Line #64 Recap/JessicaJones2015S1E7AKATopShelfPerverts


1	Malcolm, Simpson, and Trish go rogue to prevent Jessica from carrying out an extreme plan to outwit Kilgrave.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* AbusiveParents: Jessica's flashback shows that Trish's mom was abusive to Trish (and a bitch to Jessica), so her claims to ignorance regarding the doctor "overmedicating" her daughter may be self-serving lies.
5	* ActorAllusion: Kilgrave popping up from someone's desk may be a reference to a famous picture of [[Series/DoctorWho the Tenth Doctor]] grinning from over a cubicle wall, though with Kilgrave there's more of a predatory leer in it.
6	* AssholeVictim: Kilgrave uses this excuse for killing Ruben, [[DisproportionateRetribution because he was annoying]].
7	* BerserkButton: This episode establishes that one of [[StalkerWithACrush Kilgrave]]'s buttons is [[MurderTheHypotenuse someone else being in love with Jessica]].
8	* TheCameo:
9	** [[Series/Daredevil2015 Sergeant Brett Mahoney]] tells Jessica that she's free to go, and then holds Clemons at gunpoint.
10	** From ''Daredevil'', the same picture of Creator/StanLee appears in the police station as well.
11	* DeathSeeker: Jessica tries to strongarm Hogarth's ex-wife into signing the divorce papers. She accidentally drops her onto the subway tracks. She jumps down, throws her back onto the platform, then stares at the oncoming train...
12	* DecapitationPresentation: Jessica presents Ruben's head to the police station to get herself arrested.
13	* DisproportionateRetribution: "Next person whose phone rings has to eat it!"
14	* DrivenToSuicide: Jessica's plan feels very much like a suicide attempt. It's sparked when Jessica has been subjected to a great deal of trauma after a short period of time. Her plan overall has little chance of success (Kilgrave really could just mind-control one of the guards when they're about to go on duty if he wants to get to her). She tidies up her affairs beforehand, issuing a threat that not even prison will keep her from stopping Trish's mother if she tries to get back with her. She even takes a last look at the New York skyline before initiating the plan.
15	* DrowningMySorrows: Jessica is very notably drunk at the start of the episode, likely to deal with the falling out she just had with Luke.
16	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Faced with Ruben's corpse in her bed, Jessica decides that the only way forward is to get herself confined in a Supermax prison. She's not thinking clearly; she's just running. She's lucking fost it.
17	* {{Flashback}}: When Jessica arrives at her old childhood house, we see a flashback showing a teenage Jessica with Ms. Walker informing her that she couldn't find her diary.
18	* FromBadToWorse: The episode starts with Jessica being kicked out of a bar, almost killing Wendy on the train tracks, needing to be helped to her apartment by Malcolm (in a reversal from earlier), and then finding Ruben's body in her bed.
19	* MexicanStandoff: Kilgrave orders the cops of the 15th Preecinct to point guns at each other or their own heads while he talks alone with Jessica.
20	* MoodSwinger: We see here just how AxCrazy Kilgrave really is when he goes from being as cool as a cucumber, to finding Jessica's pleading demands to know what he is after funny, to SuddenlyShouting about all of the irritating things in the room ruining "the moment" to looking as though he is about to weep when he tells Jessica how much he missed her.
21	* MurderTheHypotenuse: Kilgrave kills Ruben because he confessed he loves Jessica, though he claims later that he did so due to him being annoying.
22	* MythologyGag: When Jessica goes to Luke's bar to say goodbye to him, Luke's bartender sarcastically asks if Jessica came to tell him she was going to have his baby. Jessica reacts with disgust and hastily denies it. In the comics, Jessica did have a daughter with Luke: Danielle Cage.
23	* NeverMyFault: Dorothy Walker in a nutshell.
24	-->'''Dorothy Walker:''' So! To what do I owe the pleasure?\
25	'''Jessica Jones:''' It's about Trish.\
26	'''Dorothy Walker:''' Why? What's happened? Is she on drugs again?\
27	'''Jessica Jones:''' She hasn't touched drugs since I dragged her away from you.\
28	'''Dorothy Walker:''' I had no idea that doctor was over-prescribing.\
29	'''Jessica Jones:''' Still no responsibility or remorse. [[SarcasmMode I wish I could be like that.]]\
30	'''Dorothy Walker:''' “No responsibility,” hmm? [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency I took you in. You were an orphan. That's gotta count for something.]]\
31	'''Jessica Jones:''' You don't get credit for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.\
32	'''Dorothy Walker:''' I cared about-\
33	'''Jessica Jones:''' About publicity. I was a strategic play to further the Patsy Walker brand. Trish is fine. She has security like Fort Knox and she's savvy enough not to let anyone sneak up on her, except you. She has no defenses against you.\
34	'''Dorothy Walker:''' She doesn't need defenses. I'm her mother.\
35	'''Jessica Jones:''' You're her ''pimp''!\
36	'''Dorothy Walker:''' I haven't seen her in three years.\
37	'''Jessica Jones:''' Except for when you "accidentally" ran into her?\
38	'''Dorothy Walker:''' It's a small city.\
39	'''Jessica Jones:''' And leave long, drunken messages for her?\
40	'''Dorothy Walker:''' What is it you want from me?\
41	'''Jessica Jones:''' I want you to stick to the agreement. Because no matter where I am, even if I'm behind bars, if you try anything, I will find out. I will come for you, and it will hurt.\
42	'''Dorothy Walker:''' People can change, Jessie.\
43	'''Jessica Jones:''' It doesn't make the bad shit you did go away.\
44	'''Dorothy Walker:''' I just... had a problem. I got help.\
45	'''Jessica Jones:''' And royalty checks.\
46	'''Dorothy Walker:''' I earned those!\
47	'''Jessica Jones:''' If you want them to keep coming, you'll respect Trish's wishes... which I will enforce.\
48	'''Dorothy Walker:''' "And it will hurt.” You need a better tagline.\
49	'''Jessica Jones:''' Five hundred feet. Just like a real restraining order. Five hundred feet away from her. Do you understand?\
50	'''Dorothy Walker:''' Yes. Taking you in was the worst decision of my life.\
51	'''Jessica Jones:''' [[SarcasmMode Thanks, Mom]].
52	* OhCrap: Jessica walks into the main precinct and sees every officer frozen in place, pointing their weapons at each other or themselves.
53	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The first indication that something is wrong for Jessica and Clemons is when Sgt. Brett Mahoney walks in just as Jessica breaks the interrogation room chair.
54	-->'''Brett Mahoney:''' Jessica Jones, you're free to go.\
55	'''Oscar Clemons:''' Mahoney, what are you doing?\
56	'''Brett Mahoney:''' [[BlatantLies Captain's orders]]. Go, now.\
57	'''Jessica Jones:''' ''[to Brett and Clemons]'' I told you, Hogarth does not represent me. I'm gonna kick her Armani covered ass!\
58	''[She storms out of the interrogation room and marches down the hall]''\
59	'''Jessica Jones:''' HOGARTH! I told you to- ''[She freezes as she enters a work station, and sees that every single cop in the room is frozen in place, and either [[MexicanStandoff pointing their gun at another cop]] [[RussianRoulette or at their own head]]. Clemons and Brett walk into the space a few moments later]''\
60	'''Oscar Clemons:''' What the hell is going on here? ''[no response]'' Drop your weapons!\
61	''[Brett suddenly pulls out his gun and trains it on Clemons]''\
62	'''Oscar Clemons:''' ''[alarmed]'' Brett?!\
63	'''Brett Mahoney:''' Shut up. Don't move.\
64	'''Kilgrave:''' ''[pops up from behind another desk]'' Oh, everyone, calm down! You're killing the mood!
65	* ProperlyParanoid: Clemons is absolutely correct to be suspicious of Jessica showing up with a head and demanding to be put into supermax.
66	* RingRingCrunch: As Kilgrave is trying to talk to Jessica at the precinct, someone's cell phone suddenly rings.
67	-->'''Kilgrave:''' Whose is that? ''[cell phone continues to ring]'' Whose phone is that?! ''[Kilgrave stalks around the room, looking for whoever is too distracted to answer their phone. Eventually, he approaches Clemons, the source of the ringing. After a couple seconds of silent DeathGlare, Clemons hesitates. Kilgrave takes Clemons' phone and suddenly throws it at a wall, shattering it into pieces]'' [[SuddenlyShouting THE NEXT PERSON WHOSE PHONE RINGS]] '''''[[SuddenlyShouting HAS TO EAT IT!!!]]''''' ''[Kilgrave rubs his hands over his face and paces around the room, trying to compose himself]'' Crappy fluorescent lights and cockroaches and loud cell phones and the smell of piss! I AM TRYING TO PROFESS ETERNAL LOVE HERE, PEOPLE!
68	* StageMom:
69	** Trish's mom pushed her into showbiz and claims she wasn't aware Trish was over-medicated as a child. She seems somewhat guilty but it hasn't stopped her from collecting royalties.
70	** Based on the looks of her talent agency offices, Dorothy's clients are also all stage moms pushing their daughters into showbiz.
71	* SwappedRoles: Malcolm looks into the elevator to see Jessica passed out on the floor, then helps her down the hall to her apartment.
72	* TitleDrop: Hogarth drops this episode's title when listing the kinds of people who end up at a supermax prison. Later, Jessica uses the phrase when she's trying to convince Detective Clemmons that she belongs there.
73	-->'''Jeri Hogarth:''' Supermax only houses the worst criminals: top shelf perverts, cannibals, serial killers who make mosaics with their victims' fingernails.
74	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The first indication that Kilgrave is at the precinct is when Brett interrupts Clemons's interrogation of Jessica just as Jessica has broken the chair, and tells her that she's free to go, and has no reaction to the broken chair.
75	* VehicleVanish: Jessica after her encounter with Wendy in the subway, via a passing train.
76	* VerbalBackspace: Kilgrave says that Jessica is the first [[TheSociopath thing]] he ever felt something for, er....''person'' he felt something for...
77	* WasJustLeaving: Jessica gets unceremoniously tossed out of a bar. Once she's landed in a pile of trash, she tries to save face by yelling that they didn't kick her out, she left.
78	-->'''Jessica Jones:''' I was just leaving. You didn't kick me out, I just left.

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