Walking on the edge of legality, Jessica investigates when Trish goes missing, and as Malcolm questions his position, Hogarth's health begins to fail.
In Mexico, Jessica approaches a man who took is daughter despite not having custody, and when he and the girl's object, she gets physical to retrieve her.
Once back, the girl says a hero should save people, and Captain America wouldn't have done this. Jessica returns her, only for the mom to reveal strict methods and start insulting her for being judgmental. Jessica returns to her apartment, where Vido shows her the video of her "rescue," and she assures him she "saved" the girl from her dad. In her apartment we meet her new assistant Gillian (Aneesh Sheth), who convinces Jessica to take the case of an ex-gang member in trouble. Gillian refuses to take Jessica's guff about low-paying cases, and clocks out as Vido looks over which case to take. Jessica reveals she keeps Gillian around because she hates her, allowing distance. He invites her to dinner but she claims to have work, so he suggest cases two and six. Recalling her mom's beliefs on heroism, Jessica cynically laments that "hope" was passed down to her with her mom believing she could be a hero. She leaves, surprised to find Malcolm is now in Mrs. Chin's old apartment, and is doing incredibly well for himself; they give simple, curt goodbyes. Jessica goes to the bar and demands the tv be changed from sports, only for it to end up on some sales pitch. Detective Costa enters and congratulates her "success" with her case, which he provided, saying even jerks like Cassie's mom need saving. He brings up a deal of theirs that he'll provide cases if she doesn't do anything illegal, revealing he saw the video from Mexico, and urges her to toe the line.
The next day, Jeri Hogarth falls trying to get out of bed. She almost calls 911, but puts down her phone and looks at her experimental pills.
Jessica wakes to obnoxious knocking, closing the door when she sees Dorothy. She opens it when Dorothy continues, only to close it when she says she wants to hire her. At the third time, Dorothy reveals Trish is missing and tries to force her way in, so Jessica hold her to the wall. Dorothy is fine getting hit if it means she'll listen. Dorothy makes a snide remark about Jessica's furniture and continues about Trish, saying she'll pay when Jessica claims to not care. She feels something is wrong and doesn't know what to do, but Jessica knows she just doesn't go to the police because word would get out. Jessica moves to kick her out again, and becomes annoyed when Dorothy brings up her mom, saying Trish had nothing to do with her death. Dorothy claims to understand the issue of "family being family" and says Trish is Jessica's family too. Jessica forces her out and struggles to not break down when Dorothy exclaims that Trish was the only good thing about her. Hogarth gives a call, and at her apartment agrees to help her with the video if she'll eventually slip her the experimental drug, as she is stubbornly putting off the day she need to take anything and knows she won't be able to herself. Jessica is reluctant, as the pills will apparently kill her, and sarcastically asks how she's supposed to know the right time to slip them to her. Hogarth grows angry as she prepares a drink and tells her to turn her head, and violently slaps the glass away. She becomes quiet as Jessica says no one can plan for these things, and says that despite her not wanting to help, she'll work on getting the video taken down.
Meanwhile, Malcolm arrives at a car accident, where an injured man believes the driver, Cody Willamet, was drunk and touching himself.
Malcolm reveals that the man shouldn't bother suing, as Willamet is a rich, powerful baseball player, and with Hogarth as his lawyer, he can easily get past the charges. He instead has Willamet sign a transfer of title that gives the car to the injured man, as long as the incident is kept a secret. Willamet protests until Malcolm reminds him this is a repeat offense. He then says Malcolm is doing god's work, but the investigator doesn't seem to agree. That night, Jessica decides to look into Trish and calls Dorothy for card information. She learns in the process that Trish sold her condo and everything she owned. They meet the next day, with Jess thinking about how killing someone changes a person, as Trish's new place is pretty rundown, which Dorothy doesn't understand. Jessica determines Trish is studying numerous subjects and doesn't want people around, and finds bloody chains at a small staircase. She surprises Dorothy be getting into Trish's password-locked computer. Dorothy admits she used to be jealous of how close Jess and Trish were, working as each other's protector and conscience, respectively, and Jessica kicks her out. Wondering if Trish has changed from her black-and-white views, Jess searches her emails and scribbles down numerous locations she got rides to. She becomes angry after finding a draft where Trish says she doesn't know right from wrong and couldn't see her mom needed to be stopped, but continues on the case. She goes to one of the addresses, a motel, and after getting her way into Trish's room, determines her "sister" is on a stakeout.
Malcolm takes his "success" to Hogarth, angry he's working as a fixer and put a drunk back on the streets, but she convinces him to stay until he can launch his own firm.
He leaves after she suggests he determine what he wants, and she has her assistant, Char, donate to a string concert benefit and put down the address. Jessica is growing impatient at the hotel, but spots a dark-clothed Trish follow a guy into a building across the street. They go up to his room where Trish draws him out with his alarm and tries to subdue him. He runs and gets a gun, so Jess leaps through the window. Her intrusion allows the man to escape, with Jess learning in the process that Trish is now powered, as she is incredibly nimble and leaves via the window. Back at the hotel, Trish angrily explains she wanted to tell Jess about her powers and was tracking this guy because he had a statue that linked him to an assault; she triggered the alarm knowing he'd open it going for his gun. Jessica is sure she could've been killed, but Trish snaps that she and everyone else don't need her as a hero, as she can be that and Jess can stop worrying. Jess asks that she just call Dorothy so she can get paid. While she returns to the bar on a trip with multiple unexpected encounters, Hogarth meets an old fling at the benefit, and Malcolm decides what he wants to do.
Considering the previous season was lackluster for many, this one is starting off nicely for me, giving us more mysteries to figure out.
Right off the bat, we're in an interesting situation that sets up part of the plot, both because of Jessica getting physical with the guy and her choice with the daughter. A constant theme for the show has been Jessica wondering if and how she can be a hero, and others urging her to be one. Aside from assaulting the guy, which can get her in trouble, she's choosing to take the girl back to a woman the girl says herself she doesn't want to return to. She's only there for a paycheck, but the possibility of returning the girl to an abusive home crosses her mind, especially when they return. Also like in the past, she seems to be struggling with having lost those close to her, with Trish off doing her own thing and Malcolm working for Hogarth. She pretends to not care, but Jess has lost people throughout her life, which has left her with abandonment issues she handles by keeping people at a distance. Her issues are shown when she passes Malcolm's new apartment, where seeing him so successful and surrounded by people has her jealous. This moment is also repeated in a way at the end of the episode, but rather than just having the two hardly interact, at this point Jessica needs Malcolm. The only relationship not broken is between her and Hogarth, as she definitely feels sympathy for the woman, but this starts to collapse after Hogarth's request. I liked how the two argued the situation, because both of them do honestly have points for their thinking, but Hogarth becomes ridiculous with what she wants. Initially, her desire to just end things once her symptoms really show up can be understood, because some people just want to go out before they're affected. Asking Jessica to do it is unreasonable, though, especially considering she wants it to be a surprise based on Jessica deciding how bad she is. This is also where Jessica's anger at the situation comes from; Hogarth thinks she's making a joke out of it, but Jessica likely feels the same. The oddly specific request makes it seem like Hogarth doesn't take the situation seriously, especially because Jessica has dealt so much with death. She's lost her family, been forced to kill, essentially forced to kill Kilgrave, though she was happy about that in a way, and now her mother was shot in front of her. Jessica constantly has people telling her to do the "right thing," but also had people wanting and/or needing her to kill, which she despises doing. Malcolm's relationship with Hogarth also changes this episode, as before he saw promise at her firm and was excited to work with her, but now is questioning himself. He's wanted to do good things for so long, and now he finds himself fixing messes rather than investigating, and the messes he fixes are horrific and sleazy. Cody should've gone to jail for his actions early in the episode, but because of his money and power, there's nothing the victim could do about it. With the situation "handled," all he loses is a car, which doesn't matter much to him, and he's back on the street able to do this again if he wants. This makes Malcolm an enabler, ironic because of his past as an addict, and there's no way such a thought would sit well in his mind. Segments about Trish were a lot of fun, both for the mystery and because we finally get to see her using the abilities she gained last season. Fitting for a character whose comic counterpart is "Hellcat," we see that at the very least, Trish is now incredibly nimble, able to run up a wall to flip over Jessica. I wonder if she's still using Simpson's drug just for an added boost, but I don't think there's really a need for that, and like how she's trying to use her powers. However reckless, she had a good reason to be doing what she was doing, and she claims to even be thinking about Jess, saying she doesn't have to be a hero. She knows that Jess hates the pressure from all around to save everyone, but at the same time I do think she just wants to be able to do it herself, considering she was apparently jealous of Jessica's ability for a long time. Even the parts about Trish without her were good, with the always annoying Dorothy providing comedic moments with Jessica. I admire that Rebecca Jane Pearch for being able to make me hate Dorothy so much, and her moments with Jessica this episode had me laughing. In particular was when she first showed up. Jessica opens the door, sees her, and closes the door, never even taking her hand off it. That one moment made me laugh, and is a perfect way to show the kind of relationship the two have, and is repeated just once when she wants to hire Jess. At one moment we get a mixture of comedy and surprising depth from Dorothy when she admits she was always jealous of Jess and Trish's relationship. She's too obsessed with fame to understand what they had, but this admittance shows a bit of why she has such a hatred for Jessica. At the same time, the moment is cold from her, as she rudely says how Jess and Trish have now lost this relationship, bringing her back to the character I despise. The moment is able to end with comedy, however, as Jessica immediately kicks Dorothy out, and all the women can say is that this action was "rude." We see the return of Vido this episode, though his dad is never shown, and also get some new characters, like Gillian, who I'm happy to see doesn't take Jessica's crap. Jessica is keeping her at arm's length to not get attached, but Gillian refuses to let Jessica just boss her around and be mean, giving sarcasm and sass in return. This is a strong beginning for the third, and sadly final, season of Jessica Jones, and with its ending, I'm intrigued to see where things are going.
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