03x06 - Chapter VI: Framed

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Life is like a thunderstorm.

It's unpredictable, uncontrollable,
sometimes even dangerous.

We like to think we
have a handle on life

that we're in charge.

Then without warning,

we find out how
wrong we really are.

This man has perpetrated the most
heinous crime a citizen can commit.

He is a danger to the very
well-being of our society.

Therefore, I urge that there be no
bail for the defendant, Peter Parker.

Your Honour, my client is innocent.

He demands his
freedom to prove it.

That's for the jury to determine.

I order the defendant
held without bar.

Bailiff, take him away.

I can't believe this is
happening to me?

It is as if I stepped
into a Kafka's novel.

I could use my
powers to break away,

but I have to reveal
that I'm a Spider-Man.

That would be too
dangerous for Aunt May.

Peter!

As if this hasn't hurt
her enough already.

Parker, what made you think
you'll get away with it?

Peter!

Now what's happening?

Sounds like World w*r III
is going on outside.

What's the matter kid?

Haven't you ever seen
Spider-Man before?

J3 Eagle to base.

I'm gonna try to get
closer and follow them.

A smoke screen! Ah!

So Parker, wanna
take my picture now?

How about an interview?

I have questions alright.

Like who is this phoney freak?

And how did I get caught
up in this mess anyway?

I guess it started when a
man named Richard Fisk

called me out of nowhere
and offered me a job.

- You're a physics...
- I didn't know Richard Fisk,

- but he sure knew a lot about me.
- ...out of your class.

A winner of the prestigious
Devonnel Science Award.

Mr. Parker, we are all
very impressed with you.

But there is one achievement of
yours that dwarves everything else.

- You saved my father's life.
- What?

Mr. Parker, my father, Wilson Fisk.

Greetings, young man.

Wilson Fisk, of course.

He's the wealthy philanthropist that
the Hobgoblin tried to assasinate.

I have been looking for just the right
way of expressing my gratitude to you.

I think I have found it.

My son has come home from Europe

to be the chairman of my
newest company, Fisktronics.

The company will service
large computer systems.

I believe this is one of
your fields of interest.

Yes, it certainly is.

I will arrange security
clearance for you.

You are interested in a work-
studying endowment are you not?

Interested?

Are you kidding?
When do I start?

Immediately. Just place
your future in my hands.

Those hands could have
held ten people's futures.

Or crush them all in
the blink of an eye.

It was a great job.

Most of the Fisktronics
clients were in defence

and they used the most cutting
edge digital technology there was.

Not that I ever saw
anything really top secret.

As a systems operations
troubleshooter

I just interface the diagnostic
machine into the computer networks.

It gave me a disk pointing out
possible memory errors, I/O conflicts,

node failures, routine stuff.

But the best part was

I made just enough money to
make an old dream come true.

Quit?! You ungrateful upstart.

I took you in when you were
just a kid off the street.

I sweated rock teaching
you the news business.

And for all my troubles,
you do this to me?

You can't quit.
You want to know why?

- "Because you're fired!"
- Because you're fired!

JJ, I'll never forget you,
no matter how hard I try.

You'll come crawling back,
mark my words.

How did he take the news?

I don't think he'll be crying himself
to sleep over losing me, Mr. Robertson.

Don't be too sure.

Jonah doesn't know how to show it,
but he does have a softer side.

I honestly think he likes you.

That was a surprise.

But I was in for a lot of
surprises from then on.

It was all routine the next day.

The machine did it's thing and
gave me a disk with diagnostics.

For once, it seemed like my life was
finally starting to come together.

One please,
with lots of mustard.

Hey, why is my spider sense...

Don't move!

So are you trying to tell me this
thing's bad for my cholesterol?

He's getting away.

Where did he go?

I don't know,
but we've got to get that disk.

My diagnostic disk?

Why would anyone want that?

We've got units closing
all the streets.

He can't get away.

I don't know who these guys are,
but I'm sure going to find out.

Uh oh. What now?

It's Spider-Man.
He might be Parker's accomplice.

Has the world gone crazy?
What's all this about?

I've lost them.

The scary thing is

they were originally after
Peter Parker, not Spider-Man.

- Aunt May?
- Peter.

I didn't know you were upstairs.

Aren't you home a little
early from your new job?

It's a long story.

But the important thing is,
are you alright?

Of course. Why wouldn't I be?

Oh, dear!

Hold it right there, Parker.

I can't risk a battle here.

Aunt May could get hurt.

We'll see what the police
have to say about this.

Ma'am, we are the police.

Detective Terri Lee, NYPD.

Long time no see, Parker.

Allow me to introduce you
to federal agent Susan Choi.

Federal agent?
Well, what do you want with me?

We want that computer
disk for starters.

But it's just diagnostic data.

Oh really?

I say it's full of classified
defense plans.

We knew somebody in Fisk's company
was selling government secrets.

Now we finally found
the traitor. You!

I don't know what
you're talking about.

I knew nothing about this.

Tell it to the judge.
Read him his rights.

Terri, you know me.
I wouldn't betray my country.

Parker, you better get
yourself a good lawyer.

Peter's a good boy.

There's got to be
an explanation.

For his sake,
I hope it's a good one.

Parker, your lawyer's here.

You're my lawyer?

You sound surprised.

Uh no, I mean I...

I'm sorry.

I've just never met a
blind lawyer before.

Well, I've never met an accused
traitor before, so we're even.

My name is Murdock, Matt Murdock.

The famous criminal defence lawyer?

But I can't afford you.

Well somebody sent
me a big cash retainer.

Until it runs out, I'm your man.

- If you want me.
- Of course.

Good.

They say justice is also blind,

so I like to think it gives me
a leg up on the competition.

Judging from what you've
gotten yourself into

we're gonna need every
bit of help we can get.

First of all, I need answers.

Up until this moment,
I've had precious few to offer.

So that's why I've let
these creeps kidnap me.

Am I putting myself into even
greater danger than before?

Mr. Fisk, what are you doing here?

Someone in my organization
made an awful mistake.

One which might have exposed
me to imminent prosecution.

I needed to find somebody
to take the fall, as they say,

and you are that
unfortunate person.

You're the one who framed me?

Yes, and I engineered your escape,

so as to leave no doubt in
anyone's mind that you are guilty.

You and Spider-Man.

- Good work, Chameleon.
- My pleasure.

Unfortunately, as I no longer have
use for you, I must be leaving.

Oh, please note.

Not even your friend Spider-Man
could break out of this cell.

There's no air vent in here.

Know also, that you have only
enough air to last a few minutes.

Goodbye, Parker.

Goodbye forever.

Not much air left.

Fisk was right about this door.

Spider-Man can't move it.

I'm done for.

Can't breathe.

My father, the Kingpin,
will be pleased.

We've saved him from
federal prosecution.

How ironic that Parker
should be branded a traitor,

especially after what you
told us about his parents.

- Where did he go?
- Right here.

What happened to the lights?

Can't breathe.

Don't think I'm...

...gonna make it.

Murdock sent me to get you out.

Who are you?

I'm called the Daredevil.
Let's go.

What happened to these guys?

Me.

There's two men at the far end
of the roof, behind the sign.

One's out of shape.

He's breathing hard,
his heart's pounding.

This guy could give my spider
sense a run for it's money.

Daredevil huh?
I like your style.

Murdock thinks
you've being framed.

You'll be safe here
until he can prove it.

Hold it. Where are you going?

The night is young.

There's work to be done.

Oh wait a minute.
Where am I?

So how did you like
my friend Daredevil?

Well there's one thing
I'm still curious about.

Why am I helping you?

Maybe it's because I know what it's
like when the deck stacked against you.

My dad was a fighter.

That's what he's always been.

He knew everything
about the business,

except when to get out.

Dad's time in the ring was over,
but he had a kid to support.

So he took a job collecting money
for an up and coming mobster

and sold his soul.

MOM & POPS DELI

No. Here's the money.

I couldn't deal with the shame
of what I've seen my dad doing.

That was the last
thing I ever saw.

The stuff in the truck
was radioactive waste.

It was against the law to
transport it through the city.

Someone didn't care about the
law, or about broken lives,

or about the value of life at all.

That someone is a crime boss
who calls himself the Kingpin.

Dad made a vow that he'd pay.

EAST SIDE RECYCLING

DANGER RADIOACTIVE

He was on his way
to the police when...

My dad was never seen again.

Do you know who
this Kingpin guy is?

I have my suspicions,

but since I have no evidence

it's better I keep my
suspicions to myself.

But you think Richard
Fisk is working for him?

Yes, I'm sure of it.

Kingpin's a dangerous man.

His influence is far reaching.

Some day he will meet his match.

Some day soon.

But I do go on.

You could probably use some rest.

How about if I let you?

Thank Matt, for everything.

But there's no
rest for Spider-Man.

I wish I could have told you
the whole story, Parker.

Told you about how the
accident changed me.

My blindness seems to
enhance all my other senses,

smell, touch, taste.

Now I could see
better than before.

It was a kind of a natural radar

but it was so new it confused me.

Then I met a mysterious
man named Stick.

I wish the world can know about
all that effort, all the long hours

where Stick took a lost
and lonely blind kid

and taught me to see

in ways I never knew existed.

That accident had changed me.

Was it the radiation?
Does it matter?

Stick was my mentor.

He helped me to live
up to the nickname

the kids would tease me when they
thought I was blind and helpless.

The Daredevil.

Now, I am confident, fearless.

And I'm close.

So close to confronting
my greatest enemy.

He'll pay for what he's
done to the innocent,

to the helpless, to my father.

Now please May,
let us make dinner.

You've got enough on your mind.

Why Anna Watson,
you're being so kind,

you're embarrassing me.

But you win.

I am feeling a little tired.

Poor woman.
I never did trust Peter.

Always gone when May needed him.

And now this one.

Aunt Anna, are you
saying Peter's guilty?

How can you even think that?

Mark my words, Mary Jane.

There's something
odd about that boy.

Shh, she doesn't
need to hear this.

May, you feel like having
brussel sprouts tonight?

May?

May? You look ill.

Mary Jane, call an ambulance!

Hurry!

Cop guarding the front.

In case I return, no doubt.

I hate the sewer.

Whenever I have to use it,

I'm eternally grateful I wasn't
bitten by a radioactive rat.

I hope Aunt May is getting
a good night sleep.

This has been
really tough for her.

My hunch, is that if there's any way
in the world to clear my name,

I'll find it here, at Fisktronics.

The whole Fisktronics system
route through these mainframes.

Wait a minute.
This looks interesting.

Hello, I'm one of the good guys.

Then why did you help
Fisk kidnap Parker?

Just my luck.
This guy thinks I kidnapped me.

Look. I've been framed too.

I need that disk to clear myself.

Oh really?

More likely, you're planting
evidence against Parker.

I've got to stop
underestimating him.

He seems to have a second
sense about everything.

Listen, I don't want to fight you,

but if you don't stop swinging
and start listening...

That's it. I've had it.

Start the timer, now!
That's what we came here for.

But what if all of our
guys don't get out?

You want to tell the Kingpin
we fail to blow this place up?

Now you wouldn't be trying to
destroy evidence, would you?

And just who is this Kingpin?

Freeze, Spider-Man.

Nice. Not only do we burn
the evidence, but you too.

Spider-Man, just
stay right where...

Everyone, get out of here.

The fire b*mb's gonna blow!

Maybe there's an overwrite.

Look out!

TO BE CONTINUED...