Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Main story and flashback)
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Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Kingpin (Mentioned)
- Bullseye (Mentioned)
- Hulk (Mentioned)
- Adele Santiago (Mentioned)
- Victor Hierra (Mentioned)
- Jardiem Salazar (Mentioned)
- Milla Donovan (Mentioned)
- Spider-Man (Otto Octavius/"Peter Parker") (Cameo)
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Synopsis for 1st story
The crazed victims of Coyote swarm both their captor and Daredevil. Daredevil shoots his grapple at the machine holding the Spot and yanks the wiring loose, which causes the device to overload in arcs of electricity. It is enough to dispel the mob and allow Spot, now conscious, to teleport away. He doesn’t go far, though; Spot’s hands emerge from portals on the ground underneath Coyote, who is still incapacitated from the feedback between the machine and the collar Daredevil locked around his neck. Moving quickly, Daredevil snatches Coyote out of Spot’s clutches. But Spot is now deranged and monstrously deformed thanks to his captivity and the machine’s interaction with his powers, with a dozen arms jutting from the portals that cover his body. He pursues Coyote and Daredevil through the cavernous hideout as Daredevil demands answers from Coyote.
Coyote recounts that he was already a smuggler when his employers - who had captured Spot in their machine when he wasn’t ruthless enough for their purposes - put him through the same process that gave Spot his powers. He then confirms that these same people sent him after Daredevil and ordered him to take out Salazar and Hierra. All of this is overheard by Coyote’s prisoners, who have begun coming to their senses. Spot’s pursuit escalates, portals materializing all around them. Daredevil drags Coyote into the room that formerly held his prisoners’ heads and still contains all of the now empty collars. Spot follows them in and the collars activate all at once, interacting disastrously with Spot’s powers. Spot’s body begins to distort as he is sucked into the portals created by all of the collars simultaneously. He desperately grabs at Coyote’s ankles as Daredevil demands the name of Coyote’s employers. Unfortunately, both teleporters are pulled into nothingness before Coyote can answer.
Back at the offices of Nelson & Murdock, Matt tells Foggy how after Coyote and Spot disappeared, he led the prisoners to freedom and contacted the Avengers. He then hands Foggy statements from the English-speaking prisoners attesting to Coyote’s guilt, clearing Foggy’s client of Hierra’s murder. Foggy is contrite and apologizes to Matt for not believing him, but Matt isn’t having it. He goes off on his friend for being so quick to turn on him after all they’ve been through, then demands to know why Kirsten McDuffie won’t take his calls. Foggy confesses that he told Kirsten that Matt is Daredevil, then admits that he’s still not certain Matt is completely stable given his recent and uncharacteristic sunny disposition. Angry at Foggy’s lack of faith in him, Matt storms out.
Sometime later, Matt mails a letter to Milla at the psychiatric hospital, though it is intercepted by the staff before it can reach her. In it, he reassures her that no matter what her doctors tell her, she did not imagine being in Matt’s apartment, and promises to find a way to atone for the pain he’s caused her. Milla’s doctor files the letter away in a filing cabinet alongside the dozens of other unread letters Matt has written to his ex-wife.
That night, Kirsten meets someone on the roof of the New York City courthouse. She says their mutual friend is unstable and needs to be dealt with. But when the Superior Spider-Man assures her he will find and crush Daredevil, Kirsten immediately regrets contacting the wall-crawler.
Solicit Synopsis
• The final showdown with Coyote! • Big clues to a mystery building since issue 3!
• Daredevil – wanted by the NYPD!