Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 5: What’s in deposit box 407? Just a Soul Stone… or a multiversal map?

Daredevil: Born Again throws open a vault of questions in episode 5, With Interest, when Matt Murdock quietly unlocks deposit box 407. He doesn't just open a steel container, he taps into something much deeper. The orange glow that spills out isn't just cinematic lighting. It's a breadcrumb. A question. A provocation.

So what is in that box?

The official answer? We don’t get one. But Marvel never plays subtle unless it means something. And that means we have theories to explore, the two strongest being: a Soul Stone or a multiversal navigation key.

Why Daredevil: Born Again might have just revealed the Soul Stone

Let’s start with the obvious: the color. It’s orange, radiant, and isolated like an artifact. And Marvel fans know that glow. The Soul Stone has always been the quietest, strangest of the Infinity Stones, the one that demands sacrifice, memory, and moral weight. The one that whispers rather than screams.

Which fits the tone of the episode perfectly. No bombast, no explosion, just silence, tension, and the weight of something unspeakable passing from Matt’s hand to Yusuf Khan’s. This is Daredevil, after all, a show built on guilt, shadows, and questions of what a soul is worth.

There’s also symbolic logic. Matt opens a vault no one else can crack. A hundred million combinations, they say. Yet he does it calmly, methodically, almost like fate guided his hands. If the Soul Stone is tied to sacrifice and purpose, then Matt Murdock, the blind man who never stops seeing the truth, might be exactly the kind of person who can carry it.

But if it is a Soul Stone, what’s it doing in a New York bank?

That’s where things get interesting. Because this wouldn’t be the first time Marvel has hidden something cosmic behind the mundane. The Soul Stone is no stranger to secrecy. It wasn’t even revealed until the third Avengers movie, long after the other five stones had shown themselves. If Marvel wanted to reintroduce it quietly, this is exactly how they’d do it. Tucked away in a bank vault, handed off to a secondary character, passed like a secret no one realizes is important until much later. In the street-level world of Daredevil: Born Again.

And what better character to receive it than Yusuf Khan? A father, a community man, someone grounded. Someone with no powers but a lot of heart. Placing the Soul Stone in his hands says something about who gets to hold power now.

The mystery of box 407 and its multiversal clues

Now for the weirder, multiversal angle.

What if that orange crystal isn’t a Soul Stone, but something new that the MCU hasn’t named yet? A shard of the Multiverse? A relic from a collapsed reality? The number on the box, 407, might not be random. Marvel’s database of alternate Earths once used “TRN407” as a temporary reality ID before it was renamed to Earth-11162, a timeline where Peter Parker and Kitty Pryde end up together. Coincidence? Maybe. But Marvel is very intentional with numbers when it wants to be.

And there’s more. Box 407 wasn’t just a random deposit. It was the only box the robbers wanted. They didn’t touch the cash. They weren’t after jewels or documents. That means someone knew exactly what was in there. And that someone might not be from around here.

We’ve seen this kind of narrative clue before. In Loki, entire timelines collapsed because someone held the wrong object. In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a single book carried the weight of infinite realities. What if this box is that kind of object? A multiversal GPS, a relic left by Kang, a warning hidden in plain sight?

And let’s not forget the context. This episode aired alongside the tease of Muse in episode 6, a villain who’s all about perception, creativity, and chaos. If Daredevil: Born Again is folding in breadcrumbs for the larger MCU, maybe that crystal isn’t a weapon. Maybe it’s a key.

A key to somewhere Matt, or someone else, isn’t supposed to go.

A blind man, a cosmic stone, and no answers (yet) so far in Daredevil: Born Again

No matter which theory you follow, one thing’s clear. Daredevil: Born Again didn’t drop an orange gem into a high-security box in the middle of a bank heist by accident. Whether it’s a leftover from the Thanos era timelines or a setup for Secret Wars, that box contains more than just value. It contains potential.

And Marvel? Marvel doesn’t waste potential.

It’s also important to remember that Matt leaves the stone behind. He makes a conscious choice to pass it to Yusuf, who hides it among bullets—a poetic gesture that says more than any monologue ever could. This isn’t just a mystery object. It’s a test. Of those who notice. Of who’s watching.

It’s also a quiet challenge to the MCU formula. In most Marvel stories, something this powerful would be grabbed, used, and explained. Here, it’s protected. Forgotten. Hidden in plain sight. And that’s why it works.

So what’s in deposit box 407?

A Soul Stone? A multiversal map? Maybe both. Maybe neither.

But one thing’s for sure. Matt Murdock just became the keeper of something bigger than Hell’s Kitchen.

And he didn’t even need his eyes to see it.