The Show Was About to Begin

"So Daken had already woken up? All right, I got it. He was happy to cooperate with us against The Hand? Then I also hoped he'd cooperate when we sent him to prison, though I didn't think he would."

After hanging up on Logan at the Nelson-Murdock Law Offices, Peter looked at the still-shocked Matt, then at Elektra sitting across from him, and asked, "So, is there anything else that needs adjusting?"

"No, nothing. It's nearly perfect—aside from the heartbeat being too regular and lacking a natural rhythm, it's practically flawless." Matt was, of course, referring to the Elektra before him—more precisely, Elektra's LMD. "It's hard to imagine S.H.I.E.L.D. possesses technology like this. At least as far as I can tell—though I'm blind—there's nothing abnormal about it."

"It doesn't matter even if the heart is abnormal. By the time The Hand gets her, there won't be a heartbeat anyway... You can't even call that a dead person."

While cracking wise, Peter handed Matt a capsule. "Here. These are nanobots specially made by Doctor Pym. They'll help keep your heartbeat steady and stop Gorgon from finding anything wrong."

Matt didn't mind. He swallowed the capsule outright, then took a deep breath.

Daken was indeed enthusiastic about wiping out The Hand. He had given Logan plenty of intelligence on them. First, their leader—naturally, he was Japanese. His codename was Gorgon. He was highly skilled in martial arts and a mutant as well. His power petrified anyone whose gaze met his, which was where his codename came from. So while he wasn't blind, he had grown accustomed to keeping his eyes covered.

Therefore, considering that he, like Matt, had relied on hearing instead of sight to locate things for decades, it was necessary to assume his hearing had reached Matt's level and that