Sure, Dex’s old therapy recordings and rigid structure help him keep his inner darkness at bay, but those aren’t as tangible as real loved ones who can hold you accountable and support you, and he’ll start to lose his grip the moment one of those things is destabilized. Unlike Matt, Dex doesn’t have anyone to lean on, which leaves him vulnerable. How the episode handles Dex further highlights just how essential Foggy, Karen, and Maggie are to Matt’s life.
Matt’s Fisk ghost is still here, taunting him to “let the devil out,” but after punching one agent in the head a few times, Matt finally relents and flees. No wonder those Albanians toasted you guys! Get your head in the game, y’all. Matt is pursued by several FBI agents, none of whom appear to be particularly good at their jobs because they’re quickly beaten into unconsciousness by a blind guy in a parking garage. Perhaps no one in the Marvel/Netflix universe deserves to be garroted to death in their own car more than Donovan does, but Matt decides to make a clean getaway after getting the information he wanted: Fisk is working with the FBI in order to protect Vanessa.
We also get a fight scene! Matt dons his black costume to interrogate our old Luke Cage friend Ben Donovan, currently putting his fancy lawyer skills to work for Fisk (presumably he needs a new client now that Mariah Dillard has gone to the great big Harlem nightclub in the sky). Luckily, this episode isn’t just setting up for plot machinations down the road.