Daredevil quotes

Foggy

Okay, so you get these whatever-you-call-thems when you're a kid. How do you go from that to what you're doing now?

Matt

When I was a kid, before the accident…I'd lay awake at night listening to the sirens. I liked to put stories to them. Trying to figure out what they were for, ambulance or cops, robbery or fire. I don't know, just a stupid game. But after I lost my sight, after my abilities developed, I realized how many sirens there actually were…how much this city suffered every single night.

Foggy

You've been running around doing this since you were a kid?

Matt

No. I…I tried not to fight…to make my dad proud. To…to block it out. The sirens, the pain, the fear, all strangling Hell's Kitchen. For years, I buried my head and turned away. Then one night, right after we quit Landman & Zack…I heard it.

Foggy

Heard what?

Matt

A little girl. Crying in her bed, in a building down the block. Her father liked to go to her room late at night…when his wife was asleep.

Foggy

[horrified] Oh, Jesus.

Matt

I called Child Services. Like you're supposed to. But the mom, she wouldn't believe it. Said it wasn't true. And the dad, he was smart. [scoffs] He made sure what he did, how he did it, didn't leave a mark. The law couldn't do anything to help that little girl. But I could. [Matt is shown beating said father senseless] He spent the next month in a hospital, eating through a straw. And I never slept better.

Foggy

We are both one day gonna be fine, upstanding members of the legal profession. El grande…how do you say "lawyers" in Spanish?

Matt

Lawyers? Abogados.

Foggy

El grande avocados!

Matt

[laughs] That's not Spanish, that's fruit.

Foggy

Pfft. It's a vegetable at best.

Gao

There is conflict within you.

Fisk

Conflict?

Gao

Man cannot be both savior and oppressor, light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other. Choose and choose wisely. Or others shall choose for you.

Foggy

You're going to get yourself killed, you keep this up. You know that, right?

Matt

I can take care of myself.

Foggy

What about the rest of us? Me, Karen…we're a part of this now, because of you. And we didn't get a say in that.

Matt

What do you think's gonna happen if I give up now, Foggy? Who's going to stop Fisk?

Foggy

Oh, I don't know. The law?

Matt

Tell that to Elena. [pause] If you could have put on a mask and prevented what happened to her…you telling me you wouldn't have?

Foggy

It's not fair, Matt.

Matt

We don't live in a world that's fair. We live in this one.

Owlsley

You burned him alive? Christ.

Fisk

I never laid a hand on Nobu.

Owlsley

So, you maneuvered that masked idiot to take him out. Same result.

Fisk

I need you to speak with Gao.

Owlsley

Me? The hell am I gonna say to her?

Fisk

Reassure her everything is fine.

Owlsley

So, you want me to lie.

Wesley

Mmm, you weren't particularly fond of Nobu. You thought he was unsettling, if I recall.

Owlsley

I think you're unsettling half the time. See me lighting a match?

Karen

You think someone's trying to kill Fisk?

Ben

I've been writing about crime in this city since before you were born. The only thing I know without a doubt is you don't get to be the man at the top without making enemies looking to tear you down to the ground.

Lantom

I have a pretty good idea who you are and what you do. How you do it… That's something else entirely.

Matt

Accident when I was a kid. Used to think it was God's will.

Lantom

Used to?

Matt

Yeah, He made each and every one of us with a purpose, didn't He? A reason for being.

Lantom

I believe so, yes.

Matt

Then why did He put the Devil in me? Why do I feel it in my heart and my soul clawing to be let out if that's not all part of God's plan?

Lantom

Maybe you're being called to summon the better angels of your nature. Maybe that's the struggle you're feeling deep within you.

Matt

And how do you know the angels and the Devil inside me aren't the same thing?

Lantom

I don't, but nothing drives people to the church faster than the thought of the Devil snapping at their heels. Maybe that was God's plan all along. Why He created him, allowed him to fall from grace to become a symbol to be feared warning to us all, to tread the path of the righteous.

Karen

Isn't it a bit early for beer?

Matt

Depends what kind of day you're having.

Wesley

Reach out to Gao.

Owlsley

Me? What if she's the one who did all this?

Wesley

Well, you said you didn't think it was her.

Owlsley

What the hell do I know? I was almost poisoned. I'm not thinking straight.

Wesley

Speak with Gao... if she wasn't involved, we might need her support against further unpleasantries.

Owlsley

And if she was involved?

Wesley

Then it's been an honor doing business with you.

Fisk

I don't know how to pray. My father was not a religious man. My mother wanted to be -- I think, needed to be -- but she never quite found it within herself. I'd seen it in movies, watched it on television. I read it in books when I was a child. After I was sent away, I tried to mimic the words. The sentiment. But it was false. It was an imitation of faith. No... I can't pray for you. All I can do is make you a promise. One that not even God, if there is such a thing, can prevent me from keeping. The people that did this to you... They will suffer, Vanessa.

Wesley

Do you love this city?

Karen

I, I, um, haven't been here long enough.

Wesley

Huh. I find a few days, a week at most, is ample time to form an emotional response. Growing to love something is really simply forgetting slowly what you dislike about it. I'll be perfectly honest, the situation calls for it, I do not love this city. The crush of the unwashed garbage stacked on the sidewalk, the air that seems to adhere to your skin, the layer of filth you can never completely wash away.

Karen

Maybe you should move.

Wesley

[bluffing] Do you really think I would put a loaded gun on the table where you could reach it?

Karen

I don't know. [cocks it] Do you really think this is the first time I've shot someone?

Wesley

Miss Page—

Fisk

It's a difficult thing, isn't it? Taking a life. Feeling the weight and responsibility of all the years the person you've murdered has lived—moments that they've cherished, the dreams that they've struggled towards—gone, because of you. I want you to know something. Something important that I've learned: that it gets easier the more you do it.

Matt

Did something happen?

Karen

Yes. The world fell apart. Didn't you notice?

Ben

Run the article. It'll sell papers, it's sexy.

You sound like a whore.

Ben

Well, I learned how to be one from you. I get lucky sometimes, sure. Land a story that makes a difference, like Union Allied. But most of the time, now, working for this paper... I might as well be wearing lipstick and a red dress.

Owlsley

So, what's our play here?

Gao

The wheel constantly turns. We must adapt to its position, or be crushed beneath it.

Owlsley

What? Where the hell are you going?

Gao

I will visit my homeland and reflect upon the future.

Owlsley

Home? China?

Gao

It is a considerable distance farther.