Daredevil: .380

All the clues point to the elusive drug lord known as The Blacksmith as the root cause of Frank's - and the city's - problems.

Karen slips away from her police protection to meet up with Castle, and he takes her to a diner so they can chat. Dressed with the vibe of a '70s crime thriller (I'm thinking Taxi Driver here, a frequent touchstone for Punisher moments), it's another of Frank's fantastic speeches, but his little tête-à-tête with Karen is also bait to lure out the bad guys.

Frank is directed to the docks, just as Daredevil - having found his own sources of information - gets there as well.

In the ensuing chaos, it looks as though Frank may have made his final stand. But, come on, this is The Punisher we're talking about.

At the hospital, Claire runs afoul of bureaucracy, when her boss tries to cover up the assault by The Hand, which claimed the life of one of her colleagues, and the fact that when they go to autopsy one of the dead ninjas, he's already been autopsyed before!

I have to confess, given my previous apathy towards the character in his comic book format (for reasons I've already stated), my favourite character in this show is turning out to be Frank Castle. And not just because of all the cool violence he brings down on the shitbags of NYC, but it's the depth of the character that surprised me.

Obviously Jon Bernthal's performance has a lot to do with this, but on more than one occasion I've found myself way more interested in Frank than in Daredevil (a comic book character I've been following since the Miller years).