Daredevil Season 1 quotes

Karen

[to Fisk, referring to the murder of his father] A hammer, at that age... Is there any part of you that hasn't broken, I wonder?

Karen

Okay... you want secrets? I can tell you a secret, Wilson. Is it okay if I call you that? I feel like we know each other well enough by now...

Fisk

As you wish, Karen...

Karen

Great. James Wesley... What was it like for you when he disappeared? Really, it's those first 24 hours that are the worst, aren't they? When you call and you call and you call, and there's just NO answer. It becomes an obsession. The calling. The never-ending loop of a ghost's voicemail in your ear. You worry. You wonder. You swear "God dammit, if he's still living I'm gonna kill him myself." Is that what it was like for you? Did you rage at him? 'Cause you thought he betrayed you? Because I wonder, what would be worse for you? His duplicity, or his death? He died quickly... if you were wondering. Didn't suffer much. You see, Wilson, Matt Murdock isn't the person you should be worried about. I killed Wesley. I shot him seven times... because the clip ran out. He deserved more.

Maggie

I don't know if I have the strength to get through this. He's so stubborn, full of fury and foolish pride. Please, watch over him? Keep him from making the same damn mistake that took you from us? Our son is too much like you, Jack.

Growing up without your parents, Matthew, you don't grow to see them as people. You need to understand that... to understand her.

I'm not your boss anymore. Wilson Fisk is.

You're too mad to think straight, and it's gonna get you killed. Mattie, c'mon. Your mother didn't only leave you, she left me too.

Matt

You looking for sympathy? Because that's not happening.

She left us because we're cursed. Because she knew we got the devil inside!

Matt

So it's my fault.

Would you be honest with yourself? You put on that mask because it lets you feel alright with who you really are. It lets you hurt people, it makes your feel like it's for something important, [overlapping with Fisk's Hallucination] something good, maybe even for God. But that ain't the truth...

And we both know it. You and your father, cut from the same cloth. A corrupt boxer who takes as much satisfaction in inflicting pain as he does money for taking dives. And his son, who's trying to convince himself he's any better than his criminal father. You were born from nothing! You remain nothing!

Lantom

Well, you have to realize, Karen, that whatever it is that you've done or haven't done, it can still be redeemed.

Karen

Yeah, that's nice, but I'm not so sure that I believe that.

Matt

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Fisk

I know that most of you will find this difficult to accept. That's only because you've been manipulated. Poisoned into believing the news media's fake story, that I am evil. That I am a criminal! Quite the opposite is true. Because I challenged the system. Because I told the truth and I tried to make this city a better place, the people in power decided to tear me down. To tear me down with false allegations. They sent someone to frame me -- Daredevil! The killer who's now showing his true colors. Who's tried to murder people in newspaper offices and churches, attacking our sacred institutions. Believe me, Daredevil is our true public enemy!

Listen to me very carefully: If we take Karen Page into custody, she'll be dead before she reaches HQ. [off his look] No, don't react. Just get her the hell away from us, we clear?

Crystal.

I know who you are, Mr. Fisk. You are a wolf, too. Men like you took away my family, took my ability to love... and almost took my life. You will take nothing more.

Foggy

Step one, we work together. Step two, we come up with a plan. And step three, we execute that plan.

Matt

That's genius. Come up with that by yourself?

Foggy

So, I'm still working out the details.

Sami was curled up with me in a bathtub, waiting for men to come kill him. Do you know what I hoped for in that moment? That they'd kill him first, so he didn't have to watch me die. How do you fix that?

Seems, Seems... I am so sorry. But I will make you and Sami safe. I promise you.

I can't let what you say matter to me anymore, Rahul. Sami deserves at least one person in his life he can trust. And that's never going to be you.

Matt

Are you ready for this? Testifying's not gonna be easy.

I love my job. I love being the good guy. I wanna be on the right side of the line again.

Matt

You didn't love it enough to stop Fisk.

Fisk knows how to make people vulnerable. He got my sister-in-law's health insurance cancelled. He left my family with bills to pay, bills that I had to ta--

Matt

So you take a loan, you sell your house, you figure it out.

It wasn't that easy--

Matt

You backed his play, Ray, you moved him into his hotel and you gave him his toys back.

He was giving us information that saved lives--!

Matt

Yeah, while he was taking lives. While he was taking over the city, you knew--

Well, what the hell are you doing?! I thought you were my lawyer!

Matt

I am your lawyer, Ray, but I can't do anything to help you if you don't answer this one simple question -- why didn't you blow the whistle when you watched your boss murder an agent?

...I don't know.

Matt

Or when you watched Dex walk in that church? You didn't say a goddamn word when he murdered a priest.

I don't know--

Matt

THEN WHY ARE WE HERE?!

BECAUSE I TOOK THE DAMN BAIT! Because I didn't want my son just to see me as an average federal employee...! I messed up. I destroyed my life. My family's life. And I would do anything to take it all back again.

Matt

Good. You tell that to the DA, and I can help you.

Vanessa

I think it's time we speak plainly. Speak honestly.

Fisk

I'm always honest with you.

Vanessa

When I first met you, I was fascinated by your strength. Your brutality so clear to me, even as you hid it from me. I wanted to observe everything you did. And as I did, I fell in love with you. But this? If this is all we have... it will leave me lonely, Wilson. As lonely as I was in Spain. When you stopped your man from speaking in front of me, I... I was reminded that I am not a part of your life. Not fully, and so not at all. And this... I don't want to admire your world. I want to live inside of it with you.

Fisk

Vanessa... It's one thing to know my work. But it's another... to dirty your hands with it.

Vanessa

My hands were never clean. If you truly want me... share your life with me! Fully.

[recording a video] Hey, beautiful. It's me. I'm home. You remember our wedding vows? "I love you more than life itself". I still do. And Sami? Your name means "Elevated". And that's what you did for me. You made my life better in the most unexpected ways. Elevate your mom now.