The Ones We Leave Behind

The Ones We Leave Behind is the twelfth episode of the first season of the television series Daredevil.
==Synopsis==
Fisk seeks revenge while Karen is haunted by recent events. Daredevil makes a startling discovery about Fisk's financing.
==Plot==
Karen Page throws out the gun she killed James Wesley with in the river, and returns to her apartment, where she cries and drinks herself to sleep. She tries to sleep, but she is haunted by a nightmare of Wilson Fisk telling her that killing gets easier the more you do it, before killing her. Unable to calm down, Page comes to Nelson and Murdock Law Office to get some work done, where she encounters Foggy Nelson. Nelson tells her that whatever happened between him and Matt Murdock does not change that he still aims to take Fisk down.
He admits that the Masked Man might not be a terrorist, takes some of Ben Urich's files and leaves, after awkwardly bumping into Murdock. Murdock apologizes to Page for their fallout with Nelson, saying that Nelson has made the decision to end things with him. Page admits that she is starting to regret ever working for Nelson and Murdock, but she cannot quit as she has nowhere to go anymore. Murdock notices that she is distraught and asks her if something happened, but Page does not tell him about Wesley.
Vanessa Marianna wakes up at Metro-General Hospital and Fisk tells her that someone poisoned her at the fundraiser because he himself became a target. Fisk apologizes and tells her that he made arrangements to move her out of the country for safety, but Marianna refuses to leave without him. Fisk is sorry that he allowed that to happen, to which Marianna asks him to find the people who tried to take Fisk away from her. Fisk then gets informed that Wesley was found and is brought to the docks, where he sees the corpse of his assistant. Disheartned, Fisk assaults Francis, who let Wesley out alone that night, but Leland Owlsley stops him. While Fisk mourns, Owlsley warns him not to lose sight of his goal and not make any rash decisions.
The Masked Man approaches Urich, asking for information about the Steel Serpent heroin he found on the man who killed Elena Cardenas. He informs Urich that Vladimir Ranskahov told him about Fisk's dealings with the Triads to move the drugs around the city. Urich notes that attacking Fisk's cash flow will not bring him down, but the Masked Man only wants to knock him off balance, so he would make a mistake. The Masked Man mentions blind Chinese carriers involved in the trafficking, and Urich gives him the addresses where they were spotted.
Nelson meets with Marci Stahl at Josie's Bar to talk about the Landman and Zack tenement case, telling her that Fisk has been pushing dozens of tenants from their homes for his project. Stahl says that she cannot talk about Fisk with him since her firm represents him, but Nelson only asks him to take a look at the files he got from the Masked Man. Looking through Nelson's findings, Stahl is shocked but still says that Fisk is their most billable client, and going against him would be a career suicide. Nelson lets Stahl know that Fisk will see justice and she needs to be ahead of the coming repercussions of Landman and Zack's involvement, urging her to do the right thing.
Page meets with Urich and tells him that Fisk might be aware that they were talking with Marlene Vistain. Urich tells Page about his progress, informing her that he might be able to get a source to confirm the part of Vistain's story about Bill Fisk owing Don Rigoletto money. Page insists that they must do something immediately, but Urich tells her that as a journalist, he needs credible sources to write anything. Noticing Page's anxiety, he suggests to post her findings online on her own, but she says that no one would take her seriously if they were to dig into her past. Urich hesitates but promises Page to shake his other sources to get something done soon.
Fisk takes his mother out of Saint Bénézet Retirement Care and tells her that it is not safe there, arranging to move her to Italy. Remembering about Vistain's number being the last in Wesley's call history, Fisk asks her what they were talking about, but Vistain struggles to remember. He later meets with Owlsley who tells him that he could not find any signs that Nobu Yoshioka's men were involved in the attacks on Marianna and Wesley, suspecting that the masked vigilante was involved, but Fisk doubts that. However, he then receives a call on Wesley's phone and abruptly leaves.
At New York Bulletin, Urich tries to submit his article on Fisk but Mitchell Ellison flat-out refuses to publish it, claiming that Vistain's story has no corraboration or proper sources. Urich gets into confrontation with Ellison, and gets suspended from the work. Fed up with Ellison dismissing his articles, Urich accuses Ellison of being on Fisk's payroll, which leads to Ellison firing him from the newspaper.
During the daytime, Murdock follows one of the blind carriers to the warehouse, where the Steel Serpent originates from. He infiltrates the warehouse in his vigilante suit, where he finds dozens of blinded people packing the heroin, but Gao spots him and alerts her men. The vigilante fights off the enemies, while the fire breaks out, and confronts Gao about the workers she had blinded. Gao replies that they blinded themselves out of their faith in something that he took away from them.
He tries to ask Gao about Fisk's plans, but she lands a powerful strike on him and retreats, while the vigilante makes one of her men to evacuate the workers out of the burning warehouse. Outside, he gets caught by Brett Mahoney but the vigilante manages to escape, after telling him about Fisk and the corruption in the NYPD. Meanwhile, Gao meets with Owlsley, who tells her that Fisk might find out that they were the ones behind the attack on Marianna very soon. Owlsley asks her if she had Wesley killed as well, but Gao denies it and says that she needs to depart to her homeland and consider her next move.
Urich visits his wife at the hospital and tells her that Ellison fired him over his latest story, to which Doris says that he does not need Ellison and Bulletin. Doris suggests to post his story on the internet, and although Urich is skeptical, she is certain that he can pull that through. He later talks about it with Page, informing her that he intends to start a blog and post everything they found out about Fisk. Murdock comes to the office and tells Page about the depravity humanity can exhibit, without telling her about what he had witnessed, and Page comforts him.
Urich comes back home and prepares to write down his story, but suddenly finds out that Fisk is sitting there behind him, who says that he wants to talk to Urich. Fisk confirms Urich's suspicions that he had contacts at New York Bulletin after the Union Allied Construction article. Fisk asks if Urich was alone when he went to speak to his mother, to which he answers positively, but gets confused when Fisk asks him about Wesley. Fisk says that involving his mother was something he found unforgivable, so he attacked Urich and strangled him to death, before leaving his apartment.
==Cast==
Main Cast:
*Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil
*Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page / Karen Page
*Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson
*Toby Leonard Moore as James Wesley (uncredited)
*Vondie Curtis-Hall as Ben Urich
*Bob Gunton as Leland Owlsley
*Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna
*Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk / Wilson Fisk
Guest Stars:
*Phyllis Somerville as Marlene Vistain
*Royce Johnson as Sergeant Brett Mahoney
*Wai Ching Ho as Madame Gao
*Tom Walker as Francis
*Amy Rutberg as Marci Stahl
*Susan Varon as Josie
*Geoffrey Cantor as Mitchell Ellison
*Adriane Lenox as Doris Urich
*Kassia Miller as M. Caldwell
*Michael T. King as Stocky Bodyguard
*Young-H Lee as Skinny Bodyguard
*Erick Abbate as Boy
*Grant Chang as Blind Worker
*Vera Lam as Blind Female Worker
*Michael Tow as Another Worker
*Danny Boyer as Gao Guard #1
*Chris Tera as Leland's Security (uncredited)
*Garry Pastore as Bad Cop #1 (uncredited)
*Phil Cappadora as New Yorker (uncredited)
*James Lew as Blind Asian Man (uncredited)
*Martha Morgan as Coughing Woman (uncredited)
*Tricia Mary Young as Blind Worker (uncredited)
==Appearances==
===Locations===
*New York City, New York
**Karen Page's Apartment
**Nelson and Murdock Law Office
**Metro-General Hospital
**Josie's Bar
**Ben Urich's Apartment
**Madame Gao's Warehouse
**New York Bulletin Building
**Matt Murdock's Apartment
**Stark Tower (newspaper)
**15th Precinct Police Station (mentioned)
*Saint Bénézet Retirement Care, New York (mentioned)
*Denver, Colorado (mentioned)
*Florida (mentioned)
*Italy (mentioned)
*China (mentioned)
*Paris, France (mentioned)
*K'un-Lun (indirectly mentioned)
===Events===
*Infiltration into Madame Gao's Warehouse
*Murder of Ben Urich
*Kidnapping of Karen Page (mentioned)
*Attack on Vanessa Marianna (mentioned)
*Duel at Pier 81 (mentioned)
*Murder of Anatoly Ranskahov (mentioned)
*Bombing of Hell's Kitchen (mentioned)
*Murder of Bill Fisk (mentioned)
*Assassination of Christian Blake (mentioned)
*Battle of New York (newspaper)
===Items===
*Steel Serpent
* (mentioned)
===Concepts===
*Dreams
===Vehicles===
To be added
===Creatures===
*Dogs
*Leviathans (newspaper)
*Cats (mentioned)
===Organizations===
*Nelson and Murdock
*New York Bulletin
*Hand
*Landman and Zack
*New York City Police Department
*Fire Department of New York City
*Hudson Rubbish & Disposal
*Union Allied Construction (mentioned)
*Russian Mafia (mentioned)
*Silver & Brent (mentioned)
*Cybertek (newspaper)
===Mentioned===
*James Wesley
*Elena Cardenas
*Nobu Yoshioka
*Randolph Cherryh
*Rosenberg
*Vladimir Ranskahov
*Anatoly Ranskahov
*Christian Blake
*Piotr
*Silvio
*Don Rigoletto
*Bill Fisk
*Mitchell Ellison's Son
*Carl Hoffman
*Stick
*Johannes Brahms
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==Music==
Song title 	Artist 	Location(s)
Concerto No. 1 in A Minor for Violin and Strings, BWV 1041: III. Finale: Allegro assai	Maasaki Suzuki, Ryo Terakado & Bach Collegium Japan	
*Matt Murdock chases the car with the Steel Serpent delivery girl.
==Trivia==
*When Wilson Fisk is sitting in Ben Urich's house, behind him is a biography of New York urban planner , who like Fisk ran into much opposition over his plans for the city.The New Republic: Netflix' Daredevil Is TV's First Gentrification-Fighting Superhero
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Category:Daredevil (TV series) Episodes