- Matt Murdock: Her name's Elektra Natchios.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Well, she sounds like a Mexican appetizer.
- Matt Murdock: It's Greek, genius. Her father's Nikolas Natchios.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: The billionaire?
- Matt Murdock: Yeah, see? Yes, the billionaire.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Well, then, as your attorney in this matter I advise you to marry the woman immediately.
- Matt Murdock: I'll take it under consideration.
- Daredevil: Hey, that light? At the end of the tunnel? Guess what? That's not heaven...
- Jose Quesada: I'll kill you! I'll kill you!
- Daredevil: That's the C train!
- [Elektra is reading]
- Matt Murdock: I was just looking for some honey. Could you help me out?
- Elektra: [not looking up] Right in front of you.
- Matt Murdock: [chuckles] Well, could you be a little bit more specific?
- Elektra: [looking up] What are you...
- Matt Murdock: Blind? Yeah.
- Matt Murdock: So does every guy have to go through this just to find out your name?
- Elektra: You should try asking for my number.
- [Bullseye has used airline peanuts to suffocate an annoying passenger]
- Flight Attendant: Can I get you anything before we land?
- Bullseye: More peanuts... please.
- Matt Murdock: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been a week since my last...
- Father Everett: What the hell are you playing at, Matt? You didn't come here for forgiveness. You came for permission, and I can't give you that.
- Matt Murdock: Justice isn't a sin, Father.
- Father Everett: No, but vengeance is. You see it every day on the street: violence begets more violence. Is that how you want to live your life? A lawyer during the day, and then judge and jury at night? Is that what you want?
- Matt Murdock: Somebody has to do something.
- Father Everett: But why you?
- Matt Murdock: Because I can. Because I'm not afraid.
- Father Everett: Well, I'm afraid FOR you, Matthew. Look, a man without fear is a man without hope. May God have mercy on you for your sins and grant you Everlasting Life, Amen.
- Father Everett: I'm not too crazy about the outfit, either.
- Matt Murdock: [Director's Cut version/Narrating] Violence doesn't discriminate. It hits all of us... the rich, the poor, the healthy, the sick. It comes as cold and bracing as a winter breeze off the Hudson. Until it sinks into your bones... leaving you with a chill you can't shake. They say there's not rest for the wicked. But what about the good? The battle of Good vs. Evil is never-ending... because evil always survives... with the help of evil men. As for Daredevil, well... soon the world will know the truth. That this is a city born of heroes, that one man CAN make a difference.
- [Matt sniffs the air and turns his head]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: What? What? Where? Where, where?
- Matt Murdock: Front door. Not yet, soon.
- [pause]
- Matt Murdock: Now.
- [Elektra walks in]
- Matt Murdock: Tell me.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: You want the truth?
- Matt Murdock: Absolutely.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: She's hideous. I don't know if it's a fungus or some sort of congenital birth defect. But, as your attorney in this matter, I advise you to take no further action.
- [Director's Cut only]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: I hate to bring it up again, but I spent 3,000 dollars on that seeing eye dog...
- Matt Murdock: I didn't ask you for the dog, I didn't want a dog!
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Can I tell you something else? Seeing eye dogs bond for life - yours ran away. What does that tell you about how emotionally available you are?
- [Matt laughs]
- Matt Murdock: What is your problem with our clients? We have good, honorable clients. Decent people. What's your idea of better? Define "better". Huh? What would be a "better" client?
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: "Better" means "rich and guilty", okay? Remember when they taught us in law school how to create a moral vacuum so that you can represent people who aren't all necessarily innocent?
- Matt Murdock: That was your best course, as I recall.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Yeah, well, you don't have a moral vacuum, Matt. You are completely vacuumless.
- Elektra: [tries to remove Matt's shades] Do you mind?
- Matt Murdock: Uh, no, I just... sometimes it makes people uncomfortable, that's all.
- Elektra: Not me. But you should know that the only reason I got dressed up for this thing was that I wanted to look beautiful for you. I wish you could see me tonight.
- Matt Murdock: Me, too.
- [During a playful, flirtatious fight]
- Matt Murdock: You're holding back.
- Elektra: Yes.
- Matt Murdock: Don't.
- [Elektra follows Matt on a dark street]
- Matt Murdock: [stops] Does this mean you want a rematch?
- Elektra: [smiling] I knew I'd find you. How did you know I wasn't a mugger?
- Matt Murdock: Muggers don't usually wear rose oil or high heels... at least, this far from Chelsea.
- [Foggy is reading a New York tabloid to Daredevil at a restaurant]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Listen to this. Eyewitnesses say that Quesada was singled out by the demonic vigilante known as the Daredevil.
- Daredevil: I don't know why you read that trash.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: I been hearing stories about this guy for years; there's gotta be something to it!
- Daredevil: Like the alligators in the sewers?
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: There are alligators in the sewers! Don't ride my ass about the alligators. I got a friend in Sanitation, okay? He's seen them.
- Matt Murdock: High above the city streets, I trained my body and my senses. An acute sense of touch gave me both strength and balance, until the city itself became my playground.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Natchios owns the Grand Hotel. And Elektra's the reason you were invited to the ball.
- Matt Murdock: She's out of my league. I'd rather just end it before it starts.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: That's gotta be some kind of record, Matt. You just completely bypassed the whole relationship phase. You went right into the breakup. Trying to save some time, huh?
- Daredevil: They say your whole life flashes before your eyes when you die. And it's true, even for a blind man.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: That place is gonna be crawling with people, rich people, people who pay their legal fees with money, not with fish, or with-with-with wheels of cheese, or with sports supplies! I'm gonna fill you in on a little secret, Matt. This doesn't look like a law office, okay? It looks like the set of goddamn "Sanford and Son". Every time I walk in, I'm waiting for Lamont to come down the stairs!
- Daredevil: Hey, how ya doing?
- Jose Quesada: [being strangled] Didn't you hear? I was acquitted.
- Daredevil: Not by me.
- Jose Quesada: Who made you judge?
- Daredevil: You did.
- Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Your client, Mr. Lee - he made his first payment.
- Matt Murdock: Oh, that's great. You should be very happy.
- Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Yeah, it's fantastic. He paid in fluke. Fluke is a fish, Matt. Did you know that? Because I sure as hell didn't.
- Matt Murdock: Mr. Lee is a good man, and he... doesn't have a lot of money, and he goes fishing on the weekends, so I guess that's...
- Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: Yeah, well, I go salsa dancing on the weekends, but I don't shake my ass to pay my phone bill, you know what I'm sayin'?
- Daredevil: Can one man make a difference? There are days when I believe; and others when I have lost all faith.
- Fallon: Jack, it's been a while.
- Jack Murdock: I don't work for you no more, Fallon...
- Fallon: Jack, you never stopped. Did you really think you won all those fights on your own? You're forty-two years old! Miller, Mack, Bendis, they're all my fighters... just like you. And now it's your turn to take a fall. Think about your boy, Jack. I'm sure you'll do the right thing.
- Daredevil: I waited outside the Olympic for my father. In some ways, I'm still waiting. Nobody cared much about the death of a washed-up prizefighter... nobody but me.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Look at me, Matt. I'm a 'Plus One'. Plus Ones don't get anywhere by themselves. They need somebody to bring them. That's why it's 'plus one'!
- [deleted scene]
- Kingpin: Wesley, did you know that in ancient times they would cut the tongue out of their bodyguards their first day on the job? You think that's awful, don't you? You don't like that... I do.
- [kills his bodyguards]
- Daredevil: You killed the only two people I ever loved. Why?
- Kingpin: Business. That's all it ever is, is business. I was working for Fallon at the time, your father was supposed to throw a fight. And your girl was in the wrong family at the wrong time. It's all business... and you've been in my business for too long!
- Elektra: Nice to meet you, Matt Murdock.
- Matt Murdock: Nice to meet you, uh... I didn't get your name.
- Elektra: I didn't give it.
- [leaves]
- Wesley Owen Welch: There's been a problem...
- Kingpin: Bullseye failed.
- Wesley Owen Welch: Correct.
- Kingpin: Send the guards home.
- Wesley Owen Welch: [confused] But, sir...
- Kingpin: I was raised in the Bronx, Wesley. This is something you wouldn't understand.
- Daredevil: [Director's Cut Version] This is my confession, Father.
- Father Everett: [whispering] God's mercy is infinite. All you gotta do is ask.
- Daredevil: Everything I had has been taken from me. Now I'm supposed to ask for mercy. I don't ask for mercy - people ask me!
- Father Everett: Oh, is that a fact?
- Matt Murdock: I had set out to save the city. But with Elektra's help, I saved myself instead. Now I have faith that anything is possible. And some days, faith is all you need.
- Karen Page: [to Murdock] This just came by messenger. It's your invitation to the Black and White Ball at the Grand, plus one.
- [smiles expectantly]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Plus one? All right! Guess I gotta rent a tux!
- Bullseye: Fisk was right about you. He said you wouldn't go easy.
- Daredevil: Fisk? Fisk is the Kingpin?
- Bullseye: Yeah. That whole red rose thing? He loves that shite. It's not my style. He hired me to kill Natchios, and to gut your pretty girlfriend too. But me, I'm going for the hat-trick. I told him I'd do you for free!
- Daredevil: I would keep my promise. I would help those that others wouldn't. I would seek justice... one way or another.
- Matt Murdock: Where'd you learn how to fight like that?
- Elektra: My father. He had me study with a different sensei every year since I was five years old.
- Matt Murdock: Sounds like he wanted to turn you into some kind of a warrior.
- Elektra: No. Just not a victim.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Oh-oh-oh! Look at that! Wilson Fisk is in the hizzie! Come on, we might never get a chance like this again. Come on, let's go!
- [drags Murdock over to Fisk]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Mister Fisk? Mister Fisk, it's Franklin Nelson from Nelson and Murdock...
- Wesley Owen Welch: Excuse me. You want to talk to Mister Fisk, you make an appointment. Okay?
- Fisk: It's all right, Wesley... I know who you are. You're the blind lawyers from Hell's Kitchen.
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Actually, actually he's the blind one. I'm deaf.
- Fisk: [chuckles] Give them a card, Wesley. I'm always on the lookout for new blood.
- Matt Murdock: I'm sorry, Mister Fisk, my partner's a little overzealous. We can't represent you.
- Fisk: Why's that?
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Yes, why IS that, Mister Murdock?
- Matt Murdock: Because we only handle clients who are innocent.
- Fisk: [laughs] "Innocent", he says. That's pretty funny. You know, I've learned one thing in all my years in this business.
- Matt Murdock: What's that?
- Fisk: Nobody's innocent. Nobody. Have a great time at the party.
- [Fisk and Wesley walk off]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: I just... Matt, for one night I just wish, I just...
- [sees Elektra]
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: Matt, I just wish I could give you my eyes for one night.
- Matt Murdock: [as Elektra is leaving her father's funeral] I know how you feel...
- Elektra: You don't know how I feel. I want revenge.
- Matt Murdock: Revenge won't make the pain go away. Trust me, I know.
- Elektra: There's no place for me now.
- Matt Murdock: Yes there is. Stay. Stay with me, please.
- [it starts to rain and Elektra puts up her umbrella and he can't see her anymore]
- Matt Murdock: [she starts to leave] Elektra. Elektra, wait! Please...
- [Matt has taken Elektra up the roof, and it is about to rain]
- Matt Murdock: When it rains, it's like there's a rooftop on the world. Each raindrop makes a sound the first time it falls on a surface. Just then, it's like I... it's like I can see again. And I... I just wanna... I just wanna see you.
- Elektra: [smiles] Okay.
- Matt Murdock: Look. Here it comes.
- [it begins to rain, and Matt can now 'see' her]
- Matt Murdock: My God... you are so beautiful.
- [He kisses her. Then Matt hears men fighting down on the street and pulls away from her]
- Elektra: What? Matt, what's wrong? Matt?
- Matt Murdock: I'm sorry... I have to go.
- [he turns from her, she takes ahold of his wrist]
- Elektra: Stay. Stay with me.