WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again episode 7.
Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk were the hero-and-villain duo of the original Netflix Daredevil series, an element that Born Again has carried over into this continuation of the story. Their dynamic continues to translate well on screen, and the tension that has been building between them all season -- even mostly from afar -- is no doubt going to pay off brilliantly in the upcoming finale.
Even still, despite these two doing the absolute most with their starring roles in the best way possible, the show's supporting characters continue to almost rise to match them on many fronts. It's one of many reasons the show is so well-done. If Fisk and Murdock were the only two interesting people on our screens, all these continuous slow burns would be frustrating rather than intriguing.
Heather Glenn has stood out since the moment she arrived, but this week's episode has made her story -- for me, at least -- the most interesting of all the show's expertly intertwined narratives. Heather has never been just a love interest, especially with her recent focus on the psychology of vigilantes. But now she has her own vice, her own demons to wrestle with. After prodding Matt about his unresolved trauma, now here she is, faced with multiple layers of her own.
To end a life in self-defense is seemingly trivial, especially where a Marvel show is concerned. But that's the brilliance of it. Heather is not a superhero, with no desire to act as the vigilantes she hoped to study. While her actions may have ended up saving thousands of lives, even someone as tuned in to the inner workings of the human mind can't possibly weigh the morality of that. Not yet, anyway.
Will this strengthen her relationship with Matt or weaken it? And if she discovers his Daredevil persona, what then? There are two episodes left in the season, and her story is so tied up in Murdock's that it's impossible to tell how much room the show will allow for her personal trauma to unfold. There is the matter of Fisk, after all, and his ultimate quest to seek revenge on Daredevil once and for all. But one can hope that a character like Heather gets her true time to shine. She survived, after all, an unexpected but welcome move. But the question stands: At what cost?