Once a respected reporter, Sarah Dewey’s tendency to drink leads her to lose her reputation and jeopardizes her life with her kids. When the offer of a lifetime knocks on her door, she’s hesitant to accept it but does so out of desperation. She ends up co-writing a tell-all biography of one of the greatest criminal masterminds, none other than Wilson Fisk, AKA Kingpin.
A Sullied Reputation
Sarah Dewey is a respected journalist who covers United States foreign policy until her alcoholism leads her to lose her reputation. She eventually stops drinking and switches gears to write boxing profiles. While at a match, a mysterious individual approaches her, claiming his employer seeks an audience with her and is willing to pay her for her time. She agrees and discovers his employer is none other than the criminal organizer and mastermind Kingpin. Fisk tells her that he needs someone like her to write his biography, some who can reveal who he is beyond the tabloids and rumors. At first she says no, multiple times, but when he asks her to attend a party, she agrees to it. He sends her a couple dresses to choose from so she has something appropriate to wear and after picking one, she dresses for the occasion and attends the party at the Montauk Club. At the party, she meets up with Fisk and he introduces her to several people, including the governor of New York. She is recognized as a reporter, but dismissed as well, and interacts with District Attorney, Matthew Murdock, AKA Daredevil. He expresses praise for her boxing pieces, especially about Orlando Perez, and judges her for being there with Fisk. After having enough of meeting snobs that seem to care about global politics, and drinking apple juice since Sarah no longer drinks alcohol, she leaves the event early.
Fisk shows up at her apartment later that night, having noticed her departure. He invites her to a donut shop where they talk about his childhood and when he walks her home, a drunken beggar asks for money. Fisk hands him a $20 dollar bill and he leaves. They walk on but the beggar returns asking for more and Sarah refuses him. The beggar pulls a knife on her and Fisk hands him more money along with his watch. Shocked that he would give the beggar more money, he explains it away as just money, and then gives her a check for $4,000 for her time. Back at her apartment when she tries to call home, she realizes her phone service has been shut off. She goes to a payphone outside and calls her ex-husband, David Menard, to tell him about the job, that she’s sober, and asks to see their sons. She gets distracted by some police cars and a crime scene. She approaches an officer announcing herself as a reporter, but what she doesn’t see is the drunken beggar from before who seemingly overdosed and died.
Award-Winning Reporter
Sarah is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist for her coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan, having covered politics and U.S. foreign policy as well as the boxing industry.
Strange Bedfellows
Sarah becomes Wilson Fisk’s biographer, chronicling his life despite her conflicting feelings about helping him turn over a new leaf. It turns deadly for the people around her, and she often finds herself at gunpoint in uncovering the “former” criminal’s life. While she tracks down people in his life to get quotes, she comes up against numerous threats, mostly from Lonnie Lincoln, AKA Tombstone who tries to kill her.
Once the book is released and Fisk becomes Mayor, she struggles to live with her role in his rise to power. She teams up with an older James Howlett/Logan, AKA Wolverine, to take Kingpin down, but the endeavor ends in her death at the hands of Fisk’s chief assassin, Lester, AKA Bullseye.
Before meeting Fisk, she befriends Orlando Perez, an up and coming boxer that she writes about. They become close friends, share pizza and stories, and eventually become lovers. Though their relationship ends after he refuses to throw a fight at Fisk’s demand and is never seen again.
A Reporter’s Bulletin
Sarah, while hanging out with Orlando told him about Fisk’s job offer and that she was still deciding whether to take it because she doesn’t trust him. In trying to figure it out, she attended another event hosted by Fisk, a charity banquet for Vanessa Mariana Memorial Children’s Hospital. Though Tombstone and Hammerhead crashed the party and initiated a fight with Fisk. Fisk easily tossed them aside. At the end of the night, she said goodbye to Fisk but asked him what was more important to him: his charity or his social standing. He said that he doesn’t have the luxury of separating the two. He also recounted a tale from his childhood when he got sick and spent a week in the children’s hospital, leading to his family going hungry and how his father never let him forget that sacrifice. She leaves the night still unsure about accepting the job. Sarah then investigates Fisk’s story by going to the children’s hospital and finds a family benefiting from his generosity. She returned home to her apartment to find her ex-husband David and the kids in the car waiting for her, though he was early for their prearranged meeting. They fought, with David angry that she ruined his plans, and he left threatening to report her to the judge for missing her visit.
She met up with Fisk at his office, and asked him probing questions about what his biography should be about, Wilson Fisk the philanthropist or the gangster? He corrects her by saying former gangster and doesn’t address her question to her satisfaction. He leaves and she follows him by catching a ride with one of his employees. They all end up at the children’s hospital where the family Sarah met previously lost their daughter. The doctor told Sarah that Fisk takes each death so hard. She approached Fisk while he played with some sick children and she presses him on whether or not he has killed people. He admits that he has and justifies it, and decides to write his biography. She returned home to find the window open and Daredevil demanding they talk.
Sarah didn’t take kindly to Daredevil breaking into her apartment, but he ignored her to offer a warning that writing Fisk’s book could hurt people. Despite the warning, she attempted to separate fact from fiction while on an assignment to pen Fisk’s biography, and ended up being forcibly pushed into a car with Tombstone who threatened her for poking her nose around his business. He wanted to share his stories with her, so she recorded him, and then he let her go. Sarah returned to her apartment to find someone in her apartment. Spraying him with mace, he threw his hands up claiming to be security hired by Fisk to protect her. She later attended a boxing match with her kids and after returning them to their father’s, he accused her of sleeping with the Kingpin. She refused and he hit her in the face.
After hearing her recording with Tombstone was leaked to the news, she demanded to meet up with Fisk to find out if he stole her recording. They met at a diner and while he denied the allegations, she shared with him everything that happened to her that week. He offered her bodyguards to protect her when two men in trench coats entered the diner threatening them at gunpoint, but Fisk fought them off. He yelled at Sarah to go around back to a car waiting for them and in doing so, she found herself held at gunpoint by two other men who had killed Fisk’s bodyguards.
Fisk came up behind her and tried to negotiate with the men but it failed and another fight ensued that left the men dead. He ordered her to go home and clean up, that he would take care of everything. The next day, she noticed that the six people who were killed at the diner did not make the news. She then attended a custody hearing in which her ex sought full custody and supervised visits. A lawyer named James Wesley showed up to represent her. He demanded that her ex-husband Mr. Menard pay Sarah alimony. Menard’s lawyer agreed. A few days later, at Fisk’s mansion, Sarah shared breakfast with Fisk and thanked him for what he did for her at the courthouse. He then gave her a bunch of information on Gavin Boyce, someone she met at one of his parties. She wrote a story about him and his dangerous empire, and it got published in the paper. She then followed up with some interviews for Fisk’s books but then someone kidnapped her in broad daylight and placed a hood over her head. Once it was removed, Tombstone told her how her story about Boyce was going to cost him a lot of money. He pointed a gun at her head and just at that moment, gunshots started flying and she was liberated by some of Fisk’s minions. With dead people all around her, she left for her apartment. She started drinking only to have Orlando show up at her door since she had missed dinner plans with him. He told her he’s got a big fight coming up for a title, and in expressing how proud she is of him, they kiss, little does she know Fisk sees their moment from outside.
She found out later from Orlando that someone asked him to throw the fight, but he refused to do so. She then has lunch at Fisk’s mansion where he reviewed her completed manuscript of his biography. Impressed by her voice and how great it’s coming out, she asked him if he was the one to tell him to throw the fight. He admitted it and justified his actions by saying he was the reason Orlando became a nationally ranked fighter. She went to a bar and drank until the bartender cut her off and Orlando arrived to take her home. He walked her home and she encouraged him to throw the fight. He refused and she yelled at him for being a selfish idiot. Three weeks passed with Sarah experiencing a downward spiral. When she received a voicemail from Orlando inviting her to his match, she decided to get rid of the alcohol in her home. She attended the fight at Madison Square Garden and beforehand spoke to Orlando about throwing the fight. He agreed to it, expressing his love for her. On her way to watch the fight, Wesley invited her to the front row with Fisk, she refused but he insisted that she accompany him as Fisk would take it personally. She joined Fisk only to see him sitting with Tombstone, who he hired. Furious, she called Fisk psychotic and he reminded her that she also did business with him for need of money, and she then refused to finish his book. The fight started and just when Orlando was supposed to throw the fight, he got back up. At the end of the fight, he promised he would come over and everything would be fine. He never showed, and six months later, Sarah’s co-written biography of Fisk debuted, entitled The Life and Times of Wilson Fisk, and allowed her to get an apartment on the Upper East Side. The book was wildly successful and helped pave the way to Fisk becoming Mayor.
One night after drinking, Sarah returned home to find the famous mutant Logan, AKA Wolverine, somehow older and falling apart, waiting for her in her living room. He wanted information on Fisk but Sarah was not interested, saying her life had been turned upside down while he became the mayor of New York. Logan offered her information that could take him down so they went out to eat to help her sober up. While at a food market, Logan gave her an encrypted thumb drive he received from someone Fisk then had gunned down. Sarah and Logan were soon attacked by Fisk’s hired mercenary Bullseye. Logan fought him off and yelled at Sarah to get everyone out, she did so and then struck Bullseye on the back with a chair. Logan demanded she leave, so she did with the thumb drive, and tracked down a hacker to help her decrypt it. Bullseye caught up to her though and killed the hacker.
Sarah pulled a gun on him but not the trigger as Bullseye grabbed the thumb drive. She tried to talk him into helping her take down the Kingpin but he refused, so she fired several shots at him, missing, and he threw a plate at her that cut her arm up. He jumped out a window, and Sarah started to leave bleeding as Logan caught up with her. He told a neighbor to call an ambulance and departed to catch up with Bullseye. The next day, Sarah was visited by Logan in the hospital and when she asked about the drive, he told her there was nothing on it and that she should stay out of it.
Later, arriving at her apartment in the Upper East Side, she found gruesome notes written in blood on her floor and window. She called her ex-husband thinking he did it and then was struck in the face by a flying card, a two of hearts, killing her. Her death was announced on the news the next day.
