Fisk perfects an extraordinarily cruel way of finding Matt and Karen. The identity of City Without Fear, the satirical YouTube channel, is revealed and the players begin moving into place.

The colossal size of the Born Again cast means it’s hard to talk about the series concisely without reading like a laundry list but this episode really does give everyone something to do. Cherry and his NYPD buddies get a meaningful scene, Bullseye is a constant presence in the background and Heather Glenn continues her slow descent into seemingly becoming the second Muse. But two pairs of characters are front and centre this episode in a way they haven’t been up to now and both play pivotal roles in the slow unravelling of Fisk’s New York.

Daniel Blake and BB Urich are first. Gennaya Walton is doing similar work here to Charlie Cox, playing two different sides of the same person and the performances have an identical, weary hard edge to them that’s complemented by the past their characters share. BB is doing her best in a bad situation and the reveal that she’s running City Without Fear, literally working against her own PR videos for the Mayor, is stunning. Michael Gandofini is fantastic too as Daniel, the mayor’s boyish, determinedly innocent deputy. There’s a sadness to Gandolfini’s work here which parallels D’Onofrio’s work as Fisk and the two pairs of actors are doing complementary and fascinating work. Daniel feels like the victim in waiting here, the man about to carry the can. BB plays like she knows she’s throwing him under the bus too, which is a dark, brave choice I’m looking forward to seeing play out.

But the other two actors we lock onto this week are more pivotal. Ashley Marie Ortiz and Camila Rodriguez play Soledad Ayala and Angela del Toro respectively, the family of White Tiger from the previous season. Still bowed by the grief that they share with Matt they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time and the AVTF break their lives in half. Seeing Angela react to that, and the street react to the AVTF around here feels like the dam breaking in Fisk’s New York. Like the work BB’s been doing, Matt and Karen have been doing, all of them, is finally starting to have an effect. New York standing together, or starting to, before it’s too late.

Verdict: This is a great episode on its own and it sets up so much. Confident, urban noir storytelling that builds on the strong opening and finds some fascinating patterns in its characters and world. 9/10

Alasdair Stuart