The first episode of “Daredevil: Born Again” features Matt, Foggy, and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) at their go-to haunt, Josie’s Bar. Foggy gets a call indicating that one of their clients may be in trouble, so Matt races off as Daredevil — only to learn the intruder, Bullseye, just wanted to know where the Nelson & Murdock team was.

Bullseye shoots Foggy with a sniper rifle, but Daredevil returns before he can kill Karen up close and personal. Daredevil and Bullseye fight through Josie’s, eventually making it to the roof. As Matt hears Foggy die, he sobs and wails on Dex, then lets him fall off the building face-first. However, Dex survives. (The episode doesn’t refer back to his operation, but metal-bonded bones feel like they could’ve helped here.)

“Born Again” resumes one year later on the day of Dex’s sentencing. Matt testifies against him and he’s sentenced to life in prison for eleven counts of murder. But hey, when has the slammer kept a good supervillain down? Somehow I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Bullseye.

So, why did Bullseye kill Foggy? Fisk denies having anything to do with it, and remember, Dex ultimately turned on the Kingpin back in “Daredevil” season 3. I’m not discounting some larger conspiracy yet, but if this was just Bullseye seeking revenge, it’s absolutely in-character for him.

If anyone should kill someone close to Matt, it should be Bullseye. At first glance, he’s not an obvious pick for one of Marvel Comics’ most sadistic villains. He debuted in “Daredevil” #131 (by Marv Wolfman and John Romita Sr.), when the book was just a middling superhero comic. Bullseye, sure enough, was just another one-note Silver Age villain. He seemed plucked from Stan Lee’s dustbin, with a simple gimmick and costume designed entirely around that gimmick.

Then, like “Daredevil” itself, writer/artist Frank Miller elevated Bullseye.