Going into its second season, Jessica Jones was probably the series with the biggest question mark. Jessica Jones is not a character with a long history so it will be interesting to see what the show chooses to do and be. In the twelfth episode, Trish is in dire straits as she clings to life and Jessica has to face down her mother. Let’s jump into this but be warned, there are spoilers throughout.
1. On The Run
Alisa Jones is out of prison and is trying to get to Trish as fast as she can. She first stops off as a charity building that collects clothes and switches into something that isn’t a prison jumpsuit. Once she does that, she goes on the warpath. She goes to the radio station she thinks Trish still works at and finds a blonde who sort of looks like Trish. Alisa attacks and hurts the guy who runs the station and now the police have an idea of where she is. Due to what Trish’s mom does (we’ll get to this), Alisa is able to track down Trish to her hospital room but she’s met by Jessica, Detective Sunday and Detective Costa. Alisa is angry and unstoppable so she attacks Trish but Jessica is able to stop her momentarily. Alisa claims that Trish is the reason all of this is happening but Jessica tells her how she’s now trying to take away the only real family that she has left. This calms her for a minute but then Sunday and Costa burst in and all hell breaks loose. Alisa takes Sunday and Sunday tells Costa to take the shot. He doesn’t and Alisa jumps out of the window with Sunday and Sunday dies but Alisa is now wounded. The thing with this last part of the season is that Alisa can’t possibly make it out of this without consequences. She’s broken out of jail and killed a cop. She’s either going to die or end up at The Raft at the end of this. She had a way out of it all without losing everything but once Karl died, that all went out the window. I still don’t think this season was as good as the first (not even close) but I am genuinely curious to see how it all ends.
2. “Pray For My Patsy”
One of the most interesting things about Jessica Jones is the relationship between Trish and her mother. Dorothy Walker is a stage mom who got to taste the spotlight thanks to her daughter having a career past her teen years. She even says that she got to live her wildest dreams through her daughter AS SHE LAYS THERE DYING! Dorothy is one of, if not, the most nefarious of all the characters on this show because she’s so up front about how bad she is. She has no shame whereas someone like Jeri has an idea of what shame is. Dorothy is why Alisa is able to find Trish because she couldn’t avoid the spotlight and asked everyone to “pray for my Patsy.” It’s the kind of thing that would immediately be a hashtag and a tagline on every single news channel and that’s what happens. Dorothy is a monster and very quietly one of the more interesting characters to watch despite how much you hate her.
3. Super Trish?
After what happened at the old IGH building, Trish is still doing pretty terribly. Her vitals are all over the place and doctors don’t really know what to do. After everything that happens with Alisa, she’s moved to a temporary place in the morgue for her protection. It’s a fortress down there and basically the only place they can protect her. As she talks to her mother, she says that she feels like she’s dying and her body starts to spasm. I’m convinced at this point that Trish won’t die but I’m also convinced that she’s going to end up with powers. I think Karl’s experiments will work but not to the extent they worked on Jessica. Trish will end up enhanced a bit and in season 3 we’ll see Trish regret what she wished for. All of this didn’t need to take 12 episodes but here we are anyway. I just hope that the character can be salvaged.
Continued below4. Jeri Gets Revenge
Jeri’s storyline has taken a turn and in this episode she gets her revenge. Jeri has started to track down all the things that went missing but it isn’t about getting things back. She has money, she can do that. She’s still sick and she still got scammed and she is pissed off. She finally tracks down some stuff to a pawn shop and pays off the owner to tell her where she can find Shane. Once she does that, she gets Inez to talk to her in her car. Jeri tells her that she did actually feel something for her and she wants to know why she did this. Inez talks about how she loves Shane and he’s always been good to her but what happened with Jeri was real. Jeri gives Inez a bunch of information about Shane and what he was doing behind bars. She tells him about his pen pals and the money he was making, including the money Inez would send him when she was homeless. Before Inez goes in to confront Shane, Jeri gives her a gun. When she goes inside, they argue and the gun goes off, seemingly killing Shane. Jeri got her revenge on them both as she calls the cops. It seems like this is where this storyline ends and I’m completely baffled by all of it. I don’t know if I buy that Jeri actually had feelings for Inez. The writing of this storyline was so all over the place that I don’t actually know what to make of it. Jeri does something really messed up here but they also did something really messed up to her. This was just a bunch of messed up people being messed up to each other and it was so disconnected from everything else that I fail to see why I should care.
5. And We’re Off!
At the end of this episode, Alisa and Jessica meet up one more time. Jessica gets Alisa to go to Trish’s apartment and when she’s there, Jessica can’t bring herself to kill her own mother. She hesitates and it gives Alisa the chance to get her with the tranquilizer again and she takes her in a Winnebago and they’re off to some unknown destination. This is what our finale will look at and with one more episode left, we don’t have ton of loose ends. I’m still not in love with this season of the show but I’m here to give the finale a chance to sell me on this whole, very long experience.
