Last time on Jessica Jones, it
seems like Miss Jones has come upon her greatest challenge yet. After searching
for a lead on IGH for several days, Jessica found a Dr. Hansen, who might have
answers. Or so she thought. Turns out that the woman she’d met was not Dr.
Hansen, as a skull they’d found was identified as the good doctor. The mystery
woman and Jessica throw down, with the woman proving stronger then Jessica but the
mysterious woman ends up running.
We open to Jessica taking part in her
court appointed anger management. She’s obviously testy, but isn’t allowed to
leave until the fella in charge signs a form. When Jessica is forced to share,
she verbally describes her rather messed up history up to this point, visibly
getting angrier until she shatters the bouncy ball she was forced to use while
sharing. She storms off after getting her formed signed.
Jessica returns to her apartment,
berates Malcolm for letting Trish out of her apartment the previous day, and starts
looking over the one good picture they got of Not-Hansen. Despite a rather… vocal
argument she can hear from Super Oscar’s apartment, Jessica is able notice Not-Hansen
is wearing a wig. She calls up Trish, who is putting out the fire that Jessica
created when she claimed Trish and her boyfriend had broken up, and asks if she’d
noticed. Trish hadn’t, which makes her believe it was made of natural human
hair. Which is good, because there are only three shops in town that sell the
stuff. She had to wear a human hair wig when she was basically Hana Montana,
FYI, that’s why she knew. The pseudo-sisters agree to meet at the first store.
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| Apparently, all you need to do to get someone to stop hating you is to save their kid. Who knew? |
While that was going on, Oscar’s
son Vido comes over. The kid clearly didn’t want to stick around while his parents
screamed at each other. He does the little kid thing, quizzing Jessica about
her powers and the like, you know, being annoying. Jessica goes to tell his parents
where he is. While her back is turned, Vido climbs onto the window sill and
jokes about Jessica saving him. He slips out, Jessica runs over and grabs him.
The parents come in, misunderstand what happened, storm off in a huff, and
Oscar rather angrily announces Jessica is out in 25 days. Oh fun.
Meanwhile, Jeri is interrupted in
her search for alternative treatments to her ALS by Pryce Cheng. He’s angry
that Jeri is trying to get him to drop his case against Jessica. Jeri tries to
warn him that nothing good comes from messing with Jessica, but the jack hole
isn’t listening. He tells her he’s hiring a new firm and storms out.
Jessica and Trish find the wig
store, and actually found the store the Not-Hansen frequents on their first
stop. Woo. After bribing the owner, they learn that the mystery woman pays in
cash and the owner thinks its due to chemo. So… kind of a dead end. Or is it?
The new train of thought is that if Not-Hansen has cancer, IGH was probably
paying her medical bills. Jessica and Trish agree that they need her
MetroGeneral file. Trish reveals the video Malcolm took of her and Max, and her
plan to use the director’s pull at the hospital to get the file. The two women
put the squeeze on Max, which involves Jessica literally punching through the
hood of his car, and get the files.
While going through the files,
Jessica gets a call from Jeri. She’s pressuring Jessica to find dirt on her
partners, Chao and Benowitz, to get them to back off on forcing Jeri out. Unfortunately,
anything remotely like dirt she can find can be explained away as client gifts.
Jeri to tells her to keep digging. Jessica hangs up, but is interrupted in her
searching by Oscar dropping in. The Super tells her that Vido explained what
happened. Wanting to apologize for being a dick the last few days, he brought
her some whiskey and tells her that he’d torn up her eviction notice.
Back at Trish’s, after having some
intimate time with Griffin, Trish leaves to take a shower. Griffin gets a
mystery call. He tells the caller “she doesn’t know anything. Let’s keep it
that way.” Considering that this is coming after Trish claimed Griffin was the
first not crappy guy she’d dated, that’s real dark.
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| How dare you ask a former Red Ranger to spy for you Pryce Cheng? How dare you?!? |
Oscar and Jessica boned over whiskey.
He admits he doesn’t have issues with enhanced Humans, per say. In actuality, since
he’d just gotten out of prison, he was just really skittish about being around
anyone that might even have a chance at screwing up his post-prison life. The two
outcasts start making out, damn Jessica works fast, but Oscar backs down and
leaves. Apparently going from hating someone to sucking face was a bit too
drastic of a turn for him.
The next day, Malcolm confronts
Jessica as she leaves. He lets her know that Pryce Cheng had offered him a job
in exchange for dirt on her. Jessica tries to blow him off, but Malcolm has had
enough. He Get’s in Gear (Power Rangers Reference) and demands that Jessica
start treating him like an actual assistant (think Watson to Holmes more then
guy who gets coffee) and 25% of her case income. She agrees to 20% before leaving.
Jeri meanwhile attempts to force
her doctor into getting her some… less then legal drugs for her ALS treatment. The
doctor is hesitant, so Jeri storms off.
At Trish’s, the sort-of sisters
learn that IGH only payed for three people’s medical bills at MetroGeneral; hers,
Whizzer’s, and Inez Green. Considering the fact Whizzer is dead and Jessica is
Jessica, they assume Inez is Not-Hansen. They look her up, and discover that the
woman is currently homeless and the general area she frequents. They head out,
Trish bringing a high powered taser she nabbed from Will Simpson’s stuff to
knock Not-Hansen out, and his super-power inhaler.
They find Inez’s hangout, but not
Inez. They split up, with Jessica getting jumped when alone. Jessica knocks her
down, discovering that Inez is in fact not Not-Hansen. Trish, who missed that
part, takes a hit from Simpson’s inhaler, runs over and tasers the woman. Well,
crap.
Back at Jessica’s apartment,
somebody breaks in and nabs all over her info on her IGH case. Malcolm, who
brought his latest Lady of the Evening over to look for booze, interrupt the thief
but the dude slips out before Malcolm spots him.
Back with Jessica, they revive Inez
and get her story. Turns out, the now homeless woman worked for IGH as a nurse.
Not-Hansen, interestingly, is a former patient of that groups’ procedure. The
mystery woman had a hell of a tempter and strength to match, as she really screwed
up Inez’s back during an incident and murdered another nurse. Jessica and Trish
agree to that they need to look after her, in case Not-Hansen wants her dead
too.
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| On no, Jessica is getting arrested again. Who'd have believed that? |
We learn that the thief is a friend
of Pryce Cheng. Cheng had paid him to steal Jessica’s stuff in an attempt to
find dirt on her. Not sure how stealing her active case files would result in anything
other then Jessica screwing up his other shoulder, but hey, that’s just me.
Unfortunately for Pryce’s buddy, Not-Hansen attacks him and all but rips him to
pieces while Pryce listens impotently.
Jessica, Trish and Inez arrive a short time later. The police, finding a
dead man outside a known super-human with anger issues’ address and I’m sure ‘testimony’
from Cheng, assume the worst and arrest Jessica. They arrest Trish too as she
comes at them irate. Turns out superhero steroids can give ya anger issues. Who
knew?
Hm… Is this the second or third
murder Jessica is being falsely accused of? Third, I think. Shame that. I
wonder if that was Not-Hansen’s intention, or if she’d simply killed Cheng’s
friend because he had the IGH stuff and the frame up was a coincidence. Either
way, Jessica’s situation just got more complicated. I glossed over it in this episode,
but Malcolm is seen with several different women in this episode, presumably
from dating apps he’s frequented. Not sure if he’s trying to make up for the time
he’d lost while being Kilgrave’s coked up spy or if he’s replacing drugs with
sex, but either way isn’t super good for Malcolm. Over doing any vice is dangerous.
The bit with Griffin is interesting. Odds are he’s either connected to IGH or
is cheating on Trish. Since this is a superhero show, it’s probably both. What?
Writers like doubling up on betrayals. I’m interested to see how Jessica is
going to square off against Not-Hansen, and what the mysterious woman’s deal
is. Does she work for IGH, or is she killing people sniffing them out for her own
ends? Hopefully I’ll find out more soon.
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