What, two posts in one day? How
strange. I had some extra time before my day job, so I decided to do one more
write up. Enjoy.
It was heavily implied last episode,
but this one flat out states that Kilgrave has been using his ill-gotten gains and
mind control powers to recreate Jessica’s childhood home down to the last
detail. Ladies, would you find this romantic, or really, really, really creepy?
I’m hearing Creepy winning by a landslide. The recreation is so perfect that it
causes Jessica to have a flashback to when her family left on the trip that
killed them. Once she returns to the present, mentally, we learn that Kilgrave
has decided he wants the “real” Jessica, and has sworn to not use his powers on
her. Jessica uses this new personal rule to continually tell Kilgrave to screw
off, while still going along with it. During a rather awkward dinner, Jessica
makes a show of freaking out and smashing a bottle, to learn, for sure, that
Kilgrave does have failsafe’s in place. The help is programmed to slit their
throat’s if anything happens to Kilgrave. Subtle.
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| I really like this promo poster. Shows all the important bits Jessica, Kilgrave, the street signs, and of course the booze. |
Will Simpson, who’d been staking
out the place, breaks in, plants a bomb, and tries to “rescue” Jessica before
it goes off. Jessica kicks his butt, steals his cell phone, and then hides him,
before telling Kilgrave about the bomb. While Jessica tries to make the best
out of her situation, she learns a bit about Kilgrave. He shows her the files
on the flashdrive from earlier include videos of the experiments that gave him
his powers. His parents were in charge of the procedure. Mom and Pop of the
year, am I right? Jessica takes Kilgrave to a crime in progress, and forces him
to use his powers to save a family being held hostage by the drunk and crazy
dad. Another flashback, shows that Jessica and her bro fought over a Gameboy,
which lead to an argument, which distracted Pa Jones long enough that he didn’t
see a truck stop suddenly until it was too late.
In the present, Jessica leaves
Kilgrave, promising to return and goes to see Trish. After getting some clarity
from her best friend, she returns bearing Chinese Takeout. Kilgrave is
suspicious at first, but Jessica eats from his plate, showing him his isn’t
drugged. Turns out, she drugged the help’s food, and then injects Kilgrave with
a syringe of anesthetic before he can do anything about it. Jessica escapes,
with a little help from Simpson and a crew of Army buddies. Jessica super-leaps
away, not seeing Simpson and his crew being nearly blown away by the bomb
Simpson planted earlier. Kilgrave re-purposed it.
So Jessica has survivor’s guilt. I
mean, I think that was kind of clear before now, but they finally address it. A
few years back, I was in a similar accident with my older sister. She’d been
driving, roads were slick from days of rain, and the traffic suddenly stopped.
We hit the tailgate of the truck, a bit of windshield plastic broke off and
sliced my forehead. My sister had nightmares for several weeks following the
incident, and I was perfectly fine aside from the scar on my head. I hate to
imagine what would have happened to her if I’d died. She might have ended up
like Jessica, hating herself and blaming herself for what happened. Even though
it wasn’t her fault. The death of her family had a major impact on Jessica,
both on her outlook on life, and in the whole “giving her superpowers” thing.
But I’ll get more into that later. Kilgrave’s past, being the test subject of
some unknown experiment is interesting. He states that his parents ran off
after he got his mind control powers, which may have led to his more
sociopathic tendencies. Not an excuse, but interesting bit of character info. We
also learn a bit more about Simpson, how he was obviously ex-military, and very
good at it, as he outmaneuvered trained bodyguards on two separate occasions. Part
of me wishes some of the past stuff could have been hinted at a bit more in
earlier episodes, as they shine a major late on Jessica and Kilgrave as
characters, but the placement still works. A solid episode.
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