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Matt could hear the pain in Karen's voice when she said the name of their former friend. Still their friend, just now gone. He knew there wasn't anything he could say. There hadn't been anything back then either, part of the reason he'd pulled away. An asshole move, he knew. It didn't go unnoticed that Karen still hadn't felt comfortable reaching out to him. That she'd only reached out to Frank. She cared about him, but that didn't mean she really wanted anything to do with him.

So he stopped himself as he started to reach forward and touch her shoulder for comfort. His hand curled into a fist and he sat back again, chewing on the inside of his cheek.

"I'm certain that she's the one who put the hit on Foggy. Her doing it on Fisk... that one I'm not as confident. Fisk moved Bullseye to gen pop, likely to kill him so that link to Vanessa would be gone. Bullseye felt betrayed, so I think he went off book once he broke out and tried to take on Fisk for it." Matt might be wrong, but that was how he imagined the scenario going down. "I've known Wilson and Vanessa a long time. There's nothing they won't do for one another. Vanessa turning on him... I'm not sure I see that."

In a sick way, Wilson Fisk had managed to maintain a more consistent romantic life than Matt Murdock by a mile. Whether that said nothing good about Vanessa or even less good about Matt, he didn't know. Maybe both.

"In any case, there's no way they're turning on each other now. They're going to present a united front, so we have to find out what that chink in their armor was that they're trying to hide so they go down together. And Bullseye is still on the loose. I doubt he'll go to ground for good, and who knows who'll get hurt with him running free." Matt rubbed a hand over his aching face. It didn't work as well with the mask on.

"I can handle Bullseye," Frank said calmly, letting Lucky get in one lick. "First on my list is this task force, though." He looked over at Karen. "No offense taken. These guys think they wanna emulate me? They're gonna find out what that really means." He gave a small nod up ahead. "Here. Find someplace to park. It's not a long walk from this spot."