As Jessica focuses on helping the helpless, Dorothy Walker shows up at Alias to beg for help finding a missing Trish.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Actor Allusion: Jessica tells Jeri "If you're lucky, maybe you'll choke on your own vomit." This is a reference to the demise of Krysten Ritter's character on Breaking Bad.
- Berserk Button: Jessica's mom is still a hot topic for her. When she reads a mail draft by Trish, where she justifies killing her, she angrily throws the laptop to the ground.
- Black-and-White Morality: Jessica points out how Trish is only thinking between good and bad.
- Cliffhanger: Jessica, short of having sex with Erik, gets assaulted and stabbed by a masked individual, bleeding heavily, with Malcolm calling an ambulance.
- The Commissioner Gordon: Jessica and Costa's relationship has evolved to this. Given that she's a PI in addition to being a superhero, he's also her Friend on the Force.
- Continuity Nod: The little girl who gets (unwillingly) taken back to her mother from her father tells Jessica that Captain America wouldn't have done that.
- Country Matters: Implied. Detective Costa says that that Cassie's mother referred to Jessica as "part of the female anatomy". Jessica replies that the feeling is mutual.
- The Cynic: Erik has a quite negative outlook on things.
- Death Glare: When the divorced mother calls Jessica a Joan Jett-wannabe, one glare from Jessica is enough to get her running.
- Death Seeker: Jeri Hogarth plans on committing suicide before her disease gets worse, but she can't bring herself to do it, so she asks Jessica for help, who declines.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Jessica, as usual, but also Dorothy, when Trish goes missing. They both tell each other over the phone to sleep it off.
- The Fixer: Part of Malcolm's work for Jeri involves getting her rich, entitled clients off when they commit crimes such as drunk driving. He really doesn't like it despite being very good at it.
- Heroic Wannabe: Trish, despite her powers, almost gets shot by the guy whose place she breaks in.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Jessica lampshades that Trish finally got what she'd always wanted, in stark contrast to her own I Just Want to Be Normal.
- Innocently Insensitive: When Dorothy for once tries to be nice to Jessica, she unknowingly tells her that Trish wasn't responsible for what happened to her mother.
- Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: A video of Jessica throwing a dude through the air in Mexico goes viral, affecting her image once again. By the time she returns to the US, it has 30,000 views, while later in that same day it has 80,000.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Jessica is still quite cynical about being a hero, especially after the mother who tasks her to bring back her child from her ex-husband turns out to be a total bitch.
- Loophole Abuse: Detective Costa tells Jessica that they had an agreement, which involved her promising not to break the law. She counters that it said that he shouldn't catch her breaking the law. He then shows her the video of her tossing the father over the beach. She then responds that it is outside of his jurisdiction (Mexico).
- Moment Killer: Jessica is about to have sex with Erik before someone knocks on her door. She thinks it's Vido, who routinely bunks with her whenever his parents' drama becomes too much.
- Must Make Amends: Hogarth, knowing her time is limited, reaches out to her ex Kith she hasn't seen in 25 years, to whose orchestra she just donated anonymously so far.
- Running Gag: The orange couch that Jessica's assistant brought in gets called ugly by several people.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Cody, the baseball player, is rich and influential enough to be put back on the street after 3 drunken driving incidents, much to Malcolm's dismay.
- Supreme Chef: Erik boasts to make the perfect burgers.
- Took a Level in Idealism: Very slightly, but Jessica is begrudgingly starting to accept her role as a hero.
- Ungrateful Bitch: The woman whose daughter Jessica rescued gets very nasty with her at the drop of a hat.
- Vigilante Man:
- What Trish has become.
- Also Malcolm, knowing that Cody is gonna keep causing drunk driving accidents, takes matters into his own hands and causes an accident with him that causes a Career-Ending Injury.
- What the Hell, Hero?:
- The daughter of the divorced couple whom Jessica forcefully takes back to her mother is quite angry at Jessica.
- Malcolm is angry at Jeri for having him bail out a drunk driver for the third time now without any legal consequences because he is a famous baseball player.
