After taking down Kilgrave in the
previous episode, Jessica was able to get him into the hermetically sealed
room, now outfitted with ankle deep water and an electric shock button, and
seems to be taking at least a little enjoyment out of having Kilgrave at her
mercy. She continually shocks him when he gets lippy, and tries hard to force
him to admit to his crimes. He doesn’t and plays up his weakness to the camera.
Even when Jessica enters the room and beats him senseless, he still plays the
weakling. Taking a different tactic, Jessica and Trish look through the old
video footage on the flashdrive. They plan on finding Kilgrave's parents, and forcing them to help prove their son's guilt. After hearing Kilgrave’s father use the oddly
specific term of “Sin Bin,” she learns that Kilgrave’s parents used to work at
a University in Britain, and that their names are Albert and Louise Thompson.
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After a little more sleuthing, she
realizes that Kilgrave’s mother is actually a scarred woman that attends the
Kilgrave Anonymous meetings. After tracking them to their apartment, Jessica
learn that there was actually a legitimate reason why they experimented on
their son. Kevin Anderson, as he used to be known, was born with a neurological
degenerative disease. He’d have died if his parent’s experiments hadn’t given
him his powers. Contrary to what Kilgrave said earlier, his parents followed
Kevin’s commands for years, until one of his tantrums caused his mother to
horribly burn her face.
Jessica, Hogarth, Trish, police
lieutenant Clemens, and the Dr.’s Anderson gather to try to get Kilgrave to confess.
His parents go in, and try to get him to confess. It doesn’t work, so his
mother tries to stab him with scissors. 180 on the parenting techniques.
Kilgrave has enough, and orders his mom to stab herself once for every year he
was left alone. They try to shock him, but the device seems to have shortened
out. Trish tries to kill him with a gun, but just helps him escape the room.
Chaos ensues, but, there is a silver lining. Which I’ll spoil, next time.
Side plot, Simpson is taken to the
hospital. He’s the only one of his crew to survive the blast. He’s seen by a
private practice Doctor named Coslov, and claims he “wants back in.” He’s given
some super solider drugs that are designed to help his recovery. The doctor
explains he needs to take two red pills to “amp him up,” two yellow to keep him
going, and two blues to drop him back down. Almost immediately after being left
alone with the pills, he pops another two red pills. Not the best idea to leave
someone alone with the super drugs, just saying. Also, more cat fighting
between Jeri and her ex-wife. It’s weird, the show keeps trying to make me
believe that Jeri and her hoe are the injured party in this deal, and not Jeri’s
abused and neglected wife of over ten years. Talk about a losing battle.
It is interesting to see how they’ve
altered Kilgrave’s powers to fit the show. In the comics, he controls pheromones
which make people more suggestable to his commands. It was also the result of a
lab accident. For this show, it was 100% on purpose and the result of some sort
of neurological treatment. Sounds more science-y, doesn’t it? We get to see a
lot more of Jessica’s dark side as she gets to punish Kilgrave for what he did
to her and to Hope Schlottmen. She uses a lot of folks in this episode;
Kilgrave’s parents, the Support group, and heck, she even manipulates Hope a
little bit. Hope was set to take a plea bargain, but drops it when Jessica
insists that she’s got this fixed. Jessica’s obsession is getting pretty dangerous.
This episode also got fans to speculate that William Simpson is Jessica Jones interpretation of Frank
Simpson aka Nuke. In the Ultimate Marvel Universe, Frank Simpson was the
Vietnam era Captain America. The Government was able to make a passable Super
Soldier, but the drugs plus Vietnam PTSD drove Frank nuts. From what I know
about the character, I wouldn’t be shocked if in season 2 of Jessica Jones Simpson came back with a
flag tattooed on his face and going by Nuke.
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