Daredevil, Season 1

Vanessa:
So why does a man like you feel alone?

Fisk:
Nature of my business, I suppose.

Vanessa:
And what kind of business is that?

Fisk:
Rebuilding this city. I want to carve something beautiful out of its ugliness…set free its potential.

Vanessa:
You sound like an artist.

Fisk:
I'm just a man with a dream.

Vanessa:
What do you think an artist is? [indicating his cufflinks] Are those the only ones you have? You were wearing them last time.

Fisk:
They were my father's. I wear them every day to remember him.

Vanessa:
Did he pass?

Fisk:
When I was a boy. May I ask you something now?

Vanessa:
I'd say you've earned it.

Fisk:
What kind of gun is that you have in your purse?

Vanessa:
It's a .22.

Fisk:
Did you think you would need that tonight?

Vanessa:
We've been sitting here talking for hours and you're going to insult me like I have no idea what you really do?

Fisk:
What I said about what I want for this city is the truth. But money and influence is not enough to usher change on such a scale. Sometimes it requires force.

Vanessa:
I know you're a dangerous man. That's why I brought a gun to a dinner date.

Fisk:
Would you like to leave?

Vanessa:
No. I'd like a reason to stay.

Fisk:
I've done things that I'm not proud of, Vanessa. I've hurt people and I'm going to hurt more. It's impossible to avoid for what I'm trying to do. But I take no pleasure in it, in cruelty. But this city isn't a caterpillar. It doesn't spin a cocoon and wake up a butterfly. A city crumbles and fades. It needs to die before it can be reborn.

Vanessa:
So I don't need the gun?

Fisk:
No. By my side is the safest place that you could ever be.