Karen Page quotes from Daredevil: Born Again

Karen

You know, there's a lot of dead bodies behind us, BB. I think the best way to honor them would be not to join them.

Karen Page

This Hell's Kitchen nostalgia is running pretty thin with you guys, you realize that, right?

Foggy Nelson

Not nostalgia; reverence for the past, yet hope for the future.

Karen

Oh, that is some next-level closing argument BS right there!

Foggy

Too much?

Matt Murdock

Nostalgia or not, it's hard to believe Cherry's retiring.

Karen

So many retiring, leaving -- I mean, it's thirty percent of the force in the last two years.

Foggy

Are those numbers legit?

Karen

My numbers are always legit.

Matt

I really wouldn't argue with her. Still, the city finds other ways to protect itself.

Matt

I refuse to believe a tragedy had to destroy everything.

Karen

But it did. What are you gonna do about Daredevil?

Matt

I made a promise to myself that I would let the system handle it. All of it. Besides, I'm not him anymore, and I won't let myself be.

Karen

And you think that that will help?

Matt

I don't know. It doesn't make it worse.

Karen

I'm right there with you, okay? I feel lost, I feel angry, I feel fucking helpless. The whole city is there. Do you remember I once asked you what it was like... living in the darkness? Do you remember what you said?

Daredevil

It's not dark. It's like a thousand suns.

Matt

You know, when I was a kid, after the accident, I thought God had taken my sight. When I grew up... I came to believe that in exchange, He'd given me a special destiny... Like a mask and a purpose could save my life.

Karen

Didn't it?

Matt

No. It wasn't the mask. It wasn't me needing to believe in it that saved me. My mistake was thinking I was immune to the darkness. And I let it creep inside me. I let the dark power me. I threw Poindexter off that rooftop. Karen, I wanted to kill him. The truth is, ever since Foggy died... I didn't know who I was anymore.

Karen

Foggy believed in you. Whatever you wanna call yourself. Whatever's... behind the mask, behind your eyes... that's wrath, and that's mercy. That's the dark and the light. He knew all of it. All of it. He knew you. I do, too.

Matt

You're turning into Frank.

Karen

Well, he always said, "Know your enemy 'cause they're all you got."

Matt

Yeah. Sounds extremely Frank.

Karen

You think he's dead?

Matt

Not a chance. If he was, Fisk would hang his corpse off the Brooklyn Bridge.

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.

Daredevil

I can't let you do it, Karen.

Karen

What the HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! You keep choosing the wrong people! Fisk! This thing over the people who love you!

Daredevil

Whoa... What?

Karen

Oh, my God! Oh, my God.

Daredevil

How can you say that?

Karen

Because it's true. Because you let them live and people die!

Daredevil

Karen...

Karen

Please just let me do this. Let me carry this for you. All you have to do is walk out that door.

Daredevil

What happened to you?

Karen

You know, Cristofi never made it to witness protection. My source never started broadcasting, which probably means that they're both dead. You wanna know what happened to me? I grew up.

Fisk

Hello, Miss Page. You have taken people from me. And out there, they believe that you're a hero. And yet I believe in order, and you are a criminal. Worse. You're the sidekick of a deranged vigilante. You, broken and deluded, you abet his crimes, for what? Love? HA!

Karen

You know, I've never seen you scared before. I kinda like it.

Fisk

Not fear. Order, Miss Page. Order.

Karen

No! No, no. No, you took it too far last night, and you know it! And this city knows it!

Fisk

You have one phone call. Choose it wisely.