john patrick hayden played matt murdock's dad in daredevil.
john patrick hayden played matt murdock's dad in daredevil.
who plays matt murdock's dad in daredevil?
john patrick hayden
bullet::::- jack murdock appears in flashbacks in season 1 of "daredevil", where portrayed by john patrick hayden. like the comics, jack is a struggling boxer who keeps trying to raise his son right and encourage him to study and get good grades. working for roscoe sweeney (the fixer), he is paid to take dives in fights and matt takes time to patch him up after them. after matt is blinded in a car accident, jack spends most of his time helping matt cope with his situation of being blinded and learning how to adjust to it. as jack and matt learn to deal with matt's new condition, jack is approached by sweeney and his partner silke, who want him to take a dive in the fifth round during a match against carl "the crusher" creel; they're betting against jack and hoping to get a bigger payday, offering to give a share to jack knowing it could help him and matt with financial problems. jack reluctantly agrees to do it, thinking he doesn't have any other choice. jack later receives a new boxing robe for him to wear when he steps into the ring. after some words of encouragement from matt, jack decides to not listen to sweeney's instructions, and win the fight for matt and show him that he isn't weak. before the fight, jack calls his bookie from the gym's payphone and tells him to put all bets on him and to transfer the money to an account in matt's name when he wins. he also calls his ex-wife and tells her to take matt in and take care of him too. after fighting creel to a standstill, jack hurries to his locker room at the back of the arena in secret and tries his best to run away in panic. sweeney sends assassins who gun down jack in an alleyway. matt finds the body shortly after the police find it. matt uses the money earned through the bets that jack made before the match to go through law school and become a successful lawyer while also training with stick and eventually becoming the superhero daredevil. in season 3, jack appears in a hallucination that matt murdock interacts with when he is at fogwell's gym. he explains to matt about the day when he met maggie and how she gave birth to him.
jack murdock (comics)
after hydra's defeat, wilson fisk is able to use a subsequent mayoral election to put himself forward as a last-minute candidate, avoiding his criminal past being drawn into the issue by simply ignoring questions about it, aided by the fact that he has never been legitimately charged with anything. with his primary policy being a bill to declare all vigilantes criminals, and despite daredevil's own recent efforts to create a precedent for superheroes testifying under their secret identities in washington, he is able to have daredevil arrested in an fbi sting operation, mocking his old nemesis with the knowledge that the people he protects chose fisk to 'protect' "them", prompting daredevil to break a window and leap out of fisk's office to begin his own efforts to bring down fisk's empire. matt murdock then applied for the position of deputy mayor. although daredevil eventually attempts to set up a 'sting operation' where he and his fellow street-level heroes will capture mayor fisk meeting with various gang bosses, mayor fisk uses this plan against them and uses the opportunity to arrest all of daredevil's allies, subsequently attempting to provoke daredevil into attacking him. although mayor fisk is able to arrest daredevil as well, he is subsequently attacked and left in critical condition by the hand, with various amendments made to new york's constitution by prior administrations putting matt murdock in control of the city, once he has escaped from captivity, thanks to the hand attacking the police van where he was being held, fisk in critical condition and nobody willing to challenge the legal situation. while matt murdock used his skills as daredevil and the acting mayor to keep the city safe with the street-level superheroes fighting off the hand, fisk recovered. murdock gave fisk the position of mayor back to him where fisk had to promise not to do anymore crusades against the vigilantes.
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