"Jessica Jones" Recap: "AKA Smile"

Written by Scotty

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After beating Luke with a shotgun blast to the head, Jessica does the right thing and helps get him to the hospital.  When the nurse on duty tries to inject him with some painkillers, he is quickly replaced when he is not able to get a needle into his skin.  Claire Temple is called into action and quickly finds out that Luke is one of them, a super human.  Seeing the police presence in the hospital, Jessica knows that she will have to get her friend out before he gets charged with assaulting an officer and put into prison.  Although Claire does not know Jessica, she has been on the receiving end of superheroes around the city before and helps the two to flee before the police make their arrest.

Kilgrave is lying in wait at the hospital to see if he is really powerful enough to control Jessica Jones.  When he sees his love making a run for it with her friend, he uses his new power over the entire hospital to try and kill her.  When he sees that she is on her way for him, he is able to escape, but is not giving into the idea that he won't be able to control her once again. With a 60-40 chance that he may die from the final injection, he commands his father to give it to him.  Finding that he has even a stronger pull on everyone around him, Kilgrave is ready to put it to the test one last time and try to get Jessica to love him the way that he loves her. 

Jessica has to find Kilgrave before he is able to escape the city and infect more people’s lives over the world.  Finding out where he has been staying, Jessica gets a ride from Trish and the two come up with a ‘safe word’ to indicate if she is infected or not.  Checking around the apartment, Jessica finds Albert dying on the floor and he gives her all of the advice that she needs to defeat his son.  With Trish on her side, Jessica is ready to make a final push on her promise to kill the madman for all of the deaths he has left in his wake. 

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While being unconscious on Jessica’s bed, Luke is little help but Jessica comes clean about her feelings for him.  Seeing a future with the powerful man, Jessica feels regret for her choices in shooting him to survive their battle.  With help from Claire, Luke comes through his concussion with little loss and when he awakes, he does not want to be known by anyone, even the woman that saved his life. Leaving the apartment unseen, Luke is back on the streets and looking for safety once again.

Finding the dock where Kilgrave is slated to make his departure, Jessica has a plan to bring him down once and for all.  Sending in Trish with headphones, she never looks Kilgrave in the face and is immune to his commands.  When Kilgrave sees the deception, he sees Jessica coming in for the kill and makes it to his yacht without issue, but his love is still on his tail.  With a large group on the dock under his control, Kilgrave orders them all to kill each other to keep Jessica from reaching him, but when she makes it through the bunch without issue, he orders everyone to STOP.  Jessica dead in her tracks has to stand and listen to Kilgrave and his dastardly plans.  She even had to watch as Trish was tossed back into the mix and told to be his traveling companion.  Was Jessica under the control of Kilgrave once again…or was she just putting on a show to get closer to man that had tormented her for so long.  I guess you will have to watch to find out as I will not tell you the ending on this one.

Well, it has finally come to an end and Jessica Jones went out in style to say the least.  As season finales go, this was one on of the best that I have seen in a long time.  Mostly because they finally gave a little bit of a Daredevil crossover that I have been dying to see since they mentioned Hell’s Kitchen.  I cannot believe that they did not do this sooner as Claire and Jessica seemed to have a great rapport on the screen, I hope this continues into next season.  Malcolm was great as well, as you find out he wanted to be a social worker before he was put under Kilgrave’s spell.  This had to be the strongest episode for Kilgrave as well as you get to see him making his plans for what to do when he finally gets his control of Jessica back and how his mind changes when he actually gets it.  With Trish in many of the scenes, we did not get enough from her, but she was there when it mattered and that is all that counts. That’s it, season one of Jessica Jones is in the books and I cannot wait to see it next year, even though it is possible the cast will have to change a bit, I am ready to see where the story goes next.

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