Matt Murdock Quotes in Daredevil (2003)

[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: 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.

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 Murdock: So does every guy have to go through this just to find out your name?

Elektra: You should try asking for my number.

[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.

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.

[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.

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?

[During a playful, flirtatious fight]

Matt Murdock: You're holding back.

Elektra: Yes.

Matt Murdock: Don't.

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'?

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.

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.

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]

[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.

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.

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.

Matt Murdock: Mr. Quesada, for your sake, I hope justice is found here today... before justice finds you.

Ben Urich: Cool color.

Matt Murdock: I wouldn't know.

Elektra: You sure you're blind?

Matt Murdock: Sure you don't wanna tell me your name?

Elektra: [about Nelson] Friend of yours?

Matt Murdock: You know, I've never seen him before.

Father Everett: [from the Director's Cut, Matt is sitting alone in the church] You know the great strength of the church? Its sense of community.

Matt Murdock: Morning, Father.

Father Everett: Good morning. This may come as a surprise to you Matthew, but we are open on Sunday.

Matt Murdock: I like the quiet.

Father Everett: I don't think so, son, I think you like the solitude.

[pause]

Father Everett: And you find it in here, do you?

Matt Murdock: Sometimes. Sometimes not.

Father Everett: You don't have to go it alone. My confessional is open to you all the time. There's no keeping secrets from God, son. I tell you Matthew, spend thirty years in one of those boxes, and there's nothing I haven't heard.

Matt Murdock: Well, let's keep it that way.

Ben Urich: I got a lead on my story. I think that Natchios was set up by the real Kingpin.

Matt Murdock: Why are you telling me this?

Ben Urich: They say the Kingpin doesn't just kill you, he kills your whole family. I think your girl's in trouble. I thought you might know somebody that could protect her.

Matt Murdock: I had lost my sight, but I got something back in return. My remaining four senses functioned with superhuman sharpness. But most amazing of all, my sense of sound gave off a kind of radar sense!

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.

Matt Murdock: Her name's Elektra Natchios.

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: She sounds like a Mexican appetizer.

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: It's in black and white, how can you be a skeptic?

Matt Murdock: If there's no eyewitnesses, I mean, you know, Bigfoot has eyewitnesses.

[from the Director's Cut]

Dante Jackson: Who are you?

Matt Murdock: We're your attorneys. If you're innocent. So, are you? Innocent?

Matt Murdock: Yeah.

[Matt uses his senses to listen to Dante's heart beating]

Dante Jackson: Hell, yeah!

Matt Murdock: I believe you.

Dante Jackson: ...You do?

Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: You do?

Dante Jackson: You got yourself a defence.

Dante Jackson: Thank you. Thank you, sir!

[deleted scene; Elektra wakes up from a nightmare]

Matt Murdock: [off-screen] Are you coming back?

Elektra: [looks over and sees him across the room] Matt?

Matt Murdock: [walks over to her] Come back, Elektra.

Elektra: [after a pause] When I'm ready.

Matt Murdock: I'll be waiting for you.

[Elektra smiles and reaches for him, and wakes up]