Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Episode 3, "The Scales & the Sword," concludes with Matt Murdock launching an attack on Mayor Wilson Fisk's hidden jail. After freeing Swordsman, the two team up for one of the franchise's trademark hallway fight scenes...on steroids.
As they work to free the prisoners, the Anti-Vigilante Task Force closes in, and the battle begins. While this isn't a true "oner," it's cleverly shot to give that impression, making this an edge-of-your-seat, action-packed couple of minutes.
So far, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 has really upped the ante with sequences like this, and the trailers have pointed to us getting a similar sequence when the Man Without Fear teams up with Jessica Jones.
Jacques "Jack" Duquesne made his MCU debut in Hawkeye, where Marvel Studios teased the possibility of Kate Bishop's future stepfather being a villain. Instead, he proved himself a hero and was established as a vigilante in Daredevil: Born Again Season 1.
After a trial where the odds were deliberately stacked against him, things looked bleak for Swordsman until Matt Murdock arrived on the scene.
"I did a bunch of action stuff for this next one that's coming out of Daredevil, and man, I got hurt. I got hurt hard," actor Tony Dalton told us of his Swordsman return last year. "I think I must have chipped a rib or something because for two or three weeks I was in bed. I had bruises all over me."
"It was hard, man. Those guys go hard. The action sequences on those, they say, 'We're right on your face, so it's you, you jump there, hit that guy, and he punches you in the face with a tube.' It's like, 'Okay, let's go!' [Laughs]" he continued. "That's gonna come out and it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's going to be really good fun."
You can watch the Man Without Fear's team-up with Swordsman in the player below.
In Daredevil: Born Again, survival, resistance and redemption collide as the battle for the soul of New York begins. In Season 2, Mayor Wilson Fisk crushes New York City underfoot as he hunts down public enemy number one, the Hell’s Kitchen vigilante known as Daredevil.
But beneath the horned mask, Matt Murdock will try to fight back from the shadows to tear down the Kingpin’s corrupt empire and redeem his home. Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.
Created by Dario Scardapane, Chris Ord and Matt Corman, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 stars Charlie Cox as the titular masked vigilante (aka Matt Murdock) and Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk.
"A brutal, relentless tour-de-force, Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 is a Marvel masterstroke that sees Charlie Cox take the Man Without Fear to unprecedented heights, delivering the definitive take on Daredevil," we said in our 8-episode review published last week.
Daredevil: Born Again is now streaming weekly on Disney+.