"Jessica Jones" Recap: "AKA Crush Syndrome"

Written by Scotty

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Jessica Jones has been thrown into the middle of a murder investigation and even though she understands what happened, she does not understand the why.  As she is being questioned about Hope Shlottman’s sanity since she killed her parents in cold blood, Jessica is also being questioned about her work on the streets.  Having many photos of her new friend Luke Cage, the police are taking their questions to him as well to get to the bottom of where Hope got her gun.  Jessica tries to smooth things over with Luke, but he has been trying to fly under the radar and having the cops around him makes him a very upset individual. 

Jessica is trying to get Hope a good lawyer and turns to Jeri Hogarth, but Jeri will not take the losing case as it stands.  Knowing that Kilgrave is behind what the young woman did to her parents, Jessica has to find proof for Jeri that he can control other people’s minds.  Although this may not be an easy thing to do, she takes to the streets and tries to locate more of his victims.  Also, she is determined to see how her past tormentor is still alive.  Being able to locate the people that were brought into the local hospital on the fateful night of the accident, Kilgrave was not one of the patients, but that leads to more questions than answers.  Finding out that there were two ambulances on the scene and only one made it back to the hospital that night, Jessica needs to find the other driver and is shocked when she sees the state that he is in.

Trish is not backing off of her crusade to bring Jessica back to the living and is trying her hardest to make sure that her best friend is doing the right thing.  Wanting to help protect Jessica from her impending threat of Kilgrave, she offers Jessica a bed at her house.  Jessica is not willing to put her friend in harm’s way and knows that the power Kilgrave possesses can hurt anyone and everyone that gets in his way.  Trying to be nice, Trish flips the bill for a new door to Jessica’s home, but when the former hero sees someone in her apartment, she takes action into her own hands.  Not knowing what is around every corner is killing Jessica and she needs to know why Kilgrave is back from the dead and what he wants from her, especially since he is starting to haunt her thoughts once again.

This is a brilliant episode with so much troubled emotion.  As Jessica’s research is taking her back to the past, she still has plenty to see in her future.  As her investigative work has uncovered that Luke has been shacking up with a married woman, Jessica sees that power that he has been trying to hide from the world first hand.  Luke also gets to see what Jessica brings to the table and it is far from a sob story as she helps him in fending off a husband and his rugby team.  Trish wants nothing more than to make sure Jessica is ok, but her friend keeps pushing her further and further away. 

The only way for Jessica to return is to find Kilgrave again and see what he has planned for Hell’s Kitchen. You have the worst feel bads for Hope, as she has been locked away for a crime that she in reality did not commit, but she is trying to take her frustrations out on Jessica and until her innocence can be proven, it just might start to take its toll on the private investigator.  On to the next one now that Kilgrave is out and beginning his hunt for something that is only known to him and possibly his new hosts.

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