She bumps into Claire Temple, who goes to Jessicas apartment/office and treats Lukes injuries as best she can.
Meanwhile, Kilgrave amps up his powers using his fathers help, then kills him.
Luke wakes up, shaken but uninjured, and disappears before Jessica can return.
Jessica is arrested for murdering Kilgrave but Hogarth gets her off without a trial.
Though it couldve also been a lot worse.
Of course, if I were Jess, I wouldnt be leaving Luke and Claire together.
In the comics, Claire Temple was a nurse who became romantically entangled with Cage after treating him.
(Luke Cage,Hero For Hire #3, October 1972).
Presumably shell show up in Cages own series, so Jessica may not appreciate the competition.
Maybe theyre saving that for the Luke Cage series?
As I feared, though, the final fight with Kilgrave was a little anti-climactic.
The reveal that Jessica wasnt under Kilgraves thrall was quite clunky as well.
Again, I feel like Im trying to watch a completely different show than the one produced.
Messages from women claiming that theyre being abused, no less.
What happened to the Jess who declared in episode one that sometimes, I give a shit?
Because she sure as hell doesnt seem to by the end of the series.
Unfortunately we wont be seeing it in any future appearances, because Jessica killed him by snapping his neck.
This is something I find sort of difficult to deal with.
On one hand, its genre television.
Murder is devalued to the point of being expected.
But on the other hand, as weve discussed before, Kilgrave can be disabled without being killed.
And theres no guarantee that killing him will free the people he enslaved.
That doesnt seem like a big enough twist to hang your finale on.
So as I said, it wasnt a great ending.
Hogarth is still encouraging juries to lie, apparently).
Admittedly,Jessica Jonesisnt a total write-off.
There was a lot about the series that worked for me, but almost as much that didnt.
Read Jamesviewing notes on the previous episode, AKA Take A Bloody Number, here.
