OK, let’s get back into Jessica Jones
AKA I have no spleen
We get the scene again of Jessica in the hospital asking for
the name of the guy Trish was after, the guy she suspects is her attacker, or
at least someone who works for him. She’s had he spleen surgically removed.
Jesccia’s mentally ready to go after her attacker, problem is she can’t stand
up. And hearing that certain aspects of her life, like drinking may have to
change to accommodate her lack of spleen is not helping.
Cut to Malcolm pissing, ok so there’s blood in his urine but
f*cking seriously? Zaya, Malcolm’s girlfriend is concerned about him but he
refuses to tell her too much because the injuries in question are a result of
episode 1 where he deliberately crashed a car into the drink-driver.
Jessica has flashes of the attack and accidently kicks
Detective Costa in the hospital, he’s here to take a statement to assist in the
arrest of the attacker, he believes it’s someone she pissed off. She has
nothing concrete to tell him anyway.
Meanwhile Hogarth and Kith meet for lunch. Kith, being an
old flame of Hogarth is also well versed in her lingo and tell when she’s
talking rubbish and can tell she’s not just here to reminisce. Still, that’s
kinda what they end up doing anyway. At least until it gets too uncomfortable
and Kith decides to leave.
Jessica is discharged from the hospital, though against
medical advice. How will she be able to pay the medical bills? Gillian provides
what assistance she can in her own special way, changing the locks and setting
reminders on Jessica’s phone for all the tablets she needs to take before
leaving for her off-the-clock activities.
Jessica finds the burger from that night in the fridge and
eats it, without even heating it. Rather you than me, Jessica. Still, it seems
she may be falling to Erik’s way of thinking when it comes to burgers. Jessica
and Trish are both working on finding Brandt. Jessica falls asleep but is woken
up by Malcolm, he took the liberty of grabbing the knife before the cops could.
He had it looked at but it’s a popular knife from a set with no fingerprints on
it.
Jessica breaks into Brandt’s house, drinking one of his
beers before she finds Trish. The two debate morals and heroism and whatnot and
we cut to Hogarth. Malcolm’s got a job, to dig up dirt on Kith’s husband Peter.
Jessica dug up a lead on Brandt, an auction list that was
conveniently jammed in his printer, presumably selling his stolen statue. The
auction itself seems to be hush-hush, ie the items on sale were obtained
illegally and none of the people Jessica calls are interested
Malcolm manages to sneak into Peter’s office but is caught
on his way back out, he manages to bluff his way out. Erik pays Jessica a
visit, but she tells him she tossed the burger because between Malcolm and the
hospital expenses, maybe she needs to keep the $50. It’s also a cheap saying
she’s not interested in his company tonight.
Trish is doing her shopping channel ad, and thanks to Trish
the clothes are selling like hotcakes, if someone made 140,000 hotcakes and had
to sell them. Her co-host tells her she was born for this which makes her a tad
uncomfortable, though she doesn’t show it on-screen. Gillian wakes Jessica up
the next morning, just as she’s about to go for lunch and tells her a client is
waiting. It’s Hogarth who’s got out of the whole ‘kill me’ phase and actually
has some choice words for Jessica’s pity party. Anyway, she agrees to look into
the illegal art sales and will have some galleries sent to her for her to
survey.
Whilst doing some reconnaissance, Jessica spots Trish who
tries to follow in her footsteps but Jessica gives her the slip. In doing so
however, she also misses one of her pills and begins staggering, eventually
passing out. Luckily, Trish comes along and calls the hospital, but because we
can’t have Trish doing something nice without her also being an asshole, they
restore her karmic balance by having her steal Jessica’s notes and run off.
Kith pays a visit to Hogarth’s house and once she gets her
cello out things get intense… and it doesn’t stop with the Cello. Malcolm
planted a camera in Peter’s office and watches as he and another student have
sexy-time in the office. Teacher’s having relationships with students is icky
regardless of age, I want to throw up.
Jessica wakes up back in hospital, she passed out due to dehydration, guess alcohol doesn’t really do it for you. She gets a text from Hogarth with the time and date of the auction and agrees to stay the night at the hospital. Hogarth asks what Kith will say about their little tryst, but Kith tells her they have an open relationship, they can basically screw whoever they want.
The next day, Jessica arrives at the Gallery and climbs to
the roof, breaking her way inside and finding the statue. But Jessica’s not
alone as Trish has managed to work the lead too and is at the gallery taking a
more direct approach. She watches as Trish manages to download the sellers’
contact information from the auctioneer’s computer.
Jessica confronts her outside and Trish presses the wrong
button and gets backhanded for it. Jessica grabs the phone and uses it to work
out his location. Thing is though, he’s not involved. He didn’t think you could
just stab someone like Jessica and realises that pissing her off might just be
a terrible idea. He has some degree of sense is what I’m saying. She calls
Trish, and leaves the guy tied up for her to deal with.
Malcolm reveals details of the affair to Hogarth but she
says it’s not enough and tells him to dig deeper. Of course, Jessica’s no
closer to sh*t from her end, she calls Erik to commiserate but a combination of
things he says and her PTSD flashbacks give her an epiphany. The guy was never
after her, the target was Erik.
It’s not the easiest one to watch, but it provides just
enough in terms of answers to keep the ball rolling forward.
Rating 7/10
AKA Customer service is standing by
Sal Blaskowski, the family-woman of crime who Erik owes
money to because of gambling. Good job he knows some Houdini tricks but she
gives him a week to get the money she’s owed or else. He’s been blackmailing
people and he believes it’s one of them who targeted him with the knife.
He has a sort of sense about whether people are good or bad
and gives notes telling the people he sends them to to give money to him or
else. He gives them a drop off point and Jessica agrees to check them out, and
then the two of them will pay them a visit. Trish drops by and Jessica kindly
tells her to piss off and find her own bad guy, which she does, hearing about
Blaskowski.
She finds the blackmail money on mark #1. Jessica couldn’t
dig up much about the guy, he’s an accountant with no priors and no family. But
upon paying him a visit… Yikes, thank you for sparing us the photographs
Marvel. DC, take notes!
Trish calls about Blaskowski and Jessica tells her she
couldn’t care less, giving Trish free reign to act on her own. Hogarth is
meeting with someone about getting things installed to help her but it would
require several indignities that she’s not happy with, including getting rid of
all her rugs and furniture. Malcom’s pulled an all-nighter and is still having
moral qualms about his work.
Mark 2 also paid the money and is currently working at in
insurance firm. Question, is it likely the person who resorted to stabbing
Jessica would’ve paid the ransom? I guess Jessica can just wonder into an
office block no questions asked. Given her history I would not recommend it. Turns
out the boss was embezzling money from the employee’s pensions, not exactly the
horrors of the last guy but equally bad, despite her being more apologetic and
scared.
Oh yeah, Trish broke into Malcolm’s office to get intel on
Blaskowski. Malcolm fights her briefly before she reveals herself to be Trish.
It’s another really tiring moral debate where the same points are rehashed ad
nauseum. But it does give Malcolm the gumption to ask some more work benefits
for the information he found, especially since in that information, he found
out about Hogarth and Kith’s relationship and deduced exactly why he was asked
to do this, Hogarth agrees. Apparently, Peter had been scalping the scholarship
fund set up in memory of their daughter to pay for various things for his
side-whores. This could be distributed anonymously to everyone who contributes
to the fund, but that would destroy Kith right alongside him. Hogarth decides
to wait on this information for the moment.
Mark 3 is a no-show but Jessica believes she’s found her
target. Erik decides he’s had enough and isn’t really interested in being used
as an arbitrator for Jessica. He goes off to pay his debts whilst Jessica goes
to confront Mark 3. Hogarth takes Kith out and quickly gets her quartet a
particularly famous ear to play for.
Unfortunately for Erik, he’s three hours late with the money
so her guys push him into the pool with weights tied to his ankles again, this
time enough of them that he doesn’t reckon he’ll survive. Fortunately for him,
Trish arrives and fights off the boys, one of them is pushed into the pool, and
Erik uses his pocket knife to escape, Blaskowski attacks Trish, but she dodges
and ensuing move ends with Blaskowski impaled on her crowbar.
Jessica knocks on the door of mark 3, eventually breaking in
and taking evidence. He’s clearly intelligent, with some decent physical
records too. His name is Gregory Sallinger and he’s incredibly deranged by also
quite intelligent, he has hidden cameras so when Jessica grabs him it looks
like a full assault, he already broke into her apartment and reclaimed the
knife and calls the police on Jessica.
After an evening at the theatre not ending the way she
wanted, Hogarth tells Malcolm to release the information. Trish checks in on
Blaskowski, she’s alive but not in great shape. Jessica finds Erik asleep by
her front door, they enter and find the bag with the hush money, covered in
blood, an obvious threat. She advises Erik lay low, but he’s a murderer and
can’t let anyone else get hurt by him.
Jessica decides she needs Trish’s help and thinks the best
way to help is to call into her show? That’s gonna confuse a lot of people. We
see that Sallinger has already killed someone else as he eats a rosy red apple.
We’ve finally been introduced to the series’ main villain… I
just kinda wish I cared more about the Malcolm/Hogarth plots
Rating 7/10
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