Things aren’t looking too great for vigilantes in Daredevil: Born Again. With New York’s new mayor, Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), cracking down on costumed crimefighting throughout the city, and corrupt cops gaining more power by the day, it’s getting harder to defend the innocent without running into trouble. Hector Ayala (Kamar de los Reyes) learned this the hard way in Born Again Episode 2. By night, he fights crime as the new vigilante White Tiger — but when he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, he quickly becomes a poster child for the city’s worst vices.
Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) may be the only one capable of truly saving Hector from a fate he doesn’t deserve. Though he previously dabbled in vigilantism as Daredevil, Matt no longer solves problems with his fists. In Born Again, he prefers to fight the good fight in the courtroom — if he can help it, at least — and Episode 3 reminds us all of his capability as a public defender. That said, it also proves just how broken the system has become, paving the way for a familiar, more ruthless brand of justice to rear its head in later episodes.
