It's hard to imagine a way that could work that wouldn't involve NBC suits and a carefully constructed house.

Sitting a block away with a moderately expensive hunting rifle and a scope would work fine. Set him in front of a bomb that sets the house on fire too and…

He could have set the bomb after he had killed Kilgrave, though. There's no reason he had to choose in that way.

On some level, yeah, that is absolutely what's going on with him. But his reaction is basically right: there's no structure set up to deal with this and the situation is serious enough that assassinating Kilgrave probably is the only realistic solution.

Well, to be fair they don't do that anymore. Now they disappear them to a secret underground prison (confinement facility? it's not really a real prison) on an island established initially by one of several possible international crime organizations and then seized by a serial killer and run by a really creepy…

My guess is that it's a result of them needing something to happen to villains that isn't being killed or just inexplicably leaving town or something, but at the same time knowing that they can't just send them over to regular jail.

The geographical distance/population size ratio in a lot of major cities is high enough that I think it's genuinely hard to conceptualize in a normal way, which affects that.

I kind of like the idea that Hogarth assumes that Kilgrave manipulates people and thinks that she can manipulate him back as a result, or that they're both manipulative so they can come to some kind of deal or something.

It kind of depends, though, doesn't it? A lot of those commands are the sort of thing where someone wouldn't really notice they were being commanded as opposed to just asked. If someone asked me for directions or something minor like that and I did it it wouldn't occur to me that I'd been mind controlled because I'd…

This was my suspicion as well. We really don't have a very good reason to trust their account given what we see on the video, or at least no more than Kilgrave's version of things.

Which, appropriately enough, is actually a fake name…

I especially like this episode because it makes clear something that has been strongly hinted at up till now but never made completely obvious: Jessica does not have an actual plan to defeat Kilgrave.

Sure, but that doesn't mean that what he feels for her is love. He's fascinated with her, obsessed with her and so on. But he clearly does not care one bit for her welfare or what she wants. (He cares about acting out the part but only to the extent that her welfare and what she wants are what he has already…

If the Missy version of the Master ever regenerates I think it would be really wonderful if they brought back Tennant and had just this.

If this is true for Kevin/Kilgrave then it's very revealing because he didn't get his powers until a lot later on.

I love the barbie house anecdote because of how clearly it demonstrates how self serving his true reasons are: after all, he caused that fire to play at being heroic and nobly saving the people in it. It's really just a great picture of his character, and the fact that he tells the story is especially nice because it…

This is true about Simpson, yeah, but I don't know about Jessica. She talks that way, sure, but she doesn't seem to have a very clear sense of how to go about doing it or what doing it would involve, so I'm guessing she doesn't really have a well thought out goal or intention here, at least consciously. …

If he tried to command a large crowd of people with only a rough grasp of English and it just ended up with them desperately trying to figure out among themselves what the verb he'd said was that would have been really funny.

I'd guess far more than one guy.

"I want a real, sincere connection to another human being, but only one that looks exactly like I would have commanded them to do!" He really wants Jessica to act the way he wants her to without controlling her, but he isn't willing to genuinely respect her autonomy at all which, I suppose, is kind of interesting…