Picking up from last time, spoiler
alert, Jessica chooses to save the support group, while Kilgrave escapes with
his Dad, and Hope stabs herself in the Juglar. On her own accord. She makes
Jessica swear she’ll kill Kilgrave before dying herself. Malcolm and Jessica
are able to convince the Support Group and crazy Robyn to go with the lie that they
were meeting Jessica and Hope to celebrate her release with drinks, when she
for no apparent reason killed herself.
Jessica and Trish start searching
New York for Kilgrave and his Dad. They start with the morgues, figuring
Kilgrave wanted Revenge on dear old Dad, but come up empty. Jessica goes for
about thirty-six hours without sleep before she has a hallucination about
seeing Kilgrave. She gets hit by a truck. Her powers make it not all that bad,
but it cracks a few ribs. Back with Trish, her show gets interrupted by an apologetic
Simpson. While he sounds sincere in his apology, he’s still clearly tweaking
out, so Trish is very cautious around him.
After bandaging Jessica’s wounds,
with saranwrap, they get a led from a mortician they bribed about a weird
death. Jessica gets in, and learns that it’s Clemens. Back at Trish’s
apartment, she meets Simpson, who’d been waiting creepily outside for her. A
group of Simpson’s old squad show up to try to apprehend him, but Simpson
wastes them all after popping a few more pills. He then disables Trish, clears
up the bodies, and tries to force a partnership with Jessica over the phone.
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| A best friend is someone that'll help you fight their super soldier sort of ex-boyfriend. Or so comics would have me believe. |
They meet at Jessica’s apartment.
She’s real suspicious of Simpson, and tricks him into confessing to killing
Clemens. A brawl ensues. I assume that even with his stimulants, Simpson wouldn’t
have stood a chance against Jessica normally, but her busted ribs are slowing
her down a lot. She’d have been finished if Trish didn’t rush in to save her.
Trish takes some of Simpson’s super pills, too, and beats the snot out of him.
Then the side effects kick in. Simpson had built up a tolerance for the pills,
so he can go hours without crashing. Trish had never taken them before, so she’d
need the blue “calming” pills to safely adjust her body chemistry back to
normal. Her heart stops, but Jessica is able to keep her going long enough for
some EMTs to arrive and save Trish’s life. Jessica breathes a sigh of relief,
before getting a call from Kilgrave. He feels hurt and angry that Jessica had
been seeing Luke Cage for a while, and tells her to say her goodbyes. She
rushes to save him.
The “Flashback plot” for this episode
is seeing Jessica adjust to life with Trish and her mother. Back in the day,
Trish was kind of a B-word teen and her mother was worse. Jessica was forced to
watch the hostility between mother and daughter, as Trish’s mom kept forcing
Trish to keep doing things that would appeal to her public imagine, while
Jessica’s super powers kicked in. Trish and Jessica, who didn’t get along at
all, came up with something of a cold war pact. Trish wouldn’t say anything
about Jessica’s new found Superpowers, and Jessica wouldn’t tell anyone about
Trish’s mom’s physical abuse. Tensions come to a head when Jessica sees Trish’s mom try to force Trish to throw up after eating. Jessica scares the pants off
of Trish’s mom, and she and Trish become actual friends.
Another solid episode. Jessica is
now pretty much on the warpath, and is doing everything in her power to destroy
Kilgrave once and for all. Her, Trish and Simpson’s fight is pretty well done.
Sure, giving Jessica a rapidly healing injury to just seemingly put her and
Simpson on equal footing is a little weak, but I’ll let them have this one. It
was also interesting to see how Jessica and Trish’s friendship formed. They
showed a little of how Trish and Jessica acted around each other just after the
Jones’ accident, and they were pretty indifferent towards each other. Standing
up for someone and getting them out of a toxic relationship is one of those
experiences that seems to bond folks together for life. It’s a bit like
knocking out a fully grown Mountain Troll. Harry Potter reference for the win.
See you next post.
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