Daredevil: Born Again quotes

Frank Castle

I'll tell you what I think, Red.

Matt

Tell me. Tell me what you think.

Frank

I don't think you came here for my help. See, I think you want my permission. You wanna get your hands on somebody, huh? You wanna hurt 'em. Maybe you're a little bit scared. A little scared about what that means.

Matt

That's an interesting take, I like it. But ah, yeah, no. Sorry, buddy. Way off on that one.

Frank

So full of shit, Counselor, so full of shit. You're guilty.

Matt

Excuse me?

Frank

Yeah. That guilt, that shame, that's my home, Red. I mean, I can see it on you, I can smell it on you, it's all over you.

Frank

Yeah, you come at me with that horseshit about saving lives. How 'bout that friend of yours, you save his life? You lost him, didn't you, Red?

Matt

It's not about him.

Frank

Then say his name.

Matt

It's not about him. It's not about him.

Frank

Ah, for Christ's sake, say his name! Say his name, you coward, say his name! It's not about him? You hate yourself! It's eating you up because you ain't done a goddamn thing about it! So--

Matt

Ah, goddamn it. Goddamn you. Sorry. I apologize.

Frank

What are you sorry for? First honest thing you did, Red.

Matt

It's not about him.

Frank

No.

Matt

Okay?

Frank

It's all about him. He talks to you, doesn't he? You hear his voice. You do, don't you? Every time I stop moving, I still hear my little boy. I see him. And I hear his voice -- He says "Get 'em, Daddy. Every last single one of 'em, get 'em." That's why I do what I do. That's why it's eating at you. That's why it's eating at you, because you know you didn't do a goddamn thing, and it's gonna keep eating at you. It's gonna keep eating and eating and eating, there's no getting away with it, you understand?

Matt

I ran him down.

Frank

Oh, for Christ's sake.

Matt

I did what I had to do, and I let the system take care of the rest.

Frank

Oh, you and your goddamn sys-- You and your goddamn system! Christ! So what now?! Every day, Bullseye goes to the chow hole, eats his slop, you know he gets to breathe the same air that you breathe. You feel good about that?

Matt

HE GOT LIFE!

Frank

How 'bout ol' Foggy? Did he get life?

Matt

Foggy... He was the... kindest, purest soul I ever met. And guys like you and me? We can work a lifetime and never measure up to his decency. Goodbye, Frank.

Fisk

When I was a boy, I learned by watching my father. How to shake a man's hand. How to know when someone intends to cheat you. I learned the power of persuasion. How to move men's minds. Or break their bodies. But forgiveness? That wasn't a part of who he was.

Matt

You ever feel like you're, uh, pushing a rock up a hill? And there's a bunch of people on the other side pushing it back?

Matt

Mr. Khan, if I may: have you ever needed a defense attorney?

Me? No. Thankfully not.

Matt

Well, if you ever do, it's often David vs. Goliath. The cops, the prosecution, public opinion... the entire system conspiring against you. We represent husbands, sons, daughters. People like you and me, Mr. Khan. So yeah, we may be over-leveraged for now, but we serve a vital function in a city that desperately needs us.

Detective Kim...

Yes?

My job is to rob the bank, right? Your job is to prevent every hostage inside the bank from getting a fuckin' bullet to the fuckin' head.

Matt

Just because I'm blind doesn't mean I need your pity.

Do I strike you as some sanctimonious twat trying to do right by the visually impaired, do I? I don't like you, solicitor. I don't like your kind. I don't like the clever little ways you twist the truth... I'm not letting you go, I'm getting rid of ya!

Jesus wept. I... A blind solicitor and-and-and, hold for it, an orphan? Are you bloody serious?! You're like a regular wee Charles Dickens character, aren't you? Fuck it, take the husband. This one's gotta stay.

This vault has a four-turn tumbler system, which means it has over a hundred million possible combinations. You can't just crack it open like it's a piggy bank I gave Kamala to instill in her the value of saving!

Matt

Did it work?

Did what work?

Matt

The lesson. The value of saving.

Oh... I don't know. I guess we just try to impart what we know to the next generation. Protect them from what they can't see.

Exactly what kind of a lawyer are you?

Matt

A really good one.

Oi. I confess, I'm disappointed, Detective. You recognize the accent, but you don't seem to know jack shite about the significance of Saint Paddy's Day... for a Protestant, do ya?

I must've missed that chapter, Mr. James. Care to catch me up?

Just another Wednesday, love. Or, as they say in this dear city of yours, Christmas for a Jew.

Heather

I think it's a fascinating question: What about a mask? Does it hide us and give us permission to do things that are legally and socially taboo, like violence? I mean, does a mask allow us to be our true selves, or does it strip away our identity and allow us to act like animals?

Matt

Hm, yeah. I don't know -- maybe both.

Mr. Murdock, Attorney At Law. Big fancy office, here to help the little guy, right? Only on your terms. 'Cause when the little guy puts something for real in your hands, you're all "nah". That's fine. That's cool. My bad for thinking you cared.

Matt

It's not that simple, Angela. That's not how this works.

You know what? My Uncle, two days before he got shot, you know what he told me? He told me "Don't rely on anyone to do what you can do for yourself." Damn. He was right.

Fisk

You know, politics, it's… It's a different type of problem-solving. Most of it is new to me but some things, they remain unchanged. Find what a person wants and either withhold it or provide it, and they'll do anything.

Vanessa

Not tonight. You're asking New York's elite for money. Sure, they want influence, but they don't need it; it's like selling a busker to a billionaire. It's all just ego and vanity. By simply being there and asking them for money, you're giving them all they care about: reassurance of their supremacy.

You may have a seat at the table right now -- for a couple of years, anyway. But the people in this room still decide who gets to eat. I suggest you don't lose sight of that.

Matt

Fuck it.

Fisk

I can imagine that Vanessa would like for me to let you go.

Thank you... Thank you!

Fisk

But that's a difficult thing for me to do. You understand that, right? How we are... locked together. Our experience, shared. And when I was younger, smaller… I went up against men three times my size. Now, men who knew how to use their hands, they did so, often. And I learned that a simple tool, it can be a great equalizer.