Malcolm Ducasse quotes from Jessica Jones

Malcolm Ducasse

You look bad.

Jessica

I need money.

Malcolm

You can have my TV.

Jessica

Thanks, Malcolm. You keep it.

Malcolm

I stole it.

Jessica

I figured.

Malcolm

You're a good person, Jessica Jones.

Jessica

You're high.

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.

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

Are you high?

Malcolm

I wish.

Jessica

I prefer repression.

Malcolm

And self-medication.

Robyn

[about Reuben] He can't even tie his shoes without my permission.

Malcolm

I'm serious.

Robyn

I am too. That's why he always wears slip-ons.

Malcolm

Jesus, what is it with people?

Robyn

At best, they're assholes. At worst, they're... zombie assassins.

Malcolm

So what, it's just every man for himself, then, huh? Everything I learned in church, all the praying that my mom did for the sick and the dying, all the... all the community projects my dad worked on, basically, everything that they taught me... it was all bullshit? They're idiots and I'm just the only asshole in the world who didn't know?

Robyn

Yeah, you got duped, mop top.

Malcolm

Well, I say we find the adopted son.

Jessica

Nope.

Malcolm

We can afford to take a pro bono case.

Jessica

That will just attract more sob stories and nut jobs.

Malcolm

Meaning people in pain who actually need our help.

Jessica

Let it get personal and the whole case goes to shit. A good PI needs objectivity. Take the case. Take the clues. Take the cash. [Malcolm chuckles] What are you doing?

Malcolm

I'm writing that down. It was pithy.

Jessica

That wasn't a lesson.

Malcolm

Of course, because why would you help me get better at my job?

Jessica

It's my job.

Malcolm

So fire me for trying to build something with you.

Jessica

I keep trying to fire you, you keep not being fired. Why is that?

Trish

If anyone asks, you're a PA. Production assistant. Just like what you do for Jessica, except on a movie set.

Malcolm

You mean, getting yelled at and ignored?

Trish

Pretty much.

Malcolm

I got this

Malcolm

How did you know he was an ex-con?

Jessica

People don't usually panic at the sight of cops unless they've ridden in the back of a cruiser.

Malcolm

So our landlord randomly replaces Alfredo with this guy?

Jessica

Who's Alfredo?

Malcolm

The old super. He was good people. His wife used to make empanadas on Sundays. Always passed them around the building. I guess not to you.

Jessica

Rare teaching moment, Malcolm: If the old super was such a gem, empanadas for days, but he still got canned...

Malcolm

Oscar's got something on our landlord.

Jessica

Pay him a visit and find out. And be nice. The nicer, the better. Eugene can be a dick.

Pryce

You wanna help people. So that's why you're working with Jones, hoping maybe she's a hero. She's not.

Malcolm

No, I work with Jessica 'cause she's a damn good PI.

Pryce

Good at the dirty work, maybe. But at my shop, "altruism" isn't a bad word.

Malcolm

Yeah, I'm sure you guys are a bunch of saints.

Pryce

We just believe that a man can serve himself, or a man can serve humanity.

Malcolm

Okay, you did not just quote my father to me.

Pryce

I did, from his latest article.

Jessica

Find out everything she knows about her former employers and about her coworker who suddenly left the company.

Malcolm

Got it. What else?

Jessica

Everything else. At least until I can get out of this hellhole.

Malcolm

When's that gonna be?

Jessica

Depends on if I can get through this next part without losing my shit.

Malcolm

You didn't do the crime. Truth matters.

Jessica

Not if nobody wants to believe it. [sighs] You're in charge of Alias. Don't mess it up.

Jessica

You get Inez to Jeri Hogarth, at this address. Tell her you're my associate.

Malcolm

Wait, did you just promote me?

Jessica

Maybe.

Malcolm

[chuckles] Does it come with a raise?

Jessica

No. Get going.

Malcolm

Whatever you say, associate. [laughs]

Jessica

I'm instantly regretting this.