Jessica Jones - 'AKA 99 Friends' and 'AKA The Sandwich Saved Me'

A key part of the noir tone of Jessica Jones is the way that she doesn't stand
out from the crowd.

Jessica Jones continues her search for Kilgrave by trying to track down the photographer who has been keeping tabs on her. She gets Trish to offer an apology to Kilgrave on air to get the hit taken off. At the same time, a new client finds her through a referral, which immediately triggers alarms after all that happened with Hope's parents. Thankfully, it turns out that the mystery client is actually just a crazed vigilante looking to bump off superhumans, leading Jessica to assure her that she knows 99 other 'gifted' (the titular '99 Friends') in Hell's Kitchen alone.

The hunt for the photographer gets a break when people start calling in their experiences with Kilgrave to Jeri Hogarth. 'Kilgrave made me do it' may be the new excuse du jour, but Jessica is able to pick out a few genuine cases and puts together a support group, from whom she is able to get a key description of the photographer - her junkie friend Malcolm.

It's hilarious how much this guy wants to be Captain America.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Simpson - ex-special forces cop and Trish's erstwhile assassin - comes by to apologise by way of giving Trish a clean and highly illegal gun for self defence. This is apparently the way to her heart, or at least her bed, which comes as something of a shock to Jessica, especially when Simpson then wants in on the Kilgrave hunt.

With some help from Simpson, who is a bit of a manly jerk, but actually seems to be as good as he thinks he is, Jessica manages to ambush Kilgrave, darting him with Sufentanol and whisking him away, only to discover that he's hired a security detail just in case his powers were compromised. They turn up in numbers too great for Jessica to handle, even with Simpson, and Kilgrave is rescued.

A series of flashbacks reveal that Trish once tried to persuade Jessica to become a superhero, but that her first serious efforts at nocturnal vigilantism - in which she rescued Malcolm from a mugging - were interrupted by Kilgrave. The scene in which they meet actually sheds a lot of light on Kilgrave's personality, and you can see in Tennant's performance that a lot of what makes him tick is that fact that, as no-one will ever refuse him, disagree with him, or fail to laugh at his jokes, Kilgrave genuinely believes himself to be a pretty rad guy. He says that he never makes anyone do anything they don't want to, but this more than anything reveals his distorted view of the world. To Kilgrave, people must want to neglect or abandon their children, take him in and pander to him, or they wouldn't do it. It's creepy as hell.

On the other side of the coin, Jessica's true colours shine through when, in the aftermath of the attempted snatch, she picks up the abandoned Malcolm and tries to help him beat the habit that Kilgrave forced him into in order to control him long term (his powers max out at 10 hours of persistence.) Yes, she offers him the drugs if he wants to self destruct, but is clearly pleased that he rejects them. Despite the continuing noir sentiment, Jessica gets a lot more likable at that moment.