[Kilgrave calls Jessica while recuperating from being knocked out with sufentanil]
KilgraveWell, I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted. So rare for me to feel powerless. Well, I would have felt it, had I been conscious. But in retrospect, it's exhilarating. My life was literally in your hands. And I have the bruise to prove it. Which proves that you want me alive. Tell me why. I could just turn up on your doorstep and make you tell me. [beat] Oh, you're mad about the junkie, aren't you. That is completely unfair! I didn't make him do anything he didn't want to do. He was... He was an addict waiting to happen! Come on, Jessica. Come on. Don't play the hero with me. Fine, fine. Pretend you saved the junkie, but we both know that was down to me. [no response] I tell you what, I will let him go down his own self-destructive path. I won't come near him, if... you do his job for him. Keep the pictures coming. Say, one a day, at 10:00 A.M.? Don't forget to smile. Hmm? Send the picture, save the junkie. Sounds like an ad campaign. [chuckles] Let's start... um, now. Come on, Jessica. Tell me we have a deal. Let me hear your voice.
[Kilgrave is playing poker with some other men. One of them goes to light his cigar]
Kilgrave
If you light that thing, I'll make you put it out in your eye.
HHarvey
I'd like to see you try.
Kilgrave
Arseholes try. I just do. Put that out. [Harvey puts his cigar and match in his drink]
[The dealer passes out cards]
DDealer
Okay, gentlemen, who's feeling lucky?
Kilgrave
[takes his cards] All righty! What do we have this time? [Kilgrave looks at his cards]
HHarvey
You might want to work on that poker face.
Kilgrave
What the hell? I'm all in. [places all of his cash in the middle of the table]
HHarvey
Frickin' weirdo. I'm out. [places his cards in the center]
Kilgrave
What? Where are your balls?! Don't we all have balls here? [to the other women in the room] Ladies, tell us we all have balls.
LLadies
[in unison] You all have balls!
Kilgrave
See? You have balls, Harvey! So go all-in! [Kilgrave gives a death stare to Harvey. Harvey relents and pushes his money into the center] Man knows how to live. Tell you what, let's take a walk on the wild side. Let's have everybody go all-in. That all right? [All of the other players push their stacks of cash in] Yeeeeah! [drumrolls on the table] Now it's getting interesting! [to the dealer] Best estimate, where's the pot right now?
DDealer
Just over a million dollars.
Kilgrave
Yeah, that should do it. Let's make it really crazy: everybody, fold.
[All of the players except for Kilgrave promptly slide their cards into the center]
Kilgrave
Oh! I guess that makes me the winner! [shows his cards: a seven of clubs and a two of hearts] And me with a deuce and a seven! [to an attendant] Will you pack this money for me? You'll be dining out on this story for years: the night you lost a million dollars to the worst hand you had ever seen. [laughs and gets up]
DDonald
You're leaving? [Kilgrave tosses one of the stacks of money to the dealer]
Kilgrave
For the luck. Thank you!
[Kilgrave leaves the table with his money. As he's walking out, Harvey steps in his way]
HHarvey
I don't know what just happened there. But you're gonna sit down and give us a shot to win our money back.
Kilgrave
I've got a better idea: let's see how long it takes you to put your head through that post. Go on. [Kilgrave leaves while Harvey starts banging his head against the wall]
[Jessica walks out into the precinct proper. All the cops have guns trained on each other. Kilgrave stands on the other side of the room.]
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.
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.
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.
You have been ruining my life...
Kilgrave
You didn't have a life.
...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.
[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.
[A cell phone begins ringing]
Kilgrave
[irritated] Whose is that? [cell phone continues to ring] Whose phone is that?!
[Kilgrave approaches Detective Clemmons, the source of the ringing. Upon getting a silent confirmation that yes, this is his phone, Kilgrave takes Clemmons' phone and throws it at a wall, shattering it into pieces]
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!
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.
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.
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.
Kilgrave
Which part of staying in five-star hotels, eating in all the best places, doing whatever the hell you wanted, is rape?
The part where I didn’t want to do any of it! Not only did you physically rape me, but you violated every cell in my body and every thought in my goddamn head!
Kilgrave
That’s not what I was trying to do.
It doesn’t matter what you were trying to do. You raped me, again and again and again.
Kilgrave
How was I supposed to know?! Huh?! I never know if someone is doing what they want or what I tell them to!
Kilgrave
You have no idea, do you? I have to painstakingly choose every word I say! I once told a man to go screw himself. Can you even imagine?
Kilgrave
I didn’t have this. A home, loving parents, a family.
You blame bad parenting? My parents died! You don’t see me raping anyone!
Kilgrave
I hate that word.
You think I won't kill you because some strangers might stab themselves?
Kilgrave
Uh, poison, actually, but no. It's because you want what I have.
A stupid name and a death wish?
Kilgrave
I have Hope. The person, not the feeling. Well, the feeling, too. I'm a hopeful man.
HHope
Jessica... kill him now.
Kilgrave
"Abandon Hope, all ye who enter here." That's the words written on the doorway to hell.
HHope
Kill him or he'll keep hurting people!
Kilgrave
Let me handle this. [to Hope] She'll never kill me. Despite her calloused, hard-bitten, and frankly poorly styled facade, despite her several problems she still hopes that, at her core, she might just be a hero. But only if she can save you. The ultimate innocent victim.
[Luke accosts Kilgrave on the street]
Kilgrave
Stop! Who the hell are you?!
Kilgrave
Tell me what you want. Quickly!
Kilgrave
Well, take a bloody number! Did Jessica tell you to do this?
No. I followed her here. I thought she might lead me to you.
Kilgrave
Oh, great. Just great. Get in the sodding car! Go on!
[Cage and Kilgrave get into a car with Kilgrave's father and a driver, and pull away from the curb]
Kilgrave
I didn't kill your silly wife! Jessica did. All I wanted was Reva's copy of that video. What was I supposed to do, allow someone to expose me?
Kilgrave
Oh, shut up! [beat] How do you know Jessica?
We were lovers. [Kilgrave looks flabbergasted by Luke's response]
Kilgrave
What was it, a pity shag?
No. There's....something between us.
Kilgrave
But she lied to you.
Yes. Then she told me everything.
Kilgrave
[to his father] Oh, look at that, Dad. Jessica being honest with someone. [to Luke] Tell me the truth: did you bugger my chances with her?
No. You screwed that up yourself.
Kilgrave
...I'll have to think of a fitting response to that.
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