BIOGRAPHY -- Page 22
Nelson & Murdock were hurting after the Kingorge affair. When the founding partners of a law firm 
accuse each other of lying on live television, it can damage their reputation and the trust of potential clients. Foggy’s marriage also wasn’t going to survive Debbie’s infidelity and manipulations. Matt couldn’t put his attention on their law firm, though. His other life kept him occupied with things like flying to Arizona after having a vision of the Two-Gun Kid, or single-handedly ending corruption in a small town. Daredevil took a few pot shots at the Kingpin after their alliance broke up, irking the fat man but doing little harm. He and Glorianna continued trying to make things work, though their tastes and schedules rarely lined up. She was attacked again by the Gael, but in the process Matt learned Glori was helping IRA operatives escape to America, which was in opposition to his appreciation for the law.
Matt reached out to Natasha in the hopes that her contacts would confirm Glori had no direct connection to terrorist activity overseas. Natasha had been struck by the Cossack and his weapon which caused blindness. Mercifully, the man was caught by Daredevil and the effect proved temporary. Natasha assured Matt that Glori wasn’t connected to any IRA bombings or murders. Still, Glori had some heavy thinking to do, and she chose to leave Matt and return to Ireland for reflection. In a more fanciful series of events, Daredevil learned the Jester had escaped prison and intended to reclaim his lost role as Cyrano. Daredevil reached the stage and saw that Jester had actually improved as an actor and was delivering a powerful performance. When the police 
arrived, Daredevil impulsively put on Jester’s costume to distract them for a few minutes, allowing Powers to finish his performance. The Jester willingly turned himself in after the show, and Daredevil hoped this bit of validation might cure the Jester of any future need to declare his talents through crime. [Daredevil (1st series) #215-219]
One evening, Heather Glenn called Matt drunk and said it was a matter of life or death. As Daredevil, Matt overheard the escalating tensions of a domestic argument in a nearby apartment but passed it by to reach Heather. It turned out Heather lied about having trouble in order to get Matt over to her place. She had reached a low point after their breakup and desperately needed some attention from Matt. Exhausted by Heather, Matt coldly dismissed her and left. On the way home, he found the husband in the domestic argument had murdered his wife, something Daredevil could have prevented if not for Heather. When she called back again, Matt laid into Heather about the woman’s death, and screamed that he wanted nothing more to do with her.
The next morning at Nelson & Murdock, Matt found Heather had called for him eight times before Foggy accepted the call and went over to see her. A shaken Foggy then called Matt over to Heather’s apartment. She had committed suicide, like her father before her. Matt almost couldn’t believe it, and he latched onto information from his senses which told him somebody else had been in her apartment and cleaned out the safe. Thinking Heather had been murdered during a 
burglary and only made to look like a suicide, Daredevil tracked down the thieves. It turned out some Italian businessmen wanted patents from Glenn Industries which Heather kept locked away. However, they came in after Heather committed suicide, merely finding no resistance to their theft. Daredevil abandoned Foggy and the practice to fly to Venice and take revenge on the Italian plotters, but in the end it did nothing to bring Heather back. [Daredevil (1st series) #220-221]
Glori returned from Ireland, though her plane was hijacked to get at Dr. Sadd, a passenger who reverse-engineered Mr. Fear’s fear gas. Daredevil and Black Widow teamed up to rescue Glori from the swamps where the crash happened. Nelson & Murdock had a surprising client when the Beyonder appeared and wanted them to build a case for him to own the world, legitimately. The one-million-dollar retainer he materialized was enough for Foggy, but Matt still had doubts. In order to have Daredevil and his profound sense of justice by his side, the Beyonder restored Matt’s sense of sight. Matt met up with Glori and spent the day touring New York with her, seeing the city through her eyes. However, Matt realized that the joy of seeing would compromise his ethics and the “profound sense of justice” the Beyonder cherished. He rejected the case, and even rejected the Beyonder’s offer to leave him his sight as a gift. Matt’s vision, and the one million, faded away with their client. [Daredevil (1st series) #222-223]
Matt was doing pro bono work for the Public Defender’s Office in front of Judge Horace Rosenthal when he argued at the arraignment for three men accused of beating up an old man. Ernie Popchik was a boarder at May Parker’s home, and so Peter Parker was in the audience for support. After Murdock got the men released without bail, Peter came over and got in his face 
about defending scum like that. Matt finally had the opportunity to put the heartbeat to a name and learned Peter Parker and Spider-Man were one and the same. He defended his clients’ right to a presumption of innocence, but afterwards he confided in Horace that his legal ethics were challenged in cases like this.
Matt and Judge Rosenthal had known each other since he was in law school, and he waited in the judge’s chambers as Horace got ready for lunch. A man wielding a shotgun entered the judge’s chambers and opened fire on Matt. This Sin-Eater was unprepared for Matt to use his billy club in defense, but Horace came back in at that moment. Matt hesitated over how much he could act without revealing his secret identity, and Sin-Eater took that pause to kill his real target, blowing away Judge Rosenthal. Matt tried to pursue the Sin-Eater but, by the time he changed to Daredevil, the murderer had already scuffled with Spider-Man and gotten away.
The Sin-Eater claimed other victims, such as Captain Jean DeWolff of the NYPD and the 
Reverend Bernard Finn. A man with the Sin-Eater’s costume and shotgun attacked the Daily Bugle looking for J. Jonah Jameson, but he was apprehended. Daredevil and Spider-Man both came down to police interrogation to see the suspect, but Daredevil’s senses told him this wasn’t the same man he encountered in Horace’s chambers. They searched the man’s apartment and discovered it was right next door to Stan Carter, the NYPD detective Spider-Man had been working with on the Sin-Eater case. The REAL Sin-Eater was still after Jameson, and nearly killed Betty Brant and Marla Jameson at his home before Spider-Man and Daredevil raced across the city to catch him.
Spider-Man was out of control with rage when he arrived. He hated Stan for killing his friend Jean DeWolff, for nearly killing his first love Betty, and for making a fool of him. Spider-Man continued to beat on Sin-Eater long after he stopped fighting, forcing Daredevil to step in between the wall-crawler and the murderer. Spider-Man was angry enough to kill Daredevil in order to get at Carter 
and was irate at Daredevil’s self-righteous attitude throughout the whole ordeal. Daredevil continued to defend the justice system and insisted that Sin-Eater must face trial. He managed to drive Spider-Man to recklessness and beat him unconscious before turning Carter over to the police.
The public was just as furious as Spider-Man when they learned a cop had been the serial killer 
terrorizing the city. A protest turned into a riot outside police headquarters, and the NYPD prepared to move Carter to a more secure location. Daredevil and Spider-Man had an awkward reunion on the roof across the street as they watched to make sure things didn’t escalate. As they began arguing about the law again, the mob saw Carter being loaded behind the building and Daredevil instinctively leaped down to save him. Matt was overwhelmed by the chaos and trying not to hurt anybody, though, and began to fall under the mob. Spider-Man was content to let the mob have Sin-Eater and turned his back at first. Daredevil screamed to Spider-Man for help, and finally was desperate enough that he shouted “PETER!” That was enough to provoke Spider-Man to action, and he jumped down to save Daredevil and Sin-Eater. Afterwards, Daredevil made things even and told Spidey that he was really Matt Murdock. They talked more civilly afterwards, and Matt did his best to convince Peter that, as vigilantes, they could only aid the justice system but could never try to fully replace it. [Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (1st series) #107-110]
Matt kept himself busy as Daredevil, fighting against the new Sunturion who held a grudge against Continental Trucking. In his escapism, though, he continued to neglect the people around him who mattered. Matt wandered into the office one day to find his name being chiseled off the door. Foggy finally got Matt to listen about how bad business had been – Nelson & Murdock had no paying clients and failed to make their rent on the office for three months. Their partnership had failed, and Matt hadn’t even bothered to notice. His treatment of Glorianna was equally poor. Matt expected Glori to be available when he needed her, yet vanished for days on end without a word. When he got his sight back, Matt never explained to her how it happened. And when he decided 
to reject it, he gruffly dismissed her to seek out the Beyonder, and never thought to return and explain himself. Glori confided in Foggy that she was through with Matt Murdock, only he couldn’t be bothered to contact her long enough for her to dump him.
Daredevil was wallowing in his failed practice, his failed vocation, and his failed relationships when he heard a police radio saying Melvin Potter had robbed a jewelry store. Matt felt Melvin had failed his trust in him and went looking to vent his anger. Melvin left a message for his attorney Matt Murdock to help him and send Daredevil to the Dibney Museum. Daredevil found Melvin in the midst of another robbery, wearing a makeshift gladiator outfit. He was disappointed by how out of shape and weak the old super-villain was. Daredevil tried to toy with Melvin, make the fight he was so eager for last longer, but he finally got bored and ended it. As Melvin lay sobbing on the floor, Matt started to realize just how broken the man already was. Men had kidnapped Betsy Beatty and blackmailed Melvin into stealing for them to ensure her safety, but he didn’t have the fire anymore. Melvin’s rehabilitation and medication had done their job, and committing crimes or hurting people just made him feel ill. The absolute shame which rushed over Daredevil in this moment would stay with him for some time.
Daredevil sent Melvin home, at first, while he prowled the streets and stalked the dead drop set up by the kidnappers. Once he followed them back to their hideout and knew where Betsy was, Matt called Melvin and asked if he wanted a piece of the action. Reluctantly, Melvin complied. As 
Daredevil got to work busting heads, Melvin’s anger at seeing Betsy mistreated nearly brought out the old Gladiator rage within him. Instead of giving in to his aggression, though, Melvin refused to fight and focused on what actually mattered to him… Betsy’s safety. Daredevil finished beating up the gang alone, confused as to why Melvin didn’t want to hurt people to make himself feel better. The way Matt did. [Daredevil (1st series) #224-226]