This article contains spoilers For “Daredevil: Born Again” season 1, episode 3.
Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has always been a complex guy, as he beats a devil who plays for the side of the angels. The first headliner concert of the character in the Marvel cinematographic universe continues to rely strongly on this characterization, describing his charm, his intelligence, his guilt and his determination with an equal enthusiasm. However, when Matt takes care of Hector Ayala (Kamar de Los Reyes, died in 2023) Case of murder with the best intentions in the soul, a particular appeal that it makes ends up becoming one of the most stellar MCU examples of moral ambiguity.
In the second episode of “Daredevil: born again” (Read our review)Hector tries to arrest two men (who, without his knowledge, are simple police officers) enriching someone and the crash that followed are stumbled in front of a train coming in the opposite direction. Matt chances of the case when his super seals noticed the peril of Hector arrested. The lawyer does not realize that man is not only innocent, but that the NYPD officers are also convinced that he is a cop killer and treats him as such.
Matt investigator, Cherry (Clark Johnson), quickly manages to reveal two major clues: that Hector is secretly the famous vigilant White Tiger, and that the guy that the two infiltrated officers beat, Nicky Torres (Nick Jordan), was an informant. Unfortunately for the case in general and Hector in particular, Torres the star witness is too afraid to tell the truth at the mark of the witnesses, leaving Matt without passing anything. For this reason, he chooses to start building two cases simultaneously: a new defense where he exceeds Hector as the white tiger without warning, and a case of himself as a guy deeply unworthy of confidence that can ruin the life of a good man with a single change of strategy.
Matt’s decision would have condemned Hector, whatever happens
Desperate to win the case, Matt surprisingly exhibits Hector as a white tiger after Nicky is backing up. Admittedly, this improvised strategy allows the defense lawyer to paint an (correct) image of a defender with the strong heart of the weak who helped the NYPD before and who would never knowingly attack two police officers, in particular without his amulet of power. However, everyone’s daredevil should understand that the revelation of the identity of a vigilante during a high-level judicial case will condemn Hector, whatever happens.
Matt maintains that Hector can manage the situation by simply abandoning his fighter character after finding innocent, but really, what would it do even if Hector could do it (what he can’t)? The white tiger is easily famous enough for New Yorkers to discuss the same way Kingpin (Vincent d’Onofrio, again after “Hawkeye” and “Echo”) Can be alluded to Spider-Man (Tom Holland) casually and trust his audience to obtain the reference. This means that the white tiger – and now Hector – has dozens, if not hundreds, of avenging enemies. He is also specifically indicated during the procedure that Hector lives in a regular rental location with his family, and that he is just as vulnerable as the next guy when he does not wear his amulet. The criminal world now knows that the man behind the white tiger mask has several helpless relatives and no real defensive resources, and it is suddenly very easy to find.
As such, whether Hector again carries the costume or not after the verdict, he and his family will always have a target on his back. You could expect it, the white tiger is shot down by an invisible aggressor bearing the Punisher skull logo (Jon Bernthal) the next time he hits the streets.
For a lawyer, Matt has little respect for the process
The double paths of a lawyer and a vigilante are difficult to walk in the best of cases, but the antics of Matt with his star witness and the sudden revelation of the white tiger show such an outrage that the judge Cooper (Andrew Polk) orders a brief break, during which he and the district prosecutor Ben Ben Ben Benjamin Hickey) For triéré Matt and bring him back. The two men are absolutely livid to Matt’s decision to play the White Tiger card without warning, clearly indicating that they consider this scandalously unprofessional decision. The judge does not appreciate that Matt was effectively forced his hand by authorizing the white tiger questioning line to continue, while Hochberg threatens the defense lawyer Voyou with wholesale repercussions in all New York police. Hector is not delighted either. He specifically declares that the secret was never the lawyer to say, and really, Matt should have at least attempted to consult his client on the situation before opening his mouth and condemning the man.
However, despite the frankly questionable decision to put Hector in a place of danger that ultimately kills him, it is clear that Matt’s intentions are pure. He spotted an innocent guy in difficulty that changes his life, proposed to represent him pro bono and put a prevailing work to obtain this “non -guilty” verdict. Although relatively small, this combination of good intentions and tactics returning from a deep -informed light back is tied with the kind of thing Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) was launched in films like “Avengers: Avengers: Age of Ultron” … and with Tony Gone, Daredevil now has the pole position in the race for the “most moral thom”.
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