Matt taking the bullet for Kingpin in Daredevil: Born Again has a deeper significance than what meets the eye

Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 8, Isle of Joy, ended with Matt Murdock taking a bullet from Ben Poindexter/Bullseye. The bullet was meant for Wilson Fisk, but Matt Murdock shockingly decided to save his worst enemy. While Matt will survive this ordeal, saving Wilson was a surprising move as just a few minutes before, Matt had realized that Heather was invited to the party as a threat.

Simultaneously, he also learns that Vanessa had been in charge of Wilson Fisk's criminal empire at the time of Foggy's death. Thus, meaning Vanessa was the one who hired Bullseeye to kill Foggy in the prologue of the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again. And if Matt wanted to get back at her, he could've very well not acted at all and let Fisk die.

But that's not how episode 8 of Born Again played out. As a vigilante, Matt decides to step up and save the life of a person in New York who is corruption incarnate. In doing so, it allowed Matt to do the one thing he failed to do in the opening minutes of Daredevil: Born Again, save Foggy. This move may help Matt achieve something he has been pursuing since the night Foggy died.

Matt taking the bullet for Kingpin in Daredevil: Born Again, Episode 8 helped Matt get closure:

Daredevil: Born Again started on a shocking note, as the prologue of the first episode shows Foggy getting fatally shot. The man who shot him is Ben Poindexter, who carried out this deed on Vanessa Fisk's orders. After shooting Foggy, Poindexter is also about to shoot Karen, but Matt intervenes, leading to a brutal fight inside a building.

Matt is unable to be at Foggy's side as he is busy trying to apprehend Poindexter and also limit the assassin's damage. Thus, as Daredevil fights Bullseye in the prologue of Episode 1: Heaven's Half Hour, of Daredevil: Born Again, Matt hears the decreasing heartbeat of his best friend, making it one of the most heartbreaking moments in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In the eighth episode, as Poindexter prepares to fire the bullet, there's a moment when Matt must decide to take an action to save Wilson or allow the Kingpin to die. As a vigilante, Matt decides to let go of all of his apprehensions and save a life regardless of who it belonged to. This moment, in a way, brings Matt's journey in Daredevil: Born Again to full circle.

Even Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson, the directors of the first, eighth, and ninth episodes of the series, addressed the meaning behind the closing moments of the episode in which Matt is bleeding on the floor as red light falls on him and Heather, who is trying to help him in the interview with Brandon Davis on April 9, 2025.

What did Benson and Moorhead say about the closing moments of Daredevil: Born Again, episode 8?

As stated before, the director duo was interviewed by Brandon Davis for the latter's Phase Hero: A Film & TV Podcast a day after the eighth episode of Daredevil: Born Again was streamed. In that interview, Moorhead explained how saving Wilson Fisk might've given Matt Murdock the grace the latter felt like he lost back in the first episode. The director's exact words were:

"What we wanted to do was have the camera pull out from Matt and Heather and then slowly tilt up into the sky and up on the ceiling there would be some kind of religious iconography on the copola above the dance. It would kind of give this impression of Matt's soul leaving his body, but also this idea of him having committed this act of defending his worst enemy now gives him the grace that he felt like he lost in episode 1; kind of saying like he is Daredevil and he's not lost the privilege anymore. "

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Find out what happens next by catching the finale of Daredevil: Born Again on April 15, 2025.

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