Itching to get back out on the streets and find her attacker, Jessica defies her doctor's advice. Jeri reconnects with her college flame Kith.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Berserk Button: Jessica hates being (called) a victim.
- Innocently Insensitive: Trish's coworker gushingly tells Trish that she's "born for this" (running a shallow fashion show). Trish's facial expression can best be described as, "please God don't let that be true!!!"
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Trish rants to Jessica about how she's superior hero material and ends with declaring that she's unstoppable. Jessica promptly knocks her to the ground with a single punch.Jessica: So, I've learned something recently. Something you should know. No one's unstoppable.
- Negated Moment of Awesome:
- Hogarth makes a big dramatic production of starting the tape containing the music Kith once composed for her. The tape immediately breaks.Kith: You had big plans for that moment, didn't you.
Jeri: Was it working? - Trish boasting on how she has been training for a year, now being "unstoppable"...cue to Jessica knocking her on her ass in one hit.
- Hogarth makes a big dramatic production of starting the tape containing the music Kith once composed for her. The tape immediately breaks.
- Pun: Jessica's physician seems to be very fond of spleen puns.
- Polyamory: Hogarth thought she was successfully stealing Kith from her husband, but it turns out that they have an open marriage, meaning that she'll always come second. This also means that the evidence of him having affairs with his students that Hogarth has had Malcolm gather is worthless – Kith already knows and doesn't care.
- Red Herring: Andrew Brandt had nothing to do with the attack on Jessica, for the simple reason that it never occurred to him that such an attack might work – he thought that all superpeople were Nigh-Invulnerable. And that it'd be stupid to piss off supers.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Even if you're a badass superhero, ignoring medical advice, especially after surgical removal of a major organ, is a really bad idea. Jessica drinking a lot of whiskey and not properly hydrating herself post-surgery takes a severe physical toll on her.
- If you've ever tried to play a decades-old cassette, particularly on mediocre equipment like Hogarth uses, you're not the least bit surprised when it eats her tape.
- Useless Spleen: Defied – much as Jessica tries to pretend that this trope is the case, it's repeatedly stressed that while the human body can function without the spleen, it doesn't function well, and certainly can't sustain the sort of punishment Jessica routinely inflicts on hers. Especially when you do all that the same day you leave the hospital.
- Visual Title Drop: On Jessica's MedicAlert bracelet. Which she promptly discards. It shows up again near the end of the episode after Jess collapses due to severe dehydration and ends up back in the hospital.
