Daredevil: Season 5 - Daredevil versus the Punisher

In the fifth season of Daredevil, Matt Murdock must contend with Frank Castle (portrayed by Henry Rollings), a traumatized Vietnam War veteran-turned murderous vigilante. Frank lives in a shoddy apartment complex with his neighbors and "friends" Joan Mousy, Spacker Dave and Bumpo. A flashback shows Frank make a "deal" with an entity to survive death in Vietnam in exchange for the lives of his "family", which Frank initially believed to be the lives of his squad, whom he came to regard as such. Frank later comes to believe that payment for his survival was the lives of his BIOLOGICAL family, which, in this continuity, consists of a wife, fully grown children and grand-kids. Whether this event and its supernatural implications are real or simply the ramblings of a psychologically broken man is left ambiguous. Halfway through the season Frank is apprehended by law enforcement. Nelson and Murdock offer to represent him; he deduces that Matt is Daredevil and agrees. Despite seemingly convincing him to agree to an insanity defense, during the court hearing he intentionally sabotages their case and is imprisoned. When Frank dies at the end of the season, despite claiming throughout the season he expects to see his family when he passes, he feels the same presence he felt in Vietnam, which greets him like an old friend. Matt muses that the entity Frank refers to and feels may be the same inner-devil he has, but unlike him, Matt has the "ghost" of his father to morally counteract the devil. The season ends with the deaths of the Gnucci Crime Family as well as everyone else involved with them from bankers to politicians. With their deaths, the "balance" is further disturbed; Wilson Fisk kills Alexander Bont and declares himself the new Kingpin.

Episodes

 * Episode 1
 * Episode 2
 * Episode 3
 * Episode 4
 * Episode 5
 * Episode 6
 * Episode 7
 * Episode 8
 * Episode 9
 * Episode 10
 * Episode 11
 * Episode 12
 * Episode 13