BIOGRAPHY -- Page 44
Matt and Kirsten grew closer at the Nelson & Murdock office holiday party. She broke the ice between them first and asked him out on a date, despite still teasing Matt about secretly being Daredevil. Still, Daredevil had a rough winter as snowstorms plagued the New York area. While escorting kids from the Cresskill School for the Blind, their school bus ran off the road and the driver was killed. Matt ran himself ragged trying to lead eight blind elementary school kids through the woods. He eventually passed out, but the kids themselves built a sled to ferry him the last leg 
to safety. [Daredevil (3rd series) #7] On another night, a blizzard brought down a helicopter bringing a transplant heart to a young girl in Manhattan. Daredevil braved the snow alone to recover the heart from the freezing Hudson River. He was aided by an unlikely source, a former junkie and client named Jonny Cruz, who turned to God to redeem himself after Murdock gave him a second chance. [Daredevil: Dark Nights #1-3]
Inevitably, part of Megacrime decided to move independently when Black Spectre framed the Black Cat for a burglary in order to blackmail her services. Spider-Man wanted legal and extra-legal help from Daredevil to help his ex-girlfriend, although choosing to approach Matt Murdock in broad daylight didn’t help Matt’s ongoing fencing with Kirsten about his identity. Spider-Man and Daredevil found the scientist robbed at Horizon Labs was actually in on the theft. Fortunately, his revolutionary hologram projector did nothing to fool Daredevil’s senses. [Amazing Spider-Man 
(1st series) #677] Felicia freed herself from custody and joined the boys in hunting down who framed her. She had found a spider-tracer on her costume moments before the police broke in, and initially thought Spider-Man had betrayed her. This led to some light flirting with Daredevil to annoy Peter, and Matt didn’t mind at all. Daredevil and Black Cat worked together to recover the holo-projector and clear her name, then got together at his place to… celebrate. [Daredevil (3rd series) #8]
Before things could progress any further with Felicia, though, Matt got a nasty call from Foggy. One of their consulting cases had uncovered evidence of grave robbing at a local cemetery, the same resting place as Jack Murdock. Coffins were actually disappearing from the earth through underground extraction, making it bizarre enough to become a case for Daredevil. With a personal stake in the business, Matt pursued a crowd of Moloids deep into Subterranea, where the Mole Man was directing their gruesome business. It seemed that a woman Harvey Elder once cared for before going underground had died, and he thoughtlessly disturbed as many graves as necessary to find the recently buried woman so he could say goodbye. The other skeletons were 
unceremoniously dumped in a pile, leaving them indistinguishable from each other. Daredevil beat the Mole Man and robbed his Valley of Diamonds to pay reparations towards the families who needed to rebury their loved ones. But none of the dead could really be restored to a peaceful rest, and Matt was haunted by what had happened to his father’s body. [Daredevil (3rd series) #9-10]
Black Spectre failed to blackmail Black Cat into stealing the Omegadrive from Murdock, but they tried paying her a sizeable fee instead. While Matt was underground, Felicia went through the motions of burglarizing his apartment and locating the drive. She left a note in his hidden safe to let Matt know the Omegadrive was not as protected as he thought. Felicia wished him well, but planned to leave town until Black Spectre was no longer free to pursue her for betraying them. [Daredevil (3rd series) #10] Things got worse when the Hellfire Club sent an assassin named Pyromania to attack Nelson & Murdock. This showed that word of the Omegadrive was getting out, even beyond the five principal agencies of Megacrime. Daredevil crashed a meeting for 
Megacrime’s representatives in order to punish Black Spectre. He had Reed Richards himself access the unstable molecules of the drive and forward all the secret data on Spectre to law enforcement. The entire organization was brought down in a matter of hours. Daredevil still kept the Omegadrive as leverage, and now Megacrime knew what would happen if they broke ranks from each other to come after him again. [Daredevil (3rd series) #10.1]
News of the Omegadrive continued to spread, not only to other criminal organizations like the Hand, but also to an intrigued Punisher. Castle arrived on Matt’s doorstep with his new ally Rachel Cole-Alves, looking to use the Omegadrive’s data for his own war on crime. Spider-Man also arrived, a liaison for Reed Richards after Daredevil kept the drive against his judgment. The four of them made an alliance for one night of chaos, drawing out all of Megacrime with the 
Omegadrive as bait, bringing as many of them to justice as possible before publicly destroying the Omegadrive to remove any need for stragglers to go after Murdock in the future. The plan only half worked, as Cole-Alves turned on them in the middle and tried to steal the Omegadrive for her own vendetta. A massive number of terrorists were captured but, by the time the Omegadrive was recovered from Rachel, there was no one left to see it destroyed. Matt was forced to find another way out of his predicament. [The Omega Effect crossover]
Matt and Kirsten finally had their first date, attending a fair while she was blindfolded so Kirsten could experience the world the way Matt did. The two of them grew a lot closer that night, but the date ended prematurely when a sinister agent of Black Spectre interrupted their kiss. Black 
Spectre warned Murdock they had reformed and would be coming for him and the Omegadrive. [Daredevil (3rd series) #12] As it happens, this was actually Spider-Man in disguise, kicking off a plan he, Matt and the Avengers concocted. With word out on the street that Black Spectre was taking no prisoners to reclaim the Omegadrive, agents of Hydra, A.I.M., the Secret Empire and Agence Byzantine interrupted a fight in Times Square between Daredevil and Black Spectre (secretly the disguised Avengers). “Black Spectre” publicly defeated Daredevil and claimed the Omegadrive, allowing the Avengers to return it to Reed Richards and clearing Daredevil of having to account for the item. (Of note, Matt didn’t intend for Spider-Man to approach him publicly as “Black Spectre” until later. Spidey deliberately sabotaged Matt’s date as revenge for him hooking up with Peter’s ex, the Black Cat.) [Daredevil (3rd series) #13]
Although the Omegadrive was accounted for, there was one party Daredevil had forgotten to consider: Midas and Megacrime’s intermediary, the sovereign nation of Latveria. Chancellor Exchequer Beltane, the Latverian minister of bank, wanted compensation from Daredevil after he deprived Latveria of Megacrime’s financial assets. Beltane teleported Daredevil from Avengers Mansion to Doomstadt and arranged for his punishment. Matt was exposed to Ganzfield mist, infusing his system with nanobots that surgically eliminated his senses one by one. Daredevil attempted an escape, but only made it as far as the Hungarian border as he lost his sense of smell, taste, touch, hearing and finally even his radar. [Daredevil (3rd series) #14]
Back in Latverian custody, Matt was in a virtual fugue state due to the forced sensory deprivation. Somehow, the radiation latent in his cells tried to push through the nanobots shroud, manifesting strange new senses as a workaround for his deficiencies. Daredevil regained enough awareness 
to attempt an escape, climbing to the roof of Castle Doom to destroy the jammer blocking a distress call from his Avengers ID card. Iron Man and Captain Marvel invaded Latveria to rescue their endangered member. In the aftermath, Tony Stark and Stephen Strange oversaw a truly unique brain surgery as Hank Pym fought his way through the nanobots inside Matt’s head. With a precision EMP micro-cannon, Giant-Man eliminated Doom’s creations and Matt’s senses returned to their previous state. [Daredevil (3rd series) #15-16]
From the fall of Megacrime through his imprisonment in Latveria, Matt Murdock had been missing 
for over nine days. So he wasn’t surprised, at first, that Foggy seemed angry when he returned to the office. The reason why caught him completely off-guard, though. Foggy went looking for a file and discovered pieces of Jack Murdock’s desecrated body and skull in Matt’s desk drawer. To Foggy, it looked as if Matt lied about not being able to recover Jack’s corpse from the Mole Man and kept a macabre trophy behind closed doors. This enflamed Foggy’s fears about Matt’s mental health ever since his return. Matt was stunned by the revelation and Foggy told him he was no longer welcome at their law firm until he got serious counseling for his issues. Nelson & Murdock was finished… again. [Daredevil (3rd series) #16]