Jessica Jones - Pray for My Patsy

I imagine fans would be quite frustrated with the conclusion of “Pray for My Patsy” if just because Jessica has the chance to finally “put down the monster” but she folds. It is her mother. For all the killing, all the violence, the human carnage; Alicia is Jessica’s mother. When Jessica sits at Trish’s bedside (moved to the morgue for her own safety), she talks about envying Trish because, despite having Dorothy as a mother, at least there was a real parent in her life. So it shouldn’t be of any surprise that Jessica just can’t pull the trigger when inside Trish’s apartment, leaving behind police left to guard her [natch] through a window in the hospital restroom. Hiding in a morgue van, no less, to get past police stationed at the hospital. She just can’t do it. I can just imagine frustrated viewers wanting to throw their hands up in a big scoff. Easier said than done, I guess.

Trish seems to die in the episode’s most shocking scene, as if her vitals went flatline and then all of a sudden this surge throughout her body damn near lifts her off the bed. Dazzling way to indicate that Karl’s work might just have done something Trish was in pursuit of! She does get the chance to bicker with Jessica about “squandering abilities” and the whole fucked-up mommy situation. Jessica intent on not seeing Trish fall into the same psycho-superhuman situation as Alicia. But it might just end up being another Karl Frankenstein Monster.

*A subplot which, in any other episode might serve as a major deal, sort of suffers by the A-plot’s dominance in its melodrama—Jessica is knocked unconscious by mother and taken off in a van outside the city!—has Jeri Hogarth getting even with Inez and Shane for robbing her and conning her into believing she was cured. A master manipulative move by Jeri has her convincing Inez that Shane has been involved with others beside her, a con artist who is good at scamming seductively many to support him in materialistic and lustful ways. A gun procured by a “client”, unmarked with no attachments to anyone, is offered to Inez by Jeri when they have that chat in Jeri’s car, a soft-voiced dialogue that ultimately leads to Shane’s demise. Inez, not able to see through Jeri’s pursuit of vengeance, is doomed…she’s putty that is molded into a murderer. Jeri even calls the police once the gun goes off and Shane is dead! 4/5