When Sallinger posts a video teasing his next crime, Jessica responds with her own media play. Jeri demands that Malcolm identify the masked woman.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Atrocious Alias: Trish is not pleased with Jessica calling her superhero identity "Beanie Girl."
- Bad "Bad Acting": Trish trying to get information on Mona from the restaurant worker.
- Bait-and-Switch: Malcolm walks in on Zaya showing Jeri the security footage and understandably panics...but Zaya altered the footage, thankfully.
- Both Sides Have a Point: Malcolm says that sometimes due process doesn't work, while Zaya counters that it's still better than trusting vigilantes.
- Brutal Honesty: Once again, Jessica pulls no punches, not even when being live on TV, continuing to call Sallinger a serial killer despite the lack of hard evidence.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with Trish about to slit Sallinger's throat, and Jessica racing to stop her.
- A Death in the Limelight: Dorothy spends the episode being uncommonly useful and supportive, practically becoming one of the heroes. That makes it a bigger gutpunch when she's found dead near the end.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Jessica has one when she realizes that she does have family besides Trish – Dorothy. But she is too late, as Sallinger already got to her.
- Evil Is Petty: Aside from being a serial killer, Sallinger is also a huge, needless dick towards the cops watching him.
- Fingore: Dorothy had her fingernails ripped out by Sallinger before being killed.
- Gone Horribly Right & Gone Horribly Wrong: Sallinger, proving he doesn't actually understand people, thinks he can get to Jessica by going after Dorothy. Instead he gets to Trish, who shows up at his home and nearly kills him.
- Hope Spot: Near the end, it seems that Sallinger's big plan just amounted to causing Jessica some humiliation and now it's just a matter of time before he's arrested. Meanwhile, Jessica and Trish have formed an increasingly supportive and mutually stabilizing partnership, Malcolm seems like he's returning to the fold, and even Dorothy is being oddly nice. All in all, things are going way too well for this series, and sure enough things promptly take a turn for the disastrous.
- Implausible Deniability: Jessica denying that she knows the masked vigilante. By the end of the episode, the cat is out of the bag.
- The Internet Is for Cats: Dorothy thinks Trish should have gone with a feline theme for her superhero suit, because it would play well with the cat-loving Internet. Doubles as a Mythology Gag to Trish's Hell Cat alter ego in the comics.
- I Take Offense to That Last One: Trish, at being described as a "violent, unhinged vigilante."Trish: I'm not unhinged!
- It's All My Fault: Jessica blames herself for provoking Sallinger by humiliating him.
- It's Personal: Jeri gets super-pissed when she sees the footage of the masked vigilante breaking into her office and decides to go on the warpath in retaliation.
- Moral Myopia: Sallinger, a serial killer, gets upset over Jessica breaking his trophies.
- My Way or the Highway: Zaya tells Malcolm that he is gonna have to decide between her or helping the vigilantes.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Trish revealing that Jessica's rumoured superheroine ally is real has gotten the police all riled up and is causing delays in getting Nathan's body handed over to the NYPD. At the same time, Jessica humiliating Sallinger causes him to lash out and plan to kill someone immediately.
- Race Against the Clock: Sallinger promises that he will kill someone at 7 pm that night. He does.
- Redemption Equals Death: While Dorothy had tried improving her relationships with Trish and Jessica with various degrees of success over the course of the show, this episode is where she most openly does efforts to be supportive of them and help them. It's also the one that ends with her being gruesomely murdered by Sallinger.
- Red Herring: Mona Lee, who is thought to be Sallinger's next victim. It was all a wild goose chase.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Trish, naturally, after Sallinger murders Dorothy.
- Secret-Keeper: Zaya decides to cover for Malcolm, but she is decidedly unhappy about it.
- Skewed Priorities: Dorothy is aghast at being shown the picture of Trish as a superhero. Why, that costume looks dreadful!
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Dorothy of all people tells both Jessica and Trish that they are doing a great job helping people.
