Okay, so for the second Viewer Log
of Jessica Jones things start going a
little crazy. Where the first episode seemed to be focused on establishing character,
motivation, and even subplots, with the main plot being sprinkled in towards
the end, episode two seemed hell bent on making up for lost time. I’ll do my
best not to spoil this bit, but at the end of the last episode, Hope Shlottmen
is forced by Kilgrave’s command to perform an awful crime. Jessica is
interviewed by the cops, and then has to quickly apologize to Luke Cage. The
cops thought he might be involved when they found a bunch of pics of him in a
certain PI’s apartment. Color Jessica embarrassed.
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| I wonder why they dropped AKA from the title? |
Jessica starts looking into
Kilgrave’s miraculous recovery, despite her and Trish’s confidence in his death
a year prior. Kilgrave had apparently been killed in a bus crash, the thing ran
him over, so I can understand Jessica believing her tormentor was dead. Upon
looking into it, Jessica learns that an EMT that had been dispatched to the
crash site went AWAL. He had both of his kidney’s taken and suffered a severe
stroke in the week he was missing. Jessica then tracks down the doctor that performed
the surgery. Said Doctor Kuratta…Kooratta… Kur-rot-a, no idea how to spell it,
was forced by Kilgrave to do the highly unethical surgery of removing two kidneys
from an unwilling patient. Kilgrave went through the procedure without anesthetic,
which leads Jessica to believe that Kilgrave’s powers are disrupted if he’s put
under.
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| I feel really sorry for whoever crosses these two. |
A major side plot is Luke learning
one of his regular…dates isn’t as single as she appeared. Jessica told him that
the husband of said date hired her to follow the date. Luke tells cheating
wife, wife talks to her husband, learns husband had no idea she was stepping out, and then essentially tells
Jessica “Screw you for messing with my fun.” She also mentions her husband and
his rugby team are going to pay Luke’s bar a visit. Jessica rushes to Luke’s
aid, but really, he didn’t need it. Seriously, Mike Colter does a perfect job
during said fight, making him look more annoyed than anything as angry husband
and his team rush him. For those who didn’t know before this scene, Luke has impenetrable
skin, and super strength. So yeah, drunken angry rugby players would only annoy
him. Luke later confirms his imperviousness at the end of the episode to
Jessica, after breaking into her apartment. We also learn that Trish is going
through some pretty intensive martial arts training. Everybody wants to kick a
little ass.
We also see a bit of Kilgrave, as
he walks into a family’s apartment, takes over, and has children lock
themselves in a closet. Dick.
This episode is the first full
episode to focus on the season one plot, Jessica getting Kilgrave. It was
hinted at in points of the previous episode, but now she knows he’s out there
and she’s hunting him. Jessica is still delightful in her witty sarcasm, and
also her obvious self-destructive behavior. She’s hurting, and doing her best
to live with it. We see a more caring side to her too, as Jessica becomes hell
bent on getting Kilgrave, not just for her own benefit, but more of Hope, who’ll
remain in prison unless they can prove there’s a man who can take away free
will.
We also learn a good deal about how
Kilgrave operates, just from the trail Jessica followed and that quick scene at
the end. Jessica is dealing with a remorseless, egocentric sociopath that has
zero problem with uprooting other people’s lives for himself. A little less
awesome than Wilson Fist planning to take over the criminal underworld, but
still entertaining in a “I hate you so much,” kind of way. So yeah, a good
continuation. Next time, part 3.
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