BIOGRAPHY -- Page 25
Daredevil continued trying to put on a good example for Hell’s Kitchen. He beat up and captured a pair of cruising punks called the Wildboys while discouraging Eightball and the young Fatboy skater kids from looking up to them just because they made their own rules. The store owners whom the Wildboys robbed donated the loot to Daredevil, who made sure the presents arrived at the Hotline to spread holiday cheer at Christmas time. Through Kelco and the Hotline clinic, 
Kingpin recognized Matt Murdock’s rebirth as a thorn in his side, and he began to obsess over Murdock’s defeat again. His overbearing attempts to force the landlord from Murdock’s tenant’s rights case to sell, on Christmas day even, backfired and only caused Fisk more problems. As he cruised by the Hotline in his limo and saw Murdock enjoying himself, the Kingpin realized he would need a subtler approach to break Daredevil in the future. [Daredevil (1st series) #253]
Matt became obsessive about the Kelco case and about working to help Tyrone compensate for his blindness. He knew from Stick’s teachings that any blind man could potentially access the heightened senses he shared with his old teacher. Matt didn’t know how to recreate Stick’s training of him for Tyrone (at least not without Stick’s trademark cruelty), and his efforts only ended up frustrating both him and Tyrone. Meanwhile, the Kingpin found his weapon against 
Murdock in the dissociative mutant Typhoid Mary. Clinical trials performed as a child showed that innocent and caring Mary and her alter-ego Typhoid possessed two distinct bio-rhythm patterns, enough to confuse even Daredevil’s senses. Typhoid was a thrill-seeker and psychically-skilled seductress eager to take Kingpin’s contract to make Matt Murdock fall in love with her before crushing his spirit.
Thanks to Typhoid’s subliminal influence, the unwitting Mary got involved in Tyrone’s case as a volunteer worker specializing in helping the blind. Her story of growing up with a blind father and her apparent compassion immediately drew Matt’s attention, and they began spending time together on behalf of Tyrone. Mary’s influence over Matt grew quickly, and an initial attraction grew from an affair of the heart to a genuine tryst in rapid fashion. Matt felt guilty over cheating on Karen whenever he was away from Mary but was unable to resist her when they were together. The Mary personality's genuine feelings and need for Matthew kept her coming back to him even without Typhoid's subconscious prodding. At the same time, Typhoid confronted Daredevil in the streets. She confirmed his senses couldn’t recognize her and Mary as the same woman, while her physical attacks and sexually aggressive behavior threw him off balance.
Tyrone’s case against Kelco Industrials made it to trial, and David’s efforts guided by Matt proved strong enough to overcome the doubt Foggy Nelson tried to introduce towards their claims. Foggy’s moral fiber struggled against the case he was forced to put on, and even Fisk recognized the jury would need some persuasion to return a verdict in his favor. Despite his victory in court, Matt’s guilt over the affair with Mary ate away at his conscience. He chose to lash out at Foggy to 
make himself feel better, giving him a self-important speech about how his client was secretly Wilson Fisk, the well-known crime boss who destroyed Matt’s life. He crushed Foggy’s spirit before offering him a job beneath him at the Hotline “doing the right thing again.” Glorianna O’Breen, at least, had the insight and fortitude to recognize Matt was humiliating Foggy to make himself feel better about something and called him out for hurting Foggy in this way.
Daredevil had the Fatboys stake out the jurors in anticipation of Fisk interceding on their decision. He had another encounter with Typhoid at the home of a juror she attempted to bribe. As they fought and Typhoid flirted, Daredevil rejected her strongly enough to get under Typhoid’s skin. She was prepared to ignore Kingpin’s order to leave Murdock alive but broken, and just kill the man who thought he could reject her. As Typhoid tried, though, Mary emerged from her psyche to 
protect Matt. Passive little Mary had apparently developed real feelings for Matthew, feelings strong enough to hold back her more aggressive alter. The juror was allowed to reach her own conclusions, Kelco Industrials lost at trial and Foggy Nelson quit the Kingpin’s firm. [Daredevil (1st series) #254-256]
Daredevil and the Punisher both started hunting an Aspirin killer, who spiked the Zumatrin company’s medicine with cyanide to carry out a vendetta. Murdock and Castle independently 
tracked down Alfred Coppersmith and began fighting over his fate. Daredevil wanted to trust the system for Coppersmith’s conviction and rehabilitation, while the Punisher thought an eye for an eye was the only justice worth pursuing. Daredevil outfought both men and secured his “verdict.” Matt Murdock even followed through and approached Coppersmith in prison about negotiating a fair plea for his case. [Daredevil (1st series) #257, Punisher (2nd series) #10]
Matt also reunited with his old client, blind veteran Willie Lincoln. Willie lost his eyesight catching a grenade and throwing it away from his unit and innocent villagers during the war. The grenade provoked his unit into opening fire on the village, and even kicking a child out of the helicopter when Willie was being evac’ed. Now, that child was back as the trained fighter Bengal, hunting the veterans of the American unit who devastated his village. Daredevil stood between Bengal and Willie until he had the opportunity to confront Bengal with Willie’s face. The assassin had only been working from a list of names, but now he recognized Willie as the soldier who saved his people from the grenade and took no part in what followed. Without another word, Bengal vanished into the night. [Daredevil (1st series) #258]
Matt remained conflicted as he juggled Karen and Mary, trying to find a way to justify his behavior. Karen recognized Matt was pulling away from her and refused to let him escape into becoming Daredevil. When Butch of the Fatboys told them about children being sold on the streets, Karen 
insisted on helping Matt find the kids. Using her reputation as a porn actress and junkie, Karen got lowlifes to talk to her in ways they never would with Daredevil. Together, Karen and Daredevil took down the child pornographers and traffickers, rescuing the girl that Butch saw being taken. This experience reminded Matt of how strong Karen was and how much he needed her in his life… right up until the next time he saw Mary and she convinced him to stay with her. [Daredevil (1st series) #259]
In the meantime, Typhoid had come to accept that Daredevil was more dangerous to her than she 
thought. Mary’s growing love of Matt actually prevented Typhoid from harming him, and so she sought the means to attack him indirectly. Typhoid assembled a gauntlet of foes for Daredevil to face, including Bullet, Bushwacker, Ammo and the Wildboys. These fighters would incrementally weaken Daredevil in turn until Typhoid could deliver the coup-de-grace. Her plan worked, as Daredevil was brought to the physical limits of his body and his senses. Brutalized by his foes and with no idea what was going on, Daredevil was finally at Typhoid’s mercy atop a bridge. The Wildboys already left him dangling from the side, and Mary wasn’t strong enough to stop Typhoid from tipping him the rest of the way, falling several stories to his apparent demise. [Daredevil (1st series) #260]
Beaten and broken, Matthew lay beneath the bridge for days. Karen, Natasha and the Fatboys desperately searched for the missing hero, but to no avail. The rising temperatures and civil unrest brought about by Limbo’s demon invasion of Manhattan made their efforts and those of Bucko Leary’s police department fruitless. Eventually, it was the dissociating Mary who returned to the bridge and discovered her lover’s body, having forgotten what Typhoid did to Matt. Mary brought Daredevil to the hospital to recover, inadvertently fulfilling Typhoid’s contract – instead of killing Daredevil, she destroyed him. Karen Page quickly arrived when she heard about the 
patient, only to catch this strange woman crying at Matt’s bedside. Mary said she knew Daredevil’s identity and was his one true love, but Karen initially refused to believe her. When Matt stirred in his sleep and called out Mary’s name, though, Karen realized how badly she had been betrayed. [Daredevil (1st series) #261-263]
Things fell apart. Karen abandoned Matt and the Hotline before he roused from his hospital bed. Without either of them keeping it running, the pressure to shut down the clinic finally caused it to collapse. In the uprisings of Inferno, Matt and Karen’s loft was destroyed as well. Daredevil barely staggered to his feet during the demon night and fought on autopilot to protect New York from itself. [Daredevil (1st series) #265] The broken and shellshocked Daredevil staggered into a bar to drink away his sorrows afterwards. His pain was amusing enough for the Devil himself to take 
note. Mephisto rose from the underworld and slyly posed as a patron to whisper in Daredevil’s ear, attempting to seduce him to the path of evil and darkness. Matthew rejected the Devil’s embrace once he realized what was happening, but he also was too caught up in his own misery to notice two brothers arguing in the bar behind him. One brother murdered the other in a moment of weakness, and Daredevil did nothing to prevent it. [Daredevil (1st series) #266]