Here are the relationships that mostly don’t involve Matt (Charlie Cox) except this first one, analyzed for your enjoyment.
Matt, Foggy, Karen, and others
This can be sorted into two types of interactions: with allies and with foes.
Their clients are generally considered allies, although on occasion they run into a belligerent one. Their first major client, aside from Karen herself (Deborah Ann Woll) and the mess that Wesley (Toby Leonard Moore) got them into, is Elena Cardenas (Judith Delgado), a kindly older woman trying to fight the bureaucrats trying to remove her from her home so they can build condos on the land, and how they deal with Elena’s situation is pretty emblematic of how they handle clients in general. We see them listening to her and promising to do what they can; Foggy (Elden Henson) and Karen actually go bother Foggy’s ex Marci (Amy Rutberg) at the swank law firm she works for since they represent Elena’s opponents. Foggy and Karen also go to Elena’s apartment to help her out. Unfortunately, Elena is one of the show’s many casualties, and her loss is one of the trio’s motivations for continuing to fight the good fight.
Frank (Jon Bernthal), in particular, is a client that becomes very belligerent at times. We discussed Matt and Frank’s relationship in the last post, and we’ll be getting into Karen and Frank later in this one, but as a client, they generally try to treat Frank the same as their other clients — at least at first. His case is one of the things that causes Matt and Foggy’s initial (friend) breakup, mostly because they approach it very differently and Foggy, who didn’t really want to take the case in the first place, ends up doing almost all of the courtroom work while Matt flakes out for Daredevil-related reasons. Karen is consistently the one insisting on compassion, but both of the guys are wary of Frank in different ways, and it means that their defense of him is sometimes a little insincere.
Sometimes when they’re dealing with cops and politicians, it’s good, but other times… not so much. There are cops (Mahoney [Royce Johnson] comes to mind) that generally get along with them, or at least tolerate them and serve as allies, but a lot of the other cops consistently get in their way. This is sometimes because they’re being bought out by whichever criminal force, and the criminals are obviously antagonistic toward our justice-seeking legal team. They also have bad relationships with two consecutive DAs, the first because she’s bonkers and trying to frame them however she can so she can get reelected and the second because, again, he’s somewhat hindered by Fisk. And those criminals, particularly the ones led by Fisk? Well, they try at the very beginning to buy out our trio, but when that fails they immediately play dirty.
Full story here.