Born Again Episode 8 Recap

This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again Episode 8

It’s time for the penultimate episode of Daredevil: Born Again and that means that things ramp up just in time for next week’s episode to finally close things down for the MCU’s return to Hell’s Kitchen. The episode of Daredevil: Born Again shows that no matter how hard Matt Murdock works are trying to put his past behind him and move on, the past won’t allow him to forget. The episode, titled “Isle of Joy”, certainly offered very little of that particular emotion. And for Matt it was nothing but sadness and then fury and then very literal pain.

Meanwhile, the eighth episode of the Disney Plus series shed some serious light on just how and why things unfolded the way they did in the very first installment. The rest of the episode was tying up some loose ends and making sure that all the things the series built its stories on into a neat bow. That should mean that Episode 9 is going to be quite explosive.

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What happens in Daredevil: Born Again Episode 8?

An Old Enemy Leaps To The Forefront

“Isle of Joy” brings one of Daredevil’s old enemies back into the forefront as Mayor Fisk has given the order to move Bullseye, otherwise known as Ben Poindexter to Gen Pop. in prison. While Bullseye is known as a dangerous criminal, he was also once an FBI agent, and that’s one of the reasons why even Bullseye knows he’s in big trouble not being allowed to be in solitary. The other reason he’s been moved in with the general population of the prison is because the Fisks (or at least one of them) want him dead and know it will be quite easier to kill him there.

Bullseye knows this is the reason he’s been moved and actually calls Matt Murdock’s office trying to enlist him, and promising that if Murdock keeps him alive, he’ll explain why he went out of his way to kill Foggy. At this point, Matt has figurd out that it wasn’t just a madman out for revenge, but Poindexter was in fact sent by someone. While Matt is convinced it was Wilson Fisk, he doesn’t get the answer he was looking for as Bullseye is playing coy, trying to trade the info for safety and eventually the Man Without Fear loses his cool and storms out, but not before beating Poindexter’s head against the metal table and blaming it on the prisoner.

Matt eventually heads to his favorite old bar for the first time since the night Foggy was shot and he soon finds out that Foggy was celebrating something. This convinces him further that he was silenced. From there one, the episode mostly focuses the “Black and White Ball” which is thrown in honor of the new Mayor and his wife. The event is one of those that is extremely hard to get into and allows people with all kinds of power. Heather has been invited because she helped take down Muse in the previous episode. By proxy, Matt is invited as well, but he takes his own sweet time in part because he can’t stand to be in the same room as Fisk.

Meanwhile as the Black and White Ball is kicking off, Bullseye is in the infirmary getting treated for his latest injuries. Unfortunately for the prison guard who took him there and the doctor who worked on him, Poindexter has a loose tooth. He eventually gets it out of its sock and spits it, like a bullet into the guard’s eye, then kills the guard and the doctor and makes his escape from the prison, dressed as a guard.

Back at the Black and White Ball, Fisk is meeting with various luminaries and powerful people in New York. That includes Jack Duquesne AKA the Swordsman. It’s clear that whatever Fisk is meeting with these powerful people about, he’s using his influence and his criminal background to force them to cooperate. That includes one woman who doesn’t seem to know where he husband is, and she doesn’t mean just at the party. Several meetings end with Fisk talking about money, though it’s not shown what the specific conversations involve.

Meanwhile, Matt has shown up to the party and has some rather unfortunate conversations with Heather who isn’t exactly on the side of masked vigilantes and doesn’t understand what his problem with Wilson Fisk is. While he sulks and argues with Heather, the Fisks taunt him, knowing that he can hear their conversations even as they whisper out on the dance floor.

How Does Daredevil: Born Again Episode 8 End?

Trouble Is On The Horizon

The mystery of who ordered Bullseye to kill Foggy is finally solved by Matt has he’s taking in everything that’s going on behind the scenes at the ball. At first, he believed that Kingpin was the man the order, but he suddenly realizes that Vanessa is actually the one who had the shooting carried out. As it seems like things are about to come to a head between Matt and Vanessa, he hears the sounds of Bullseye setting up and going for the kill shot. That shot was aimed for Kingpin, but Matt jumps in the way and takes the bullet. The episode ends with Matt on the floor, being cradled by Heather.

An Unlikely Teamup

After the Police Commissioner is reminded that he is not in charge of Fisk’s “taskforce” of rogue cops, he runs into BB Uhrich and the two have a discussion about who is in control and who isn’t, It’s revealed that BB knows that Wilson Fisk is the man most likely responsible for her uncle’s death. She accuses the commissioner of being in charge of the Gestapo but he makes it very clear he’s not in charge of those police and he and BB seem to agree that they’re going to work against the Fisks.

Daredevil: Born Again

5/10

Release Date

March 4, 2025

Showrunner

Chris Ord

Directors

Michael Cuesta, Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Writers

Chris Ord

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  Charlie Cox

  Matt Murdock / Daredevil

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  Vincent D’Onofrio

  Wilson Fisk / Kingpin

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