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* YourCheatingHeart: Hogarth is shown cheating on her wife with Pam, her more [[SexySecretary attractive young secretary]].
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* CuttingBackToReality: Jessica suffers numerous flashbacks to her time spent with Killgrave, all of which are at first framed as if real: in one, she's spying on Luke Cage from a fire escape when the camera slowly begins to zoom in on her face and Kilgrave appears next to her, whispering in her ear - only for a cut to reveal that she's alone. In another scene, Jessica is half-asleep at her desk when Kilgrave suddenly dips into view and licks her forcibly across the cheek. Next cut, Jessica shoots upright in a panic... only to find that it was just a nightmare.
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* OhCrap: Talking to a waiter at a restaurant over how everyone suddenly gave a diner whatever he asked for, a horrified Jessica realizes Kilgrave is back.

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* OhCrap: Talking Jessica already realizes something's fishy when she arrives at Niku, as she remembers Kilgrave took her here. Then she talks to the maitre'd, and he mentions that a waiter man fitting Kilgrave's description made him kick another couple out, made the sommelier comp him a $500 bottle of wine, and got the chef to make him the Italian pasta dish he used to like at a the previous restaurant over how everyone suddenly gave a diner whatever he asked for, a horrified Jessica realizes Kilgrave is back. that existed here.

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** One for Kilgrave to show how twisted he can be. He sets up Hope's parents to find Jessica and make her find Hope, and then sets up Hope to kill her own parents if Jessica succeeds, [[ShaggyDogStory thereby making it pointless]].

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** One for Kilgrave to show how twisted he can be. He sets up Hope's parents to find Jessica and make her find Hope, and then sets up Hope to kill her own parents if Jessica succeeds, [[ShaggyDogStory thereby making it pointless]].



* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Jessica's in his bar, Luke mentions [[Series/LukeCage2016 Pop]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While {{Foreshadowing}}:
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Jessica's in his bar, Luke mentions [[Series/LukeCage2016 Pop]].Pop]].
**When Jessica is at the suit and tie shop talking to the owner, the camera lingers on a rack of purple neckties, telling us that Kilgrave is Hope's mystery "boyfriend" one scene before Jessica learns this.



* HopeSpot: Pun not intended, and it's quite awful. Jessica has rescued Hope, connected with her personally, and put her on the path home with her parents. Then, as the elevator doors close, Hope gives a creepy smile and pulls out a revolver.

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* HopeSpot: Pun not intended, and it's quite awful. Jessica has rescued Hope, connected with her personally, and put her on the path home with her parents. Then, as the elevator doors close, Hope gives a creepy smile and pulls out a revolver.
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* CeilingBanger: Jessica's attempt of throwing her boot against the ceiling to silence her [[RightThroughTheWall noisy neighbors]] upstairs turns into an EpicFail.

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* CassandraTruth: Jessica's target sees her displaying her powers and threatens to reveal her. She lets him know that [[FlatEarthAtheist most people are still unwilling to believe in such things]] or simply want to [[SunnydaleSyndrome pretend they don't exist]], even now, so he'll just come off as a nut.

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* CassandraTruth: Jessica's target sees her displaying her powers and threatens to reveal her. She lets him know that [[FlatEarthAtheist most people are still unwilling to believe in such things]] or simply want to [[SunnydaleSyndrome [[WeirdnessCensor pretend they don't exist]], even now, so he'll just come off as a nut.



* ElevatorSnare: Jessica heads for the elevator but comes to late to save the old couple.
* EpilepticFlashingLights: Light flashes in the corridor after Jessica triggered the fire alarm.



* HeroicBSOD: Jessica has one after the [[ElevatorActionSequence elevator assassination]].



* IronicEcho: "Laser eyes." Moron.



* ModestyBedsheet: Kind of. Luke is seen with his naked chest while Jessica is still (or again) fully dressed after their sex scene.



* ObsessiveCompulsiveBarkeeping: Luke is cleaning glasses during his talk with Jes at the pub.



* OverTheShoulderCarry: How Jessica gets Hope out of the hotel room.



* YourCheatingHeart: Hogarth is shown cheating on her wife with Pam, her more attractive young secretary.

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* VertigoEffect: When Jessica looks at the hotel room at the end of the floor.
* YourCheatingHeart: Hogarth is shown cheating on her wife with Pam, her more [[SexySecretary attractive young secretary.secretary]].
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* CelebrityParadox: Zack, Trish's assistant, is arguing with Trish over why it would be bad to get [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright]] on the show, and mentions he tried to get Creator/ChanningTatum onto ''Trish Talk''. Channing Tatum co-starred with Creator/SamuelLJackson (Nick Fury) and Creator/KurtRussell ([[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Ego the Living Planet]]) in ''Film/TheHatefulEight'', and co-starred in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' with Creator/ElodieYung (Elektra in ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 2 and ''Series/TheDefenders2017''), Matt Gerald (Melvin Potter in ''Daredevil''), and Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse in ''Series/AgentsofShield'').

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* CelebrityParadox: Zack, Trish's assistant, is arguing with Trish over why it would be bad to get [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright]] on the show, and she mentions he tried to get Creator/ChanningTatum onto ''Trish Talk''. Channing Tatum co-starred with Creator/SamuelLJackson (Nick Fury) and Creator/KurtRussell ([[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Ego the Living Planet]]) in ''Film/TheHatefulEight'', and co-starred in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' with Creator/ElodieYung (Elektra in ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 2 and ''Series/TheDefenders2017''), Matt Gerald (Melvin Potter in ''Daredevil''), and Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse in ''Series/AgentsofShield'').
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* SherlockScan: Jessica jokes that she can tell from the residue on the bar that "four years ago a man named Horace had buffalo wings".

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* ContinuityNod: Unintentional, but Jessica claims she has "laser eyes", just like [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Phil Coulson]] did with his "laser finger".

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* ContinuityNod: Unintentional, ContinuityNod:
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but Jessica claims she has "laser eyes", just like [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Phil Coulson]] did with his "laser finger".finger".
**The cinematography when Jessica is grabbing Hope from the hotel room echoes Matt's rescue of the boy from the Russians.
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* ChekhovsGunman: All those giant banners about the "Talk with Trish" show are for a reason: Trish will turn out to be an actual character in the series.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Jessica's in his bar, Luke mentions [[Series/LukeCage Pop]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Jessica's in his bar, Luke mentions [[Series/LukeCage [[Series/LukeCage2016 Pop]].

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* CelebrityParadox: Zack, Trish's assistant, is arguing with Trish over why it would be bad to get [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright]] on the show, and mentions he tried to get Creator/ChanningTatum onto ''Trish Talk''. Channing Tatum co-starred with Creator/SamuelLJackson (Nick Fury) and Creator/KurtRussell ([[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Ego the Living Planet]]) in ''Film/TheHatefulEight'', and co-starred in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' with Creator/ElodieYung (Elektra in ''Series/Daredevil2015'' season 2 and ''Series/TheDefenders2017''), Matt Gerald (Melvin Potter in ''Daredevil''), and Adrianne Palicki (Bobbi Morse in ''Series/AgentsofShield'').



* YourCheatingHeart: Hogarth is shown cheating on her wife with a more attractive young secretary.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Hogarth is shown cheating on her wife with a Pam, her more attractive young secretary.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Jessica's in his bar, Luke mentions [[Series/LukeCage Pop]].
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* FavorsForTheSexy: Luke mentions several reasons for helping Jessica, including "You're hot"

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* TheDreaded: Kilgrave is this to Jessica, due to what he did to her in the past. As soon as she finds out he's in the city, she tries to book an immediate flight to ''Hong Kong''.



* TheDreaded: Kilgrave is this to Jessica, due to what he did to her in the past. As soon as she finds out he's in the city, she tries to book an immediate flight to ''Hong Kong''.

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Same continuity is a Continuity Nod rather than a Mythology Gag


Jessica Jones, a down-on-her-luck, private detective with super-human strength and a drinking problem, gets a missing person case that is not as clean-cut as it originally seems. Soon, her investigation brings her onto the trail of a ghost from her past; one that still very much haunts her in the present.

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Jessica Jones, a down-on-her-luck, private detective down-on-her-luck PrivateDetective with super-human strength and a drinking problem, gets a missing person missing-person case that is not as clean-cut as it originally seems. Soon, her investigation brings her onto the trail of a ghost from her past; one that still very much haunts her in the present.



!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes

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!!This episode contains examples of the following tropes tropes:



* ContinuityNod: Unintentional, but Jessica claims she has "laser eyes", just like [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Phil Coulson]] did with his "laser finger".



** One for Kilgrave to show how twisted he can be. He set up the old couple to find Jessica and make her find the girl, and then set up the girl to kill her own parents if Jessica succeeded. [[ShaggyDogStory Thereby making it pointless.]]

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** One for Kilgrave to show how twisted he can be. He set sets up the old couple Hope's parents to find Jessica and make her find the girl, Hope, and then set sets up the girl Hope to kill her own parents if Jessica succeeded. succeeds, [[ShaggyDogStory Thereby thereby making it pointless.]]pointless]].



* TheGhost: Kilgrave doesn't appear in the episode, even during the flashbacks his face is never shown.
* HopeSpot: Pun not intended, and it's quite awful. Jessica has rescued Hope, connected with her personally, and put her on the path home with her parents. Then, as the elevator doors close and Hope pulls out a revolver.
* LecherousLicking: Kilgrave, during Jessica's short NightmareSequence. Despite his famous OralFixation, DavidTennant was [[{{Squick}} mortified]] at the thought of having to lick KrystenRitter, who was very understanding.
* ManchurianAgent: It turns Kilgrave counted on Jessica to return Hope to her parents, and so he gave her a latent order to kill them upon getting reunited with them just to send Jessica a message.

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* TheGhost: Kilgrave doesn't appear in the episode, episode; even during the flashbacks his face is never shown.
* HopeSpot: Pun not intended, and it's quite awful. Jessica has rescued Hope, connected with her personally, and put her on the path home with her parents. Then, as the elevator doors close and close, Hope gives a creepy smile and pulls out a revolver.
* LecherousLicking: Kilgrave, during Jessica's short NightmareSequence. Despite his famous OralFixation, DavidTennant Creator/DavidTennant was [[{{Squick}} mortified]] at the thought of having to lick KrystenRitter, Creator/KrystenRitter, who was very understanding.
* ManchurianAgent: It turns out that Kilgrave counted is counting on Jessica to return Hope to her parents, and so he gave gives her a latent order to kill them upon getting reunited reuniting with them just to send Jessica a message.



* MythologyGag:
** Unintentional, but Jessica claims she has "laser eyes", just like [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Phil Coulson]] did with his "laser finger".
** Compare the opening scene where Jessica throws a client through her door with ''[[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alias_investigations_earth_616_0001.jpg this]]''.

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* MythologyGag:
** Unintentional, but Jessica claims she has "laser eyes", just like [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Phil Coulson]] did with his "laser finger".
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MythologyGag: Compare the opening scene where Jessica throws a client through her door with ''[[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alias_investigations_earth_616_0001.jpg this]]''.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Realizing Kilgrave is back, Jessica immediately starts asking people for money to buy the first plane ticket out of town.
* SuddenDownerEnding: Jessica had just reunited Hope with her parents, then Kilgrave sent his final message.

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* PrivateEyeMonologue: Jessica's [[{{Bookends}} opening and closing]] monologues, establishing her personality, worldview, and methods on the job.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Realizing Kilgrave is back, Jessica immediately starts asking people for money to buy the first plane ticket out of town.
town--and out of the country, and the Western Hemisphere.
* SuddenDownerEnding: Jessica had has just reunited Hope with her parents, then Kilgrave sent sends his final message.
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* ManchurianAgent: It turns Kilgrave counted on Jessica to return Hope to her parents, and so he gave her a latent order to kill them upon getting reunited with them just to send Jessica a message.
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* HopeSpot: Pun not intended, and it's quite awful. Jessica has rescued Hope, connected with her personally, and put her on the path home with her parents. Then, as the elevator doors close and Hope pulls out a revolver.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Hope's mother refers to Hope as "on athletic scholarship" for track and field at NYU. NYU competes at the division 3 level and therefore cannot give out athletic scholarships as per NCAA rules.
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* LecherousLicking: Kilgrave, during Jessica's short NightmareSequence. Despite his famous OralFixation, DavidTennant was [[{{Squick}} mortified]] at the thought of having to lick KrystenRitter, who was very understanding.
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* CassandraTruth: Jessica's target sees her displaying her powers and threatens to reveal her. She lets him know that [[FlatEarthAtheist most people are still unwilling to believe in such things]], even now, so he'll just come off as a nut.

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* CassandraTruth: Jessica's target sees her displaying her powers and threatens to reveal her. She lets him know that [[FlatEarthAtheist most people are still unwilling to believe in such things]], things]] or simply want to [[SunnydaleSyndrome pretend they don't exist]], even now, so he'll just come off as a nut.
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* TitleDrop: Luke Cage [[BlatantLies claims it's "ladies night" (despite there being hardly any ladies in the bar)]] just to get Jessica out of her twisted Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys routine.

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* TitleDrop: Luke Cage [[BlatantLies claims it's "ladies night" (despite there being hardly any ladies in the bar)]] just to get Jessica out of her twisted Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' routine.
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** One for Kilgrave to show how twisted he can be. He set up the old couple to find Jessica and make her find the girl, and and then set up the girl to kill her own parents if Jessica succeeded. [[ShaggyDogStory Thereby making it pointless.]]

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** One for Kilgrave to show how twisted he can be. He set up the old couple to find Jessica and make her find the girl, and and then set up the girl to kill her own parents if Jessica succeeded. [[ShaggyDogStory Thereby making it pointless.]]



* TheDreaded: Kilgrave is this to Jessica, due to what he did to her in the past. As soon as she finds out he's in the city, she books an immediate flight to ''Hong Kong''.

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* TheDreaded: Kilgrave is this to Jessica, due to what he did to her in the past. As soon as she finds out he's in the city, she books tries to book an immediate flight to ''Hong Kong''.
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There\'s never any use of a first name in the series


* TheDreaded: Zebediah Kilgrave is this to Jessica, due to what he did to her in the past. As soon as she finds out he's in the city, she books an immediate flight to ''Hong Kong''.

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* TheDreaded: Zebediah Kilgrave is this to Jessica, due to what he did to her in the past. As soon as she finds out he's in the city, she books an immediate flight to ''Hong Kong''.
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* DestructoNookie: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Luke refrains himself to avoid [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting Jessica]] during their first night together.

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* DestructoNookie: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Luke refrains restrains himself to avoid [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting Jessica]] during their first night together.
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Jessica Jones, a down-on-her-luck, private detective with super-human strength and a drinking problem, gets a missing person case that is not as clean-cut that it originally seems. Soon, her investigation brings her on the trail of a ghost from her past; one that still very much haunts her in the present.

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Jessica Jones, a down-on-her-luck, private detective with super-human strength and a drinking problem, gets a missing person case that is not as clean-cut that as it originally seems. Soon, her investigation brings her on onto the trail of a ghost from her past; one that still very much haunts her in the present.
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* DestructoNookie: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Luke retrains himself to avoid [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting Jessica]] during their first night together.

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* DestructoNookie: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] Luke retrains refrains himself to avoid [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting Jessica]] during their first night together.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Hogarth is shown cheating on her wife with a more attractive young secretary.
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* DestructoNookie: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] Luke retrains himself to avoid [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting Jessica]] during their first night together.

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* DestructoNookie: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] Averted.]] Luke retrains himself to avoid [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex hurting Jessica]] during their first night together.

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