Villain: Kirigi, the Hand

Guest Appearance: The Seven, Black Widow, Ivan Petrovich, Stick, Heather Glenn, Foggy Nelson, Becky Blake

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Down in the basement, Stick sits atop an isolation chamber that Matt lies inside, surrounded in a bath of water with an oxygen mask over his face. Stick speaks to Matt through a mental wavelength, guiding him through the cure for his hypersenses gone haywire.

Meanwhile, as the poison slowly makes its effects over her body known, Natasha makes her way to Heather Glenn's apartment. She eavesdrops on Heather talking to herself about her messed up relationship with Matt Murdock. Later, she heads to Matt's law office, and he isn't there either. Across town, the ninja priest who helped restore the Kirigi to life gives him his next task- to destroy the Hand's greatest foe: Stick.

Back at the isolation chamber, Stick tells Matt that there might not be time to try and cure his problem before the Hand shows up to do them all in. Stick tries to tell Matt that his problem is that he is stuck in the mud of confusion and helplessness. The Black Widow greets the Kingpin by beating up all his bodyguards, then demands to know where Daredevil is. Before she can get any answers, her skin starts to burn, and she runs away, the poison finally starting to overtake her. The Kirigi has made it to to the room where Stick is sitting over the isolation tank, talking to Matt about how his radar sense wasn't given to him by his interaction with the radioactive isotope like he thought; but that the interaction merely opened up his mind to the sensory abilities that every person has but doesn't know how to put into play. But suddenly Matt realizes that Stick has disappeared. He realizes that trouble has arrived, perhaps in the form of the Hand, and he must do something about it.

He climbs out of the chamber and realizes he's been cured. Sounds no longer overwhelm him. But the Kirigi is fighting Stick, and soon Stick's partner from the Seven- Shaft, who fires arrows from a bow; Claw, who has Wolverine-style claws attached to his hands; and Stone- who fights with a sword. The three of them finally beat down the Kirigi, and just as Stick is introducing Matt to the Seven, Natasha comes stumbling into the room, calling out Matt's name, her flesh burning.

(continued in DD #189)

--synopsis by Gormuu

--panel images provided by Avengers Assemble

--letter pages provided by Aussie Stu

Issues Reprinted
Daredevil #183-191, What If #28, 35,
and Elektra from Bizarre Adventures #28

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