Fan Casting Daredevil: Fear is the Enemy

Foggy Nelson is accused of murdering Rosalind Sharpe, his boss and a wealthy divorcee with whom he was having an affair, affecting the financial future of their law firm. Daredevil speaks with Karen Page, his love interest that has been contacted by a man named Mr. Fear, who left him a small crucifix. Daredevil asks his mentor, Stick, for help. Stick tells Daredevil that the cross Mr. Fear gave him was tainted with an undetectable drug. Stick is able to purge the drug from Daredevil's system. Daredevil arrives at Karen's just in time to confront Bullseye, who has murdered her. After briefly contemplating suicide, Matt tracks Mr. Fear to his headquarters, where Mr. Fear reveals that he is actually Lawrence Cranston, a law school classmate of Matt. Cranston was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and resolved to die after enacting his greatest scheme, turning his attention to Daredevil and designed a frightening costume for himself as Mr. Fear. Kingpin sold information about Daredevil to Mr. Fear, who began to set up his scheme. He drugged Foggy, killed Sharpe and hired Bullseye to lure Daredevil to him for a final confrontation. Mr. Fear believed that Daredevil would kill him but is dismissed. Despondent, Mr. Fear frees a baby he kidnapped and shoots himself. After Karen's funeral, a conversation with Stick leads Matt to realize that the infant he had saved represented a positive outcome among the tragedy. Elsewhere, Bullseye is killed by a revived Elektra Natchios.