Jessica Jones ended the last episode stuck in a jail cell, so now she must open up to others if she wants to get out and figure out the true culprit.
In the last episode, Jessica and Trish found Inez, a former IGH nurse, only to head back to Jessica's apartment and find a squadron of police ready to arrest her. While they were away, Pryce Cheng's associate broke in and stole all their files, but "Leslie Hansen" arrived and murdered him. With only the obviously super-powered crime scene as a clue, the police could only conclude Jessica killed him, despite her claims of innocence. As Jessica angrily paces, "Hansen" burns her clothes and all of Jessica's files, and Jessica calls Hogarth, who urges her to tell the police everything she knows, as alienating everyone around her will only leave her alone. Trish, coming down from her high on Simpson's drug, learns from her mom that she has been asleep for 26 hours. Despite Trish's concern for Jessica, her mother says she has gotten Trish a meeting with people at ZCN. Jessica uses her one call to tell Malcolm she isn't mad about the theft happening, but wants him to find out everything he can about IGH from Inez. At "Hansen's" place, a bout of piano practice attracts a neighbor Sophie, who says her son Aaron, who has been emotional, calmed after hearing the playing. "Hansen" allows Sophie in, but becomes agitated as Aaron begins crying, and her playing becomes distorted. Sophie, shocked at her neighbor's breakdown, collects her things and bolts from the house before "Hansen" destroys the piano in a fit of rage. Back at the jail, Jessica relents and tells the police everything she has learned about IGH and shows them the picture she has of "Hansen. Malcolm, meanwhile, questions Inez about another nurse, Luanne McClure, who she said "Hansen" murdered, despite a man named David Kawecki serving prison time for murdering her after her body was found in his bathtub. Inez becomes upset as Malcolm questions her, but he urges her to cooperate, as he can't help if she doesn't give him information. Jessic and Hogarth get a moment to themselves where Jessica tries to calm down after realizing Hogarth's medication has sickly side effects. The police come back and tell Jessica that although they found no proof of "Hansen" existing, a camera outside her apartment showed "Hansen" suddenly bin frame at the murder scene a split second after a completely blank photo. Though one officer says she'd prefer Jessica being behind bars, the other explains he remembers Killgrave forcing him and others to hold their own guns to their heads, and he and some other officers support her. Outside, Jessica asks Hogarth to provide Inez with a safehouse, and Hogarth notes that Jessica didn't mention Inez to police, a tactic that was ineffective before. Hogarth agrees that Jessica can get Inez to her after Jessica says Inez is her responsibility, saying that she will handle it and Jessica's paranoia is exhausting. Cheng charges in as the two prepare to leave, demanding to know how Jessica is out after she obviously killed his friend. As Hogarth tries to defuse the situation, Cheng rants that he and his friend survived two wars until Jessica, and that he heard everything that happened to him. Despite his prodding, Jessica stays calm, saying he doesn't know why she's free because he's a crap investigator, and that as she is free now, she'll discover the true killer, walking away as Cheng stands dumbfounded in the street. Jessica goes back to the apartment where Malcolm shares what he has learned, including that Kawecki is apparently mentally incompetent. Though Jess thinks is could be a ruse, Inez assures her that Kawecki is harmless, then rants that she couldn't possibly forget "Hansen's" ferocity. Malcolm convinces her to go back to his apartment with the door locked to wait, and Jessica says she can handle sneaking into the facility Kawecki is being kept at. She writes down Hogarth's informtaion and tells Malcolm to take Inez to her and say he is Jess' associate, to his surprise and joy. Malcolm goes back to his apartment, discovering that Inez stole his TV. He finds her in the street trying to hock it, and he threatens that if she doesn't help, he will leak her location to IGH, finally getting her to agree. Jessica, meanwhile, visits Oscar to ask him for a fake ID for the facility. Despite police surrounding the building related to her and the obvious danger of helping, Oscar agrees as he still believes the woman who saved his son wouldn't be cold-blooded. Trish and her mother head to where her meeting is set, only for Trish to learn it is actually an event Griffin put together to propose. Jessica, having been called by Griffin, shows up and is as confused as Trish. Despite everyone's joy, Trish merely gives him a halfhearted "thank you," and after he asks Jessica not to ruin Trish's day, he leaves to speak with Trish privately. Malcolm and Inez arrive at Hogarth's, and despite going along with the plan, Inez says Malcolm is the worst kind of person, pretending to care when he's in it for himself. Hogarth assures him it is good Jess seems to be rubbing off on him. Jess heads back to Oscar's later for the ID, and is sad that she must turn down dinner with him, Vido and Oscar's mother. We see "Hansen" burning her piano's remains, then go to Hogarth's where Inez wonders why the award-winning lawyer would be helping. Hogarth explains she wants to know everything about IGH, especially their experiments. Jess gets into the facility Kawecki is at, and asks him what happened with Luanne. She notices inconsistencies as he says Luanne was nice but didn't want to date him, yet he somehow got her into his apartment and essentially hugged her to death. He becomes upset that Jess doesn't believe him, saying he simply forgets things sometimes, and she calms him by talking about octopuses, as he is drawing one. Kawecki eagerly explains that he is like an octopus, being antisocial. He says they have DNA unlike any other creature, with their genes called "de novo" or "out of nowhere." Jessica asks how he knows so much, and he says his friend Dr. Karl told him. When he continues that he used to join Karl for lunch at the aquarium, Jess asks if Karl is also the one who told him he killed Luanne. He starts to become agitated again, so Jess asks if he'll draw a picture of himself at the aquarium with Karl, which he beings doing. The episode comes to an end as Trish and her mother have a confrontation about her actions at Griffin's proposal, and Jessica investigates the aquarium. A key component of this episode is on multiple characters' secrecy, especially Jessica, who has a hard time trusting most people. Jessica's reluctance to cooperate with police comes from her preconceived notion that they won't believe her no matter what, and likely from her horrific experiences with Killgrave. As Hogarth notes, however, she has to let people in completely if she wants their help, as alienating those around her won't yield good results. It is this advice that not only leads to Jessica's release, but also in the revelation that at least a few officers are more than willing to help her succeed. It could also be that this good experience contributed to her following actions, where she realized Cheng was goading her and she could tell him off without violence. Both Jessica and Malcolm also benefit as a result of her trusting him more, as they are able to work better and get more done. Jessica, meanwhile, faces more difficulties from secrets, as her desire to be more helpful has caused her to hide her new drug addiction from Jessica. In the proposal scene, we learn that Griffin's sneaking around in previous episodes, like downloading information from Trish's computer and his secret phone call, were all related to him popping the question. I liked that this was the surprise that resulted, as I didn't understand why the show would show us these moments if he was a villain. Obviously it creates curiosity and tension as we wonder what he was doing, but it would have made it boring if he were actually revealed to be with IGH. On the note of IGH, it's interesting that Hogarth told Inez she wanted to know specifically about the experiments they conducted. While it's obvious this information could help Jessica, she didn't say she was going to ask anything. Given her diagnosis and desire to find a cure, it's likely that Hogarth is trying to fix herself using the IGH experimentation. While I had thought IGH would experiment on Trish and turn her into Hellcat, it could be that something happens to Hogarth and Trish simply continues using the drug. Inez, of course, has to reveal many dark secrets to help Jessica, but in her case there is more of a dangerous element, as she has no way to protect herself from IGH. With more secrets now out and Jessica getting closer to IGH, the danger is becoming more prominent with Hansen an unpredictable foe.
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