Krysten Ritter Finally Explains Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Finale’s Big MCU Reunion

If you finished Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 and thought, well, that escalated quickly — same. The finale didn’t just flip the table; it set up a whole new game for Season 3. And now Krysten Ritter is filling in some gaps on the Jessica-and-Luke of it all, including how Mike Colter actually wound up back in the MCU sandbox.

Where Season 2 left everyone

• Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) finally toppled Wilson Fisk — yes, Mayor Fisk, aka the Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio) — by doing the one thing he never wanted to do: he outed himself as Daredevil in open court and used his own testimony to blow up Fisk’s criminal and political machine.
• That win came with a bill. Matt was arrested for his vigilante work and tossed into a prison that houses guys he helped put there. Great for the conscience, terrible for yard time.
• Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) got a personal plot swing: Luke Cage (Mike Colter) finally made it home after being sent overseas to handle some not-so-clean business for Valentina Allegra’s guy, a fixer called Mr. Charles (Matthew Lillard).

Ritter on why Jessica needed Luke this time

Ritter has been clear: she wasn’t coming back to Jessica just to wave from the corner of someone else’s show. The hook for her was picking up Jessica’s evolution — not just hard-boiled PI and world-class cynic, but a fiercely protective mom in a real-deal family — and that only makes sense if Luke is actually there.

"It was really about ... when we are bringing [Jessica] into Daredevil, let’s justify it. Let’s see what she is doing. And that felt like a character — the most important thing for her character, there, was to bring him."

That quote is from The Wrap, and it tracks with where the Netflix- era comics lore had been nudging them: less lone-wolf, more pack.

How Luke Cage ended up back on screen

Here’s a fun behind-the-scenes wrinkle: Ritter didn’t just float the Luke idea — she personally pushed for it. Daredevil: Born Again executive producer Sana Amanat was into the plan, Ritter and Colter are close friends in real life, and when the window opened, she called him directly to make the pitch.

Colter, for his part, had been pretty skeptical about ever getting another swing at Luke after his Netflix series ended back in 2018. That said, fans clocked that something might be brewing when he mentioned early talks with Marvel not too long ago. Cut to him walking through a doorway on set, and by Ritter’s account, the mood turned nostalgic in the best way — it felt like no time had passed, and everyone on the crew could feel it. Online, that moment played exactly how you’d hope: big grin, big sigh of relief, welcome back, Hero of Harlem.

So what’s next in Season 3?

Marvel has already confirmed that while Matt is stuck in prison, his old Defenders teammates are rallying. Translation: Luke Cage is back in a real way, Jessica is with him, and we’re not just doing cameos. Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 is filming now. Season 2 is streaming on Disney+ if you need to catch up or re-live the courtroom mic drop before we head into the prison arc.