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In her final scene, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) decided to be a hero upon hearing the voice of Kilgrave while she was buying a train ticket to El Paso, even after explicitly saying that being a hero is a “%$!&&$ job.” What is it that you think Jessica realized by the close of this season?

I think that hearing the Kilgrave voice in her mind reminds her of her darker side. Kilgrave really represents the devil on her shoulder, a part of her that’s saying, “You can’t do this. You shouldn’t do this.” By associating her quitting with that part of her, she realizes that she has no interest in being that person. She has fought against becoming that person, and then if she gets on that train to El Paso, she will have permanently embraced being what Kilgrave thought she should be and embraced the worst part of herself. I think that was sort of a rude awakening for her. In the end, she says, “%$#@ it, no way,” and turns around and walks back.

The ability that Erik Gelden (Benjamin Walker) had -- telling bad people from good by getting headaches – never manifested itself around Jessica. Do you think that that helped her realize that whatever she’s doing is okay?

It definitely has because she asks him, “Do you have a headache around me?” and he says no. It does reassure her to the degree that she can be reassured, that she is at least not evil. It helps her to trust herself a little bit more. And watching Trish’s moral compass go off the rails… Trish has been who Jessica has always relied on for a moral compass, so when Trish turns out to really not be a compass at all, Jessica again has to rely on her own compass. That also gives her more confidence in her own judgement.

Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) was hell-bent on becoming a hero in her own right, and suffice it to say, she did not exactly succeed. She did save a couple of people, but it felt like Trish was always doing what she thought she should be doing because it’ll please other people. She tried so hard to be a hero because she believes people want and need a hero, but what does Trish need and what was she missing?

What I always saw was that Trish is a victim of child abuse. She is someone who has never felt safe in her life. When she met Jessica as a young girl, she saw and experienced what it was to feel at least physically safe and has always craved that. I think people who come from difficult backgrounds like that, you are always living with this low-grade fear or insecurity, and she really sought to at least externally protect herself – her heart, her physical being, her soul, all of that – and I think that’s so much of what drives her. She wants to feel safe. She wants to feel nothing can touch her, and wants that for everybody else. Her need to be a hero is genuine. She doesn’t want anyone to have to experience what she went through, but unfortunately her approach was lacking.

It’s as if Trish can’t do anything not to the extreme, whether she thinks she’s doing the extreme opposite of what she thinks she should be doing or something extremely exactly what she thinks has to be done.

Trish always sees things in black and white.