson and Murdock to defend him.
• Hoffman is questioned about his involvement with Wilson Fisk. He reveals all of the information he knows of Fisk's crimes.

15th

• Turk Barrett, M. Caldwell, Parish Landman, Senator Randolph Cherryh, and many police officers are arrested by the FBI for working with Wilson Fisk.
• Arrest of Wilson Fisk: To keep Vanessa Marianna safe, Wilson Fisk prepares a helicopter for her, in case he is unable to escape the FBI. Before the FBI takes him, he proposes to her and she accepts.
• After forgiving Matt Murdock in order to help bring down Wilson Fisk, Foggy Nelson decides to work at Nelson and Murdock once again.
• Men hired by Wilson Fisk free him from the FBI and attempt to take him to the helicopter with Marianna.
• The Man in the Mask gets his new suit from Melvin Potter. He dons it and goes to stop Fisk.
• Duel of Hell's Kitchen: Murdock, in his new suit, finds the truck transporting Fisk and has it flipped over so that he can confront him. Fisk tries to escape, but fails and is beaten by Murdock. Officer Brett Mahoney arrests Fisk.

16th

• Murdock's alter ego is given the name "Daredevil" by the New York Bulletin in that day's weekday issue of the paper.
• Wilson Fisk is imprisoned in Ryker's Island.
• Vanessa Marianna is taken to Felix Manning, a fixer working for Fisk, for protection and help staying hidden.

22nd

• Ava Starr a.k.a. Ghost kills a man who shoots at her on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D., under the promise that in return, S.H.I.E.L.D. will help find her a cure to her molecular disequilibrium.

28th

• Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction in Rose Hill, Tennessee. Five other people are killed in the explosion.

March

3rd

• Shades is released from Seagate Penitentiary.

6th

• Jessica Jones is hired by a man who thinks that his wife is cheating on him. She follows the client's wife through New York City and finds her having sex with another man.
• Duel of K'un-Lun:
  • The two final unbeaten warriors of K'un-Lun, friends Danny Rand and Davos, prepare to fight for the right to face Shou-Lao. Lei Kung reminds them that the fight does not end until one either yields or dies, and the two fighters tie a ceremonial cloth between them. The duel begins.
  • As the duel continues, Davos starts yanking on the connecting cloth to pull Rand off-balance and toward him. Rand manages to dodge and wrap the cloth around Davos' wrists and punch him, but Davos kicks him away and tears the fabric. Rand trips him up, but before he can land a kick, Davos spins away back to his feet. Rand lands a punch but Davos retaliates and knocks him down, stamping on his fingers to break them and telling him to yield. When Rand does not, Davos continues to punch him, and Rand pretends to be out of energy, only to surprise Davos by suddenly kneeing him aside. The two stumble back to their feet and Rand uses his side of the ripped cloth to bind his broken fingers.
  • The sun shines into the dueling chamber as Davos continues to pummel Rand, repeatedly telling him that it is over, and he has to yield. Rand, however, notices the sun streaming through the window and lures Davos into its glare, momentarily distracting his opponent, enough to gain an advantage and knock him to the ground. Rand then pins him down and demands he yield. Davos does not, but Lei Kung, his father, declares Rand the winner and the one who will face the dragon.
• After falling unconscious, Davos is woken by his mother, Priya. She expresses her shame at having raised what she sees to be a failure, and Davos asserts to himself that he will still find a way to make her proud.

7th

• Jones shows her client the photos at her office, and he begins to get angry that his own wife is cheating on him with his brother. When he begins to get violently aggressive, Jones tosses him through her door, breaking the window, still demanding her payment.

8th

• At the Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz Office, Jones asks Jeri Hogarth for a new assignment. Hogarth, sends her to give a subpoena to Gregory Spheeris, a strip club owner who stays surrounded by bodyguards.
• Back at her office, Jones makes a call to Spheeris' office. Pretending to be an old friend of Spheeris' secretary, Jones extracts the information needed to find Spheeris.
• In the night, Jones watches Luke Cage and Gina become intimate in his apartment from a distance.

9th

• Jones wakes up, annoyed by the noise made by her upstairs neighbors. She then hears some noise coming from her kitchen. There she finds Malcolm Ducasse, who under the influence of drugs entered the wrong apartment and started eating her peanut butter, surprised there were no nuts in it.
• As Jones opens her door to send Ducasse away, she finds Bob and Barbara Shlottman standing in front of it. The Shlottmans just flew in from Omaha to find their daughter Hope Shlottman, a track star at New York University who abruptly changed her routine and disappeared.
• While Barbara Shlottman explains to Jones what has happened, her husband is more interested in fixing the broken door. The Shlottmans had first visited the police station, where someone had sent them to Jones.
• Jones accepts the job and starts looking for information about the Shlottmans, and Hope in particular. When she notices a picture of Hope Shlottman with a friend, Jones decides to give the friend a visit. At Hope Shlottman's Apartment, Jones has a talk with Mei, while her new roommate films it. According to Mei, Hope's change in lifestyle and disappearance is all to do with a man who she had met.
• Jessica Jones uses her strength to intimidate Spheeris, who just left the SoHo House, and give him his subpoena. As proof, she takes a photo of Spheeris, which she sends to Jeri Hogarth.
• Back at her office, Jones awakens from a bad dream about Killgrave. In an attempt to calm herself, Jones starts to name some of the streets from her old neighborhood. She is then called by Hogarth who, besides the message from Jones, also received a call from Spheeris’ lawyer, who complained that Jones threatened Spheeris with her “laser eyes”. When Pam starts to kiss Hogarth's neck, she quickly ends the phone call.
• Jones, who just bought some liquor at a store, walks passed Luke's bar. Outside of the bar she meets the owner Luke Cage, who invites her in, saying it is ladies’ night. After flirting, Jones and Cage end up sleeping together, but she leaves abruptly when she sees a picture in his bathroom of Reva Connors, recognizing her as the woman Killgrave made her murder a year ago.

10th

• Using Hope Shlottman’s credit card data to follow her case, Jones tracks Shlottman's spending trail. She discovers that Shlottman has not paid rent on her apartment, but is buying expensive clothes.
• Jones goes to Niku, an expensive restaurant. She begins to recognize the pattern: despite what she had previously believed, Killgrave must still be alive and is controlling Hope Shlottman, once again performing his usual dating rituals.
• Scared, Jones decides to flee from New York City, and advises the Shlottmans to do the same.
• After approaching different people for money, Jones goes to see her adoptive sister Trish Walker, host of weekday radio show Trish Talk, who she hasn't seen in quite a while. Jones borrows the money necessary to run away.
• Killgrave orders Hope Shlottman that when she meets her parents again, she should shoot them so that she and him can be together.
• Rescue of Hope Shlottman: Following Killgrave's pattern, Jones goes to a hotel where both her and Killgrave stayed together in the past. In a hotel room, Jones finds Hope Shlottman in bed, having been unable to move for over five hours due to Killgrave's influence. Jones carries her unwillingly out of the room.
• The Shlottmans arrive to get their daughter and return to Nebraska. Jones decides that she is done being a detective. Suddenly, following Killgrave's orders, Hope reveals a gun and kills her parents in the elevator.
• When the elevator opens on the ground floor, Jones sees the bodies; Shlottman then turns to her and tells her to smile. She then regains her senses and screams as she sees the murders she committed, and a disturbed Jones leaves the building in shock, but then decides that she will not flee from Killgrave; it is time to fight.
• Jessica Jones is interviewed by Detective Oscar Clemons for the murders of Bob and Barbara Shlottman. In the interrogation, he reveals that he procured the photos that Jones took of Luke Cage from the Alias Investigations Office, but Jones demands the return of her property and tells him that Cage has nothing to do with the double homicide.

11th

• Jones tries to alert Luke Cage about what she did, but Cage says that the police have already informed him.
• He tells Jones that he no longer wants her in his life or his bar; Jones says that she was hired by Gina's husband, Andre, but Cage still demands her exit.
• Jones asks Jeri Hogarth to take the Hope Shlottman case, but she refuses to get involved unless Jones provides any evidence that Shlottman was under duress when she committed her crime.
• While listening to Trish Talk, Jones starts to investigate what Killgrave did after the time he was believed dead a year ago.
• Cage informs Gina that her husband hired Jessica Jones on the suspicion that she was cheating on him.

12th

• Impersonating a nurse, Jones goes to Metro-General Hospital and learns that Jack Denton was the ambulance driver that took Killgrave to the hospital straight after the accident on January 20, 2012.

13th

• Visiting Denton's residence, Jones learns that he donated both kidneys to Killgrave, and is now on dialysis with a machine given by an anonymous patron.
• Skirmish at Luke's: Gina visits Jones and tells her that her husband, Andre, has decided to get his rugby teammates to go and teach Cage a lesson for sleeping with his wife. Jones goes to Luke's to try to help Cage against Andre's friends, but Cage handles the brawl himself with surprising resilience. Jones realizes Cage has powers, and he realizes Jones' too.

14th

• Jones traces Denton's machine to doctor David Kurata who tells her about the operation he performed on Denton and Killgrave. From this, she discovers that anesthesia is Killgrave's weakness, turning off his powers temporarily. Kurata decides that he will tell Hogarth and the police all he knows about the Purple Man.
• Jeri Hogarth takes Hope Shlottman's case. Speaking with Shlottman, Hogarth learns that Jones was a fellow victim of Killgrave.
• Elsewhere, Killgrave forces a family to welcome him into their apartment.
• Jones returns home and finds Luke Cage waiting her. He tells her that he saw her use extraordinary strength in the bar fight. Then Cage, using an electronic circular saw, shows Jones that he has a power too; his skin is indestructible.
• Jones and Cage make love again, and she spends the night with him.
• Jones learns that the woman she killed under Killgrave's control, Reva Connors, was Cage's wife.

15th

• Jones goes to see Jeri Hogarth, demanding her to defend Shlottman's reputation.
• Hogarth tells her that she will not sacrifice her own reputation by saying that mind control is real; she advises Jones to find other victims of Killgrave to back Shlottman defense, including making a statement herself.
• After researching anesthesia and hospitals, Jones goes to the clinic where Wendy Ross-Hogarth works and asks her for some of the pain-killer, hoping to use the conflict between her and her wife, Jeri Hogarth, as leverage.
• Jones discovers that Trish Walker has been training herself in combat.

16th

• Trish Walker sets up an interview on her talk show for Hope Shlottman.
• Cage and Jones sleep together again.

17th

• In her radio program, Walker holds the interview for Shlottman so that all the listeners can hear her experiences with Killgrave. During the interview, Jeri Hogarth speaks as if Shlottman is insane, but Walker defends the girl, citing that in a world that has beings like mutants and the Avengers, the idea of a purple-skinned criminal with telepathy should not be taken as insanity anymore. Walker begins to insult Killgrave, much to Jones' anxiety. When Walker takes callers' questions, The Purple Man himself calls in, questioning Walker's decision to taunt such a powerful man. Jones and Walker quickly exit the radio station to go to Walker's apartment.
• Jones uses Malcolm Ducasse as a distraction to infiltrate a hospital and steal some vials of anesthesia.
• Attack on Trish Walker:
  • Killgrave finds Will Simpson, enthralls him and sends him to kill Trish Walker for insulting him.
  • Simpson arrives at Walker's apartment and attacks her. She tries to take him down but fails, and Simpson starts to strangle her. Fortunately, Jessica Jones arrives and temporarily subdues Simpson by throwing him against the wall, knocking him out.
  • To stop him from attacking Walker, and seeing an opportunity to find Killgrave, Jones injects Walker with a sedative, rendering her unconscious. When Simpson wakes and sees Walker's inanimate body, he is convinced that he has accomplished his mission to kill her and proceeds to report back to Killgrave, with Jones following him.

• In his new residence, Killgrave orders Simpson to commit suicide by jumping from a balcony; Jones stops him but is discovered by Killgrave. After knocking Simpson unconscious again so as to stop his repeated attempts at suicide, Jones pursues Killgrave, but as he runs away, different residents in Killgrave's apartment start to defend their master. Killgrave escapes.
• Jones discovers a room covered wall-to-wall with pictures of her, and she sees a picture with writing stating simply: “see you later”.
• Jones returns to Simpson and jumps from the balcony with him to simulate the suicide attempt, and thus break his hypnotic trance.
• So as to protect him from Killgrave, Jones breaks off her relationship with Luke Cage.

18th

• Jones starts to investigate who is taking pictures of her and sending them to Killgrave.
• Jones is hired by Audrey Eastman to investigate if her husband, Carlo, is having an affair, by following him when he goes to work on Friday night.
• Will Simpson goes to Trish Walker’s apartment trying to find her corpse. Scared, Walker calls Jones for help. Jones realizes that Simpson is not under Killgrave's control and opens the door. Simpson is surprised to find Walker alive. Jones explains to Simpson about the situation with Killgrave, and he insists on helping find Killgrave.
• Following Jones' advice, Walker goes on air at WNEX Station and makes a public apology to Killgrave for insulting him, in hopes that he will stop sending people to kill her.

19th

• The Killgrave Victim Support Group is founded by Jessica Jones and Jeri Hogarth to try to build Shlottman's defense, including all those who believe they have been under his influence.
• Jones asks Simpson for police surveillance footage of certain places to find Jones' stalker, but he tells her the process will be long.

20th

• Simpson visits Trish Walker and asks for forgiveness. The two start a conversation and a friendship develops.
• Ambush on Jessica Jones:
  • Following Audrey Eastman's case, Jones follows Carlo Eastman to a rendezvous with his alleged lover. The lover turns out to be Audrey herself; she wants to kill Jones for being a "gifted" person, which she was informed of by Spheeris. Eastman explains that "gifted people" caused the death of her mother in "the incident". She then shoots Jones in her arm as a threat.
  • Jones complains that she too lost family members in an accident, but she doesn't blame anyone else for what happened. She tells the Eastmans that she has ninety-nine gifted friends who will hurt them if they do not leave New York City. The Eastmans flee.
• Sitting at a support meeting, Jones hears the testimony of Donald and how the Purple Man made him become his chauffeur, driving him everywhere he wanted to go. Jones begins to ask him questions and learns that Killgrave would always meet a man in a blue scarf at ten o'clock sharp every morning.

21st

• In the morning, searching Simpson's footage for a match to Donald's testimony, Jones finds the identity of the photographer: Malcolm Ducasse.

25th

• For the fourth morning in a row, Jessica Jones follows Ducasse and watches him meet with Killgrave.

27th

• After a day without receiving any messages from Trish Walker, Jones goes to her apartment and discovers that she and Will Simpson have started a relationship.
• Trial of Shou-Lao:
  • Danny Rand, now nearly 22, is sent to battle the enormous fire-breathing serpent called Shou-Lao the Undying in order to gain the power of the Iron Fist.
  • After succeeding in his trial, gaining his powers and the Mark of Shou-Lao onto his chest, Rand was left unconscious outside the cave. He is eventually found by Davos, who wakes him up.
• Jessica Jones, Trish Walker and Will Simpson make a plan together to take down Killgrave. Simpson will shoot an anesthesia dart at Killgrave to leave him unconscious, then Jones will use her strength and speed to take the body to a van where Walker will be the get-away driver to take Killgrave to a hermetically sealed room.
• Shortly after the trial, after Rand has had his hair cut, Davos helps Rand walk as he is still weak and injured. Rand slumps to the floor and lights up his Iron Fist again, still taking in the reality of his new ability.

28th

• Luke Cage starts to investigate Antoine Grier's disappearance, because Antoine's sister has information about the person who supposedly killed his wife the previous year.
• Gunner Henderson sends the disc containing footage of the assassination of Ahmad Zubair to NSA analyst Micro.
• Operation Cerberus are alerted to the existence of the video but cannot track the delivery. Believing the cameraman to have been Frank Castle after his explicit outburst of anger at the operation a few months prior, Cerberus' leader Ray Schoonover, and decide that Castle must be killed so as to maintain the secrets of the operation. Having heard him talk numerous times during the operation about the fact that when he returns, the first thing his family will do the next day will be to visit the Central Park carousel around midday, the Cerberus leaders plan an attack for April 4th, the day after Castle returns from his current military service. Russo refuses to take part himself, having been close with the Castle family, but lets the operation go ahead nonetheless.
• Schoonover uses his drug lord alias of the "Blacksmith" to arrange a fake drug deal in Central Park on April 4th, planning to initiate a gunfight which will be targeted by the men of his who will be present to catch the Castle family in its crossfire. Having also heard of an undercover officer infiltrating one of the three gangs of the Kitchen Irish, the Mexican Cartel, or the Dogs of Hell, he decides to organize for those three to be the gangs involved in the deal, assuming that through the undercover officer, Samantha Reyes will learn of the deal and attempt a sting, and that he can therefore cover the massacre by making it appear to the police like a sting gone wrong.

29th

• Capture of Killgrave:
  • Jones, Simpson and Walker find Killgrave and initiate the plan to capture him. Killgrave spots Will Simpson, but before he can run away he is distracted by Jessica Jones. Simpson shoots the anesthesia dart to leave him unconscious.
  • However, no one knew that Killgrave had bodyguards for protection. The bodyguards chase the trio to the van and free their boss, but Simpson catches one of Killgrave's bodyguards and beats him until he reveals that Killgrave made the bodyguards protect him after a previous attack; but he doesn't knows where the Purple Man is living.

• Jones goes to Malcolm Ducasse's Apartment, and Ducasse honestly admits that he had been betraying Jones to be supplied by Killgrave with the drugs he was addicted to; not really because he was under his control. Jones gives him the drugs that Killgrave would have provided him and asks him to make a choice: to get over his addiction and start helping her, or succumb and be of no help.
• Hope Shlottman is attacked by a fellow inmate in the night.

30th

• Jones' phone rings; it is Killgrave, laughing that he is always one step ahead of her. He wants a deal: he will leave Ducasse alone if she provides him with one picture of herself at ten o'clock sharp each day. Jones reluctantly accepts.

April

2nd

• The first "Mandarin" bombing occurs, masquerading as a terrorist attack, and beginning a conflict with the United States Government.

3rd

• Frank Castle's last tour of duty in the Marine Corps Force Recon is over, and he boards a plane to leave Iraq and return to his family back in New York City.
• Frank Castle, back home, is driven to his daughter's school and has a tearful reunion with her, hugging her in her classroom. Castle then returns home to his wife and son as well. Although elated to see his family again, Castle eventually realizes just how weary he has become, and although his daughter pleads with him, he ultimately declines to read her favorite bedtime story Penny and Dime, and promises that he will do so tomorrow night.

4th

• Jessica Jones sends her sixth picture to Killgrave.
• Luke Cage goes to Jones' apartment, asking to hire her to find Antoine Grier, a young man who disappeared when he was given money by his sister Serena to pay his debt to drug lord Len Sirkes; Cage attempted to find Grier on his own but was unsuccessful. Jones takes the case.
• Maria Castle wakes her husband at 10:30AM after letting him sleep on to rest. They then take their children, Lisa and Frank Jr., to Central Park as they had always planned to do the day after his return.
• Jones goes to the Grier Residence to keep investigating Antoine's disappearance, and she also finds Cage there.
• Jeri Hogarth calls Jones and tells her that Hope Shlottman has recently been hospitalized.
• Massacre at Central Park:
  • The Castle family ride the carousel and have a picnic.
  • At midday, the Dogs of Hell, Kitchen Irish, and Mexican Cartel arrive for the supposed drug deal. Men working for Cerberus arrive to initiate the fire fight and direct it at the Castle family, while the undercover officer prepares their sting for Samantha Reyes.
  • The Cerberus men initiate the fire fight between the gangs as planned, and the Castle family are intentionally caught in the crossfire. Frank Castle watches in horror as his wife, Maria, and children, Lisa and Frank Jr. are riddled with bullets before his eyes, before he himself is shot in the head.
  • The undercover officer is killed in the gunfight, making the whole event look like the sting went wrong. Castle survives the shot to the head and is taken to hospital.
• After the massacre, Samantha Reyes makes sure that the killing is covered up and not widely reported on.
• Visiting Shlottman, Jones learns that the young woman is pregnant by Killgrave, and she hired another inmate to assault her in hopes that it would cause a miscarriage. Jones tells Shlottman to allow her to handle her unwanted pregnancy.
• Cage visits Jones at the Alias Investigations Office after learning about her past struggles with Killgrave from Malcolm Ducasse, and asks her if he can make amends for whatever caused their breakup. Jones insists that he did nothing wrong, and the two consummate their renewed relationship.

5th

• In the morning, Luke Cage reveals that he is hunting for Antoine because Serena promised that she would reveal Reva Connors' killer upon his return. Jones decides she must get to the Griers first.
• Shlottman gets an abortion-inducing pill from Jeri Hogarth. Hogarth has asked Pam to marry her, but was refused because she is still married to Wendy Ross-Hogarth. Hogarth signs paperwork to keep the aborted fetus for herself and her own mysterious purposes.
• Ambush at the Russian Hideout:
  • A man with a Puerto Rican accent calls Jones, pretending to be Antoine, because Jones left a message on Antoine's phone saying that he was the winner of a contest. Cage knows that he is not Antoine, but Jones asks the man to retrieve the package at a certain time and place.
  • They follow Victor to an abandoned warehouse only to see that it is being used as a marijuana greenhouse. Jones confronts Victor while Cage deals with his dogs and finds Antoine Grier. Grier had planned to grow enough cannabis to become financially independent and able to repay his sister and Len Sirkes. Sirkes suddenly enters with thugs and a fight ensues. Jones escapes with Grier while Cage deals with the men.
• At the Grier Residence, Jones tries to convince Serena to give her the file with Connors' killer's name in exchange for her brother's return, but Cage arrives and gets it first. He reads that Charles Wallace was the bus driver that January night and goes to kill him in revenge.
• Preventing Cage from killing Wallace, Jones reveals to him that his wife had information on the Purple Man, and Jones had been ordered to get it from her and then kill her. Cage, perplexed, insults Jones and leaves her.
• Ducasse joins the Killgrave Victim Support Group and tells them his testimony.

6th

• Killgrave buys his new house. Inspecting the house, he finds Jessica Jones' childhood growth chart on a wall. He now owns her biological parents' home.
• Jessica Jones stakes out Thompson Square Free Clinic to force Wendy Ross-Hogarth to sign divorce papers for Jeri Hogarth. Jones threatens Ross-Hogarth, giving her a frightening experience on a train platform, but accidentally dropping her on the tracks. She saves her life and escapes the scene.
• Murder of Ruben: Killgrave goes to the Alias Investigations Office, attempting to find a proper place to hide Jessica Jones’ childhood journal that he has procured. Her neighbor Ruben hears a crash and, carrying banana bread, goes to investigate. Ruben meets Killgrave, who enthralls him to commit suicide in Jones' bed.

7th

• Returning home to get some sleep, Jones is helped into her apartment by Malcolm Ducasse, and they find the body. Jones is now truly tired of the number of deaths that have come from Killgrave's obsession with her, and decides to remove herself from the equation by having herself locked into Supermax prison. This way, when Killgrave assuredly comes to retrieve her, there will be video footage of him using his power.
• Ducasse, who strongly disagrees with Jones' plan, calls Trish Walker, and the two clean up the scene.
• Jones returns and the sisters have a sit-down conversation about her plan and if it can help Hope Shlottman. Walker reveals that she has Will Simpson on an assignment to locate Killgrave by following his new security detail.
• Ross-Hogarth goes to the Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz Office and confronts her wife, saying that she wants three quarters of her assets in the divorce, or she will have Hogarth disbarred for jury tampering, one of the ways Hogarth has her unbeatable record.
• Jones arrives at the 15th Precinct Police Station with the wet, detached head of Ruben, after diving into the body of water where Ducassse disposed of the body. She presents it to Oscar Clemons, demanding that she should be sent to Supermax prison.
• Clemons is skeptical and wants to investigate further, but he is interrupted by Brett Mahoney who says that, by the captain's orders, Jones is free. Stepping out, Jones and Clemons find everyone enthralled by Killgrave and pointing weapons at each other or themselves.
• Killgrave declares his love for Jones and wants her to find the present he left her in her apartment. He has the footage of him using his power erased, removes the head, and has the police released from his trance, having them believe that everything was a big joke.
• Jones returns home to find the present: a lost journal of hers from her childhood, before her parents died. Jones also finds her old house's address, and understands that Killgrave wants her to go there.
• Will Simpson plants a bomb in the basement of the Jones Residence.

8th

• Simpson, who was successful in finding Killgrave and has been watching him for days without informing Walker, watches as Jones voluntarily goes to her birth parents' home and is greeted by Killgrave.
• Killgrave promises Jessica Jones that he will not enthrall her, because he wants her to have free will when she falls in love with him. He also promises not to touch her. Killgrave gives Jones a tour of her old house and how he has reproduced every possible detail. He also introduces her to the wait staff and a bodyguard who he is paying to work for him.
• After dinner, Jones finds Simpson who wants to free her before he detonates the bomb rigged in the basement. Jones tells him to flee and trust her to handle Killgrave, who she needs alive to free Hope Shlottman; Jones tells Killgrave about the bomb and has his bodyguard dispose of it.

9th

• Jeri Hogarth and Wendy Ross-Hogarth have a meeting about their divorce.
• Trish Walker finds Simpson with some militaristic friends; he lies that Killgrave has left town and they, as ordinary humans, are not equipped to handle the situation. Angry, Walker leaves.

10th

• Jones is awakened by a news report about a man holding his wife and children hostage. Going to eat breakfast with Killgrave, Jones sees the neighbor Elizabeth De Luca, who assumes that Jones has returned with her husband.
• Killgrave shows Jones the footage of the experiments that his parents performed on him and the first time his powers were used.
• Jones realizes that Killgrave had no one to teach him ethics; she tells him to accompany her for two hours.
• Wilson Fisk is visited by another inmate named Dutton. Dutton tells Fisk that although he may have made a name for himself on the outside, on the inside Dutton is the kingpin of the prison.
• Wendy Ross-Hogarth threatens Jeri Hogarth about exposing her secrets if she doesn't get at least 70% of Hogarth's assets.
• The team confront Fitz, arguing that he should have told them the truth. Skye, self-conscious and hurt by the mixed reactions her powers had on her friends, retreats to the Bus' padded interrogation room to be alone.
• Jones and Killgrave go to the location of the hostage situation and Killgrave uses his powers to stop the gunman from killing his family.
• Jones tells Killgrave she needs some time alone to contemplate this new partnership; he allows her to leave and trusts that she will return. Jones goes to Trish Walker's Apartment and the two discuss what she has to do.
• Kidnapping of Killgrave:
  • Jones returns to the house and brings Chinese food. She has the waitstaff join her and Killgrave for dinner. Suddenly, they pass out. Distracted, Killgrave is injected with the Sufentanil.
  • Jones tries to find enough space to take a huge jump away while carrying Killgrave, but is stopped by Hank. However, Hank is shot by Simpson who, with his friends, wants to kill the unconscious Killgrave. Jones leaps away, but Simpson is approached by De Luca, who has been enthralled and carries the bomb he planted the day before. She activates it, killing herself and knocking out Simpson.

11th

• Trish Walker finds Will Simpson and takes him to Metro-General Hospital where he demands to see Doctor Miklos Kozlov, a specialist who gives Simpson pills that increase his healing ability.
• Simpson and Kozlov discuss Simpson's past and how using an incorrect regimen of the pills had previously caused catastrophic results.
• Jessica Jones takes Killgrave to the hermetically sealed room in the warehouse and covers its floor with water, so that a live wire can incapacitate him, if need be. Jones plans to get a videotaped confession from Killgrave but Jeri Hogarth, who is having difficulty with Wendy Ross-Hogarth (now demanding 90%), tells her that a confession under duress is inadmissible.
• Jones tries to convince Oscar Clemons to believe in the power of mind control, but he does not wish to soil his reputation or the reputation of anyone else in the 15th Precinct Police Station.
• Wilson Fisk is visited by Stewart Finney, who claims that he wished to meet Fisk as he felt they could help each other. Finney explains to him that Dutton controls about eighty per cent of the contraband running through the prison. Finney presents Fisk with his allies, the violent Valdez brothers, who have a sick mother.
• Jones and Walker decide to find Killgrave's parents in order to glean a confession from their son.

12th

• Jones learns that Killgrave's parents are Albert and Alojzija Killgrave.
• Jessica Jones goes to a meeting with the Killgrave Victim Support Group and realizes that Alojzija Killgrave is a member. Killgrave runs away and Jones pursues her. They both arrive at a hotel room where Jones confronts Killgrave's parents for leaving their son.
• They tell her about Killgrave's brain malfunction and how it required a great deal of treatment; that the experiments gave Killgrave the power to control people's will, and so he had put them under his control. They also explain that, when Killgrave forced Alojzija to burn her face with an iron, they escaped and left him alone. Jones talks them into confronting their son.
• Kozlov delivers Simpson some new pills. Despite knowing that an incorrect dosage of the pills could be disastrous, Simpson takes a lot of them anyway.
• Wilson Fisk calls his lawyer Benjamin Donovan for a meeting.

13th

• Escape from Decommissioned CDC Facility:
  • In Hell's Kitchen, gathering Oscar Clemons, Trish Walker, and Jeri Hogarth at the warehouse, Jessica Jones, running the video camera and with the live wire ready to go, lets the Killgraves talk to their son in the hermetically sealed room; however, Alojzija has decided to kill her son to end the suffering he causes, and has brought scissors with her. She stabs him, but Killgrave reacts by enthralling his mother, and has her stab herself for every year she left him, killing her. He then tells his father to cut out his own heart. Chaos has now erupted; the live wire does not work. Jones tells everyone to run.
  • Walker refuses to watch the slaughter and fires her gun at Killgrave, shattering the protective glass and allowing Killgrave to escape. After being shot in the arm, Killgrave orders Walker to put a bullet in her skull, but her gun is empty. Jones tackles Albert Killgrave because he is intent on suicide. Running behind the fleet-footed Hogarth, Killgrave tells Clemons to follow him; Clemons breaks his hand to release himself from his restraints. Jones grabs Killgrave. He commands her to release him, but she does not, so Killgrave then commands Clemons to make Jones release him. Killgrave exits the warehouse. Killgrave caught up to Hogarth in her car and enthralls her to take him to a doctor whom she trusts; ironically, it is Wendy Ross-Hogarth, so they go to the Hogarth Residence where Killgrave has the physician stitch his wounds.

• Jones realizes that Killgrave no longer has power over her.
• The doctor and Killgrave talk about their respective relationships and how they feel betrayed. During the conversation, Hogarth reveals that Hope Shlottman was pregnant but had an abortion; she also says that she kept the fetus to see if Killgrave's powers could be duplicated, but the experiment failed.
• Clemons attempts to secure the crime scene while temporarily repairing his broken hand. Jones is forced to bind the hands of Albert Killgrave to keep him from following his son's command, and has to put a bullet in the mouth of Trish Walker to break her enthrallment. Jones tells the others that she is immune to Killgrave's power. Killgrave reveals that there is an airborne virus that can counter his son's powers. Walker and Killgrave go to his hotel room to create the antidote, as Jones goes to find Killgrave.
• Attack on Jeri Hogarth: When there is a knock on the door of the Hogarth Residence, Killgrave panics and, as a distraction, tells Ross-Hogarth to get her revenge on Hogarth by cutting her 1,000 times; Ross-Hogarth chases her former lover, counting each strike. Pam enters and hits the physician in the head with a vase, accidentally killing her. Jones arrives and tells Hogarth that she is a murderer for deactivating the live wire in the warehouse, then tells Pam to plead self-defense in killing Ross-Hogarth, before leaving again.
• So as to ensure their support, Fisk orders Donovan to assist with Stewart Finney's case and pay the rent on the Valdez brothers' mother's home in Spanish Harlem. Fisk orders him to ensure that the transactions were untraceable.
• Jones finds Killgrave in her apartment, saying that he had Shlottman freed from prison with the appropriate paperwork; all he wants in return is his father. Confirming that she is immune to his power, Jones instead knocks Killgrave unconscious and gags him.
• Assassination of Oscar Clemons: Will Simpson goes to the warehouse, filled with Combat Enhancers. After getting Walker's location from Clemons, Simpson shoots him in the head and sets the place aflame.
• After a week of trying, Mitchell Ellison is allowed to publish an article on the Massacre at Central Park for the next day's New York Bulletin.
• Simpson goes to Killgrave's hotel room and assaults the older man, but Walker is able to push him from the room. She steals the pills from Simpson's pocket.
• Ducasse, tired of holding the secret that Ruben is dead, tells the Killgrave Victim Support Group about Ruben's death to relieve his conscience; Robyn hears the confession.
• Robyn convinces Donald and Jackson to accompany her in confronting Jones, the one who Robyn feels is ultimately to blame for Killgrave's murders. Jones calls Shlottman to tell her that she will pick her up from the Northeastern Correctional Facility. Robyn and the men enter Jones' Apartment and attack her, with Ducasse trying to defend Jones. Jones is knocked unconscious, and Robyn, not knowing who Killgrave is, frees her brother's killer.

14th

• The New York Bulletin reports briefly on the Central Park massacre in their paper.
• Jones wakes and rushes to the prison only to learn that Shlottman is gone; Killgrave has taken her to Niku in exchange for his father.
• Jones brings Killgrave to the restaurant and the scientist sprays himself with his antidote; however, it does not work as the Purple Man commands the man to stand by his side. Jones overviews the scene: if anyone does anything threatening toward Killgrave, he has Robyn, Jackson, Donald, and Ducasse prepared with nooses around their necks, while Shlottman is seated by Killgrave, unable to move.
• Shlottman begs Jones to kill their rapist, but Killgrave gloats that Jones will not, because she wants to save Shlottman and still be "heroic" in her eyes. Shlottman subsequently breaks a glass and stabs herself in the throat, telling Killgrave that Jones is now free, with her dead. Killgrave runs with his father, ordering the four hostages to jump. Jones quickly saves the four before attending to the fatally bleeding Shlottman. Shlottman begs Jones with her last breath to kill Killgrave; Jones swears that she will.
• Luke Cage tries to kill Killgrave as he is leaving the restaurant, but Killgrave enthralls Cage and asks him how he knows Jones. He then orders Cage to destroy his bar, Luke's.

15th

• Will Simpson apologizes to Walker for his inappropriate behavior, blaming Doctor Kozlov and the pills he took for his rapid recovery. He also asks the location of Jones, saying that he would like to apologize to her personally; Walker does not give it.
• Jones goes to another morgue and discovers Oscar Clemons' body. She also discovers that the Decommissioned CDC Facility was burnt down.
• Kozlov sends two men to catch Simpson, but he takes red pills and kills both, in front of Walker. Simpson drags the bodies into Walker's apartment and locks her in her safe room.
• Simpson calls Jones, telling her that he wants to help kill Killgrave and will meet her at the Alias Investigations Office to reveal where he is.
• Attack on Jessica Jones:
  • When Simpson arrives at Jones' apartment, Jones invites him inside, but when she asks about Walker, Simpson lies. Jones tells Simpson about the death of Clemons; when Simpson is not surprised, she surmises the truth that Simpson killed him. Before Simpson can kill her, Jones begins to fight him. Simpson justifies his attempt to kill Jones by saying that she is protecting Killgrave, not trying to eliminate him.
  • Walker arrives and uses a fire extinguisher against her ex-boyfriend. She swallows the Combat Enhancers she stole from Simpson and begins a fight. Simpson warns Walker that without the blue pills he has to counter the reds, she will die, but Walker continues her assault. Jones helps and destroys her refrigerator to knock Simpson unconscious. The pills have an adverse effect on Walker and she cannot breathe, and Jones gives her CPR until an ambulance arrives. Walker is saved by an EMT who counters the stimulant in her. Kozlov arrives at Jones' destroyed apartment and retrieves Simpson.

• Killgrave texts Jones and tells her that he has met Luke Cage and, if she hurries, she can save him. When Jones arrives at Luke's, a massive explosion occurs; Jones, though, rescues the man she loves.
• Killgrave decides to keep his father alive so that the scientist can help him increase his power. He has the employees of ZALK work literally non-stop to find a solution.

16th

• Searching for Killgrave, Jones and Cage go to Killgrave's hotel room, which leads them to ZALK and the discovery of Killgrave's plot.
• Cage gives Jones a moving, heart-felt apology, forgiving her for killing Connors and for how he had insulted her.
• Killgrave sends someone to ZALK, who Jones and Cage follow, but Killgrave has him commit suicide in Central Park before Jones can interrogate him.
• Trish Walker starts investigating IGH, the group who gave Simpson the pills, but finds very little. Miklos Kozlov sends operatives to remove McManus and his partner's bodies from her apartment.
• Killgrave begins working with his father to increase his powers.
• Trish gets a visit from Dorothy Walker, her mother; they argue about Dorothy's parenting skills and Trish requests she leaves. However, after Trish is released, Dorothy brings Jones' medical bills from the car accident years ago; they were paid for by IGH. Trish wonders if IGH knew about Jones' abilities, or possibly created them.
• When Jones and Cage return to her apartment, Walker is present, but decides against giving Jones the IGH folder, because there is too much going on already.
• Duel of Delaney Hall: Jones and Cage go to Delaney Hall, trying to find and kill Killgrave. When they arrive, Killgrave reveals to Jones that Cage has actually still been under his control for the whole day, and orders him to kill Jones. Jones fights back, and eventually has to resort to shooting Cage at point blank to knock him out. Killgrave escapes.

17th

• Escape from Metro-General Hospital:
  • Jessica Jones rushes Cage to Metro-General Hospital, where doctors try to inject him with an IV, which fails each time due to his unbreakable skin. Claire Temple steps in but still fails, allowing the doctors to confirm that he has superpowers. Jones manages to convince Temple to help her take Cage back to the Alias Investigations Office where she can treat him in secret.
  • Killgrave goes to the hospital and orders everyone in the hospital to hunt down Jones and kill her.
• Temple takes Cage to Jones' apartment.
• In a new apartment, Killgrave forces his father to use data from both him and Hope Shlottman’s aborted to increase his powers. He begins considers killing Jones.
• Killgrave is injected with all his new drugs, causing him incredible pain, and making him scream out as his skin and veins briefly turn purple. Killgrave orders the other two people in the apartment to cut off his father's arms and destroy them in a blender, before killing themselves.
• Temple meets Malcolm Ducasse.
• Jones goes to Killgrave's new apartment to find his father dying. He explains to Jones that Killgrave has increased his powers. Jones finds a note with the address of the Hudson Ferry Terminal.

• Skirmish at the Hudson Ferry Terminal:
  • Jones meets with Trish Walker and they go to the Hudson Ferry Terminal where Killgrave tries to use his powers to control her. Seeing that he cannot, Killgrave orders some police officers to shoot down Jones. As Killgrave makes his way to the yacht, he uses a group of innocent people to block her path.
  • Killgrave orders the people to kill each other, forcing Jones and Walker to try to protect them. The Purple Man roars, ordering everyone to stop; they do, including Jones. He briefly believes that Jones is faking, but she claims that she wants him to stop the people from hurting each other. To mock her, Killgrave orders the person she loves most, Walker, to come over to him, and claims that he chose the wrong sister, promising he would rape Walker continually for the rest of her life, and make her his slave while she died inside. Killgrave promises that if either of them ever saw Jones again, he would make Walker cut her own throat. He then forces Walker to kiss him passionately. Seeing that Jones has still not moved from her spot, the Purple Man becomes convinced that his powers can control her again. Delighted, Killgrave approaches her and promises Jones that after a while she would love him, and orders her to smile. She obeys instantly. Overcome with joy, Killgrave orders her to tell him she loves him. Jones says the words, but in Walker's direction. She then grabs Killgrave's face and snaps his neck, killing him instantly, letting his body drops to the ground.
• Jones is taken to prison.

18th

• Cage awakes from his short coma and leaves Temple in the apartment, deciding to travel away from Hell's Kitchen.
• Thanks to Jeri Hogarth, Jones is freed from prison. She reunites with Walker.
• Using the files that her mother gave her, Trish Walker starts to investigate IGH.
• In her apartment, Jessica Jones reunites with Malcolm Ducasse and decides to use her powers to help people, to start being a hero.

May

5th

• The second "Mandarin" bombing occurs.

June

• The Hand does business with Rand Enterprises.
• The Hand shuts down three facilities.

1st

• To cover up the explosive nature of Extremis, Aldrich Killian hires actor Trevor Slattery to pose as a terrorist leader called the Mandarin, so whenever Extremis causes a patient to explode, the media and government will assume they are suicide bombings.
• Luke Cage begins working at Pop's Barber Shop.

3rd

• Trevor Slattery gets plastic surgery so he is not recognized when he appears on television as the Mandarin.

4th

• Fisk's plan works and Finney and the Valdez brothers become loyal to him, as they begin working on a plan to assassinate Dutton, making Fisk the "Kingpin" of the prison. He begins taking thorough notes on the goings on in the facility.

6th

• The third "Mandarin" bombing occurs.

30th

• Cybertek Technologies finishes the construction of the Cybertek Prosthetic Leg, as part of Project Deathlok.

9th

• The fourth "Mandarin" bombing occurs.

July

2nd

• Lawrence Wilkins begins embezzling money from the Rand Enterprises pension fund into his Cayman accounts, which he does ten more times that month.

August

• Aldrich Killian's Extremis project reaches Centipede, who employ it in their project. Phil Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. become aware of it as a new super-drug on the scene.

11th

• The fifth "Mandarin" bombing occurs.

September

8th

• Nick Fury gives Phil Coulson the Bus before he is set to assemble his new team.
• Michael Peterson, a test subject from the Centipede Project, witnesses an explosion while out shopping with his son Ace. He enters the building and saves a woman named Debbie, the doctor who implanted the Centipede Device which gives Michael superhuman powers. The press and witnesses call Michael the "Hooded Hero".

9th

• Grant Ward, Leopold Fitz, Jemma Simmons and Melinda May join Coulson's team.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. attempts to find Michael Peterson. Skye, now a member of the Rising Tide hacktivist group, warns Michael Peterson about S.H.I.E.L.D..

10th

• Skye is aprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D. in their mission to find Michael Peterson.
• Michael Peterson tries to convince his former boss to re-hire him. When denied, Peterson loses his temper and attacks his boss while wrecking the factory.
• Fitz, Simmons and Skye digitally replicate the events leading up to the explosion. They discover the nature of the Centipede Device: it contains an experimental Super-Soldier Serum made from Extremis, and the explosion was caused by a patient succumbing to Extremis' side effects.

11th

• Michael Peterson makes Skye delete all files about his identity. She seizes the opportunity to hack S.H.I.E.L.D.'s secure channel and warn Coulson's Team.
• Chase of Michael Peterson:
  • Phil Coulson and Grant Ward arrive at Union Station in Los Angeles to confront Peterson, while Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons find a way to stabilize the Extremis in his body. Debbie orders an operative to kill Peterson, but he is incapacitated by Melinda May.
  • Grant Ward shoots Peterson with the Night-Night Gun, a non-lethal weapon that renders him unconscious and stabilizes the Extremis.
• Skye joins Coulson's team.

13th

• The sixth "Mandarin" bombing occurs.
• Coulson's team arrives in Peru to investigate an 0-8-4 (an object of unknown origin) found in a pre-Inca temple.
• After a preliminary examination, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons determine the 0-8-4 is a weapon made by HYDRA scientists in the 1940s using Tesseract energy. Meanwhile, Grant Ward and Melinda May are attacked by Comandante Camilla Reyes and the Policia Militar del Perú, but Reyes recognizes Coulson and orders her soldiers to stand down.
• Ambush at the Llactapata Temple: Peruvian rebels attack the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and Policia Militar de Peru soldiers at the archaeological site, forcing them to flee to the Bus and take flight.
• Hijacking and Retaking of the Bus: At night, Reyes betrays Coulson and takes over the Bus, tying the rest of the team up in the cargo area at the plane's rear.

14th

• Coulson's Team breaks free from their bonds and uses the Peruvian 0-8-4 to detonate a hole in a side of the Bus, recovering the plane and saving Phil Coulson. Camilla Reyes and her remaining soldiers are apprehended.

18th

• Grant Ward starts training Skye to become a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.

19th

• Kidnapping of Franklin Hall: While on route to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, the convoy transporting Franklin Hall is attacked by Ian Quinn's men using a Gravitonium powered device that elevates Agent Mack's truck and crashes it. Hall is kidnapped.
• Phil Coulson informs his team of Hall's kidnapping, and they plot his rescue.
• At the crime scene, Coulson's team interview Mack about the incident. Jemma Simmons discovers one of the Gravity Field Generators used in the attack.

20th

• Phil Coulson and Grant Ward interrogate Todd Chesterfield, who sold construction equipment to Franklin Hall's kidnappers.
• Tracing back the gold bricks he was paid with, the team discovers they came from a mine owned by Ian Quinn.
• In Malta, Quinn reunites with his former colleague Hall, informing him of his discovery of a large cluster of Gravitonium (a substance formerly believed to be theoretical) and asking him to help complete a giant Gravity Field Generator. Hall tries to convince him the generator is too dangerous to use, but Quinn is undeterred.
• On the way to Malta, Leo Fitz discusses theories about the nature of Gravitonium with the rest of the team. They plan to infiltrate Quinn's mansion and Skye volunteers to go in, forging a party invitation.
• Joy Meachum hires Jessica Jones to find incriminating "dirt" on employees at Rand Enterprises, for future use.

21st

• Grant Ward helps Skye prepare for her infiltration mission, and shares the personal reason why he became a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative: As children, his older brother Christian was abusive to both him and their younger brother.
• Coulson's Team arrives in Malta and plans the details of the mission.
• Infiltration into Ian Quinn's Mansion:
  • Skye infiltrates the party with the remote back-up of Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, and Melinda May. She is greeted by Ian Quinn himself, who knows she is part of the Rising Tide and offers her a spot in his company.
  • Quinn delivers a speech to his guests and shareholders, and reveals his plans to develop Gravitonium-based devices.
  • Skye sneaks into Quinn's mansion to hack into the Neodymium Laser Fencing control system, allowing Ward and Phil Coulson entrance into the compound. Quinn catches her and assumes she is trying to find information to leak online. She informs him of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s vigilance to keep his trust, while Fitz remotely hacks the laser fencing.
  • Inside the compound, Coulson searches Franklin Hall's laboratory while Ward rescues Skye. When Coulson finds him, Hall reveals he actually planned his own kidnapping in order to destroy the Gravitonium. As they struggle, the Gravity Field Generator starts disrupting gravity fields in its proximity. Realizing the Gravitonium has begun to disrupt gravity, Quinn orders his helicopter to be prepared for an evacuation. Coulson tries to convince Hall not to destroy the generator, but he is forced to let Hall fall into the Gravitonium cluster to stop it from activating and save hundreds of lives.

22nd

• On the Bus, Melinda May asks Phil Coulson to promote her back to a field operative, both by commission to the team and her desire to watch over him.
• The Gravitonium cluster is transferred to the Fridge, and stored with no recorded entry and no access granted. Unknown to anyone, Franklin Hall is still alive and trapped inside the Gravitonium.

October

12th

• Kidnapping of Chan Ho Yin: In Hong Kong, street magician Chan Ho Yin is seduced by a mysterious woman named Raina. He reveals to be a pyrokinetic mutant to her, but she kidnaps him.
• Wilson Fisk continues with his plan to kill Dutton, making notes, beginning his approximately fourteenth notepad. Fisk keeps investigating Dutton's activities in the prison.

13th

• S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Quan Chen (Chan Ho Yin's Index case agent) informs Coulson's Team of Chan's disappearance, and the Rising Tide's role in his profile leaking.
• Chan wakes up in a strange place, with Raina offering him both the chance to increase his powers and an opportunity to be recognized for his gift, giving him the codename "Scorch".
• Arrest of Miles Lydon:
  • Skye tracks the Rising Tide hacker back to Austin, Texas, and identifies him as Miles Lydon. The team arrives in Austin and tries to catch Lydon, but, unbeknownst the rest of the team, Skye is Lydon's girlfriend, and warns him in advance that S.H.I.E.L.D. are tracking him.
  • Melinda May follows Skye to Lydon's house. The team arrests them both while searching for evidence in the house. Lydon confesses the Centipede Project paid him to leak the information about Chan.
• Raina takes Chan to a laboratory, where he is injected with a dose of Centipede Serum which amplifies his powers. Debbie, the doctor who implanted Michael Peterson's Centipede Device, orders for blood samples to be taken from Chan so his platelets can be used to stabilize the Extremis in the serum.
• Attack on the Hong Kong Centipede Base:
  • Melinda May, Phil Coulson and Quan Chen infiltrate the Centipede laboratory. Chan goes on a rampage, killing Kwan and Debbie. Seeing no other way forward, Coulson and May are forced to kill Chan with an overdose of the Centipede Serum, making him explode.
  • Coulson tags Lydon with a Tracking Bracelet and releases him. Afterwards, he demands to know Skye's true reason for joining S.H.I.E.L.D., and she tearfully reveals she joined to find information about her missing parents, because the only evidence she has is a document redacted by S.H.I.E.L.D.

14th

• Raina visits Edison Po in prison and asks him to "touch base" with the Clairvoyant.

15th

• The seventh "Mandarin" bombing occurs.

16th

• The X-Men have their first clash against the Hellfire Club when their personal telepath, Jason Wyngarde, mind-controls Jean Grey and forces her to work for them. After the X-Men break the mind-control and save Jean, the Hellfire Club begins sponsoring villain mutants to attack the human race, while putting in course their own plan to overthrown human governments and replace them with mutant ones controlled by them.
• Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat joins the X-Men.

22nd

• Wilson Fisk is informed about Dutton's lieutenant mentioning a deal with the Aryans for moving product in the Dogs of Hell's territory.

23rd

• Chitauri Virus Outbreak: In Wrigley, Pennsylvania, Adam Cross dies from a strange electrical phenomenon while camping with a group of boy scouts.

24th

• Phil Coulson asks Jemma Simmons to run some physical tests on him, because he feels "different" since his death and recovery.
• Chitauri Virus Outbreak:
  • Coulson's Team arrives in Wrigley, Pennsylvania and finds Adam Cross's body suspended in the air. While examining it, Simmons unknowingly gets infected with a virus of Chitauri origin.
  • Leo Fitz detects an electrostatic event, and Coulson, Melinda May and Grant Ward locate another victim on a farm, Frank Whalen, who along with Adam was a volunteer firefighter sent to New York City after the Battle of New York.
  • Coulson, May and Ward visit the fire house while Simmons discovers a virus is responsible of the deaths. May finds the source of the virus, a Chitauri Helmet, and Coulson tries to comfort Tony Diaz, another infected firefighter whose death is imminent.

• Wilson Fisk notes down his information from 2 days prior about the Aryans moving product.

25th

• Chitauri Virus Outbreak:
  • The Chitauri Helmet is loaded into the Bus to be transported to the Sandbox.
  • Jemma Simmons starts developing a cure for the Chitauri virus, but discovers she herself is infected.
  • Phil Coulson is forced to quarantine her inside the laboratory. Together with Leo Fitz, she tries to perfect the cure.

26th

• Chitauri Virus Outbreak:
  • Coulson contacts fellow agent Felix Blake, who insists on the importance of delivering the helmet to the Sandbox and instructs him to dispose of any infected person in the Bus.
  • Fitz breaks the quarantine and enters the lab to help Simmons in her search for a cure. After seemingly failing, Simmons knocks Fitz out. She prepares to jump off the plane, without knowing the cure tested on their laboratory rats worked. Grant Ward jumps off the plane, catches her in mid-air, and injects her with the cure.
  • After rescuing them from the sea, Coulson reprimands Simmons for her attempted suicide.

27th

• In Hell's Kitchen, Daredevil chases a group of thieves through the neighborhood and successfully stops them from running away from a robbery.

28th

• On their way to their office, Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson discuss Murdock's duties as Daredevil and wonder if what he does is good for the city.
• When they arrive, Karen Page informs them that they are broke and in dire need of funds. Nelson and Murdock tell her that they will manage.
• Massacre at the Burren Club:
  • Members of the Kitchen Irish mafia family meet to discuss the history and future of the Irish presence in Hell's Kitchen, and how to act following the downfall of Wilson Fisk.
  • As they talk, gunfire is suddenly sprayed upon them from an unknown attacker - later revealed to be Frank Castle -, killing all but one of them, Grotto, who escapes.

• Murdock, Page and Nelson play pool and drink at Josie's Bar. Murdock notices Grotto at the bar and notes that his adrenaline is high.
• They approach him, and Grotto tells them about the shooting. Assuming that it was a group of men that slaughtered the Kitchen Irish, they question him about his involvement. He asks them for help, and they agree to look into it. Grotto then passes out from blood loss.
• Murdock and Nelson show up at the crime scene to investigate. Murdock overhears the detectives discussing the armor piercing rounds that were used in the assault. Officer Brett Mahoney tells them that the NYPD thinks that there is a new gang in town tearing into the other gangs. Murdock decides to go investigating as Daredevil.
• Grotto wakes up in Metro-General Hospital, watched over by Page. He tells her that she is not prepared for what is coming.
• Daredevil interrupts a sale between Turk Barrett and some potential buyers. He questions Barrett about where the shooter got the military grade weapons, injuring him until he admits to hearing about heavy munitions from a man in Ryker's Island. He tells Daredevil the location of the Mexican Cartel's meat packing warehouse, and he leaves, tossing Barrett's car keys in the river.
• Foggy Nelson goes to the Dogs of Hell hideout to investigate the recent attack on their gang, telling them he needs to see Smitty. Nelson is taken out the back and informed that Smitty died during an attack the week before, in a massacre similar to the Kitchen Irish.
• While investigating the Kitchen Irish killings, Daredevil finds members of the Mexican Cartel strung up on meat hooks in their hideout. He finds one man alive and pulls him off the meat hook. When he asks which gang did this, the man says with his last breath that it was only one man.
• Attack on Grotto: After learning of Grotto's survival, Frank Castle goes to Metro-General Hospital to finish the job, blasting his way through the hallways. Grotto is saved by Karen Page, managing to escape as Castle pursues them out of the building. He stands on the rooftop with a sniper rifle trained on Grotto as they drive away, but is stopped by Daredevil. A fight ensues, resulting in Castle shooting Daredevil; however, he makes sure that he does not kill, but severely concusses and wounds him.

29th

• After finding him bleeding on a rooftop in his suit, Nelson helps Murdock to return to his apartment to recover. Nelson tells Murdock that Karen Page got Grotto to the NYPD and that the two will meet there to make a deal with the District Attorney. They discuss his actions as a vigilante, with Nelson worried that one day he will find him dead.
• At the NYPD, Karen Page and Nelson discuss the mysterious attacker with Grotto. Afterwards, Mahoney mentions that they had made a profile on the man, considered a Daredevil copycat vigilante, and that they call him "the Punisher".
• At his apartment, Matt Murdock goes to get himself a glass of water when all of a sudden his hearing begins to fail. He drops his glass and stumbles, then slumps against the wall in trauma.
• Nelson and Page meet with DA Samantha Reyes and her assistant Blake Tower, and when they insist they are taking Grotto's case, Nelson confronts Reyes until she agrees to work with them. In the interview room, an agreement is made for Grotto to obtain information from Edgar Brass for the DA. He reluctantly agrees in return for protection.
• Frank Castle walks into a pawn shop, asking for an NYPD mobile communication radio, and the clerk sells it to him. He then asks if Castle is interested in buying child pornography. Disgusted, Castle turns and uses a baseball bat to kill the man.
• Karen Page tells Foggy Nelson that she feels somehow she might deserve the life-threatening events which come her way. Nelson reassures her of how good she is.
• In his apartment, Murdock notices that his hearing has come back as he hears Page knocking on his door. She worries for him, but he assures her he can look after himself. They discuss the Punisher and if his vigilante actions were inspired by Daredevil, and if they are potentially more effective. She asks Murdock to confide in her when he is ready.
• That evening, Murdock goes to see Melvin Potter about his helmet. Potter tells him that the bullet cracked it and that it has compromised the whole helmet. He informs him that he will have to make a whole new helmet, but solders it as a temporary solution for the evening.
• Ambush on Punisher: In the night, Grotto, working with Samantha Reyes, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page, goes to the warehouse where they are about to call out Brass. Nelson and Page soon realize that Grotto is just part of a trap set by Reyes in order to catch the Punisher. Meanwhile, Castle, realizing this was an ambush, takes out a group of Dogs of Hell bikers and straps the last remaining biker in the driver's seat of the truck, sending the truck in first. Reyes' men mistake the biker for Castle and open fire. Once again, before he can kill Grotto, Castle is attacked by Daredevil. They fight on the rooftop before falling through a glass ceiling. Murdock suffers another trauma attack, allowing Castle to take him hostage.
• Kidnapping of Daredevil: Late in the night, Daredevil wakes up chained to a chimney. He looks around to see Frank Castle, who greets him sarcastically.
• Back at the scene of the ambush, Samantha Reyes is upset that Castle got away. Nelson and Page question her about what happened, and she says that her offer for Grotto go into witness protection is still valid. Page confronts Reyes about her previous actions, but Reyes puts her in her place with a reminder of her authority, infuriating Page, who goes back to their office.
• Back on the rooftop, Frank Castle tells Daredevil that he only kills when it is "required".
• Foggy Nelson goes to see Claire Temple in Metro-General Hospital in order to find out if Murdock has been admitted. When he finds her, she motions for him to follow her.
• At the Nelson and Murdock law office, Karen Page is going over information when Grotto calls, wanting to know what happened.
• Page assures him that she had no idea what Reyes was planning. He refuses to return for protection, then hangs up the phone.

30th

• On the rooftop, Daredevil continues to question Frank Castle about his behavior, but Castle ignores all his enquiries. While they discuss their differing views of redemption, they are interrupted when a man comes to the roof. Castle is ready to shoot him if Daredevil makes a noise. He talks to the man but when they discover they are both veterans, they let each other go. Castle goes back to Daredevil and knocks him unconscious so he can find Grotto.
• Karen Page goes to see Blake Tower and threatens him, telling him that she will expose him and Samantha Reyes for previous acts of corruption unless they offer protection to her and her friends. Tower points out the flaws in her blackmail plan and tells her to leave, but not before discreetly delivering her Castle's cranial radiography, which was taken during his stay in the hospital.
• Meanwhile, in Metro-General Hospital, Nelson talks two bikers out of attacking each other, gaining everyone's admiration in the emergency room. After checking some files on the hospital's computer, Temple reveals that Murdock has not been admitted recently.
• Daredevil awakens and sees that he has a gun strapped with tape to his hand. Soon, Castle arrives with an injured and bound Grotto. Trying to prove that Grotto deserves death, Castle reveals to Daredevil that Grotto killed a woman, just because she saw his face.
• Then Castle tells Daredevil that he has to kill Grotto or he will do it by himself, placing the guilt on him either way. Finally, instead, Daredevil uses the gun to break his chains and tackle Punisher, but he is not quick enough to prevent Grotto being shot and bleeding out. While Daredevil attempts to help the dying Grotto, Castle uses his sniper rifle to destroy the Dogs of Hell's motorcycles from afar in order to get their attention.
• Attack on the Dogs of Hell:
  • Seeking revenge for the attack, the bikers start to run up through the building. Castle tells Daredevil that the only way he can escape from the building is killing all the bikers.
  • Instead, Daredevil knocks him unconscious in the elevator and successfully saves the veteran, using all his strength to fight his way down the stairwell and take down the Dogs of Hell.

November

1st

• Due to the Massacre at the Burren Club, Finn Cooley arrives in Hell's Kitchen in order to attend the funeral of his son and other Kitchen Irish members. There, Cooley meets with Seamus, who tries to comfort him for the death of his son, reminding him that death is a part of the deal in the gang.
• Seamus' words only enrages Cooley, driving him to kill him. Cooley then orders all his men to find Frank Castle and bring him to him, so he can torture him and locate the money Castle has stolen from him.
• Following Cooley's orders, the Kitchen Irish begin to hunt for Castle. They soon arrive at his apartment but only find his dog and his arsenal. They start to leave the apartment, when Cooley notices a map marked with Central Park, and realizes that there is where they will find him. As they leave, Castle himself watches from a distance as they walk away with his dog.
• Grotto's funeral takes place, only attended by Matt Murdock, Karen Page and Foggy Nelson. The funeral is conducted by Father Paul Lantom.
• In their office, due to the discovery of Castle's cranial radiography, Page, Murdock, and Nelson discuss the possibility that Samantha Reyes is trying to hide something about Castle's case. Page leaves the office with Reyes' files on Castle.
• Murdock goes to see Melvin Potter in his workshop to pick up his new helmet.
• Investigating Frank Castle's cranial radiography, Page goes to see George Bach, a former assistant from Metro-General who was present during Castle's coma. He tells Page that a DNR was given on Castle, and the doctor in charge disconnected him from the machine. He also comments that after a minute, despite no resuscitation, Castle's heart began beating again. After ten minutes, he rejuvenated and ordered Bach to him to take him home; Bach recalls the Castle Residence address for Page.
• Kidnapping of Punisher:
  • In the evening, Castle waits in Central Park for the Kitchen Irish to turn up so he can kill them. However, a number of them ambush him and he is defeated and taken by Cooley and his men to a secret location for torture.
  • Daredevil meets with Brett Mahoney, who is investigating a crime scene that the Irish made while trying to find Castle. Mahoney receives a radio call about the gunfire in Central Park, which Daredevil overhears. He goes to investigate, finding an injured Rory, who gives him the location where Castle is being kept.
  • Meanwhile, Cooley starts to torture Castle in order to locate his money.When Cooley threatens to repeat the torture on Castle's dog, he finally reveals that Cooley's money is in his van. When two of the Irish go to the van to retrieve the money, a bomb explodes from inside, killing them both. Cooley prepares to kill Castle, but Castle releases himself and shoots Cooley in the back. He demands to know who was responsible for the death of his family, but Cooley does not answer; he shoots Cooley in the face, killing him instantly. Daredevil arrives and finds Castle, and they both fight the Irish to escape, but with Daredevil preventing Castle from killing any more people.
• Page goes to the Castle Residence and starts to inspect the house, finding many pictures of Castle's family, and his daughter's favorite book. She takes one of the pictures before leaving the house.
• Daredevil and Frank Castle both escape and go to Saint Michael's Cemetery, where Castle tells Daredevil of the day he returned home and reunited with his family, before they were killed. Due to the loss of blood, he falls unconscious.
• While he is trying to find the Irish, Brett Mahoney arrives at the cemetery, where he finds them both. Daredevil tells Mahoney that he has to take credit for Castle's capture, and that maybe that way he will get the promotion that he deserves, and the city will trust the police again. As Mahoney lets Daredevil go, he calls for an ambulance to take Castle to the hospital.
• Celebrating the Punisher's capture, Karen Page, Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson go to Josie's Bar where they hear the news that Mahoney has earned a promotion. Page and Murdock leave to walk home.
• When they reach Page's apartment, the two give in to their mounting sexual tension, and share their first kiss in the rain.
• When Murdock returns home, he discovers that he is not alone. His former lover, Elektra Natchios, is back in the city looking for his help. Natchios tells him that she missed him, but Murdock doesn't believe her. She explains that she is back in the city for a meeting, and that she wants to apologize for leaving him. She then explains her father's investment in the Roxxon Corporation, a corrupt company involved in a lot of criminal cases. She asks Murdock for his help with Roxxon, and offers him money, but Murdock refuses and makes her leave.

2nd

• Scientist Bolivar Trask develops the first Sentinels, mutant-killing robots.
• Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, and Karen Page discuss the capture of the Punisher, with Page insisting that it is wrong that no news reports have mentioned Castle's family, and reveals to them that she visited the Castle Residence.
• Nelson receives a notification from the bank telling him of a large deposit. He knows that it is from Natchios, so he tells Nelson not to spend the money, then goes to find her.
• Meanwhile, Blake Tower arrives at the Nelson and Murdock Law Office asking for Grotto's files, but without a subpoena, so Nelson refuses. Tower warns him that Samantha Reyes will destroy their firm, before leaving.
• Matt Murdock goes to the Yakatomi Building in order to confront Elektra Natchios, but instead uses his enhanced hearing to eavesdrop on her meeting with the Roxxon board of directors from outside. He hears her being introduced to Stan Gibson, who is said to have the answers she is looking for. Natchios spots Murdock on the rooftop and chuckles in the meeting. She then grabs a fake pen, which is secretly a device to hack into Roxxon's servers. Phone calls then begin to come in informing the board that their servers have been hacked, and she is escorted downstairs.
• Investigating Castle's family, Page goes to the New York Bulletin Building in order to look in old newspapers. She meets Mitchell Ellison and asks him for information. Telling her that the Bulletin will get the exclusive, Ellison informs her that they now keep manual hardcopy records since servers were wiped during the Battle of New York, and takes her to a room with old newspapers.
• After Page spends three hours looking through papers, Ellison remembers an article from April 14th about a massacre from a gang war in Central Park.
• Murdock and Page meet for their date, but soon decide to change restaurants. They end up having a beautiful evening together.
• Ambush at Elektra Natchios' Penthouse:
  • After his date with Page, Murdock goes to Elektra Natchios' Penthouse in order to find answers. Soon, Murdock hears people coming and demands to know who they are. Natchios tells him that they are Yakuza.
  • As she dresses for battle, she reveals that she had infiltrated Asano in the Yakatomi Building, and that is why they are coming for her. Tired of her lies, Murdock starts to leave, but is stopped by Natchios, who reveals to him that she knows his identity as Daredevil, and has his suit. He reluctantly prepares for the fight. A fight ensues, resulting in the defeat of the Yakuza.

3rd

• In the morning, Natchios convinces Murdock to help her investigate Roxxon's criminal actions and defeat the Yakuza, promising him that once they have finished, she will leave New York forever.
• Castle awakes from his coma.
• Murdock, Nelson, and Page discover from Christopher Roth that Page's statement has been modified, and Samantha Reyes intends to extradite Castle to Delaware to face the death penalty. Because of this, the trio decide to defend Castle, despite the fact that Reyes had assigned him a public defender.
• The three go to Metro-General Hospital to visit Castle and convince him to let them be his legal representation. When he refuses, Page shows him the old picture with his family on the carousel. Reyes arrives and forces them to leave, but Brett Mahoney interrupts them outside, saying that Castle accepts Nelson and Murdock as his lawyers. Reyes leaves in anger.
• Elektra Natchios sends a car for Murdock while he is talking with Page and Nelson. He excuses himself, saying that the car was sent by a new, wealthy client who paid a large retainer. In the car, Natchios gives Murdock a suit and reveals that the plan is to attend a gala at the Yakatomi Building and steal information on the Roxxon Corporation's illegal activities, hidden in a secure floor.
• Nelson and Page talk with Castle, but he says that he will only speak to Page, and demands to be alone with her. To Nelson's dismay, Page agrees. Instead of talking about his crimes, Page and Castle have a heartfelt discussion about family. Finally, they make an agreement that Castle will plead guilty at the arraignment, and she will give him information about the deaths of his family.
• Infiltration into the Yakatomi Building:
  • Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios arrive at the Yakatomi Building gala. Knowing that the Yakuza have security watching Gibson, whose key card they need to steal, Murdock feigns clumsiness and spills wine on Gibson's suit, forcing him to go to the bathroom to clean up.
  • Murdock then ambushes him and his bodyguards in the bathroom and takes the key card, then he and Natchios sneak up to the 13th floor, eventually finding a book, the Hand Ledger.
  • While Natchios reads, Murdock realizes that they have been located and starts to run downstairs. The duo fake being a drunk couple to avoid the guards, and manage to escape and go back to the car. They begin to read through the book, which has information about weapons traffic. Natchios is confused when she finds an entry she cannot translate; they realize they need to find someone to decipher it.
• Meanwhile, in the hospital, the arraignment is made as Judge Cynthia Batzer and Reyes prepare to hear Castle's plea.
• Despite Page's instructions, Castle decides to plead not guilty in spite against Reyes, to Nelson and Page's shock and disappointment. Knowing that his declaration will complicate his defense, Nelson and Page attempt to call Murdock, but he does not answer.
• Hirochi reveals to Gibson that he is not a Yakuza.
• In his apartment, Murdock finds a concerned Nelson, who explains to him that due to Castle's decision of pleading not guilty, and Reyes using her influence to advance the trial, "the People v. Frank Castle" will start next week.

4th

• Phil Coulson allows himself to be captured and sent to an underground prison in Siberia to retrieve Agent Shaw, who was undercover posing as a torturer. They escape with help from Grant Ward and Melinda May.

5th

• Coulson's Team delivers intel gathered by Agent Shaw and classified as Clearance Level 8 to the Hub.
• Infiltration into the Overkill Facility:
  • Agent Victoria Hand informs Phil Coulson, Grant Ward and Melinda May about a weapon created by South Ossetian separatists, the Overkill Device. She requests Ward and Leo Fitz to infiltrate South Ossetia and disable the weapon.
  • Ward and Fitz try to reach Ward's contacts in South Ossetia, but are captured. Thanks to Fitz's resourcefulness, they gain the trust of a local mob to help them cross the border.
  • Hand and Coulson discuss his recovery, and he realizes he has a programmed response to the mention of Tahiti.
  • Skye tries to hack into the Hub's mainframe with the help of Jemma Simmons. Agent Jasper Sitwell almost catches Simmons, and in a state of panic she renders him unconscious. While hacking, Skye chooses to check the status of Ward's and Fitz's mission, rather than seize the opportunity to search for information about her parents, but discovers the infiltration does not include an extraction team.

6th

• Grant Ward and Leo Fitz locate the Overkill Device, and realize there will not be an extraction. Both decide to stay and finish the mission together, escaping with the help of a modified version of the Device. While S.H.I.E.L.D. teams start raiding the compound, Coulson's Team arrive in the Bus to extract Ward and Fitz.
• Phil Coulson tells Skye about her parent's file, redacted by the agent that dropped her at the orphanage. Nevertheless, he keeps certain secrets about the file, and asks Melinda May to help him uncover the truth. Later, he tries to obtain the file about his death and recovery in Tahiti, but is denied access.
• Jonathan Pangborn decides to leave the Masters of the Mystic Arts, choosing to use his new powers only to walk again.

9th

• The Convergence begins, causing the formation of portals connecting the Nine Realms. Erik Selvig, now mentally unstable after being subjected to Loki's mind control, detects signs of the event and travels to Stonehenge to research it.
• Selvig also contacts Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis to assist him in his studies.

10th

• The Fantastic Four, the Richards kids and Victor von Doom return from the Phantom Zone and discover 40 years had passed. As the heroes try to better understand what happened, Doom immediately goes to Latveria and dethrones its leader, becoming his country's dictator once again.

11th

• Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis arrive in London, but are unable to locate Erik Selvig.
• Battle of Vanaheim: Thor's army, including Skurge, arrives in Vanaheim, the birthplace of Hogun and the final realm they must save. They defeat the Marauders who have been terrorizing the area, and Hogun decides to stay among his people while the rest of the army goes back to Asgard.

12th

• In the New York State Supreme Court Building, the jury for Frank Castle's trial is finally approved by Judge Cynthia Batzer and the two sides. Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, and Matt Murdock start to build a defense, in which they plan to use Castle's military service as an excuse for his extremist behavior, in order to reduce the charges and avoid the death penalty. Page decides to visit Castle for more information.
• Castle says to Page the name of Ray Schoonover, his old commander who could give them whatever they want for his defense. Page thanks him and proceeds to show him old files about the Massacre at Central Park.
• As he practices his opening statement, Murdock receives a call from Elektra Natchios telling him that she has found a possible translator, Philip Cabroni, who could help them to decipher the mysterious code from the book. After she pressures him, Murdock agrees to go with her.
• Attack on Philip Cabroni: Daredevil and Elektra visit Philip Cabroni and force him to translate the ledger for them. He says that he put the letters in a cypher and the characters through a matrix which could be decoded. The code ends up saying that a weekly shipment will take place that night at Bay Ridge Rail Yard. He gives them the number of the boxcar.
• Page and Nelson find out that Reyes intends to get Dr. Gregory Tepper, who performed post-mortems on the Castle family, to testify. Soon they discover the possibility that Tepper faked Lisa, Frank, Jr. and Maria Castle's forensic files.
• Ambush at Bay Ridge Rail Yard: At the Bay Ridge Rail Yard, Natchios and Daredevil open the boxcar but find only dirt. The Yakuza in the rail yard begin to chase them, so the two fight them in retaliation. After a short battle, Daredevil and Natchios escape.
• In his apartment, Murdock tends to Natchios’ wounds. They talk about their scars, and when Natchios brings up the scar from the Duel at Pier 81, Murdock tells her about Nobu; Natchios reveals that she has heard of him before. They soon fall asleep.
• In the Asgardian evening, several hours after the army's victory in Vanaheim, a feast is held to celebrate.
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13th

• In the morning, Murdock awakes and dresses himself quickly, realizing he is late for Castle's trial. Elektra says that she will investigate where the exports are coming from. The trial of Frank Castle begins with only Nelson and Page defending him. Nelson is forced to make their opening speech; Murdock arrives only to hear Nelson concluding.
• Outside of the court, Murdock, Nelson, and Page discuss what they will do next. Murdock suggests that he and Page will try to make Dr. Gregory Tepper admit that he changed the Castle family's forensic files tomorrow in court.
• In Matt Murdock's Apartment, he and Karen Page discuss how they will question Tepper. Page also mentions that she believes Castle's method works on a more permanent basis than Daredevil, to Murdock's shock.
• When she leaves, Elektra Natchios shows up, revealing that she has listened in to the conversation with Page. She tells Murdock that she checked Roxxon Corporation’s information and found some construction investment they should investigate. Murdock reveals that before he fought Nobu, he saw some plans of the Midland Circle, and wonders if Wilson Fisk acquired it for the Japanese, and not for himself as he had assumed.
• After saying goodbye to Murdock, Natchios goes to Gregory Tepper's apartment and threatens him, forcing him to reveal to the court tomorrow that he modified the post-mortem files.

14th

• The New York Bulletin publishes an article about the "Trial of the Century", describing the recent events about Frank Castle's case.
• In his cell, and still working on a plan to kill Dutton, Wilson Fisk is visited by Stewart Finney, who gives him the newspapers from the day. When Finney mentions that Castle has taken out the Kitchen Irish, the Dogs of Hell, and the Mexican Cartel, Fisk finds a pattern between the three groups from checking his notes made on Dutton. He also discovers that Dutton worked with the Irish a long time ago in a sale that went wrong.
• In court, during Castle's trial, Blake Tower begins to question Gregory Tepper about his work on Castle's family's forensic files. Scared, Tepper says that he wants to confess something. Judge Cynthia Batzer orders the court to be cleared.
• Nelson, Murdock, Page, Reyes, Tower, and Batzer hear Tepper's confession that he modified the post-mortem files. He also reveals that he was threatened by a woman the night before to confess in court. Due to the revelation that he was forced, Tepper's statement is considered invalid for the case.
• Meanwhile, in order to use Castle as a way to kill Dutton, Wilson Fisk calls his attorney Benjamin Donovan and orders him to contact the police guard Roy Olsky, instructing him to give Castle a note telling him that if he wants to know more information about his family's death, he has to follow certain instructions.
• At Pop's Barber Shop, Pop gives Lonnie Wilson a haircut as Chico Diaz gives Shameek Smith a cut, while they and Luke Cage, who is sweeping hair, discuss the performance of the New York Knicks in the NBA in the last season.
• Pop tries to convince Cage to use his powers to do good in the neighborhood. Cage states that he did not want his powers. He jokes that he still gets headaches from Jessica Jones shooting him.
• Privately, Murdock informs Nelson that Elektra Natchios was the woman who attacked Tepper. They have a strong discussion about her and the problems she causes. Nelson yells that he has to tell his "girlfriend" not to interfere in the case, and they leave, furious, ignoring Page.
• Cage finishes his work at the barber shop and heads to his second job at Harlem's Paradise as a dish washer.
• Cage's landlady Connie Lin confronts him for his rent, ten days late, and he promises he will deliver it by later that night.
• Furious with Natchios, Murdock ambushes her as Daredevil while she waits for him at Midland Circle. After listening, she agrees to stop interfering in his day job, before reminding him that they have the Yakuza to be concerned about.
• While washing dishes, Cage is asked to work on the bar for the evening, as usual barman Dante Chapman has not turned up to work. His boss tells him he has to wait to be paid at the end of the week.
• Cage meets Misty Knight at the bar, and the two begin flirting.
• Upstairs at Harlem's Paradise, Cornell Stokes, also known as Cottonmouth, makes a partnership with Domingo Colon, as they mention that Stokes' great-uncle Pistol Pete and Domingo's brother Salvador Colon intended to in the past. Colon wants to give a donation to Stoke's cousin Mariah Dillard.
• Ambush at the Harlem Junkyard: Dante Chapman, Shameek Smith, and Chico Diaz, working for Stokes, are sent to sell Hammer Industries weapons to Colon's men. However, Smith betrays Stokes and shoots the men to steal the money. A shootout begins, ending in the death of all three of Colon's men. Smith then betrays and fatally shoots Chapman so he only has to split the money between him and Diaz.
• As Chapman dies, he calls Tone, one of Stokes' henchmen, telling him of Smith and Diaz's betrayal.
• Infiltration into Midland Circle:
  • Then they enter the building, only to find a huge hole in the ground. Daredevil grabs a flashlight and drops it down the hole, waiting for it to hit the bottom.
  • Unbeknownst to them, ninjas from the Hand were watching and they soon attack, leaving Natchios seriously injured from a poisoned sword. Stick arrives with a member of the Chaste and successfully rescues Natchios and Daredevil.

• In Matt Murdock's Apartment, Stick saves Natchios from dying. Murdock discovers that Stick has actually known Natchios for a long time, but when he asks how he knows her, he avoids the question.
• Cage and Misty Knight return to Luke Cage's Apartment and passionately have sex.

15th

• Knight is called by her colleague Rafael Scarfe and told she has to visit the scene of the shootout in the junkyard. She lies to Cage, telling him she is an auditor, and leaves.
• Detectives Scarfe and Knight investigate the crime scene.
• The trial of Frank Castle continues, now with Col. Ray Schoonover in the dais to testify for Nelson and Murdock (now only Foggy Nelson and Karen Page). Schoonover tells the story of how Castle saved him and a group of military men while they were on service in Afghanistan, describing him as a war hero.
• Hernan Alvarez, also known as "Shades", recently released from a three-year stint in Seagate Prison, pays a visit to Stokes on behalf of Diamondback.
• Pop tells Cage about his feeling of responsibility for Chico Diaz and Shameek Smith, and his worries about them being alone out on the street without his help.
• In his apartment, Murdock confronts Stick about not telling the truth, so he tells Murdock the history of the Hand and the Chaste, and the start of their endless war. He also reveals that both Murdock and Natchios were recruited by him in order to stop the Hand from deploying the Black Sky, a prophecized person whose blood, when mixed with Dragon bones, can make the true leaders of Hand completely immortal. However, Murdock does not believe him.
• Mariah Dillard interacts with local residents of Harlem. Dillard also films a propaganda piece in front of the new Crispus Attucks Complex about rejuvenating Harlem.
• Foggy Nelson uses Castle's cranial radiography to build a defense, with psychiatrist Andrew Lee giving his medical opinion, in order to prove that Castle's actions were caused by the damage done to his brain by a bullet.
• After the presentation, there is a sudden outburst as the son of one of Castle's victims claims that he deserves death for killing his father.
• Page convinces Castle to take the stand the next day so as to salvage the trial after the outburst.
• Nelson tells Page that they will need Murdock to question Frank Castle.
• While Murdock confronts a weakened Natchios about being sent by Stick to spy on him, Page arrives at his apartment, only to see Natchios in Murdock's bed. She attempts to leave abruptly, worried that Murdock is cheating on her, but Murdock stops her. She says that she does not want to discuss anything, and tells him that he has to go to court the next day.
• While Murdock confronts a weakened Natchios about being sent by Stick to spy on him, Page arrives at his apartment, only to see Natchios in Murdock's bed. She attempts to leave abruptly, worried that Murdock is cheating on her, but Murdock stops her. She says that she does not want to discuss anything, and tells him that he has to go to court the next day.
• Shameek Smith is taken by Cottonmouth's men from a strip club.
• On the way to Harlem's Paradise, Cage is stopped by Zip and his thugs and handed one of Dillard's leaflets.
• Following Fisk's orders, Roy Olsky tells Castle that if he wants to know more about his family's death, he has to ruin the trial and proclaiming that he is guilty.
• Stokes plays jazz on his keyboard. Cage, washing dishes downstairs, requests his payment for the end of the week, but is denied it. He is surprised to find Stokes' men dragging Smith through the kitchen, but before he can act, he is shocked and angered as Shades walks in behind; Cage recognizes him as one of the men who nearly killed him at Seagate two years prior.
• Stokes beats Smith in a chair, questioning him about the whereabouts of the money he stole, and of Chico Diaz. When Smith spits in reply, Stokes proceeds to beat him much harder, slowly losing restraint until Smith is dead.
• Cage paces his apartment, trying to control his anger about Shades, and remembers Reva Connors' words. He decides to try to make a difference in the neighborhood.
• Knight and Scarfe investigate the scene of Shameek Smith's murder, and realize they have to find Diaz.
• Attack on Zip's Gang: Zip and his thugs threaten Connie and Jin Lin for money for Dillard's Crispus Attucks complex, in their restaurant Genghis Connie's. Luke Cage walks in and tells them to leave, but they do not take him seriously. Zip orders Amos to take out Cage, but he is horrified when Cage is immovable and unaffected, as his wrist and hand shatter on contact. Cage throws him through the window and takes down the thugs, saving the Lins. Connie offers payment but he refuses, though he assures her he will support and defend them.
• Misty Knight pores over evidence from the shootout at the junkyard and pictures the gunfight in her mind, so as to work out what happened.

16th

• The next day in court, while Castle takes the stand, Murdock hears a guard whisper to Castle that he has to think on what he wants next. Murdock makes his court statement, regarding the feeling that New York needs heroes.
• Once he finishes, Castle asks Judge Cynthia Batzer if he can make a statement, then he proceeds to tell the jury that he would commit the murders all over again. He begins to shout, saying that he is not crazy and does not need anyone's help; he insists that he enjoyed killing those men, and would continue killing given the chance. Castle is removed from the courtroom and sentenced to imprisonment immediately.
• At Pop's Barber Shop, Pop and Cage discuss their fictional heroes and favorite writers.
• At the entrance of Pop's, Bobby Fish plays a game of chess against Turk Barrett, who is visiting Harlem after encountering trouble with Daredevil.
• Stokes walks into Pop's for a shave, accompanied by Shades. Cage becomes tense and on edge to be in the presence of Shades, accidentally breaking his broom.
• Shades begins a conversation with him, not recognizing him as Carl Lucas. Shades says he has recently returned from three years in prison. Once Stokes' shave is complete, Cage forces him to pay before he leaves. Stokes promises to visit Pop from time to time.
• Pop asks Cage to find Diaz as soon as possible, before Stokes or the police can get to him.
• Now that they have lost the case, Foggy Nelson and Karen Page blame Murdock for what happened in the court, for not helping them enough. Page ends her relationship with him.
• Misty Knight and Rafael Scarfe visit the St. Nick basketball playground for information on Diaz from his friends. Knight impresses the boys with her basketball skills and earns their respect.
• Stokes and his men visit Mariah Dillard in her office, and Stokes remind his cousin that he needs her to do the politics for him and resolve his problems.
• Questioning people around Harlem so as to locate where Chico Diaz could be hiding, Cage finally manages to find him. He warns Diaz of how much danger he is in, but Diaz ignores him, refusing to return to Pop's.
• Cage returns to the barber shop and speaks with Pop outside. Pop tells him about his time as a gangster on the streets, taking Chico's father Fredo Diaz and a young Cottonmouth under his wing. He also talks about his estranged son, who he has not seen for decades. Cage tells Pop that Diaz refused help, to his dismay.
• They return inside and to their surprise, they find that Diaz has returned for their help. Pop becomes emotional and upset with him for becoming involved in the gangs, but overjoyed that he has returned.
• Scarfe and Knight head to Pop's Barber Shop to question Pop for information on Diaz's whereabouts, bumping into Barrett on the way as he leaves. After greeting each other with an embrace, Pop denies to Knight having seen Diaz, insisting he has not been into work for two days. Cage and Knight have an awkward reunion, pretending that they have never met before. Cage is offended by the revelation that Knight lied to him about her profession. After the detectives leave, Pop requests that Cage ask Stokes for a parley over Diaz's safety.
• Phil Coulson and his team are assigned as part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. clean-up crew after the Battle of Greenwich. Every element with anomalous spectrographic signatures is contained, classified as hazardous material, and marked for transport.
• At Trillemarka National Park, Norway, Jakob Nystrom and Petra Larsen find the first piece of Elliot Randolph's Staff.
• Elektra Natchios and Stick discuss Matt Murdock's decision to not become involved with the Chaste. Inspired by his words about not following Stick's orders anymore, Natchios says goodbye to Stick, saying that she will try to be a better person, like Murdock wanted.
• Ambush at Matt Murdock's Apartment:
  • Back in his apartment, Murdock and Natchios are suddenly attacked by a Hand ninja, who shoots Murdock through the shoulder with a poisoned arrow. Murdock retaliates, managing to defeat the ninja, only to discover that he is a very young man.
  • Before he can do anything, Natchios slices the boy's throat with a knife, killing him to protect Murdock, and stating that this is who she is. Murdock passes out from the poison.

• Cage quits his job at Harlem's Paradise, and goes to speak with Stokes. He agrees to come in for a haircut and discuss the matter. While they speak, Tone receives a text from Turk Barrett, informing him of Diaz's location at the barber shop in return for money.
• Attack on Pop's Barber Shop:
  • Tone assumes that Stokes will want Diaz dead, and heads to Pop's Barber Shop to kill him. As Pop is cutting Lonnie Wilson's hair again, Tone arrives and dual wielding guns, he opens fire, recklessly shooting down the room. Cage instinctively dives to shield Wilson with his bulletproof skin, and Diaz is injured. However, one bullet ricochets off of Cage and through Pop's neck.
  • Tone inspects the room, but Cage and Wilson play dead. He leaves, believing he has succeeded. Cage runs to embrace Pop as he bleeds out on the floor and dies.

• As Misty Knight analyzes the scene of the shooting, Cage mourns the death of his friend. Knight is baffled by the fact that his shirt has multiple bullet holes, but he has no wounds, and managed to protect Lonnie Wilson.
• On returning to Harlem's Paradise, Tone expects Cornell Stokes to be pleased with him. He is disappointed that Tone killed him without locating the money first.
• When Tone then reveals that he also killed Pop, Stokes loses his temper and throws Tone off the roof to his death, angered at the unjust murder of his old mentor.
• Detective Knight ponders to Scarfe over how Cage could have remained unharmed by the shooting.
• Luke Cage and Cornell Stokes both sadly reminisce and mourn over Pop's death.
• Cage stands on a hill overlooking the Crispus Attucks Complex, when a young man holds a gun to his head and attempts to rob him. Cage is angered by his use of racially sensitive language and turns on him, goading him to pull the trigger.
• When he does not, Cage takes the gun and demonstrates his bulletproof skin, shooting himself at point blank in the stomach, and scaring him away.

17th

• The morning after the attack, the news reports on the gunning of Pop's Barber Shop and Pop's death, as both Cage and Stokes watch on television.
• Castle is imprisoned in Ryker's Island and, following the orders that he received, he meets with Wilson Fisk.
• Murdock is tended to by Elektra Natchios, who tells him that she will never change. He decides that they have to stop trying to change each other's opinions on justice methods and says that he is done with her.
• Fisk reveals to Frank Castle that the kingpin of the prison, Dutton, could have more information about the massacre of his family. He tells Castle Dutton's activities schedule and equips him with a shiv to attack Dutton later that day.
• Another weapons deal between Stokes' and Colon's gangs goes wrong when Colon's men kill Stokes', in retaliation for the shootout in the junkyard, and steal the weaponry.
• Misty Knight and Rafael Scarfe investigate the scene of the latest shooting, questioning people to no avail.
• Luke Cage goes to the morgue to see Pop's body. While there, Stokes also arrives, and the two discuss Pop. Stokes says he will pay for the memorial service. Cage blames his death on Stokes, who tells him to back down, but Cage states that he is "just getting started".
• Believing that the case is not finished, Karen Page decides to continue investigating evidence about the fiscal changes to Castle's file.
• Cage returns to the barber shop to talk with Bobby Fish about the future of the shop. They realize they need $80,000, so Cage suggests robbing Cottonmouth for the money.
• When Fish points out that would only cause more issues, Cage instead decides to take down those who work for him.
• Daredevil confronts Stan Gibson about working with the Hand, and he reveals that they have his son in a fortress called the Farm. Gibson and Daredevil go to the Farm to get him back.
• Meanwhile, Page goes to see Mitchell Ellison and shows him what she has on Castle's case. They decide to look into who the other dead body from the massacre was, that the medical examiner Gregory Tepper hid from the public.
• As Fisk planned, Castle infiltrates Dutton's jail area, kills his two bodyguard inmates, and questions him about what happened the day his family were killed. Dutton reveals the involvement of a drug dealer called the Blacksmith in the meeting of three gangs, which went wrong when he did not show up, and turned into a three-way firefight that killed his family.
• Page and Ellison go to see Tepper, and discover from him that the dead body belonged to an undercover police officer on the scene. Knowing now that the Massacre at Central Park was a covert operation, they decide to find out who else was involved.
• Assassination of Dutton: When Dutton is finished, Castle stabs him repeatedly and starts to walk out, but Fisk betrays him by not letting him to escape. All of Dutton's inmate allies emerge from their cells and attack Castle. Castle manages to kill all of Dutton's men in a brutal and bloody fight, to the dismay of Wilson Fisk, who was waiting for Castle to die inside with them. Prison guards arrive and gas him with a sedative to knock him out, dragging him away.
• Scarfe and Knight visit Chico Diaz in hospital so as to question him for any information to take down his attackers. He refuses to help them, terrified for his life.
• Stokes tells his assistant he wants Tone's body taken care of before the police force can analyze it.
• Nelson visits Murdock, and together they decide to end Nelson and Murdock.
• As she leaves the hospital, Misty Knight bumps into Luke Cage entering. She confronts him about the events of the last 72 hours, believing him to be linked to the occurrences.
• Cage enters Diaz's ward to question him himself. Diaz eventually reveals to him about Cottonmouth's stash houses, and how he hides his money in the Crispus Attucks Complex.
• Cage attacks one of Cottonmouth's safes in a stash house, taking down his men and ripping off the safe door before leaving.
• Meanwhile, in Harlem, Scarfe and Knight investigate in the wake of Cage's attack. Scarfe is baffled by the fact that the mysterious attacker took nothing from the safe. They find a young woman in the house, who tells them about the man who attacked the building.
• Cornell Stokes and Mariah Dillard talk together on a bench. The cousins discuss improving Harlem in their own images, and the need for the Crispus Attucks Complex.
• Frank Castle confronts Fisk about what happened in Dutton's prison ward, and Fisk tells him that due to Dutton's death, he is now the man in charge of the prison, and he is willing to set him free, because if Castle kills all the criminal leaders in the city, when Fisk eventually leaves the prison, he will be the only criminal leader in New York. Castle promises that the next time they meet, only one of them will make it out.
• Detective Knight tells Scarfe about Pop. She says that she knew him since she was 9, and he was the reason she got into basketball. The two lift each other's spirits with banter about their favorite basketball teams.
• Search for Elliot Randolph's Staff:
  • After receiving a message from S.H.I.E.L.D., Coulson's Team travel to Norway to investigate the incident at Trillemarka, finding spectrographic signatures of an object of Asgardian origin.
  • Jakob Nystrom and Petra Larsen lead a Norse Paganist Hate Group in a series of riots in the streets of Oslo.
  • In Seville, Spain, Coulson consults Elliot Randolph, one of the world's leading experts on Norse mythology. Randolph recounts the story of a warrior from the Asgardian Army who stayed on Earth, and the properties of his staff.
  • S.H.I.E.L.D. investigates Baffin Island in Canada as the possible location of a piece of the staff, but they fail to find anything.

• Rescue in the Farm: Daredevil infiltrates the Farm and discovers members of the Hand draining dangerous amounts of blood from children for an unknown reason. He is soon attacked by a ninja, who mentions meeting him before. To Daredevil's surprise, the ninja reveals himself to be Nobu Yoshioka, who Daredevil was sure had died. Yoshioka simply states that there is no such thing as death, before leaving the room, with a mysterious sarcophagus behind him.
• As Castle escapes from prison, Fisk visits Dutton in the medical room and tells him that he is now the Kingpin of the prison, and that he will die soon from his injuries.
• Domingo Colon visits Harlem's Paradise to confront Cottonmouth about the attacks during deals, turning his back on their deal for Stokes' betrayal. Stokes tells his men that Colon has just declared war on them.
• Stan Gibson finds his son, drained of blood, but alive. Daredevil contacts Brett Mahoney and alerts him of the Hand's plans, then orders him to take the drained children to Metro-General Hospital in secret, stating that the only one who can take care of them is Claire Temple.
• Raid of the Crispus Attucks Complex:
  • Luke Cage goes back to the Crispus Attucks Complex and prepares to attack it, putting hip hop music on in his earphones. He proceeds to rip off a car door and break into the building.
  • He smashes his way through, taking out everyone in his way, smashing them into the wall and knocking them with the car door, railings, building's scaffolding, and even a sofa.
  • He is impervious to all attacks against him due to his invulnerability, and leaves every man either knocked out or fleeing the scene. He then steals the money needed for the barber shop and leaves the rest for the cops to find, before leaving to return to Bobby Fish.

• Misty Knight later envisions the scene of the attack in her mind to think through how events must have played out, but Scarfe interrupts her. He tells her that he feels useless as a policeman in this world of Avengers and mutants.
• Murdock visits Temple and tells her that she has to take care of the children.
• Assassination of Chico Diaz: Chico Diaz leaves hospital and asks Scarfe for help. Scarfe meets with him, but when Diaz turns his back, Scarfe suddenly betrays and attacks Diaz, suffocating him to death.
• Scarfe visits Stokes at Harlem's Paradise to inform his secret employer of his success in killing Chico Diaz, and asking for money in return. He also tells Stokes that from tracking Detective Knight's phone, he knows where Luke Cage lives.
• Cage shows Fish the money he has retrieved, and promises to help him decide the future of the barber shop soon.
• Destruction of Genghis Connie's:
  • Luke Cage goes to Genghis Connie's for food. Cottonmouth meanwhile positions himself on a rooftop opposite the building, setting up a missile launcher to kill Cage and destroy his home.
  • Cottonmouth releases the missile, and as it travels towards the restaurant, Cage dives to protect Connie Lin as the building explodes and collapses on top of them. Cottonmouth chuckles at his seeming success.

• As firemen and police stand over the wreckage a few hours later, Cage and Lin wake underneath the rubble. Lin's leg is severely injured. Cage begins to reminisce about his time in prison as he slowly and carefully moves the wreckage from above them, so as to pull Lin and himself out to safety.
• Cage eventually lifts the last piece of wreckage away and the two are extracted from the rubble to safety; Lin is taken for medical attention. The press follow Cage to question him. He only tells them his name before leaving, and the local news widely reports on Harlem's new hero "Luke Cage".

18th

• The news reports that Castle has escaped.
• Samantha Reyes discovers a copy of Castle's cranial radiography in her daughter's backpack and worries for her safety.
• Assassination of Samantha Reyes:
  • Fearing that something could happen to her daughter, Reyes reunites with the trio and reveals that the Massacre at Central Park was indeed a covert operation.
  • During the meeting, Murdock hears a sniper rifle being cocked and instinctively pushes Nelson and Page away for safety, but Reyes is shot and killed.
• Nelson, having been injured by a bullet, is taken to the hospital. Knowing that he could be involved, Murdock decides to confront Wilson Fisk, but as lawyer Matt Murdock, not as Daredevil.
• In Ryker's Island, Murdock meets with Fisk and bluntly accuses him of being involved in Castle's escape. Fisk says that he recognizes him from the Scene Contempo Gallery several months back. But when Murdock mentions Vanessa Marianna and threatens Fisk saying that will prevent her from returning to the United States of America, Fisk attacks Murdock violently.
• The lack of guard reaction shows Murdock that Fisk has control of the prison, making him vulnerable. Fisk promises Murdock that when he gets out, he will destroy both his and Nelson's life before letting him go. Furious and a little worried, Murdock leaves the prison.
• The lack of guard reaction shows Murdock that Fisk has control of the prison, making him vulnerable. Fisk promises Murdock that when he gets out, he will destroy both his and Nelson's life before letting him go. Furious and a little worried, Murdock leaves the prison.
• Believing that Castle is behind the attack on Reyes, Page and Ellison decide to visit Dr. Tepper again.
• Ellison and Page arrive at Tepper's apartment. They find out that he has just been killed by "Castle". Page does not believe that Castle did it.
• Considering that she could be the next victim, Ellison sends two police officers to accompany her to her home as she tries to retrieve some files.
• Murdock, wearing his Daredevil suit, goes to Metro-General to see Temple, and they discuss Murdock's double life as vigilante and a normal man.
• Search for Elliot Randolph's Staff:
  • After receiving an update about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s investigation in Baffin Island, Phil Coulson's Team investigates the ruins of an old crypt under the Church of El Divino Niño in Seville, Spain, but the piece of the staff is taken by Elliot Randolph. However, Jakob Nystrom, Petra Larsen, and their group attack Randolph and obtain the second piece of the staff.
  • Grant Ward begins to show behavioral changes as a result of his contact with the staff, as well as some degree of super-human strength. He and Phil Coulson interrogate Randolph, who confesses that he is the Asgardian warrior from the legend, and reveals the true location of the third piece of the staff.
  • In Norway, Nystrom and Larsen use their two pieces of the staff to give more members of their group super-human strength, while researching the location of the last piece.
  • The team arrives at a monastery in Ireland, the location of the final piece of the staff, only to find Nystrom has already found it. He stabs Randolph, and while Coulson, Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons try to save his life, Ward and Melinda May fend off the attacking Norse Paganists.

• Attack on Elektra Natchios: Elektra Natchios is attacked at the airport on the way out of New York by Jacques Duchamps, a member of the Chaste sent to kill her. She uses twin sai to stab him; before he dies, Duchamps reveals that Stick sent him, and Natchios prepares to get revenge against her former mentor.
• In her apartment, Frank Castle reunites with Karen Page, insisting he is innocent for the previous attacks, but Page is cautious to believe him. Castle notices that there is something wrong and pushes her away as bullets from a sniper rifle riddle the apartment. Now believing Castle, Page exits with him.
• While eating dinner in prison, Fisk has a thought that Murdock may be more than he appears. He orders his attorney Benjamin Donovan to bring him their files on Murdock.
• Attack on Metro-General Hospital:
  • Horrified, Daredevil notices Hand ninjas scaling the hospital wall. They successfully infiltrate the hospital in an attempt to take back the children whose blood they were draining.
  • Daniel Gibson kills his father.
  • Temple is ambushed by the Hand and thrown from the building to distract Daredevil, forcing him to descend the wall to save her, and in the meantime the Hand murders Temple's friend Louisa, and gets away with the children.

19th

• In the morning, Murdock visits the hospital and apologizes to Temple for the death of her friend during the attack, and for bringing her in on the problem.
• Murdock receives a call from Brett Mahoney, who informs him of the shooting in Karen Page's Apartment. At the 15th Precinct Police Station, two guards are assigned to protect Page. When she leaves, she finds Murdock outside, worried about her. When he offers his aid, Page refuses, but tells him that Castle actually saved her, and that he is not behind the recent attacks as the city believes. She mentions her thoughts that the so-called Blacksmith could be responsible.
• Page manages to avoid the two guards assigned to protect her and reunites with Castle in a car. They both go to a diner in order to contemplate what to do next.
• Marci Stahl visits Nelson in hospital and tells him that his participation in Castle's trial has attracted the attention of her boss.
• In order to stop his attacks, Daredevil decides to take down the Blacksmith, so he ambushes Blake Tower in order to retrieve any information on his identity. Tower says that they never obtained his name and only investigated on his competition in the drug trade. Realizing that Tower is talking about Madame Gao, Daredevil goes to confront her. Surprised that Daredevil knew she was back in the city, Gao asks him of his intentions, and they discuss the Blacksmith. Gao reveals to him that the Blacksmith imports his drugs by ship at the docks.
• Meanwhile, Castle is ambushed at the diner by the Blacksmith's men, but he notices them coming and defeats them.
• Castle forces them to reveal the Blacksmith's location at Pier 81 before killing them and proceeding to hunt down the drug lord. Shocked by Castle's actions, Page calls the police.
• With the information from Gao, Daredevil guesses that the Blacksmith is operating in the dock of Pier 81, and heads over there.
• Due to the recent incidents in Metro-General Hospital, the hospital administration decides to keep the attack secret and cover up the death of Louisa as simply an attack by a patient. Infuriated by this decision, Temple quits her job.
• Destruction of Blacksmith's Ship:
  • Castle arrives at Pier 81 and kills the Blacksmith's men. He begins pouring gasoline in order to burn down the ship, and attacks a man claiming to be the Blacksmith.
  • Before Castle can kill him, Daredevil arrives to stop him. He reveals that he knows that this man is lying to protect the real Blacksmith. Enraged, Castle attacks Daredevil, but is defeated. They argue over Castle's conviction to kill the Blacksmith.
  • Daredevil and Castle both hear a group of men coming who say that they will destroy the ship with them on board. When Daredevil suggests that they should escape, Castle throws him off the ship and ignites it, killing all of the Blacksmith's men and seemingly himself in the process.
• Page and Officer Mahoney arrive at the dock. Mahoney is fairly sure that Castle has died in the explosion. At the same time, Daredevil emerges from the water and successfully makes it back to his apartment.
• Temple and Foggy Nelson leave Metro-General Hospital.Stick is informed by his men that Elektra Natchios killed Jacques Duchamps and that she is coming for him. He orders his men to find Murdock. When the men enter the car, they are stabbed by Natchios. Bleeding out, they get to Matt Murdock's Apartment and manage alert him of the situation before dying.
• Kidnapping of Stick:
  • Natchios finds Stick and begins to fight him. Soon, Daredevil arrives to stop them. While they argue, they are ambushed by the Hand, who kidnap Stick.
  • Daredevil confronts Natchios about her actions, but she claims that she will kill Stick anyway, before kissing Murdock and running away.
• Surviving his injuries, Elliot Randolph considers starting a new life somewhere else. Coulson recommends he move to Portland.
• Coulson starts having nightmares about his recovery in Tahiti.

20th

• Assuming that Castle's corpse is among the bodies at the scene of the explosion, Page stays into the morning so as to know for sure.
• The body of Frank Castle does not turn up, but Mahoney assures Page that Castle is dead.
• The New York Bulletin runs an article online title "Armed Vigilante 'Punisher' Presumed Dead in Explosion".
• The third morning after the explosion, Luke Cage still searches the wreckage for his photograph of Reva Connors and Pop's swear jar.
• Cage finds the jar, but Misty Knight discovers the photograph before him. Meanwhile, Jidenna performs at Harlem's Paradise for Cottonmouth.
• After quitting her job at Metro-General Hospital, Claire Temple arrives in Harlem to visit her mother. A young man steals her bag, but she chases him and beats him down, taking it back.
• Cottonmouth holds a meeting, telling his men they need to go after Luke Cage. When one man suggests otherwise, Cottonmouth kills him. He sends Zip to attack local businesses to make back the stolen money from the Crispus Attucks Complex.
• Attack on Lenox Avenue Businesses: Zip and his thugs attack the Axton business and takes Aisha Axton's ring, which used to belong to her father, and has great sentimental value for her. They also extort other citizens of Harlem and their businesses.
• On returning to Pop's Barber Shop, Cage discovers that Bobby Fish has paid for Dapper Dan to tailor him a suit for Pop's memorial that afternoon.
• At the Mount Olivet Baptist Church, the orders of service are prepared for Pop's memorial.
• Dapper Dan, Fish, and Cage converse for a little while. After the tailor leaves, Aisha Axton storms into the barber shop asking for Cage's help getting back the ring. He exits the shop to help, and is immediately confronted by several more people requesting help.
• Claire Temple arrives at her mother's diner and the two greet each other.
• Cage travels around Harlem, helping people with their individual difficulties, taking out thugs and taking back their property.
• In their law office, Murdock uses the planes of the city in order to discover where the Hand could be hiding. Nelson arrives and after a conversation about their future, he remarks that Murdock should look in abandoned subway tunnels under manhole covers.
• Misty Knight tells Cage that the chaos around him needs to stop, and warns him not to go to Pop's memorial.
• Cage enters Harlem's Paradise to talk to Cottonmouth. His men shoot at Cage, to no avail. When the gangster walks down with Shades to meet him, Shades finally recognizes Cage as Carl Lucas from Seagate Prison. Cage leaves, warning them to keep his true name out of their mouths.
• Temple tells her mother about the attack on the hospital and the murder of Louisa Delgado. The two discuss how the world has changed in recent years, and Temple decides that now she is unemployed, she wants to help superpowered people.
• Shades shows Cottonmouth the Ukrainian demonstration video of the Judas Bullet: a special destructive drilling and exploding bullet developed from Chitauri technology recovered from the Battle of New York. Cottonmouth is incredibly impressed and excited, wanting to acquire the weapon to kill Luke Cage. Shades says that Diamondback will give him the weapon either for a huge sum of money, or if he lets Diamondback deal with Cage.
• Police Captain Betty Audrey informs Detective Knight that her office has Rafael Scarfe under investigation, on suspicion of working with Cottonmouth, though Knight refuses to believe it.
• Cage tracks down Zip and confronts him. All of Zip's associates scatter and Cage picks up Zip by the throat, demanding the ring back. The thug denies having it, but Cage continues, telling him he is being disrespectful to local black history. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out the ring, then throws him down and leaves.
• Scarfe meets with Perez, another corrupt cop under Cottonmouth's employment, discussing what to do about the gun evidence from the junkyard shootout for Cottonmouth. Scarfe suggests killing Stokes instead, but Perez feels it is far too difficult.
• Cage goes back to the Axtons' business to return the ring, but finds Aisha has gone, and her father Eddie Axton is sitting in the shop instead. Eddie grumpily says that the ring is meaningless, but Cage understands that Aisha sees it as a reminder of "the good old days". He tells Eddie to let her know he came by and heads off to Pop's memorial.
• While sitting in her mother's diner, Claire Temple watches the news as it reports again on Cage, the neighborhood's new hero. She recognizes Cage as the man she helped several months ago.
• Using the information that Foggy Nelson gave to him, Murdock as Daredevil drops into an old railway tunnel and starts to investigate.
• Henry "Pop" Hunter's memorial service is held at Mount Olivet Baptist Church. In attendance is Misty Knight, Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes, Shades, Aisha Axton, and many more.
• In the New York Bulletin Building, Mitchell Ellison tells Page that to write her article on Castle for Sunday 22nd's paper, she should visit one of Castle's old friends. She decides to visit Ray Schoonover.
• Pop's estranged son, Bert Hunter, speaks at the funeral, sad to have not been able to tell his father that he was going to have a son; that Pop was going to be a grandfather. Cage arrives late after helping people around the neighborhood. Cottonmouth is also in attendance and stands up to speak to the congregation. He tells them about Pop's mentoring of him in his teenage years, that the shooter should rot in hell, and that they should stand up for Harlem's greatness. Cage notices Aisha has a gun in her bag and squeezes, bending it out of shape and disarming it. Cage then walks forward to take the lectern and speaks about Pop himself. He tells the crowd that Pop always did his best to set good examples and set youths on a straight path.
• Cage says that he does not believe in just Harlem - but the people of Harlem, and their potential to be great, to be "diamonds", as Pop analogized.
• In the tunnel, Daredevil is attacked by Hand ninjas. He defeats them and successfully tracks and rescues Stick, who is severely injured. When they attempt to escape, Natchios appears and stops them.
• Leaving the memorial service, Cage tells Cottonmouth he was glad to embarrass him in public. Misty Knight walks up to him, telling him that he needs to stop calling out Cottonmouth and let the police take him down before things get worse. Cage tells her that it saddens him that they cannot agree, but he feels his actions are necessary, and he will continue nonetheless.
• Page goes to Ray Schoonover's home and starts to interview him about Castle's past life.
• Looking at Schoonover's photographs on the wall, Page recognizes one of the men from his burnt corpse at Pier 81, realizing that this man was involved in the Blacksmith incident the night before.
• Realizing now that Schoonover may well be the Blacksmith, Page attempts to leave, but Schoonover stops her, suddenly threatening her with a hidden gun. He takes her to her car and forces her to drive away.
• Nobu Yoshioka and his men arrive and reveal to Natchios that she is the "Black Sky". Elektra is overwhelmed and confused by the revelation, but suddenly begins to consider joining Yoshioka; however, Daredevil convinces her not to. The trio fight the Hand and manage to escape with Stick.
• Assassination of Ray Schoonover and Frank Castle:
  • As Page drives, her car is ambushed by Castle, attacking Schoonover now that he knows he is the Blacksmith.
  • Castle drags an injured Schoonover out of the car and through the woods, taking him into his nearby cabin.
  • Despite Page's despair at Castle's mercilessness, Castle pulls a gun on Schoonover. Schoonover, however, manages to attack Castle and steals his gun, pointing it at him. With great speed, Castle pulls out a second gun and points it at Schoonover. They both shoot at the same time and the two men die in front of Karen.
  • Page calls 911, reporting the Punisher's death.

• Angered by his interference in their plans, Nobu Yoshioka decides that Daredevil must die.
• Yoshioka orders Tyler to bring him the police files of Daredevil's previous rescued citizens. Threatening Brett Mahoney that they will kill his mother, he gives the Hand the files that they required. Tyler gives them to Yoshioka.
• In his apartment, Murdock stitches Stick's wounds. He tells Natchios that they will face the Hand together.

21st

• The New York Bulletin reports the confirmation of Frank Castle's death.
• Recommended by Marci Stahl, Foggy Nelson meets with Jeri Hogarth, who offers him a position in her firm, stating that he would be a great asset for them in future vigilante cases. Nelson accepts gratefully.
• Daredevil and Natchios go to Melvin Potter's Workshop, where Potter gives Daredevil a prototype billy club he has been working on. He also makes Natchios a new outfit.
• The Hand kidnap twenty of Daredevil's previously rescued citizens from Hell's Kitchen in order to attract his attention, including Karen Page, Jerry, and ironically, Turk Barrett.
• Nelson receives a call from Mahoney saying that he needs help.
• Mahoney tells Nelson that he was attacked by a group looking for Daredevil's files.
• Nelson calls Murdock to alert him of the situation.
• Murdock visits Mahoney as Daredevil, who tells him of how the Hand ninjas who attacked him took files on the people he put away and the people he has saved.
• Worried for Page's safety, Murdock goes to her apartment only to find that she is not there.
• Attack on the Hand:
  • Daredevil manages to track down the hostages to a remote location and rescues them, as he fights Hand ninjas with the help of Elektra Natchios.
  • They are soon severely outnumbered and forced to escape to the rooftop. Murdock declares his love for her and says that he wants a life together.
  • Facing their seemingly final battle, Natchios and Daredevil step out onto the rooftop to fight their enemies. After taking down a few combatants, they take on Yoshioka himself, but he subdues them in the combat. Yoshioka attempts to kill Daredevil with one of the Twin Sai, but Natchios steps in and he inadvertently fatally wounds her. As she dies in Murdock's arms, Natchios says that she knows now how it feels to be good. Blinded by rage, Daredevil attacks Yoshioka and overpowers him, using his billy club to throw him to his death. However, Yoshioka survives, but is immediately confronted by Stick, who beheads and finally kills his nemesis.

27th

• Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes meets with Rafael Scarfe for him to hand over Domingo Colon's guns.
• When Scarfe demands his payment from Stokes, Stokes refuses and ends up shooting Scarfe in anger, leaving the detective bleeding heavily, then drives away.
• At the end of his run, Cage encounters Mariah Dillard filming another promotional video, and warns her calmly that he is going to take down both her and her cousin.
• Cage shares a meal with Bobby Fish at Willow Temple's diner, to discuss what to do with Pop's Barber Shop now. Willow contacts her daughter Claire to inform her that Cage is in the diner, knowing Claire wants to help superpowered people.
• At Harlem's Paradise, Dillard becomes angry at her cousin Stokes when he reveals that he has shot Scarfe, worried that if Scarfe lives, it will bring their campaign crumbling down. Dillard says that they need to kill Cage, suggesting several ways to kill him despite his bulletproof skin.
• Cottonmouth calls Perez to let him know what happened with Scarfe, and requesting his help out of the situation.
• Claire Temple arrives at the diner and goes to speak with Cage. She reintroduces herself, and after a moment, Cage recognizes her. Fish leaves and Temple sits with Cage, telling him she is glad to have helped him, and that his gifts make him "amazing". She follows after him when he leaves.
• Captain Betty Audrey tells the officers in her department that they need to find Rafael Scarfe and bring him back before anyone can get to him. She asks Misty Knight if Scarfe ever told her anything, but Knight insists he never did, still shocked that Scarfe could possibly be corrupt.
• On returning to the barber shop, Cage is concerned when he finds the front door unlocked. Walking in, him and Temple find Scarfe lying inside around the back of the shop in a bloody mess. He tells them not to call the police or take him to hospital, as Cottonmouth's men will find and kill him. Temple begins to operate on him.
• Detective Knight looks in Scarfe's house, envisioning his actions; she is interrupted by Perez. Knight explains her skill at picturing scenes, and tells Perez about Rafael's son Earl Scarfe who accidentally fatally shot himself with Rafael's gun.
• Mariah Dillard prepares for an interview. She curses a photograph of Mama Mabel.
• Temple continues to operate on Scarfe. Cage questions Scarfe until he reluctantly admits to having killed Chico Diaz. Angered, Cage begins to choke Scarfe, until Temple convinces him to stop. As Cage and Temple begin to leave, he calls out, telling Cage that he has enough evidence to bring down Cottonmouth from his notes in his apartment. Cage heads off to retrieve them.
• As Dillard makes final preparations for her interview, the interviewer Thembi Wallace tells her bluntly that she needs to be more interesting and fun. Dillard takes offence.
• Perez and Knight sit in a car outside Scarfe's apartment waiting to catch him if he enters. Cage slips into the building, stealing the notes. Knight realizes someone has entered and the two run into the building to catch whoever it is. Cage hears them coming and leaps out of the window, but Knight sees him escape.
• Chase of Rafael Scarfe: Cage gets back to the barber shop but knows the police will be on his tail. Temple reveals she has called her mother to bring her company van and, picking up Scarfe, they head out the back and get into the vehicle. Cage drives them away as Temple tends to Scarfe.
• Mariah Dillard's live interview begins. Wallace starts by questioning her about Damon Boone's accusations against her.
• Knight and Perez investigate the barber shop.
• Cottonmouth calls Perez, enquiring why Scarfe is with Cage, and reminding Perez how vital it is he gets Scarfe before he can talk to police. Cottonmouth then sends Zip to tell people to look for a green van which will contain Scarfe, and offering reward money for his death.
• Two men wanting Cottonmouth's reward find Willow Temple's van and open fire. A car chase begins as Cage attempts to swerve away from the attackers and hide the van in an alleyway. They leave the car and run inside the nearby building. The men open fire on the van before realizing they are not inside and continuing to pursue the trio, splitting up to find them. They follow holes in the walls clearly made by Cage.
• Knight receives a radio call informing her of the gunfire and its location, leading her to deduce that Cage and Scarfe are heading for One Police Plaza. Perez tells her not to rush, secretly hoping the men will kill Scarfe before they can get there. Knight is suspicious. She pretends to receive a call from Scarfe informing her that Perez is corrupt, causing him to confess his guilt; Knight then reveals she did not receive a call, but was actually recording to capture his confession on her cell phone. They begin to fight in the car, but Knight manages to take his gun and forces him to cuff himself.
• Dillard watches her video from the morning and is proud. When the interview resumes live again, Wallace suddenly confronts her with her family's history and her involvement with Cottonmouth, airing footage of her family photographs and the investigation into the attack on the Crispus Attucks Complex which was not reported on. Dillard is shocked and calls out Wallace for just trying to get a good story at her expense, then walks out on the interview.
• Cage, Temple, and Scarfe are approaching police headquarters when the men catch up and open fire. Cage uses himself as a shield. Temple takes Scarfe outside and he begins to give up on life. Some of Cottonmouth's men then drive a van at the duo to kill them and they brace themselves, but Cage arrives in time to stop the van, crushing its front as he stands in its path. The police arrive on the scene and Knight gets out of her car in time to get to Scarfe as he collapses. The partners have a last conversation as Scarfe finally dies from his injuries.
• Arrest of Cottonmouth: Having the evidence from Scarfe's notes, Knight finally arrests Cottonmouth at Harlem's Paradise.
• Dillard comes back downstairs in her home and finds that the news team have not yet left. Thembi Wallace suddenly confronts her with a camera and microphone asking her to comment on her cousin's arrest. Dillard furiously calls for her team to force them out of her home and panics, worrying about what this means for her and her campaign.
• Cage tells Temple that he feels that now Cottonmouth is in jail, he is done with fighting crime in the neighborhood. Temple attempts to persuade him otherwise, and the two share in lighthearted conversation, believing things to be mostly resolved.
• Captain Audrey tells Detective Knight as she sits, mourning Scarfe, that she is likely to lose her position as captain for not catching Scarfe or Perez, who were under her command.

30th

• Luke Cage interrupts a deal as Zip attempts to sell guns, telling him Cottonmouth is done, and he should stop his dealings. Zip informs him that he is wrong, as Cottonmouth will be getting out of arrest.
• Benjamin Donovan, serving now as Stokes' lawyer, proves that because of Scarfe's death, the NYPD has no legal evidence against Cottonmouth. Therefore, to Misty Knight's disgust, Cottonmouth is released from the precinct, as the media, and Luke Cage, watch on. Priscilla Ridley arrives at the precinct.
• Betty Audrey is officially fired from her job as captain for not noticing Scarfe and Perez's corruption.
• Cottonmouth boasts to Shades about his release as he watches news coverage of the event. He tells him that now Colon has his guns, he feels that he is back in charge, and all he needs now is to kill Luke Cage. He wants the Judas Bullets to take him down, telling Shades he wants to meet with Diamondback. He then takes the gun he used to kill Pistol Pete in 1987 from its box.
• Cage sits in Pop's Barber Shop, angry about Cottonmouth's release. Claire Temple tells him he should take justice into his own hands, like Daredevil in Hell's Kitchen. Bobby Fish suddenly receives a phone call, passing it over to Cage; it is Cottonmouth, requesting a parley at Harlem's Paradise.
• Audrey sadly tells Detective Knight that she has lost her job, and warns her to be diligent and careful. Inspector Ridley then enters the room, greeting Knight, who is bitter towards her after a long time of not seeing each other.
• Damon Boone meets with Mariah Dillard when she invites him to her home. She answers a few questions for the media then brings him inside. He says that he should take her place as political candidate after the revelations about her cousin's criminal actions. However, she angrily orders him to leave. Shades then enters the room to speak with her.
• Priscilla Ridley grills Knight on Luke Cage, noting how he is linked to all the events and should be a suspect.
• Cottonmouth plays his keyboard and recalls playing it in 1987 when Mama Mabel attacked Donnie.
• Cage arrives for the parley with Cottonmouth, who threatens him about revealing his knowledge of Cage being Carl Lucas, being an ex-convict, thereby ruining his name in the neighborhood and forcing him to return to Seagate Prison.
• Cottonmouth tells him that now Cage has to keep out of his way, or he'll reveal the secret to everyone.
• Shades tells Dillard that the name "Stokes" used to ring out in the neighborhood, but that now it means very little, and she has little presence or power. She becomes angry, but he stops her, and tells her that when she gets the nerve, she will then realize just how powerful she can be.
• Cage packs his things, deciding to leave Harlem after Cottonmouth's threat, and worrying that when he is around, people get hurt. Claire Temple stops him leaving, telling him that he would have to run forever, and that he should take Cottonmouth down once and for all to save the community and free himself of the threat. Cage is not completely sure about that yet, but decides to stay and do some investigation.
• Cottonmouth talks to Shades at Harlem's Paradise, telling him that Cage will now fall in line. He recalls telling Mama Mabel about Pistol Pete meeting with Salvador Colon.
• Cage speaks to D.W. Griffith as he sells DVDs of the Battle of New York, knowing that Griffith hears and sees everything on the streets. He asks where Domingo Colon can be found.
• Raid of Colon's Gym:
  • Cage finds Colon's Gym from Griffith's information and attacks his men.
  • He finds Colon and threatens him, asking where the guns are.
  • Colon reveals they are downstairs, and Cage goes to retrieve them.

• Mark Bailey approaches Knight in the precinct, telling her that he can find a highly unusual, suspicious lack of information on Luke Cage.
• Dillard receives a call from her party chairwoman telling her she has to resign from the council in the morning because of her cousin's arrest and criminal accusations.
• She becomes angry, and decides to drive to Harlem's Paradise and confront Cottonmouth about his reckless actions.
• Murder of Cottonmouth:
  • Cottonmouth is recalling having to kill Pistol Pete, when Dillard arrives. She tells him to stop obsessing over Cage as it has ruined her politics. Cottonmouth ignores her, and Dillard becomes angry, saying that she had to look after him when he was younger, but Cottonmouth reminds her that she got to go to school, while Mama Mabel made him run the streets, and he was the one forced to kill Pistol Pete at age 14.
  • Cottonmouth tells Dillard that he remembers her flirting with Pete when he was young, and that he thinks she actually wanted his sexual advances on her. She loses control and bashes him over the head with a bottle, before pushing him through the upstairs window in fury, falling several meters onto the floor below. He attempts to crawl away, but she takes a microphone stand and smashes his head, screaming that she did not want it, until he is dead. Shades enters, having come to the building to kill Cottonmouth anyway, and finds Dillard standing over the body.
  • Shades congratulates her on coming into her own, and begins to offer her help and comfort over her first murder, and how to deal with the situation.

• Knight meets with Cage after he texts her. He tells her that he has taken back Colon's guns for her, and she can take them back to the precinct. Despite this, Knight says that she still cannot trust him.
• Shades tells Mariah Dillard to change into the clothes Alex Wesley has brought for her, and says that they can carefully manipulate DNA to accuse Cage of the murder. She mentions the bottle she hit Cottonmouth with, and he assures her Joel Spurlock will incinerate everything involved with the crime.
• Ridley sees the guns on Knight's desk, but says that they are not out of trouble yet. Knight receives a phone call informing her of Cottonmouth's death, and she rushes off to the scene.
• Attack on Luke Cage: Cage tells Temple about his escape from Seagate Prison, and that he still has not told his father he is alive. She says that she has a lawyer friend who might be able to help. As they talk, Willis Stryker takes aim from afar with a Judas Bullet. He shoots Cage in the stomach, horrifying both Cage and Temple, as they are unware of the attacker, but especially as the bullet has pierced his supposedly bulletproof skin.
• Temple calls her friend to borrow an ambulance, and they load Cage onto the vehicle and drive away to tend to his wound.
• Cage wakes up and Temple informs him of what has happened. The ambulance is suddenly flipped over by a shot from behind, fired by Stryker.
• Stryker calls out Cage with a line from a movie they used to watch together, The Warriors, causing Cage to realize the identity of his attacker. As police sirens approach, Stryker leaves, telling Cage to "keep running".
• Misty Knight investigates the crime scene at Harlem's Paradise with Bailey. She asks for someone to find if any missing items, and visualizes the murder - that it would have taken more than just the fall to kill Cottonmouth; the attacker would also have had to beat his head with a blunt instrument.
• Dillard remembers the advice Shades gave her earlier, and recites her alibi to Knight. She tells her that she found Cottonmouth already dead, and claims she had then heard Candace Miller crying, and that Miller had said she had seen Luke Cage kill Cottonmouth.
• Claire Temple helps Luke Cage walk on towards a nearby clinic where she can operate on him. Dillard leaves Harlem's Paradise and releases a statement about Cage being a coward and how he murdered her cousin. Miller arrives at the precinct for questioning, as Shades carefully places fake evidence against Cage in Pop's Barber Shop.
• Temple and Cage get to the Harlem Women's Clinic. However, neither Temple nor Cage can operate, as his tissue is too tough to pull the bullet out.
• Interrogation begins for Candace Miller. Miller claims she had taken a shower, as Benjamin Donovan arrives to represent her, warning her not to say anything more. Knight reveals that they found traces of blood in Cottonmouth's shower, despite it having just been bleached, arousing suspicion. Miller insists that she had showered, then looked for Cottonmouth for her paycheck and instead found Cage leaving, wearing yellow dish washing gloves, having killed Cottonmouth.
• Miller brings up the fact that she saw Knight and Cage together at the bar a few weeks prior. Knight points out that on that night, Miller was scared to even be near Cottonmouth, and her story does not line up with her personality or role. She questions whether Miller is being paid by someone to lie, as Donovan removes her from the room.
• Dillard sits outside in the precinct, when Knight confronts her, telling her that she now finds her a top suspect. Knight says that the wounds showed that the attacker was close to Cottonmouth, having attacked with passion, and that Dillard is still a little damp from having likely taken a shower. She is defiant, however. When Priscilla Ridley comes to the corridor, she greets Dillard, having previously been a soror of hers, and lets her go. Knight tells Ridley why she believes Dillard was the murderer, but Ridley tells her that she has to find Cage and bring him in, as he should remain a top suspect.
• Temple performs an ultrasound on Cage and realizes that the bullet exploded on penetration, and the shrapnel is still making its way inwards. She calls Knight, reminding her they met the other night. Bailey traces the call to the women's clinic, and Knight leaves to bring in Cage herself.
• Zip, Sugar, and Amos come to Harlem's Paradise to demand a share of what Cottonmouth has left behind. However, Shades confidently tells them Dillard owns the club, and that they work for him now.
• Incrimination of Luke Cage: Police combing Pop's Barber Shop for evidence find the yellow gloves planted by Shades in the trash can, matching Miller's description and covered in Cottonmouth's blood.

December

1st

• Knight arrives at the Harlem Women's Clinic to confront Cage, but double takes when she sees his bullet wound. They explain what has happened, and Knight explains that Cottonmouth is dead, with Cage accused of the murder. Temple insists he has been with her all night. Knight is becoming convinced of his innocence when she receives a call informing her of the gloves evidence. Knight begins to arrest Cage, when the trio are interrupted as a Judas bullet is fired into the wall, exploding and drilling through. Knight opens fire on the attacker, but is unsuccessful. The attacker reaches his arm through the window to grab Temple, but she retaliates and Cage pulls him through into the room.
• Cage is taken aback to find that the attacker is indeed his old friend Willis Stryker. Stryker uses the momentary pause to escape his grasp. He attacks Detective Knight, pulling her up the stairs onto the roof. On the roof, Stryker holds Knight at gun point, bringing her to her knees. He asks her to beg for her life, but she refuses, yet breaks down at her loss of control over the situation. Stryker changes his mind, deciding that he wants to kill her another time, so as to cause Cage more pain. He leaves.
• Stryker stumbles, injured and bloodied, through the streets of Harlem. He breaks into the United Palace Theatre to prepare for Cage to follow.
• Temple helps Cage onto the roof, and looks after Detective Knight. She tells Cage to go ahead and confront Stryker.
• Temple and Knight make it to the precinct. Interrogation begins on Temple.
• Cage slowly hobbles through the streets in pursuit of Stryker. He notices Stryker's blood trail into the theatre and makes his way to the door.
• After an hour of interrogation, the NYPD have still got no useful information from Temple, and give up.
• Duel at the United Palace Theatre: Cage enters the United Palace Theatre and calls out for Stryker. He makes his way through the building as Stryker calls from an indeterminable location. Entering the main hall, Cage is cautious, as Stryker sits perched on the gallery seating above, ready to shoot his old friend. Stryker taunts Cage about going to prison and Reva Connors' death to anger him, telling him that he wanted Seagate Prison to be hell for him, yet he came back with superpowers. Cage charges at a support pole for the gallery, knocking it over and bringing the balcony crashing down, as Stryker falls with it.
• He gets back up and engages in a fight with Cage, but manages to escape.
• Misty Knight decides to interrogate Claire Temple herself, but is still shaken from Stryker's threat on her life. When Temple is defiant, Knight loses her temper, scared of not being in control of the situation again, and physically assaults Temple for information. Priscilla Ridley bursts in, appalled by Knight's behavior and separates the two.
• Luke Cage walks out into the new morning, desperately still trying to find Stryker.
• Mariah Dillard pays Candace Miller for going along with her alibi, and lets her go, telling her to return to Harlem's Paradise when it reopens in a few days. She then tells Shades that if Miller does tell anyone the truth, they will have to kill her. Dillard returns home for the first time since killing her cousin. She sees a photograph of Mama Mabel, and slams it down, refusing to believe she is like her.
• Stryker and Cage encounter each other again on the street. Cage begs Stryker to remember when they used to be best friends, telling him he loved him like a brother. Stryker angrily reveals in reply, "I am your brother," then shoots him with another Judas Bullet. Shocked and in pain, knocked back by the shot, Cage falls into a garbage truck, which drives away.
• Due to her attack on Temple, Misty Knight is taken to the interrogation room and is interviewed for the next few hours by Gabe Krasner.
• A weak Cage awakes from his short fainting and proceeds to find Claire Temple for help.
• Diamondback orders his men to find Cage. He then explains to Shades that Cornell Stokes was like a brother to him, and threatens to kill him. However, Zip arrives and convinces him not to, because that would mean that it would take longer to find Cage.
• Mariah Dillard goes to the morgue to see the corpse of her cousin. She apologizes to his cadaver for what happened.
• Wearing the Judas Gauntlet which gives him new incredible strength, Diamondback wears a hoodie and is found by two cops, who confuse him with Luke Cage and attempt to arrest him. However, Diamondback manages to defeat them both by knocking out one, and throwing the other at their patrol car. The incident is recorded by the car's dashboard camera.
• Misty Knight tells her interrogator that she did not know Rafael Scarfe was working for Cottonmouth.
• Mariah Dillard visits Domingo Colon and tells him that they have to discuss the future of Harlem. She tells Colon that he has to invite all the leaders he thinks would be assets. Colon tells her that he will invite the leaders of the Macoute, the Yardies, the Cubanos, and the Chinese.
• The dash cam video of Diamondback attacking the two cops while pretending to be Luke Cage is leaked onto the internet, becoming viral over the next few hours.
• Cage meets with Claire Temple and tells her that he needs her help. She agrees to help him and reveals that she has been investigating the experiment which gave him his powers. She also tells him that they need to visit the man who created the experiment that gave Cage his powers: Dr. Noah Burstein.
• Dillard decides to use the video of Cage attacking the cops to promote her campaign.
• Temple and Cage arrive at Burnstein's residence and convince him to help Cage, using Reva Connors's USB with the information about the experiment. Meanwhile, Priscilla Ridley talks to Knight, ordering her to focus only on Cage and not on Dillard, nor the one who attacked her last night.
• Needing help tracking down the Centipede Project, Phil Coulson travels to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Training Facility to recruit new S.H.I.E.L.D. trainee Michael Peterson.
• Coulson's Team tracks down Laura Hayward and traces her cell phone call to Brian to Oakland, California.
• Ambush at the Oakland Centipede Base: Coulson, Peterson, Melinda May and Grant Ward lead an attack on the facility, not knowing that three Centipede soldiers were in cargo bins waiting to strike. They were deployed to attack the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Peterson gets stabbed by a stick causing him severe damage, but despite the injury, he manages to subdue Hayward. May also takes another Centipede soldier down, but he manages to escape with another soldier. Before being interrogated, Hayward is killed using his Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant.
• Kidnapping of Phil Coulson:
  • Michael Peterson is persuaded by Coulson to call his son and Raina answers the telephone, wanting Peterson to trade Coulson for Ace's safety.
  • Peterson is presumed killed by S.H.I.E.L.D. when he is caught in the explosion that the Centipede Project ignited to facilitate their escape with the captive Coulson.

• Massacre at Colon's Gym: During the meeting between Dillard and the leaders of the gangs, Diamondback arrives and kills everyone but Domingo Colon, only because they were his competition. He then tells Dillard that she should still be working on business.
• To cure him, Claire Temple and Noah Burstein must put Cage in a tank full of boiling water similar to when he first got his powers, or else the injuries will kill him. When he briefly flatlines, Temple throws in an electronic device to shock him back to life. They decide to turn the water's heat up all the way, which briefly weakens his skin's durability, allowing Temple to operate and remove the shrapnel.

2nd

• Assassination of Jackie Albini: Diamondback attacks Officer Jackie Albini with Judas Gauntlet, once again claiming he is Luke Cage, so as to frame him.
• Mariah Dillard yells at Diamondback for killing Albini, claiming Harlem is her birthright; but Stryker simply tells her this is one step closer to getting to Cage.
• Misty Knight is not sure Luke Cage actually killed the cop, despite everyone else at the station believing so. Knight begins searching for the possible real killer, and eventually finds Diamondback as a suspect. Meanwhile, another cop takes Lonnie Wilson in for questioning, but when he refuses to give information on Cage, the cop becomes angry and is caught attacking Wilson.
• Luke Cage wakes up from the night before. When Noah Burstein leaves the room, Cage and Claire Temple look at Reva Connors's flash drive.
• They discover she was reporting on his time at Seagate Prison, lying to Cage the whole time, secretly knowing about the experiments.
• When Burstein returns, Cage proceeds to destroy the barn they were in, enraged. Cage and Temple leave afterward with the flash drive. However, Burstein still manages to retrieve the data from the USB. Outside, Cage and Temple bond across the water from Seagate Prison, before leaving for New York again. They briefly stop at his father's church.
• Entering the church, Cage recalls his childhood memories, realizing that Willis Stryker is definitely his half-brother - the result of an affair between his father and Stryker's mother.
• Misty Knight finds out Luke Cage is Carl Lucas. Soon after, Mariah Dillard confronts her about the angry cop beating up Lonnie Wilson.
• Later, Knight questions Domingo Colon for information about Diamondback.
• At Harlem's Paradise, Mariah Dillard speaks out about the dangers of Luke Cage, the police, and other enhanced individuals like Jessica Jones.
• Attack on Harlem's Paradise:
  • Luke Cage and Claire Temple arrive back at New York and enter Harlem's Paradise, where Misty Knight is searching for Diamondback. Stryker shoots Knight in the arm, and Cage carries her to safety.
  • Stryker and his men seal the club, and take anyone inside as hostages, including Temple.
  • Outside, Priscilla Ridley, with some help from Blake Tower, plots a way to get inside Harlem's Paradise and rescue Misty Knight.
  • Willis Stryker threatens Damon Boone to blame Luke Cage for kidnapping the hostages. He sends a message out that he'll kill a hostage every 10 minutes. He then kills Boone, and has his body delivered to the police outside.
  • Cage hides Misty Knight in the basement of Harlem's Paradise, as he plots to rescue the hostages. Claire Temple, who managed to find a way to escape downstairs, reunites with them and volunteers to care for Knight. Cage then leaves them alone so he can rescue the hostages. Eventually, Shades finds their hiding spot and attacks them. Working together, the duo manage to take him down.

• Cage knocks out the power and rescues the hostages. However, when he rescues Candace Miller from Diamondback, police break in and surround him. As Stryker escapes the building safely, Shades and Cage are arrested, Misty Knight receives medical attention, and Claire Temple walks away unharmed.[231] Before they haul him away, Knight pretends to also believe he is the murderer so as to subtly pass on a message to aid his escape.
• As Luke Cage is being transferred to prison, the police are stopped in the road by an elderly lady blocking their path. Cage uses the opportunity to escape the vehicle, but in his getaway, is cornered by a police officer. However, the officer concludes Cage is innocent and lets him go.

3rd

• Coulson's Team, with Victoria Hand as the superior agent, helps in the capture of T. Vanchat.
• Willis Stryker meets with Turk Barrett and Zip to discuss the next action to take against Luke Cage.
• Mariah Dillard visits Harlem's Paradise after the incident and realizes Diamondback is to blame.
• Luke Cage notices a convenience store being robbed and goes in to help. After knocking out one of the criminals and stealing his phone, Cage calls Bobby Fish. He then notices that Method Man is present, and they compliment each other's work, before switching hoodies. Before Cage can leave, Method Man comments on how good it is that someone is continuing with Black Jaguar's work. Having heard that name before but not remembering exactly where, Cage asks who he was talking about, and Method Man answers him saying Black Jaguar was a vigilante that used to protect Brooklyn in the 1980s, similar to how Cage is now protecting Harlem. He then says he believes his name was Julius Rock, and Cage, with something in mind, says farewell to him.
• Cage goes to his apartment and searches for Julius Rock online. He reads about his activity as Black Jaguar, defending the people of Brooklyn, especially the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, against criminals, racist cops and even some early super-villains. Julius was killed in battle in 1988, but was remembered as a hero of the African American community. Inspired by his actions, Cage decides to become the hero Harlem needs and take the fight to his brother.
• Shades is taken into questioning, but refuses to say anything without a lawyer.
• Candace Miller meets with Misty Knight and admits Mariah Dillard was the one who murdered Cottonmouth.
• Method Man goes on a radio talk show and raps about his experience with Luke Cage.
• Black men all over Harlem begin wearing hoodies with bullet-holes to stand up against police in defense of Cage.
• After Pop's Barber Shop is searched by police, Luke Cage walks in to reunite with Bobby Fish and discuss the next step against Diamondback.
• Shades gets help from a lawyer, as he requested, and is released from prison.
• Attack on Shades:
  • Zip and Shades reunite. However, under orders from Diamondback, Zip attempts to strangle Shades to death, until Shades steals his gun and holds him at gunpoint.
  • Zip admits Stryker gave the order, so Shades shoots and kills him in anger.
  • Diamondback gives Mariah Dillard a stash of money and promises that when Luke Cage is dead, he will disappear, though will return from time to time.
  • Luke Cage questions Turk Barrett, who has returned to Harlem after the incident with the Hand nearly two weeks ago, and throws him into a dumpster to scare him. After he gets the information he wants, he decides to leave Barrett stuck in the dumpster.
• Attack on Diamondback: Domingo Colon and his men go to assassinate Willis Stryker. However, Stryker activates his now finished power suit and escapes. Luke Cage discovers the aftermath and rescues Colon from a bomb Stryker left. Despite his efforts however, Colon still dies.
• Shades and Dillard form an alliance against Diamondback, and go to Pop's Barber Shop to form a truce with Luke Cage and Misty Knight.
• Diamondback arrives at Pop's Barber Shop in the full power suit, interrupting the exchange between Mariah Dillard, Shades, Misty Knight, Bobby Fish, and Luke Cage. Diamondback throws a grenade, causing an explosion that makes everyone scatter. Knight loses the cellphone that she used to contact Candace Miller, and Shades loses the files that proves the innocence of Carl Lucas. Before they escape, Shades picks up Knight's cellphone as he follows Dillard.
• Duel at Malcolm X Boulevard:
  • Cage tells Knight to keep everyone safe as he prepares to fight his half-brother. A fight ensues between Diamondback and Cage.
  • The battle makes its way through the streets of Harlem. As they continue to fight, some Harlem residents arrive to give their support to Cage.
  • WJBP-TV News reports on the battle between Luke Cage and Diamondback
  • Claire Temple watches the battle on her mother's TV and decides to help Cage.
  • Using the battle as an example of violence in the neighborhood, Mariah Dillard gives an interview explaining that what is happening is out of control, and that those kinds of things are what her campaign is trying to avoid. She mentions that Luke Cage could potentially be escaped ex-convict Carl Lucas.
  • Temple arrives at Pop's Barber Shop and sees the brutal fight between Cage and Diamondback. After a lengthy duel, Cage manages to defeat his half-brother. In the middle of her interview, Misty Knight arrests Dillard for the assassination of her cousin, Cornell Stokes.
• Shades texts from Knight's cellphone, pretending to be her, in order to agree a meeting with Candace Miller.
• In order to testify for the charges he is being accused of, Cage arrives at the 29th Precinct Police Station with Temple and Knight. He explains everything that has recently transpired to Priscilla Ridley, Knight, and her partner, in order to prove his innocence.
• Willis Stryker is taken into custody, but first to a hospital for recovery.
• Assassination of Candace Miller: So as to make the evidence against Dillard useless, Shades tracks and kills Miller.
• Ridley confronts Dillard with all the evidence the Police Department has. However, Dillard continues with her lies, even when Misty presents her the declaration of Candace Miller accusing her of killing Cottonmouth.
• Knight and Ridley are informed of the death of Candace Miller. Knowing that her death makes her statement useless, they are forced to free Dillard without charges.
• Arrest of Luke Cage:
  • Knight reveals to Luke Cage and Claire Temple that due to Candace Miller's death, Dillard was free to leave.
  • Suddenly, two officers from Seagate Prison arrive and arrest Cage for his escape from Seagate as "Carl Lucas". Cage surrenders without opposing, to the dismay of Temple, Knight, and Ridley. Before leaving, Cage and Temple share a kiss. She reminds him that she knows a lawyer that might help him. He finally accepts.
• Cage is taken to Seagate Prison.
• Knight sees Candace Miller's corpse and decides to enforce justice on her own. She decides to spy on Mariah Dillard in order to obtain new evidence to bring her down.
• Bobby Fish stays at Pop's and finds the file with the information for the innocence of Luke Cage.
• As she leaves the Police Department, Temple notices Colleen Wing's advert for self-defense classes.

4th

• The New York Bulletin publishes the paper with the front-page article "Luke Cage'd", about Luke Cage's arrest the day before.
• At the hospital, Noah Burstein is assigned to take care of Diamondback. However, he secretly decides to use Diamondback as a test subject to recreate Luke Cage's powers.
• Skye is evicted from the Bus by Hand, following advice from Melinda May. She then goes to Los Angeles, steals Lloyd Rathman's car, enters his home, and, with the help of Rathman and his security guards, accesses Rathman's computer to find the Centipede Project.
• Raina takes control of Phil Coulson's interrogation after Edison Po is killed by the Clairvoyant.
• Coulson is persuaded by Raina to use the Theta Brain-Wave Frequency Machine to see what happened during his resurrection. He discovers that Tahiti was a memory implant caused by the Memory Overwriting Machine and Karine transforms into Dr. Goodman, the assistant of Dr. J. Streiten.
• Coulson's Team raids the Mojave Desert hideout holding Coulson and captures Raina.

8th

• Harlem's Paradise reopens to the public by holding a party. Misty Knight arrives in order to continue spying on Mariah Dillard.

23rd

• One month after her death, Elektra Natchios' funeral finally takes place, but only Murdock and Stick attend to give their condolences. They discuss Murdock's love for her as they watch her grave being dug.
• Nelson and Page go to Josie's Bar and have an evening together discussing Nelson's future with Hogarth, Chao & Benowitz, and their friendship. They finally close their Nelson and Murdock tab at the bar.

24th

• Page stays at the New York Bulletin Building late on Christmas Eve to write a special article for Mitchell Ellison and the New York Bulletin regarding heroic qualities in New Yorkers.

25th

• Matt Murdock meets with Karen Page at the Nelson and Murdock Law Office, and he begins to apologize to her, but she refuses to listen. Finally, Murdock shows her his Daredevil helmet, revealing his secret to her.
• Page goes for a walk to think things over, then returns to Murdock's apartment.
• On returning, Murdock is honest with Page about his enhanced senses. She feels humiliated, but also grateful to him for being the man who saved her life, feeling mixed about the revelation as he also broke her trust. He apologizes for lying and promises not to lie again. He says, however, that he is leaving Daredevil behind now, and does not need that identity to be part of him anymore. He has her touch his chest to feel his heartbeat and verify that he is not lying, but she tells him she is not sure that Daredevil was the problem.
• Ressurrection of Elektra:
  • Unbeknownst to all, the Hand exhumes Elektra Natchios' body.
  • Alexandra Reid is told by members of the Hand that Natchios' body was exhumed from her grave. Reid goes to supervise Natchios' resurrection.
  • The Hand places the corpse in a stone coffin designed to resurrect her as the "Black Sky". They use the last of their elixir to bring her back to life. Over the next several days, Reid would supervise Elektra's training in order to erase every piece or memory about her past life.

26th

• The New York Bulletin publishes the paper with the front-page article asking "Where Is the Devil of Hell's Kitchen?", questioning where Daredevil is, having not been sighted in New York City in several weeks.

27th

• Chase of the Chitauri Overkill Weapon:
  • Coulson's Team goes to Jamaica, tipped off by John Garrett, to find a mysterious weapon that is connected to Ian Quinn.
  • There, Grant Ward and Melinda May fight the weapon's guards but they escape with help from Phil Coulson.

28th

• Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons learn that the weapon is Chitauri-inspired but augmented with Overkill technology.
• Phil Coulson meets with Luca Russo to coordinate a mission against Cybertek.

29th

• Ambush at the Italian Train: Coulson's Team boards a train traveling from Verona to Zagreb because it carries a package that Ian Quinn bought and is being protected by Cybertek-hired mercenaries.
• Michael Peterson is removed from a Hyperbaric Chamber and fitted with a new prosthetic leg.
• He then kills Sofia and the other Cybertek employees who delivered it.
• Infiltration into Ian Quinn's Villa: Skye is shot twice in the abdomen by Quinn. Coulson's team raids Quinn's mansion and places Skye in the hyperbaric chamber.
• Ian Quinn is arrested by Coulson's team.
• Skye is taken to Zurich, Switzerland to see Dr. Jazuat in S.H.I.E.L.D. Trauma Zentrum.
• Garrett's Team boards the Bus after Coulson's team fails to release Quinn to the Fridge.

30th

• Raid of the Guest House: Coulson finds a room marked T.A.H.I.T.I. and is surprised to discover the corpse of an alien marked G.H. that is being drained of its bodily fluids.
• The Guest House is destroyed as Skye is miraculously healed by GH.325.