Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 Finale
Daredevil: Born Again upped the ante for its season finale in several shocking ways, including Kingpin’s descent into the dystopian ruler of New York City. While the show started with Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) looking to “save” the city as a reborn criminal, he eventually fell right back into the villain fans know and love to hate that was first introduced in Netflix’s Daredevil a decade ago. One relentlessly brutal scene in particular during the Born Again season finale sticks out as the strongest indicator of this yet, and the actor himself addressed how it all came to be.
During an interview with Variety, Vincent D’Onofrio was asked about his reaction to reading the scene in which Kingpin brutally murders Commissioner Gallo (Michael Gaston). The sequence is not only terrifying, but easily the goriest and most violent moment in all the MCU, including the original Netflix series (which is saying something). D’Onofrio revealed that, as an actor, his first response to hearing about the scene was to quickly assess the best way to get it done, and make it feel like Daredevil. Suffice it to say, he pulled it off in spades.

“To be honest, my first reaction was, how are we going to do it? How are we going to make it different than other scenes that I’ve done? How can we make ours different than other violent scenes that have depicted the same kind of thing? I immediately started discussing ways with our producers and special effects crew that we could block the scene so that it helped execute the way I was thinking about physically making it happen. We figured it out: We did do something that feels different than what people have seen before when it comes to stuff like that. It’s pretty brutal. It’s kind of crazy as an actor to have to talk about things like that, but we want this show to be different.”

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It’s only fitting that the most violent murder in all the MCU came from the hands of Kingpin, who is now the ruthless mayor of New York City. The repercussions of the commissioner’s death are not clear yet, but it seems Born Again won’t be wasting too much time on the consequences of squishing his head in front of his task force. According to D’Onofrio, Wilson Fisk remains in control of the optics, and the killing will only fuel how violent he wants the Anti-Vigilante Task Force to be.

“He’s definitely in power all by himself. He still has to keep his position as mayor somehow. The killing of Commissioner Gallo is done in front of his task force, so he wants them to be as nasty as he is. Nobody has seen that killing, and it will, I’m sure, eventually be covered up.”

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As seen in the final moments of the finale, Daredevil: Born Again reveals that Mayor Fisk has enacted martial law, and has promptly jailed many of his detractors and opponents, including Frank Castle aka Punisher (Jon Bernthal). What’s his grand plan? Well, Vincent D’Onofrio teases that Kingpin wants to “complete as many crimes as he can” while martial law is in place, as well as kill off any and all vigilantes. This will help him maintain and increase his control over New York City until he can potentially “expand his reach” beyond the Big Apple.

“His grand plan is martial law, and while he can hold the city in martial law, to complete as many crimes as he can and get rid of the vigilantes. That would be included in his mindset of being able, at some point, to expand his reach beyond New York.”

Does the Kingpin have aspirations of holding the Oval Office? Not necessarily, as D’Onofrio does not see that in his future (although it’s become a possibility). “I don’t really think of him as a political person; I think of him as a corrupt person. I guess that could happen. I doubt seriously that he’ll take that path,” the actor stated.
Source: Variety