Matt Murdock quotes from Daredevil: Born Again

Matt

Oh, come on Foggy! It's not like he deserves to walk.

Foggy

I don't recall the word "deserve" coming up in law school.

Matt

He's in bed with the mob, he's selling drugs, he's poisoning the neighborhood!

Foggy

Yeah, but...

Matt

But what? He was also a raging prick to you when you were kids! You wanna spring the guy who calls you Foggy the Fembot?

Foggy

No, I don't. But, Matt... we are his attorneys.

Matt

Oh, we're associates.

Foggy

Don't get technical.

Matt

Either way, Jeff made it sound like--

Foggy

Mr. Levine. Thank you.

Matt

Okay, okay, fine. Dark Lord of Unspoken Kink Levine made it sound like we're not only off the case, but our badges might not work on Monday.

Foggy

Ray, Lionel... He had a hard life, Matt.

Matt

Aw! Cue the violin.

Foggy

His dad, he was not a good guy. And their mom, Suzanne, she drank. A lot. She died when we were in the eighth grade, okay? Cirrhosis, liver failure. He never had a chance.

Matt

His brother did though, didn't he? What was his name, Connor?

Foggy

Connor was younger. Lionel took the brunt of it. I didn't like him.

Matt

And you wanna let him out to continue to do horrendous things to a whole bunch of new people?

Foggy

I wanna do the right thing.

Matt

I dunno, Foggy. I dunno. You sell drugs, you traffic in firearms, I'm sorry, you get caught. There are consequences.

Foggy

His crew, whoever he was working with, they're gonna kill him when he's inside.

Matt

Yeah, that might be the definition of consequences.

Foggy

But does the punishment fit the crime?!

Matt

Crimes past, present, or future?

Foggy

So you think we should ignore it?

Matt

Ignore what?

Foggy

It's our job to represent clients to the best of our abilities. Suppressing evidence--

Matt

Objection! "Suppressing" evidence is questionable. One might even say inflammatory phrasing in this particular instance, Counselor.

Foggy

Aren't you supposed to be the Catholic one here?

Matt

Oh, come on. Alright, fine. So you wanna go with guilt now.

Foggy

How about mercy? There's gotta be something about that in the Bible. Second chances. Redemption. All I know is that, if he goes to jail, he dies.

Matt

And all I know is, that might not be our problem.

Foggy

Unfortunately, it is now.

Matt

And there I was, thinking the Murdock and Nelson fund was supposed to be about the future.

Foggy

It is, Matt. But not just ours.

Matt

So, where to now?

Foggy

Josie's, obviously.

Matt

What are we celebrating?

Foggy

Mercy.

Karen

Okay, uh... Do you remember that night at the Clinton Street Church? He killed Father Lantom and then he hurt you so bad, I actually thought I'd lost you for a minute.

Matt

Yeah. Yeah, I remember.

Karen

So you told me that you were gonna kill Fisk and I told you not to. That I knew how--

Matt

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.

Karen

What if I was wrong?

Matt

Karen, please stop it. Can't you see that is what separates us from him?

Karen

Are we really still that separate?

Matt

Yes, we are! We are separate. It is not up to us to take life.

Karen

I know, I know! All right, I pay every day for what I did to Wesley. I still have fucking nightmares! But the difference is I don't regret it. It was him or me. And what if that's what it's like with you and Fisk? Him or you? What if this doesn't end until one of you goes down?

Matt

...I can't think about it that way.

Karen

Well, you're gonna have to. He has proven that he will not hesitate!

Matt

This isn't-- It's not-- This isn't you. It's not you.

Matt

You and I both know who Daredevil is. He's the man who knows exactly what happened on the Northern Star. He knows exactly what happened in my apartment. And he knows exactly who the real criminal in this courtroom is.

Fisk

You are a fool.

Matt

No, I'm not. I am Daredevil.

Matt

[to his army] WE'RE BETTER THAN THIS! [to Fisk] Stay down, Fisk! Stay down!

Fisk

No! No, no! NO!

Matt

Listen. Listen to me, it's over. It's over for both of us. Take the deal.

Fisk

I will not.

Matt

You go to prison and you die locked away from her memory, or you do what you do and this whole thing starts over again. The poison. The fight. Death.

Fisk

This is your so-called retribution? It means nothing to me!

Matt

What a... What about grace?

Fisk

No, no, no, no! You are not allowed to offer that to me!

Matt

I believe you love this city, same as me. We have the opportunity to give it peace, even if we have none. That's grace.