[Spoiler] Might Not Be Dead in Daredevil: Born Again After All—Inside the Twist That Would Change Everything

Daredevil is back and with his usual Hell’s Kitchen crew—temporarily, at least. Matt Murdock makes his big return in Daredevil: Born Again and we see him happy with his associates Foggy Nelson and Karen Page.

The crew is celebrating a police officer’s anniversary at their usual pub Josie’s. It’s all lighthearted smiles and flirtatious banter among the group, but Foggy gets called to step out of the pub and onto the streets of Hell’s Kitchen. All while doing so, Benjamin ‘Dex’ Poindexter is scouring the rooftops trying to plan the perfect revenge for his enemy Daredevil. It all happens so quickly, so we’ll break it down for you below.

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How did Foggy die in Daredevil?

Foggy died from a gunshot wound to the back of the chest. While he was taking a call from a frantic client who apologizes for selling him out to Bullseye, the foe takes aim at him from another rooftop with a sniper and shoots at the lawyer. Matt immediately hunts down his enemy using his heightened senses and has a showdown with him. Dressed as Daredevil and the show donning it’s signature one shot scenes, he hears the fading heartbeat of his best friend and throws Bullseye off the roof.

Bullseye survives thanks to his reinforced skeleton after he was paralyzed in season 3 of Daredevil. However, it takes a toll on Matt who moves to another law firm, and Karen, who moves all the way to the other coast of San Francisco. He also pushes for the maximum amount of punishment for Dex in court.

“The effort and conversation that went into that,” amongst everybody, “was absolutely enormous,” Moorhead recalls, “and we think that one of the reasons that people got behind it is they knew how serious what was happening during and at the end of that shot is. Making [Foggy’s death] the end of one of Daredevil’s legendary one-take fight scenes for us was a way to begin his eulogy.”

Though, Marvel’s Head of TV, Streaming, and Animation, Brad Winderbaum told Phase Hero that it won’t be the last that we’ll see Foggy and Karen. “Without going into spoiler territory, I will say that both Deborah and Elden are coming back for Season 2,” the executive said of the actors. So will they follow the comic books and bring back Foggy?

Why Did Bullseye Kill Foggy?

Bullseye killed Foggy so that he could exact revenge on Daredevil, even though Wilson Fisk was the one who paralyzed him. However because Dex didn’t know that Matt was Daredevil by the end of Daredevil Season 3, he might have done all the work to know his secret identity and who he hangs out with. It marks the end of a chapter of Nelson and Murdock, and it’s going to have a tough blow on Matt for the rest of the season.

“When that was talked about in the beginning, I couldn’t quite get my head around that,” Charlie Cox told TV Line. “I often think of Foggy Nelson as the heartbeat of the MCU. He’s integral to Matt’s life, Matt’s history… and Elden has done such a beautiful job with that character for so many years.”

He continued, “I understand … that we need to make a big splash. We want to rock the boat early on and draw people in in a new way. [Killing Foggy] is one way to do it, but it’s a big choice.”

The directors of the show also told the site that Foggy’s death will have a lasting effect for the rest of the season. Aaron Moorhead recalled planning out Foggy’s death, “it needs to be an atom bomb on the lives of everybody in this show. It needs to ripple out not just for that episode or that moment [but] through Episode 9. And it does.”