Jessica Jones has to deal with the fallout from her ordeal with Kilgrave, as well as other losses.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Acrofatic: Despite Whizzer's size, he has superhuman speed.
- Adaptational Curves: Whizzer is physically fit in the comics. Here he's a bit overweight.
- Adaptation Name Change: Whizzer's name is Robert Coleman. In the comics, he was Robert Frank.
- Ashes to Crashes: The unfortunate fate of Jessica's brother.
- Berserk Button: Kilgrave is still a huge one for Jessica. It almost causes her to beat Cheng to death after he pushes her buttons one too many times.
- Cassandra Truth:
- Jessica blows off Whizzer two times when he asks for her help, thinking him to be a schizophrenic off his meds. Turns out, yes, he does have Super-Speed, somebody wanted to kill him (and succeeded) and he was apparently created alongside Jessica herself.
- On a lesser note, when Vido tells his family that Jessica has super strength, they just brush it off as a child's fancy.
- Continuity Nod:
- This episode begins with Jessica spying on a cheater, just like in the series premiere.
- Trish's reaction to seeing Simpson in the crowd of paparazzi outside the gala is almost identical to Jessica's reaction when she and Trish were out walking and she thought she saw a photographer sent by Kilgrave to spy on her (it turned out to just be a man randomly taking a picture of his wife). She freezes up, mindlessly walking towards a revolving door, and when stopped by a concerned Griffin, says, "Yeah, yeah, I thought I saw someone I knew," the exact same words that Jessica said to Trish when she asked if Jessica was all right.
- Jeri mentions Rand Enterprises when talking about the big clients she brings in.
- Chao and Benowitz mention that they plan on settling Pam's lawsuit.
- In Jessica's apartment, Malcolm is doing drywall repair work to the wall that was damaged in Jessica and Trish's fight with Simpson. When we last saw Malcolm in The Defenders (2017), he was already starting to fix up the damage from the fight, beginning with painting over the bullet holes behind Jessica's desk.
- Disproportionate Retribution: A pizzeria owner finds out with Jessica's help that her boyfriend, who also works for her as a delivery driver, is cheating on her. She offers to pay Jessica more if she kills him.
- Failure Hero: Jessica accomplishes absolutely nothing throughout the episode, except pushing her loved ones away, further ruining her reputation, driving herself into depression and unwittingly getting Whizzer killed.
- Hypocritical Humor: Hogarth holds a rah-rah girl power speech to an audience of female lawyers... and then, after sitting down at a table to talk to her partners in private, claims that Pam lured her into a relationship by dressing provocatively.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Inverted. Jessica worries she might be some kind of monster and goes into a guilt trip over snapping Kilgrave's neck. It's Trish who points out that she had no other choice, as Kilgrave had proven too dangerous to be left alive.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Whizzer gets impaled on a steel pipe quite graphically.
- Jerkass Has a Point: As much of an asshole he is, Cheng is right about Jessica having some serious problems, and in contrary to her, he has a clean slate.
- The Man Behind the Man: Hogarth is behind Cheng's attempt to buy out Alias Investigations as she and Jessica had a "falling out".
- Make It Look Like an Accident: How the Whizzer dies, by falling scaffolding.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Jessica has two moments during the episode: First when she almost beats Cheng to death, and then when she realizes that she unwittingly got Whizzer killed.
- Mythology Gag:
- Whizzer's yellow hoodie is a reference to his yellow outfit in the comics.
- One of Jessica's clients is claiming that there are lizards in human skinsuits taking over the government.
- Not Helping Your Case: Jessica beating Cheng to a bloody pulp in front of his entire staff certainly doesn't help her already damaged reputation.
- Not So Crazy Anymore: When Whizzer first appears, Jessica and Malcolm dismiss him as delusional and paranoid. As it turns out, he is saying the truth despite his quirkiness.
- Old Shame: Due to a deal to get Jessica's medical files, Trish performs as Patsy at a children's birthday party. She is very uncomfortable with it.
- Pizza Boy Special Delivery: The episode opens with Jessica taking photographs of a pizza delivery driver who has been having clandestine affairs on the job.
- Rule of Three: It takes the third try for Whizzer to finally convince Jessica his superpowers are real.
- Shout-Out:
- Reptiles disguised as normal people and infiltrating the government? Someone has been watching V!
- The outfit Trish wears as Patsy is identical to the one Hannah Montana wears on stage in the first scene of Hannah Montana: The Movie. This makes sense as the 'Patsy' character is basically a Hannah Montana Expy.
- Smug Snake: Pryce Cheng, the head of Cheng Consulting Management who wants to absorb Jessica's business into his own. Jessica even calls it out at one point.
- Stalker with a Crush: Will Simpson keeps following Trish around. She briefly spots him outside while she and Griffin are at a charity event, but then thinks she was just imagining it.
- Super-Speed: The Whizzer has it, it activates whenever he is scared.
- Terrible Interviewees Montage: Jessica and Malcolm spend a morning going through clients, with Jessica chugging one Red Bull per client. And one she deemed among the most ridiculous, The Whizzer, was right!
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Played for Laughs. No matter how hard Jessica tries, Malcolm just can't be fired from Alias Investigations.Jessica Jones: Let me be clear, this time you're fired.
Trish Walker: Jess, you can't fire him!
Malcolm Ducasse: She's not. See you tomorrow, boss. - Thou Shalt Not Kill:
- Killing Kilgrave might have been a necessary course of action, but that doesn't mean it didn't take a toll on Jessica. She's disturbed and haunted by how easy it was for her to do.
- A pizzeria owner hire Jessica to follow her partner as he makes a delivery run to have a clandestine affair. When Jessica comes back with proof, the owner wants Jessica to kill him, since Jessica killing Kilgrave has become public knowledge, but Jessica has to make clear that she's no murderer.
- Too Dumb to Live: Subverted. It initially appeared that Cheng should really just stop talking after he pushed Jessica's Berserk Button and sending her into a violent rage. Then you realize that was the whole point. By pushing Jessica's Berserk Button, he's clearly getting her to humiliate herself further.
- Unwanted Assistance:
- Jessica blows Trish off several times, as she has no interest in digging up the past.
- Malcolm is still working with Jessica, despite her multiple attempts to fire him.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Jessica and Trish give several to each other, Jessica towards Trish for forcing her help upon her and Trish towards Jessica for refusing to deal with her problems.
- Wham Shot: Hogarth meets with a doctor, who tells her some serious news we don't get to hear.
