Jessica Jones Season 1 Recap
Jessica Jones: Everything You Need to Remember About Season 1
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After his run on Doctor Who, David Tennant steps into the shoes of one of the most nefarious Marvel villains ever, Kilgrave, or The Purple Man. Kilgrave is the abusive mind controller who keeps Jessica Jones captive for six months and orders her to kill Reva Connors, Luke Cage's wife. In season 1, he controls and kills countless people to get to Jessica, who reluctantly agrees to meet with him in her childhood home. We learn that his parents had experimented on him when he was younger to cure a neurodegenerative disease. We also find out that those experiments led to Kilgrave's mind powers.
Jessica eventually holds Kilgrave hostage inside a soundproof room but he manages to escape. A few casualties later, Jessica, with Trish's backup, confronts Kilgrave at the Ferry Hudson Terminal. He orders a group of innocent people to kill each other, knowing that Jessica would try to stop them. As Jessica walks towards him, he yells for everyone to stop. Jessica stops. For a few hot seconds, Kilgrave believes that he has Jessica under his control but she snaps his neck and kills him immediately.
With that said, Jessica did think a speeding bus had killed Kilgrave at the beginning of the first season. (Spoiler alert: it didn't.) Will Kilgrave return in the flesh in season 2? From what we know, Tennant will return as Kilgrave, but he will likely be an apparition or imagined presence as Jessica grapples with her trauma.