We finally get to see Fisk in his many layers in the fourth episode in the season. There is also more great bonding between Matt and Claire, and Karen and Ben.
First, let's start with Karen and Ben. Karen starts to look into the company she used to work for, Union Allied, in order to find out the truth about what is going on with the mysterious company. I'm glad that she is getting important scenes because Woll is a great actress. I also like how Ben knows how the world works and that if you're going to play the game, the other players can't know you're on the field.
Matt and Claire had a more traumatic storyline in the episode. The Russians are starting to close in on the man in black and they find out that Claire might know something. With her abducted by them, Matt has to go save her, going full stealth mode and being completely ominous and threatening while also easily taking out the Russian mob.
I really like these two together because she understands him for his dual persona and he respects and likes her for her bravery and wisdom.
Now for Fisk, who showed his true character in this episode. We first see him awkwardly asking out Vanessa, the woman who sold him the painting. It was uncomfortably sweet to see this because we know that he is a mob boss but watching him struggle to muster the courage to ask out a woman makes him just so relatable. At the dinner between the two, Fisk reveals that he is trying to make his city a better place by doing what he believes to be right. I like this contrast between Fisk and Murdock as they both want the same thing, but have a different way of getting there. The best scene of Fisk this episode was when he showed his ferocity over one of the lead Russians by decapitating him with a car door. This wasn't initially strategic but was because the Russian embarrassed him at dinner. After this, he made a strategic play as to how to make this work in their favor but it is really compelling to see him make drastic actions because his emotions easily clouded his thought process.
So it sort of seems that Matt's first task is to take down the Russians as they are the ones he's been fighting and they are the ones that are the most vulnerable. Foggy, however, was basically just there to say "I could have been a butcher" to Matt and Karen, so literally doing nothing but eating up screen time.
+ Matt/Claire relationship + Matt rescues Claire + Karen and Ben keep chipping away + The many sides of Wilson Fisk, especially the brutality - Foggy seems unimportant
Final Score: 8.6/10