Jessica Jones quotes from Jessica Jones

Jessica

You good?

Malcolm

You care?

Jessica

Just don't wanna be another reason for you to get high.

Malcolm

Don't need a reason.

Jeri

You starting a support group? Will you be participating?

Jessica

Like I’d waste my time circle-jerking with a bunch of whiners.

Jeri

Yes, you are a paragon of mental health.

Trish

He isn’t here now.

Jessica

[points to her head.] Yeah, well, he’s always here.

Jessica

Look, you're obviously pissed off about something, but I'm pretty sure for the first time this has nothing to do with Kilgrave - he's smarter than you two.

[sharply] Kilgrave? Who's Kilgrave? Is he another one of you people? How many more are there like you?!

Jessica

How many more what, private eyes?

"Gifted". [scoffs] Stupid word. It's like... calling someone "special" - You're not "special", you're retarded. You're not "gifted", you're a freak.

Jessica

What have we, or the mentally challenged, ever done to you?

"You saved the city." That's what the newspapers said; "You were heroes."

Jessica

[bewildered] Not me...

"The city was saved"... But I was there. I saw what really happened... I saw my mother crushed to death under a building that you people destroyed.

Jessica

...In the incident?

I was trying to pull my mother out from the rubble, watching her bleed to death... [sniffs] While all around me, you people were raining down hell!

Jessica

[angry] So go after the big green guy, or the flag waver - I wasn't even there!

Consider it a preventative measure for next time!

Jessica

[livid] You think you're the only ones who've lost people?! [Carlo tries to reach for the gun, but Jessica shoves him away] You think you're the only ones with pain?! [throws the gun into the wall] You think you can take your shit and dump it on me?! [the Eastmans huddle into a corner as Jessica throws a chair next to them] You don't get to do that! So you take your goddamn pain and live with it, assholes! [slams her fists into a mirror, causing Audrey to scream] You lost your parents? Welcome to the goddamn club! I lost mine in some random accident! Do you see me trying to kill every shitty driver?! No! [violently upends the bed] Because I don't work my shit out on other people! [lifts up heater] So keep your goddamn feelings to YOURSELF! [throws heater through the double doors] [long pause, calmer] Ninety-nine. You wanted to know how many of us there are? The last time I counted, I had ninety-nine Gifted friends in this borough alone. And now, every single one of them is going to know about the shit you tried to pull... And they hate attempted murder, they really do. The cops hate it too, you know, because it's against the law.

Trish

You could use your abilities for something more useful. I mean, you can fly... well, jump.

Jessica

It's more like guided falling. [pauses] Hey, I have an idea. Why don't you put on a cape and go run around New York?

Trish

You know I would if I could.

Jessica

I don't get you. You have money, looks, a radio show, creepy, if not adoring, fans and you're a freaking household name. What more do you want?

Trish

To save the world, of course.

Jessica

You wanna be a hero? I'll show you how to be a hero. [to everybody] Shots on Trish Walker, everybody!

Trish

[upon unveiling Jessica's costume] Jewel is a great superhero name!

Jessica

Jewel is a stripper's name. A really slutty stripper, and if I wear that thing you're going to have to call me Camel Toe.

Malcolm

Kilgrave will find me. I'll be dead anyway. Please just give me my goddamn drugs. Just give me... Just give me my goddamn drugs!

Jessica

You're right. I can't save you. The whole time he had me, there was some part of me that fought. There was some tiny corner of my brain that tried to get out. And I'm still fighting. I won't stop fighting. But if you give up... I lose. Do you get that? He did this to you to get at me. To isolate me. To make me feel like an infection, one more person dead or dying because of me. So why don't you remember how to be a goddamn human being again instead of this self-pitying piece of shit that he turned you into, and save me for once? [throws the envelope of drugs at him] You choose.

Malcolm

The beauty of what he does is that nobody knows how he does this. It can't be explained, so it can't be believed.

Jessica

It doesn't matter how he does it. It matters where, so I can catch him.

Luke

You slept with me.

Jessica

I didn't plan that. It just happened.

Jessica

I prefer repression.

Malcolm

And self-medication.

Kilgrave

Oh, everyone, calm down! You're killing the mood! ...Jessica. You're not surprised to see me. You had to know I'd come for you. Not this fast? [pause] I'll admit to keeping eyes on you. Spies are easy to come by for me.

Jessica

Do whatever you're going to do to me, but let them go. Control me, but let them go.

Kilgrave

I have absolutely no intention of controlling you. I want you to act on your own accord.

Jessica

Act how? Suicide? Is that why you've been torturing me?

Kilgrave

Oh, my god. Jessica, I knew you were insecure, but that's just sad. I'm not torturing you. Why would I? I love you.

Jessica

You have been ruining my life...

Kilgrave

You didn't have a life.

Jessica

...as a demented declaration of love?

Kilgrave

I was trying to show you what I see. I'm the only one who matches you. Who challenges you. Who'll do anything for you.

Jessica

[scoffs] This is a sick joke. You have killed innocent people.

Kilgrave

That milquetoast little man-boy? He interrupted me while I was leaving you a present, which, apparently, you didn't even find...Come on! You can't pretend he didn't irritate you, too. I wanted to slap him after thirty seconds! [pause] I know. I realize this will take time. But I'm gonna prove it to you.

Kilgrave

[irritated] Whose is that? [cell phone continues to ring] Whose phone is that?!

Kilgrave

THE NEXT PERSON WHOSE PHONE RINGS HAS TO EAT IT!!! [Kilgrave begins pacing around the room and rubbing his hands over his face, trying to calm himself down] Crappy fluorescent lights and cockroaches and loud cell phones and the smell of piss! I AM TRYING TO PROFESS ETERNAL LOVE HERE, PEOPLE!

Jessica

I'll come with you. To protect them. Not out of choice. You know me well. We can work out the rest.

Kilgrave

Oh, please! I am new to love, but I do know what it looks like! I do watch television.

Jessica

You're a deranged prick. You've never loved anyone in your repulsive life.

Kilgrave

Do not presume to know! Before I met you, I got everything I ever wanted. And I didn't realize how unsatisfactory that was until you left me to die. You are the first thing - excuse me, person - that I wanted that walked away from me. You made me feel something I never had before. Yearning. I actually missed you.

Jessica

Well, you've got me.

Kilgrave

No, I don't. I'm hoping you'll choose me like I've chosen you. I believe that you will discover the same thing I did. That we're inevitable.

So! To what do I owe the pleasure?

Jessica Jones

It's about Trish.

Why? What's happened? Is she on drugs again?

Jessica Jones

She hasn't touched drugs since I dragged her away from you.

I had no idea that doctor was over-prescribing.

Jessica Jones

Still no responsibility or remorse. I wish I could be like that.

"No responsibility," hmm? I took you in. You were an orphan. That's gotta count for something.

Jessica Jones

You don't get credit for doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

I cared about-

Jessica Jones

About publicity. I was a strategic play to further the Patsy Walker brand. Trish is fine. She has security like Fort Knox and she's savvy enough not to let anyone sneak up on her, except you. She has no defenses against you.

She doesn't need defenses. I'm her mother.

Jessica Jones

You're her pimp!

I haven't seen her in three years.

Jessica Jones

Except for when you "accidentally" ran into her?

It's a small city.

Jessica Jones

And leave long, drunken messages for her?

What is it you want from me?

Jessica Jones

I want you to stick to the agreement. Because no matter where I am, even if I'm behind bars, if you try anything, I will find out. I will come for you, and it will hurt.

People can change, Jessie.

Jessica Jones

It doesn't make the bad shit you did go away.

I just... had a problem. I got help.

Jessica Jones

And royalty checks.

I earned those!

Jessica Jones

If you want them to keep coming, you'll respect Trish's wishes... which I will enforce.

"And it will hurt.” You need a better tagline.

Jessica Jones

Five hundred feet. Just like a real restraining order. Five hundred feet away from her. Do you understand?

Yes. Taking you in was the worst decision of my life.

Jessica Jones

[sarcastically] Thanks, Mom.

Jessica

Until what? Until I come home and find my landlady choked out in my bathtub? Or I find you bludgeoned to death with my vacuum cleaner?

Trish

We both know you don’t own a vacuum cleaner.

Kilgrave

I'm waiting to see which Jessica I’m going to get.

Jessica

When I was a kid we used to eat breakfast out here.

Kilgrave

Okay. "Trying to make an effort Jessica."

Jessica

More like trying to make a shit situation tolerable.

Kilgrave

I'll take that.

Kilgrave

We can go about our business. Move along. Move along.

Jessica

Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Kilgrave

But cooler.