The creative process for Daredevil: Born Again was not exactly smooth. Partway through filming season 1, Marvel Studios replaced the original showrunners and overhauled their plans for the series. Their initial vision reportedly skewed too far from the tone of Netflix's Daredevil, and several lead actors weren't convinced by what they’d filmed so far. After considerable rewrites, the version we see on Disney Plus incorporates some of that earlier material, but feels closer to the Daredevil that fans know and love.
Episode 5 is one of the points where we can guess what the previous, now-defunct Born Again might have looked like. Light on angst, it’s a standalone adventure where Matt Murdock never actually dons the Daredevil suit. Channelling an old-fashioned style of episodic storytelling, it sees Matt get taken hostage during a bank heist, using his street smarts and superpowers to outwit the robbers before the clock runs out on a high-stakes deadline.
