"In prison, there's only room for one Kingpin..."
At this point the series is quite addictive and I'm eagerly waitng for the next episode. Daredevil is amazing right now, and this episode is a roller-coaster of well-directed, superbly acted and astonishingly eventful awesomeness.
Where to start? Matt sadly sees, from Elekra's bloodlust in saving him last episode. He admits he loves her, but dumps her for falling short of his ideals. And then there's the end of Nelson and Murdoch in an extraordinary scene of suppressed yet palpable emotions as Matt and Foggy end their firm and, seemingly, their friendship. He's already lost Karen; Matt now has nothing and no one... except his mission and his unhealthy drive to do what he does, which is pushing everyone away and ruining his life.
Yet Karen is still awesome. Now having no job, by default, she finds respect and purpose in journalism, uncovering the fact that the carousel massacre was instigated by a police agent provocateur... as, in a parallel, Frank discovers the same thing.
Frank's prison experience, seemingly brief, is dominated by what I suspect is a single episode guest appearance by Vincent D'Onofrio as Fisk, that calmly introspective, civilised yet menacing man who dominates every scene in which he appears. To see his adaptations to prison life as he uses Frank Castle to become, well, kingpin is nuanced and fascinating. He never lies to Frank, being quite open about why he's using him. It's an extraordinarily subtle, well-written and superbly acted dynamic.
And then we have O' Hornhead's dsubterranean pursuit of the Hand, and the unexpected things he finds. Yet it's not just the momentous events: it's the characters, the extraordinary sequence where the Punisher, in slow motion, prevails against an army of fellow prisoners... this is as good as it gets. And what on Earth is going on with the Hand?
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