She-Hulk Episode 5 Director Reacts to That Very First [Spoiler] Tease

The following contains a spoiler from the very final scene of She-Hulk Episode 5, which was released on Sept. 15.

As it crossed the midpoint threshold of its nine-episode season, Disney+’s She-Hulk left us with a tease for a major Marvel hero’s arrival.

In Episode 5, titled “Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans” (as in the About Me section from She-Hulk’s dating profile!), Jen (played by Tatiana Maslany) and GLK&H colleague Mallory (Renée Elise Goldsberry, finally getting a showcase) teamed up to fight superpwered influencer Titania’s (Jameela Jamil) shaky claim to the “She-Hulk” name.

Amidst said legal action — and at persnickety Mallory’s insistence — Nikki (Ginger Gonzaga) called in a favor from colleague Pug (Josh Segarra) to use his “drip broker” to get Jen/She-Hulk some less-sad business attire.

With much coaxing, “drip broker” Luke (The Flight Attendant‘s Griffin Matthews) took on the client, and by episode’s end, he was sending Jen into a fitting room to try on her new businesswear… plus a little something “extra” he fashioned, presumably for when she becomes a crimefighting Avonger Avenger.

As Jen embarked on her try-ons, Luke spotted a hat box that had been left out for another VIP client, open, muttering to himself about his assistant’s carelessness. And as he set the box down to put on a lid, we got a peek inside at its contents — Daredevil’s helmet/cowl, which in its She-Hulk incarnation uses the yellow-and-red color scheme from the comic books.

TVLine asked Anu Valia, the director of Episode 5 (as well as 6 and 7), about first reading the script and seeing that she’d get to delver the first Daredevil tease.

“I was surprised!” Valia told TVLine. “But it was very fun. When I saw that in the script, I was like, ‘Oh my god, this is a lot of responsibility!’ But it was very fun.”

Valia also said that, “Yeah,” like many Marvel fans upon seeing recent trailers, she was a bit taken aback to see the show going with the yellow-and-red costume for Daredevil aka Matt Murdock (to again be played by Charlie Cox) — but she would/could not elaborate on the literal costume change, saying, “I’m afraid to get into too much!”

The episode in which Daredevil/Matt first actually appears has not been revealed, though as TVLine’s Inside Line column recently suggested (based on quotes from Episodes 8-9 director Kat Coiro), it may not come until the end of the season.

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