On top of her own issues, Jessica Jones now has to try to solve the murder of "The Whizzer" as Trish makes decisions that could anger those around her.
At the end of the previous episode, Jessica discovered the lab where she was experimented on when she was a child. Though the disguised building seems abandoned, the remaining equipment caused Jessica to have flashbacks to what she went through. After these discoveries, Jessica is in a bar slamming down whiskey at this episode's start, failing to tell Trish because Griffin suggests she wait until morning. A man comments on her butt and they head to the bathroom to have sex, but upon discovering Jessica's powers, he becomes disgusted, and Jessica tells him to get out, commenting on his inability to satisfy her. Malcolm tells Jessica about Dr. Kozlov's address he found as a result of her snooping, and despite his pleas, Jessica tells him to take the day off as she heads out. Jessica goes to Kozlov's address, only to find a funeral after he was in a "freak car accident," and she begins searching under the guise of being a patient of his. Trish, meanwhile, has started building a relationship with her mother Dorothy again despite Jessica's protests, and a figure watches from a distance. After talking about the decline in popularity for Trish's show, her mother, albeit reluctantly, gives Trish the address of a movie director from Trish's past. After the results she received in the previous episode, Hogarth is found in a daze as she drives, soon pulling to the side where she picks up a prostitute. Back at Kozlov's, Jessica has found his office and discovered a picture of Kozlov with Will Simpson and other soldiers, one of whom enters, now wheelchair-bound. The man, Isaiah, demands to know who she's working for, and attacks her with a baton, only for her to grow annoyed and push him from his chair. The two discuss Kozlov's death, agreeing that it wasn't an accident, and Isaiah blames Will Simpson, who he says is still alive, before they are discovered and Jessica leaves. Trish and her mother finish their meal, and after Trish ignores Jessica's call and reveals that she doesn't want Jessica to know they are meeting, we see that Simpson, using some sort of inhalant, is her stalker. While researching the Whizzer and Kozlov, Jessica gets a visit from two police officers, Ruth Sunday and Eddy Costa, who believe she had a hand in Whizzer's death. Proclaiming her innocence, Jessica takes the officers to Oscar, the man who moved in, but he claims to have not seen anything at the accident, so she angrily leaves. Malcolm wakes up to a message from Trish recruiting his help, and he later heads to a movie set where she gives him a fake ID, telling him to say he is a production assistant if questioned. Trish explains that they are not doing anything that is "physically" dangerous, and soon finds the director, Tatum, who agrees to meet with her in his trailer. Jessica, meanwhile, finds the Whizzer's apartment, and after trapping his pet mongoose Emily in the bathroom, inspects his laptop. She finds a video where he details his powers and his belief that they are causing mental illness and killing him, finally saying "we" have to do something about what's happening. The police arrive, asking if anyone is inside as they try to get in, so Jessica releases Emil to get in their way and escapes via a window. Over at Hogarth's apartment, we see her in a drug-induced state partying with three prostitutes, making out with one of them as they dance. Later as Hogarth sleeps, one of the prostitutes answers a knock on the door which turns out to be Pryce Cheng, saying he has filed a complaint against Jones. Cheng chastises Hogarth for her behavior, saying he hopes she protects her clients like he does, and she pays the prostitutes and demands that they leave before breaking down. Jessica takes Whizzer's laptop back to her apartment, bumping into Oscar along the way, so she stops to ask why he lied to the cops. Treating Jessica coldly, Oscar explains that he is in a custody battle over his son, and doesn't want to risk having his son over super powered problems. Though she is disgusted at Oscar's actions, Jessica moves on to inspecting the laptop further, finding search history that shows Whizzer frequented Trish's website. In his comments, he gave his support to what Trish was saying, and Jessica realizes that Trish is the connection she's been looking for. She leaves a voicemail for Trish, who is busy talking to Tatum, asking for his influence at Metro-General Hospital without mentioning Jessica. When Tatum refuses, Trish threatens to expose him for sexually assaulting her when she worked with him as a child. Though Tatum still refuses, saying she is blackmailing him, Malcolm, who is in the closet, catches the whole thing on camera. Jessica, desperate to find Trish, calls Dorothy and learns of Trish's deceit before Dorothy hangs up, so she heads over and breaks in. Disarming Dorothy, Jessica soon learns about Trish's trip to Tatum, where things have continued to go poorly. Malcolm, enraged after learning what Tatum did to Trish, has assaulted him and broken his nose, then runs away. Trish, crying over her encounter, sees her multiple missed calls and hears a strange noise, discovering Simpson in the shadows. When Simpson refuses to stay where he is despite her gun, Trish shoots him in the leg, but he limps toward her. The episode comes to a climax as we are unsure what happened with Simpson and Jessica rushes to aid Trish. This episode goes miles in fleshing out its side characters, in particular Malcolm, as his continued struggle against his addiction shows his personality. Malcom's protests at Jessica not giving him work were a favorite section of the episode for me, as it connects to his struggles and growth. As a former addict due to Kilgrave, Malcolm is desperate to stay busy, saying that otherwise he could get into trouble, and is disappointed when Jessica refuses to give him anything to do. Almost immediately, he got the message from the dating app, and goes to sleep with her, showing a stumble in his path to resist his impulses. This makes Malcolm both relatable and realistic, as he clearly wants to get better but has difficulty from time to time. If he were just suddenly perfectly fine, it wouldn't feel right, and it would be odd that the drugs were just completely forgotten. As he is now, he serves as an example for addicts that they might struggle, but they can still get clean, as well as for non-addicts to show them how difficult it is to stop using a substance. We get to see a more vulnerable side in Hogarth, though her segments are somewhat bland in comparison to the mysteries posed elsewhere. Despite not knowing what exactly Hogarth has, it's hard to not at least feel sympathy for her, as most people know someone who has dealt with a debilitating disease. Her downward spiral is sure to cause problems down the line, though it could also lead to a redemption down the line. On a different note, Marvel might be continuing its odd desire to make most of the characters have a relationship every season. The biggest one so far is how every Defender has met Claire, and both Daredevil and Luke have had a relationship with her. Luke and Jessica developed a romance, like they married in the comics, and Luke also had a night with Misty, and Danny, meanwhile, had a sort of fling with Colleen. Jessica has assumed a tense relationship with tenant Oscar, and though he seems to have a firm stance against superheroism because of his son, their last interaction seemed to have a bit of witty bantering. Hopefully this is just me sensing a typical pattern, and will not develop into anything else, as along with how it would detract from the main story, I am waiting for the point Jessica and Luke will officially become an item. The next episode will probably start off with some action, so I'm looking forward to getting into it.
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