Episode Seven starts off really
creepily, as Kilgrave explores Jessica’s office. He’s interrupted in his privacy
violating by Jessica’s creepy neighbor. That’s a subplot I’ve been avoiding,
Jessica has a pair of creepy twin neighbors named Reuben and Robyn. They’re like
a slightly less gross McPoyle twins from It’s
Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Reuben came to give Jessica banana bread, and
tells Kilgrave that he does it because he loves her. Kilgrave looks annoyed by
this. Where is Jessica when all this is going down? Getting sloshed at the
local watering holes. She’s taking Luke Cage’s chastisement poorly. She tracks
down Jeri Hogarth’s wife, Wendy, and nearly gets her killed by train while
trying to force Wendy to sign Jeri’s divorce papers. After screwing that up,
she returns to her apartment to find Reuben with his throat slit in her bed. She
tells Malcolm, who’d followed her into her apartment, that this is the final
straw. Her last ditch plan is to get herself locked into Super-Max Prison, a
highly secure facility. The plan being that she could trap Kilgrave inside once
he tries to get to her.
Jessica forces Hogarth to represent
her in her upcoming arrest/trial, and spends the next eight hours getting her
house in order. She threatens Trish’s abusive talent agent mother, telling her
to keep her distance even after Jessica gets locked up. She talks to Luke’s
bartender, tells him to tell Cage that she’s sorry for everything and that she’s
going to pay for it. Finally, she climbs to the top of a bridge and takes in New
York one last time before returning to her apartment. Unfortunately for her
plan, Malcolm and Trish removed the body to keep her from going to jail.
Malcolm disposes of the body by throwing it into a river. Jessica dives in
after it, and recovers Reuben’s head. Gross.
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| Jessica, I know a much better lawyer that lives in your district. He dresses in red, knows when folks are lying, and will even help you beating Kilgrave up. Nelson and Murdock, ask for Matt. |
Jessica tries really, really hard
to get into Super-Max. She admits to Riva’s murder, and shows off her strength
to the cop, Clemens. Clemens looks like he might arrest her, but then another
cop comes in and says Jessica’s release has been ordered. Once outside in the
main precinct, we see every cop have their gun trained on someone else.
Kilgrave walks in, disposes of the evidence, and claims to be in love with
Jessica. Creepy as heck.
Episode ends with Jessica returning
to her house, which Kilgrave has spent the episode furnishing. Side plots
include Reuben’s sister Robyn looking for her “missing” brother, and Jeri’s
wife Wendy starts going for the jugular during their divorce proceedings.
I remember one reviewer making the
claim that Jessica Jones is at its
weakest when it focuses on the side characters. I would say this isn’t the case
with Trish or Malcolm, but defiantly so when it’s the twins or Jeri. I get what
they’re trying to do with Reuben and Robyn, one is socially awkward and creepy,
and the other is socially awkward and a colossal B-word. They’re messed up like
Jessica, so we should see some parallels between them and the super-powered PI.
But I just find them freaking creepy. Reuben is played up a lot following his
death, but all I could remember is that he was so freaking creepy that I’m glad
we won’t be seeing much of him anymore. Robyn’s story about looking for Reuben
was pathetic, just so pathetic. And I felt nothing for her. Which is a little
messed up, but when a character I don’t like is made to suffer, I just can’t
bring myself back to care. Which brings us back to Jeri Hogarth. Jeri’s subplot
about her divorce is stupid and painful. Why? Because the show keeps trying to
play Jeri and her secretary up as the tragic lovers, being forced to not be together
because of Jeri’s clingy ex. The thing is… they’re the terrible people that
were perfectly alright screwing around behind Jeri’s wife’s back. Nothing that
they could do or say would make their story interesting or sympathetic. When we
hear Jeri’s wife is demanding 75% of the marital assets or she’s reveal some of
Jeri’s underhanded tactics to win cases, I was like “Yeah, Wendy, show the
cheating wench what she deserves.” But that’s just me. In short, not a terrible
episode, but the subplots take it down from great to just good.
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