This all looks very familiar.
There is a gangster, who does not like to be called a gangster. He is involved in real estate in Manhattan. He dressed in fancy suits, but deep down is an emotionally stunted manchild. Over the course of putting together a big real estate deal, this gangster crosses paths with a superhero. The superhero becomes an obsession. Things escalate. The mobster’s friends on the police force turn against him. It all comes down to one dirty cop with enough details to blow the whole case wide open and finally put this mobster behind bars where he deserves to go.
This is the basic plot outline of Suckas Need Bodyguards, in which Detective Raphael Scarfe has enough evidence in a little black note book to put Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes in prison for a very long time, with Luke Cage tasked with delivering Scarfe and the note book to authorities. It is also the basic plot outline of Daredevil, the first season finale of Daredevil, in which Detective Carl Hoffman has enough evidence to put Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk in prison for a very long time, with Matt Murdock tasked with delivering Scarfe and the note book to authorities.
Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but it seems a strange choice to imitate the weakest of that otherwise very strong first season.
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