Jeri Hogarth quotes from Jessica Jones

Jeri

The real world is not about happy endings. It's about taking the life you have, and fighting like hell to keep it.

Jeri

"Pretty good for a girl." I heard that a lot as a kid. Then I became a successful female attorney, read: pretty good for a girl. But today, I see a sisterhood of founding partners. I see excellent lawyers who are stronger because we wouldn't stand for being pretty good. I see mentors raising the next generation of women, who, one day, will stand with us on a day like this, and see what we see. Women in power. Women in law. Thank you for this great honor. Thank you so much.

Jeri Hogarth

You need to pull yourself together. You are coming across distinctly paranoid.

Jessica

Everyone keeps saying that. It's like a conspiracy.

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.

Jeri

What if he kills you?

Jessica

Well, then we'll have proof, won't we?

Jessica

Don't look at him, don't talk to him, and don't listen to him.

Jeri

Or he'll mind control me.

Jessica

No, because he's an asshole. His powers don't work through a mic, so you'd have to go in the room. Don't do that, either.

Hogarth

She wants you to pay for what you did to Hope Shlottman.

Kilgrave

Yeah, tell me something I don't know.

Hogarth

Hope Shlottman was pregnant with your child. Jessica and I helped her to abort it.

Kilgrave

[looks stunned] Honesty. Refreshing, isn't it?

You're sick. Don't let them discriminate against you for it. Let me do something. Let me help you.

Jeri

You want to help me?

We can fight this.

Jeri

Do you think we're friends?

I'm sorry?

Jeri

Do you think because we have shared a table a handful of times in court that you have the right to involve yourself in my life? My shit? A partner? Your goddamn boss?

I didn't mean...

Jeri

You cannot help me. You cannot do anything but your job. So, um, exercise some goddamn discretion and bury your head in the sand, because that's where it belongs, instead of up my ass.

You're gonna need people. No one goes through something like this alone.

Jeri

Well, allow me to be the first to try.

Pryce

I'm not gonna compete with a freak show.

Jeri

Oh, God. You got beat by a girl. Deal with it.

Pryce

She's not a girl. She's an aberration.

Jeri

Makes you feel better about yourself, doesn't it? Calling her names. Less than. Other. Makes you feel superior to her. Well, you're not.

Jeri

Pryce, you are embarrassing yourself.

Pryce

You're the embarrassment, Jeri. Helping her out? Huh? What was it, bribery? Perjury? I'll find out.

Jessica

Hey. Get your head out of your ass, Cheng.

Pryce

Or what? What are you gonna do, huh? Take me out, too? I've seen you in action. I've seen that look in your eye. You're a killer.

Jessica

Not today, I'm not. Today, I'm free. Do you know why? No, 'cause you're a shitty investigator. So go talk to the cops, go steal someone else's cases. You know what? Go beat off in the corner, because I don't give a dead moose's last shit. I'm gonna find the actual killer.

Jeri

That's my Birkin bag. You trashy little skank. After everything that I've done.

Inez Green

I know what this is prescribed for.

Jeri

That is none of your business.

Inez

Actually, it is. 'Cause that's why I'm here, isn't it? In your fancy-schmancy apartment? Why you're asking me all those questions about IGH? Because you have ALS.

Jeri

So? You want to join the Ice Bucket Challenge? Throw me a fund-raiser? Get the hell out.

Inez

I get it. I've had to be a fighter, too. No other way to survive the shit I've been through. But you reminded me I used to care about people. I used to be a nurse.

Jeri

How did someone like you end up on the streets?

Inez

Someone like me? [chuckles]

Jeri

You're smart, capable, attractive, a professional nurse.

Inez

After IGH, I got jumpy around patients, didn't want to go near anybody for a long time. Kinda important as a nurse. [chuckles] If one job doesn't work out, you find another one. Flipped burgers at Hambone's, worked at an adult video store, other stuff. You miss rent a few times, it sorta snowballs. You'd be surprised what you can get used to. [laughs] You have no idea what I'm talking about, huh? You don't even buy your own groceries.

Jeri

I grew up in a trailer the size of this dining room with four siblings. You know what kids do to the poor kid whose clothes don't fit? They make sure that school is as much a living hell as home. Everything I have, I built from nothing.

Jeri

[tracing a tattoo on Inez's back] What does this mean?

Inez

Um "Good luck" in Japanese. Yeah, one of many mistakes by an 18-year-old me.

Jeri

Have you ever been to Tokyo?

Inez

Between nursing school and being homeless? Mmm... haven't really had the chance.

Jeri

Maybe after this we could, um go on a trip. It's a great city.

Inez

I know what you're doing, Jeri.

Jeri

What? I can't ruminate about the future?

Inez

Like how fast you'll kick me out the second Shane heals you?

Jeri

[scoffs] Cynical.

Inez

You're a user. Takes one to know one, right?

Jeri

You expect me to let this go so quickly?

Inez

I don't expect anything, okay?

Jeri

I wanted you to meet Shane before you made any decisions about Dr. Malus. What he did was unethical, yes, but also miraculous.

Jessica

Are you kidding me?

Jeri

Jessica, your mother is alive, you and Shane have extraordinary abilities. With the proper funding and support, imagine what Dr. Malus' work could do for the world.

Jessica

You want to profit from this.

Jeri

Screw profit. [sighs] He healed me. And if it works, he's given me a second chance. And I want other people to have that same chance instead of locking it behind bars or eliminating it altogether.

Jessica

Jeri, I don't think you are changed.

Jeri

Forgiveness is hard for you, I know.

Jessica

I mean physically. You're still sick, Shane's a fraud.

Jeri

I'm sorry?

Jessica

He was never at IGH, and they never made a healer.

Jeri

But Inez–

Jessica

She lied. She used what she knew from working at IGH, and she made the whole thing up.

Jeri

I felt something when he touched me.

Jessica

Because you wanted to feel something.

Jeri

I'm not some ignorant trailer park hick. What he did to me was real. I've had no symptoms.

Jessica

In, what, two days? [sighs] You can't test for ALS, right? So you can't confirm the results. Inez is a nurse., she knew that.

Jeri

Mmm-mmm. No.

Jessica

Let me deal with them.

Jeri

No.

Jessica

Then you need to go the cops.

Jeri

No.

Jessica

Jeri, you don't deserve this. They are scum.

Jeri

You're wrong. Whoever you talked to, whatever they told you, it's wrong. Shane is real.

Jessica

Then just be careful.