Late at night, the New York Post newsroom had long since emptied out. The entire office lay in deathly darkness, pierced only by the pallid glow of a single computer screen.
Ben Urich sat at his desk, his gaze resting heavily on the screen. A finished news article stood out clearly on the page-DAREDEVIL REVEALED.
The police had not discovered that Wilson Fisk was "Kingpin" by accident. Without evidence, no one would dare move against a financial titan like him.
As a well-known newspaper reporter, Ben Urich had informants besides Lisa Tazio. He also had people in the morgue and the evidence room.
There, he had seen the weapon Daredevil had used to "kill" Natchios-a dark red baton with decorative silver trim. A firm twist to the right, followed by a gentle turn to the left, would send a long red-and-white staff shooting out of it.
And he had seen that staff before-the blind cane in the hand of the blind lawyer Matt Murdock at Natchios's black-and-white ball.
Just then, he had received another call from Foggy Nelson.
Foggy and Karen had been looking into the case they had recently taken on, involving a young Black man accused of murdering a woman. The victim, Lisa Tazio, had been the informant Urich hired to investigate "Kingpin." Matt had previously found a clue at the victim's home: before her death, Lisa had written "MOM 6-8," leaving impressions on the desk. But despite searching for a long time, Foggy had gotten nowhere.
Had it really just meant that Lisa's mother was coming to see her on June 8?
Then Karen had brought him coffee and noticed the note. Upon learning that it was one of their clues, she had suddenly asked, "When was Lisa murdered?"
"August 9. Why?"
Karen had reached out and