Daredevil: Born Again: Requiem

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STV006: Vanessa Fisk is buried, and something else takes her place.

Jeff Haecker, Patrick Mason, and Rob Leonardi break down “Requiem,” the sixth episode of Daredevil: Born AgainSeason 2 — the moment the season stops building and starts burning.

The episode opens with Fisk killing Vanessa’s surgeon in a grief-fueled embrace, then appearing at the funeral in white while everyone else wears black. The panel unpacks this as a coronation: Fisk exits the church alone, walks into the sun, and stops being mayor in any meaningful sense. He hands the CIA weapons cache to the AVTF and begins operating purely as Kingpin. Patrick draws the structural parallel to Matt Murdock’s own arc — just as Season 1 watched Daredevil become fully himself, Season 2 has watched Mayor Fisk dissolve back into the crime lord he always was.

Jessica Jones reappears — briefly — and her powers are fluctuating since the birth of her daughter Danielle. The panel debates what this means within the MCU and flags the show’s confirmed timeline: Season 2 picks up six months after Season 1, following Thunderbolts.

Inside Fisk’s operation, Buck Cashman assigns Daniel Blake a loyalty test: feed BB Urich false information and see if she leaks it. BB gets close to sending the story, then sees Daniel’s room and deletes it. She almost kisses him. The panel notes that Daniel now knows she’s been working an angle — and that he’s buried a body, so he’s in deeper than he’d like to admit.

Heather Glenn‘s arc darkens sharply. Buck encourages her to re-enact what Muse did to her, framed as exposure therapy. The panel flags the moment she clearly takes too much pleasure in it — the shot cutting between her tears and the blood on Muse’s mask — as the episode’s clearest signal that Heather is no longer just a victim.

Matt returns from destroying the weapons warehouse with Jessica Jones to find Karen Page on the verge of killing Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter. He stops her. The argument that follows — Karen making the case that Fisk keeps killing because Matt keeps letting him live — drives her to the City Hall vigil with Angela del Toro, where they project recorded testimonies from Red Hook prisoners onto the building. The protest turns when Connor Powell kills Alan Saunders and blames vigilantes. Karen ends the episode in AVTF custody.

Matt visits Fisk and proposes they both leave New York — the fight ends only if neither of them stays. Fisk attacks. During the brawl, he throws Matt through the painting that first brought him and Vanessa together, destroying it. Patrick closes with an analysis of the episode’s musical structure: the choral requiem that opens the episode gives way to something rawer by the end — less peace, more dirge — and the episode’s title earns every note.

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