Marvels Jessica Jones
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When Jess comes toafter getting drugged, shes in shackles.
Restraints, Karl helpfully tells her, that were designed to hold your mom.
Jess dismisses all of Karls views as psycho babble blah blah bullshit.
Alisa is not a prisoner here, Karl insists.
Jess yanks at her restraints: What does that make me?
Jessicas reply: Just so you know, I rarely have that effect on people.
(She gets in so many great one-liners in this episode.
I also love her delivery of better go check on mom.)
Jess has about 17 minutes with her mom to make up for the 17 years she missed.
They know the cops are on the way.
(This makes me wonder: Do they also have a special police force for people with abilities?
Seems like there should be, no?)
Nothing Alisa says can change Jessicas mind about what a monster Karl is.
Jess knows from not being able to give consent.
That Alisa can love someone who could violate Jess that way it sickens her.
And itisabsurd that Karl is against the overmedication of children with ADHD!
As Jess puts it, Why medicate kids when you’re free to alter theirentire genetic code?
We havent seen a ton of Jessicas memories from before the accident.
(Jess, under her breath: Nirvana isnt depressing.
Alisa: Oh really?
Didnt that guy commit suicide?)
Alisa also says she and Jess dad were fighting so often, they were close to divorce.
He wouldnt move for her dream job so she burned with resentment, and he resented her resentment.
When I look at you, I dont see my mother, Jess says.
She pauses for a long time.
But your voice makes me feel like Im back with you in our old house.
(Krysten Ritters performance here is just ridiculously good.)
How else would Alisa sneak out to do all those homicides?
By the time the cops arrive, Jess and Alisa are gone through a tunnel beneath the house.
Jess doesnt have a plan.
But she isnt ready to give up her mom just yet.
(Grown goddamned women dont wearpanties, we wear UNDERWEAR.)
Im kind of winging it.
the good cop pulls up outside.
Did she escape to see Karl again?
Did she double-back to pull that taxi drivers spinal cord out through his ear?
SUCH A MOM MOVE to go straight for the new boyfriend.
(Also, its very cute how Oscar is nervous that Jess hates the painting.)
Jess takes the couch for the night, but is undecided on a move for tomorrow.
Theres no version of this that ends well, she says.
Alisa carries her restraints to the bedroom and says, Unless it doesnt have to end.
But before anybody can get settled in, their slumber party is interrupted by gunfire.
Someone is shooting at Jess apartment through the window.
Its only a graze and Jess is fine.
Hows everyone else faring this week?
Jeri certainly thinks so.
Malcolm, morning-after snuggles rejected, tells Trish that he can tell shes on drugs.
EVEN THOUGH SHE IS CLEARLY ADDICTED TO IT.
(Remember how she wanted dirt on her partners?)
He winds up in a street fight with some homophobes, alas.
Malcolm caves, immediately wishes he hadnt, and sprints away from Trish.
So much for that relationship!Dont say Jess didnt warn them.
