As Trish makes a move on Sallinger, Jessica intervenes and ends up caught in a harrowing dance with the killer.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- And This Is for...: When killing Sallinger, Trish dedicates each blow to one of the times Sallinger stabbed Dorothy, or when he slit her throat.
- Batman Gambit: Jessica anticipates Sallinger coming for her and bugs her apartment, meaning that his attempt on her life gets caught on tape. It also ensures that she's forewarned about him having spiked her booze, so she never drinks it but only pretends to pass out.
- Both Sides Have a Point: Trish tells Jessica that she too killed someone, namely Kilgrave. Jessica agrees, but tells her that it nearly destroyed her, so naturally she doesn't want her sister to go through the same thing.
- Character Death: Trish murders Sallinger.
- Defiant to the End: While he at first panics and asks for mercy, Sallinger actually puts up a fight against Trish and spitefully tells her that Jessica will now see her for what she really is when she is about to beat him to death.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Sallinger is killed by Trish, who takes over as the main antagonist.
- Elevator Escape: Jessica and Sallinger escape from Trish by elevator.
- Engineered Public Confession: Jessica finally catches durable proof against Sallinger by pretending to be captured by him, only to have her apartment bugged and record him admitting he killed Dorothy.
- Fastball Special: A variation. Jessica throws Trish from the hospital rooftop to the one across the street to make sure she can't get at her and Sallinger.
- Gravity Sucks: Played with. Watch closely after Jessica throws Trish onto the roof across the street: Sallinger peeks up over the wall from where he was cowering and at first looks down to see where Trish landed. Only after a split second does he catch on that Trish is basically directly across from where they are, having been thrown mostly horizontally.
- He Who Fights Monsters: Trish registers as evil for Erik now. Jessica is desperate to keep her from killing again, fearing that if she keeps going the change will become permanent.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: Considering how much use Sallinger has gotten out of the security cameras in his own apartment, he should probably have considered the possibility that Jessica might put some in hers.
- Irony: Sallinger once again mocks Jessica for being "so predictable" when he captures her. As it turns out by the end of the episode, the whole thing was a trap set by her and Erik to trick him into an Engineered Public Confession, so not only did he not predict her as much as he thought, she predicted how he'd act.
- It's All My Fault: Erik blames himself for what Trish has become.
- Motive Rant: When being chained, Trish tries to explain her actions to a pretty horrified Malcolm.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Trish somehow manages to infiltrate what must be incredibly heavy security at the courthouse in order to get into the elevator to murder Sallinger and get away after.
- Oh, Crap!: Sallinger panics when he realizes that Trish is here to kill him.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Imada lets Jessica go, naturally, and she at least pretends to think Jessica is on the side of right.
- Revenge Before Reason: Trish murders Sallinger despite him already being in prison.
- Save the Villain: Jessica rescues Sallinger from Trish during the first half.
- Slipping a Mickey: Sallinger drugs Jessica's whiskey to ensure that she first passes out and is partly paralysed even when she wakes up. He fails to take her superhuman metabolism into account and she is incapacitated for only a fraction of the time he believed she would be.
- Static Stun Gun: Malcolm knocks out Trish with a taser to prevent her from going after Sallinger.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Jessica goes to some length to keep Sallinger alive. As soon as he thinks he's safe, he tries to kill her.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Trish's colleague complaining about New York lacking the death penalty and wishing Sallinger died in a shootout while trying to comfort her after returning to work is what convinces Trish to go and murder him personally, cementing her own fall.
- Villain Has a Point: Sallinger claims that Jessica secretly wants to be a hero. Judging from Jessica's expression (and the fact that she's spent the whole series doing the heroic thing at every turn despite complaining about it) he's probably right. He's wrong about her having failed to become one, though, as she shows by taking him down.
- Villainous Breakdown: Sallinger's collected facade visibly cracks when Jessica accuses him of his reasons being bullshit and him really just being a sadistic monster. Later, he freaks out when he realizes Trish has come to kill him.
- Villains Want Mercy: Sallinger desperately points out the fact that he is in chains when Trish is about to beat him to death. Not surprisingly, she doesn't care.
