An important figure from Murdock’s past reemerges seeking his help to battle a new enemy threatening Hell’s Kitchen.

Think Daredevil lost his site and then suddenly could fight and kick ass? Even with his father being a boxer, there was only so much he could learn. Enter Stick played by Scott Glenn.

The episode is mostly broken up into two parts. The present we see Stick needing Matt’s help as Daredevil in fighting someone from Japan who’s worse than the Yakuza…. could The Hand be making an appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Where all of that leads is interesting, and creates a rather big mystery as to what the mysterious bad-guy Nobu is up to.

In the past, we also see the training that Stick put Matt through as a young child. We see through various scenes how Matt got good enough to become Daredevil. It’s not over the top ridiculous and somewhat grounded in a weird way, but it answers a big question that’s been out there, how did Daredevil get trained to do the things he can do. Stick was training Matt for a war, but we don’t really know what it was for.

In other fronts Karen and Foggy have a moment that’ll change things a bit. It’s a nice ongoing storyline that keeps an overarching plot going, but not in a distracting way, only enhancing things. It also acts as a way for us the viewer to keep track of things.

Another good episode that might raise more questions than it answers, and gets me even more excited for episodes to come.

Overall rating: 8