Still on the run, David Bruce Banner makes his way toward a large city with the hopes of staying incognito under the name David Belson. Unbeknownst to him, the city is under the control of a crime boss named
Wilson Fisk and protected by a mysterious black-clad crimefighter known as
Daredevil. While riding the commuter subway train, David
witnesses two passengers
sexually molesting a woman, Ellie Mendez, and intervenes. They strike him, making him
transform into the Hulk, which results in disruption and chaos. David is arrested by the
police and charged with attacking Ellie, who claims her actual attackers saved her from David.
Blind defense attorney Matt Murdock offers to take David's case
pro bono publico, explaining that Ellie's attackers work for Fisk, whom he is trying to bring down. David is uncooperative, but Matt can tell he is telling the truth when he says he tried to help Ellie. Matt visits Ellie, who continues to claim David attacked her, but conspicuously falters under questioning, especially after Matt reveals he overheard her talking to her nurse about some men visiting her with his hyper-sensitive hearing. Considering Ellie a risk, Fisk has the nurse, one of his agents, give her a lethal injection, but Daredevil breaks into the hospital and stops the nurse. Angered that Fisk's group tried to kill her when she was cooperating with them, Ellie calls Matt and offers to tell the truth about the attack in exchange for protection for her parents, who Fisk's men threatened. Before Matt can meet with her to get her statement, Fisk has Ellie abducted from
protective custody. In jail, David has a
nightmare about transforming into the Hulk on the
witness stand during his upcoming trial. The
stress causes him to transform in reality, and the Hulk breaks out of prison. Daredevil finds the apartment where David is staying, wanting him to stand trial. David suspects Daredevil is one of Fisk's men, so he unmasks himself as Matt Murdock. Matt tells David that an accident with radiation blinded him when he was 14, while giving him enhanced senses and a "radar sense", and that he was inspired to become Daredevil by Officer Albert G. Tendelli, who now acts as his police contact. David nonetheless refuses to help or tell what he knows about the Hulk. Fisk plants info about Ellie's whereabouts as a trap for Daredevil. When Daredevil arrives, Fisk uses spotlights and blaring speakers to disorient him; instead, the speakers overwhelm Daredevil's enhanced hearing, allowing Fisk's men to beat him nearly to death. David arrives to save Matt, transforming into the Hulk in the process. Matt traces the Hulk's
face as he transforms back to David, thus learning David's secret. Using his training as a medical doctor, David treats Matt and spreads a
cover story about his injuries being the result of falling down stairs. While Matt's self-confidence is shaken, David's confidence has been restored by seeing how Matt has embraced his unique gifts, which are also caused by exposure to radiation. At David's persistent coaxing, Matt begins to retrain his body. Fisk holds a meeting of crime bosses and proposes the consolidation of their operations into a nationwide syndicate, with himself as chairman. He presents footage of Daredevil's apparent death as proof of his power. Daredevil and David infiltrate Fisk's office tower to discredit Fisk and save Ellie. David frees Ellie with assistance from Fisk's right-hand man, Edgar, who hints to them that he has on multiple occasions saved people from Fisk, who always forgives him. Daredevil breaks into the meeting, and the crime bosses flee. David and Matt part as friends. David heads to a radiation laboratory in Portland in hopes of finding a
cure for himself, and Matt remains in the city to protect it. ==Cast==