Episode Guide

Season 1

1.01: “AKA Ladies’ Night”

We are introduced to many of the main characters in this first episode. Jessica Jones is a private detective, Jeri Hogarth is a tough lawyer, Trish is a former child star and Jessica’s long-suffering best friend. We also learn that Jessica has PTSD from her time with Kilgrave, and that she is a functional alcoholic who hates the world. Jessica takes a case to find a missing woman named Hope, whom she finds in a hotel after being left by Kilgrave.

1.02: “AKA Crush Syndrome”

The aftermath of Hope’s compelled murder of her parents includes Jessica being questioned, Luke Cage being questioned because Jessica was surveilling him, and Hope in jail. We learn that Luke also has powers.

1.03: “AKA It’s Called Whiskey”

Luke and Jessica discuss their place in the superhero universe and how they got their powers. Jessica begins to put her plan for capturing and destroying Kilgrave into place by looking for the drug to incapacitate Kilgrave. Jessica saves Malcolm, and Trish confronts Kilgrave over the radio, leading him to send Officer Simpson to kill her.

1.04: “99 Friends”

Jessica is tracking her stalker to find Kilgrave. While looking for other Kilgrave victims, Hogarth and Jessica inadvertently set up a support group for the survivors. Jessica is catfished and attacked for having superpowers. Trish and Simpson connect over their trauma.

1.05: “AKA The Sandwich Saved Me”

Despite conflict over who should be in charge and how they should proceed, Jessica, Simpson, and Trish capture Kilgrave. Jessica gives Malcolm a choice about his future, and he chooses a drug-free life. Kilgrave has escaped and has found a way to continue controlling Jessica by forcing her to send daily photographs of her smiling.

1.06: “AKA You’re a Winner!”

Luke needs Jessica to help him find someone so he can get information on his deceased wife. Hope tries to kill herself when she realizes she is pregnant with Kilgrave’s baby. Hogarth and her secretary, Pam, are moving forward in their relationship. Jessica finally reveals her role in Luke’s wife’s death to stop him from killing another person.

1.07: “AKA Top Shelf Perverts”

Kilgrave kills a neighbour in Jessica’s apartment and Malcolm and Trish clean up for her. Jessica’s new plan to capture Kilgrave and save Hope involves getting arrested and placed in a supermax prison so that Kilgrave will have to expose himself to get to her. Kilgrave issues an ultimatum to Jessica, threatening the lives of an entire police precinct if she doesn’t meet him at her childhood home to give him a chance to show her that they are, in his words, “inevitable.”

1.08: “AKA WWJD?”

Kilgrave is attempting to win Jessica over with nostalgia and by promising not to use his powers on her while they live together in her childhood home, but he is still controlling the people around them to keep Jessica in line. Jessica discovers that Kilgrave was never taught how to be good, so she takes him out to show him how to help people with his powers. He feels empowered, but she is conflicted and ultimately decides to follow through with her original plan to drug him rather than try to reform him. Meanwhile, Officer Simpson has tried to help Jessica by blowing Kilgrave up, but he ends up on the receiving end of his own bomb.

1.09: “AKA Sin Bin”

Kilgrave has been captured and is enclosed in the chamber, where he can’t control anyone, while Jessica tries to organize a way to prove he controlled Hope for her defence. She enlists Hogarth, Trish, and Detective Clemons as help and/or witnesses to Kilgrave’s powers. To better understand Kilgrave and get under his skin, Jessica finds his parents, but their introduction to the situation allows him to escape. Everyone but Jessica is controlled during Kilgrave’s escape.

1.10: “AKA 1,000 Cuts”

Hogarth helps Kilgrave escape, and in the process destroys her relationships with both of the women in her life. Kilgrave makes promises to have Hope released in exchange for the return of his father. The survivor’s group searches for Jessica for revenge, and Kilgrave uses them against her; Hope gets caught in the middle and makes the ultimate sacrifice for the promise that Jessica will kill Kilgrave.

1.11: “AKA I’ve Got the Blues”

Simpson has gone off the program the military prescribed for him and has turned his anger toward Jessica for not letting him control the situation or kill Kilgrave from the very beginning. He attacks Jessica while on experimental drugs, and Trish takes the same drugs to protect Jessica and fight him off. The military takes him away. Meanwhile, Kilgrave is jealous and blows up Luke’s bar with him in it just as Jessica arrives to watch it happen.

1.12: “AKA Take a Bloody Number”

Jessica and Luke get closer during this episode and Jessica seems almost ready to accept his forgiveness as they search for Kilgrave and his father, Albert. Albert has been helping Kilgrave improve the range of his powers. Meanwhile, Trish’s mother reaches out with some information about the organization that makes the drug Simpson was taking, as well as their connection to Jessica. She promises more if Trish will agree to rekindle their business relationship. In the end, Jessica must fight Luke when she realizes he has been under Kilgrave’s control this whole time.

1.13: “AKA Smile”

Claire Temple from Daredevil makes her first crossover appearance as she recognizes Luke as a man with powers and agrees to help Jessica get him out of the hospital and watch over him as he recovers from a gunshot wound. Kilgrave is no longer trying to convince Jessica they are destined to be together as he now just wants her dead. Jessica and Kilgrave have their final showdown: Jessica finally kills Kilgrave, with multiple witnesses to the murder and the mind control, including police officers. The season ends with Jessica and Malcolm cleaning up and people calling them for help.