AKA I Have No Spleen

## Marvel Cinematic Universe

*"A hero is strong. A hero is invulnerable. A hero has a goddamn spleen."*
―Jessica Jones
***AKA I Have No Spleen*** is the third episode of the third season of the television series *Jessica Jones*.

## Synopsis

Itching to get back out on the streets and find her attacker, Jessica defies her doctor's advice. Jeri reconnects reflects with her college flame Kith.

## Plot

   Trish Walker leaves immediately after giving Andrew Brandt's name to Jessica Jones. Jones, all alone in the room, examines her wound, discovering that her spleen was removed. The doctor informs her that if she was a normal human then her injuries would’ve been fatal. But Jones has her sights set on Brandt and doesn't care much for what the doctor had to say. She then attempts to stand as she wants to be discharged, but she finds herself too weak to move, and is helped back onto the bed by the doctor.

While using the bathroom, Malcolm Ducasse notices that he is peeing blood. He appears disturbed, but not surprised. Zaya Okonjo then enters the bathroom to bring him back to bed, but notices the blood too, as well as the bruise on Ducasse's abdomen, which he claims was the result of a minor car wreck and it is simply internal bruising that will pass. Zaya wants to sue, but Ducasse decides against it, saying that he will work from home because he doesn't want to deal with Jeri Hogarth. Hogarth and Kith Lyonne have lunch at Tutto Ilgiorno, a local restaurant. The last time Lyonne saw Hogarth, she cried so hard her eyes were swollen for three days. The time before that, they were romantic. Lyonne inquires about Wendy, who Hogarth left her for. Hogarth married her, but later cheated. Hogarth then reveals that Wendy died in a tragic accident. She questions if Lyonne was still mad at her, to which Lyonne was undecided on. She tells Lyonne that she asked her out because she wanted to see if she was happy. Lyonne replies saying she is very happy. She married Peter Lyonne a year after their break up, which started as a rebound but turned into 23 years and a family. Lyonne tells Hogarth that she lost her daughter to cancer which Hogarth replies with her condolences. After Zoey died, Lyonne stopped playing, and became a teacher. Jeri reveals that she still has the tape that Lyonne composed for her all those years ago. As tension from the past rose, Lyonne decided to excuse herself, but not before noting her disbelief that Hogarth still had the tape.

At the hospital, Jones is discharged against medical advice. Still weak and wounded from her attack, Jones limps her way home. She is greeted at the door by Gillian, who installed new security measures. Jones orders Gillian to find out everything she could about Andrew Brandt, but is told her shift is over. Before leaving, Gillian informs Jones that Vido Arocho stopped by to give her a gift and she then gave Jones her medication. In her refrigerator, Jones found the burger that Erik Gelden had made for her. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Jones and Walker are simultaneously studying the same case, looking into Andrew Brandt. Jones falls asleep at her desk, but wakes up when Ducasse knocks on the door. She thanks him for calling the ambulance and he gives her the knife that she was stabbed with which he swiped before the police arrived. He said called in a favor and ran the prints. The knife is clean and too common to trace. He figures Jones would say that she didn't need any favors, so he bills her to his services.

   Later, Jones breaks into Brandt's apartment to look for any clues. Walker is there as well, though she didn't come up with any leads. Brandt was her target first, and she wants to be the one to bring him in, though Jones wanted vengeance after he stabbed her. Walker is concerned that Jones might take this from her. She tells Jones to go home and take care of herself, and to allow Walker to handle Brandt. Before Jones’ intervention, Walker intended to take Brandt to the police, but she knew this wasn't Jones’ goal. After congratulating Zaya on a job well done, Hogarth calls Ducasse into her office. She is very much aware of Ducasse and Zaya's relationship, though she doesn't care, so long as the two of them sign a consent form. As for the assignment she called him in for, it is to stay between the two of them. She needs a workup on Peter Lyonne to know what he is hiding.

Jones makes a series of calls regarding potential auctions for the stolen sculpture, but each call leads nowhere. Disguised as a student, Ducasse infiltrates the university and breaks into Lyonne's office. He hacks Lyonne's hard drive and gains access to his laptop, allowing him full surveillance. Peter Lyonne returns as Ducasse is leaving the office. Lyonne mistakes him for a student in need of assistance and invits him in. Ducasse claims his name is Darryl and that he is looking to transfer into Lyonne's seminar. Lyonne, completely unsuspecting, believes Ducasse's story.

Jones is visited by Erik. She tells him that she doesn't have a spleen, though neither are aware of its purpose to begin with. He inquires about Jones’ attacker. She suspected who it is, and he questions what she would do with him when she found him. Jones, however, doesn't provide much of an answer. Erik claims that the real reason he stopped by is to see if she tried the burger. They still have a $50 bet on the line. Jones lies and said she tossed it. After a successful day of work on Style by Trish, Walker runs home, changing out of her work clothes and into her crime fighting clothes.

Hogarth stops by Jones’ apartment after learning that she had been stabbed. She also finds out that Jones posed as an assistant for her firm in search of the sculpture. Hogarth says she takes an alarming amount of medication just to get out of bed everyday. In spite of being fundamentally vulnerable and alone, she gets out of bed, goes to work, and wins. She says expects the same from Jones. As for the sculpture, Hogarth agrees to make some calls. In the meantime, she has her actual assistant send some names of galleries for Jones to survey. Within moments, Jones has the list.

From there, Jones hits the streets. It doesn't take her long to realize that Walker is following her. As a distraction, she hands off a napkin to an unsuspecting guy on the street. Walker then approaches the man and forcefully takes the napkin only to discover that there is nothing on it, except for mustard. Jones suddenly passes out while walking down the street. Fortunately, Walker isn't far behind and calls an ambulance. Walker then finds a piece of paper inside Jones’ jacket and runs off with it.

Kith Lyonne shows up at Hogarth's apartment after Hogarth sent her a photo of the alleged tape she supposedly kept. Lyonne composed it when she was 21. They recorded it while in bed. Lyonne says she had something for Hogarth. She pulled up a chair and played music for her. Hogarth has never been more in love. She then puts the tape in and tries to play it, but it doesn't work. Lyonne decides to pull out her cello and play for her. Hogarth approaches Lyonne and caressed her body. Lyonne stopped herself before it went too far, but only briefly. She then got on top of Hogarth and they start kissing.

   Ducasse, sitting right across of Zaya, begins his surveillance on Peter Lyonne, after he previously gained access through his laptop camera. His only discovery was that Lyonne is having an affair. He played the video attached, but when Zaya snatches his headphones off his head so that he could hear her, she mistakes his assignment for porn, which she says she's perfectly fine with. She actually wants to watch it with him, which leads to them having sex.

Jones wakes up in the hospital once again. She lost consciousness due to dehydration. She starts panicking after having flashes of her attack and immediately asks for her belongings. She receives a message from Hogarth regarding an auction the following day at the Cassaro Gallery. After reading the message, she tells the doctor she will stay.

Hogarth and Lyonne lay in bed, staring into each other's eyes after having sex. Lyonne looks at Hogarth and sees someone who had everything they ever had wanted, though Hogarth insists this isn't true. As for Peter, Hogarth wondered what Kith would tell him. She says she'd tell him the truth as she and Peter have an open marriage. When Zoey died, they gave each other their own sanity. While marriage is long, they'll never leave each other.

Jones is right back on her feet the following day for the Cassaro Gallery auction. She walks around the building to the back alley and jumps up onto the roof. Jones breaks in through the door on the roof and finds the sculpture. Unfortunately, Walker is at the auction as well, posing as a buyer. She hacks into their computer and takes a photo of their sellers’ contact information. Jones waits outside the building for Walker. Jones wants Brandt's contact info and Walker wants the sculpture. Walker then proceeds to call Jones out on her bullshit. She claims Jones wants to be a hero but doesn't have what it takes. Jones doesn't care for what she has to say. She only wants Brandt's info and demands that it be handed over. However, Walker has spent the last year honing her abilities, making her what she describes as unstoppable. Jones then backhands Walker, sending her to the ground. Jones dropped the sculpture, grabs Walker's phone, and informs her that no one is unstoppable. She then calls Brandt from Walker's phone, posing as an assistant for the gallery. She informs him that his lot has sold and asked where he'd like the check delivered.

    Jones enters Brandt's hideout and takes his gun. He is visibly afraid, telling her to take whatever she wanted, though Jones isn't interested. She then pins Brandt to the wall with a car. He suspects that Jones is hired by his sister, however, Jones informs him that she couldn't care less about the sculpture. She's angry that he hired someone to stab him. Brandt claims that he did no such thing. He'd been hiding out ever since she and Walker broke into his apartment. On top of that, he doesn't have anyone to hire as no one will risk pissing off a couple of supers. Realizing that he is telling the truth, Jones pulls the car off of him and calls Walker. She tells her that Brandt isn't her attacker and gave the location to find Brandt.

Ducasse reveals to Hogarth that Peter Lyonne was having an affair, though that wasn't enough. Hogarth needs more. She wants him to dig deeper.

Jones returns to her apartment to find Eddy Costa awaiting her arrival. His station got an anonymous call about a perp they've been trying to pin down for months. They found him gift wrapped with hard evidence against him. But, he keeps whining about a couple of powered chicks who were after him, one of which was Jones. He then asks about the second powered masked woman. However, Jones claims that she doesn't know her. After Costa leaves, Jones invites Erik over and admits that she ate the burger and owes him $50. As she speaks to Erik, she has flashes of her attack. It is then that she realizes she isn't the target. So, she invites Erik in, chokes him up on the door, and asks why someone wants him dead.

## Cast

**Main Cast:**

* Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones
* Rachael Taylor as Trish Walker
* Eka Darville as Malcolm Ducasse
* Benjamin Walker as Erik Gelden
* Sarita Choudhury as Kith Lyonne
* Jeremy Bobb as Gregory Sallinger
* Tiffany Mack as Zaya Okonjo
* Carrie-Anne Moss as Jeri Hogarth

**Guest Stars:**

* John Benjamin Hickey as Peter Lyonne
* John Ventimiglia as Detective Eddy Costa
* Aneesh Sheth as Gillian
* Jessica Frances Dukes as Grace Bennett
* Matt Weiss as Andrew Brandt
* Ezra Barnes as Doctor Purks
* Pedro Carmo as Gallerist
* Neville Braithwaite as Waiter
* Zuhdi Boueri as Nurse
* Anthony J. Gallo as Street Vendor
* Michael Kelberg as Man On Street
* Tobee Paik as P.A.
* Sandra Glinka as Graduate Student
* Lynn Marocola as FDNY Paramedic (uncredited)
* Bob Leszczak as Pedestrian (uncredited)
* Necole Milone as Pedestrian (uncredited)
* John DiGiorgio as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

## Appearances

### Locations

* New York City, New York
	+ Metro-General Hospital
	+ Jessica Jones' Apartment Building
		- Malcolm Ducasse's Apartment
		- Alias Investigations Office
		- Bronwyn University
	+ *Tutto Ilgiorno*
	+ Trish Walker's Hideout
	+ Andrew Brandt's Apartment
	+ Hogarth & Associates Law Office
	+ Jeri Hogarth's Apartment
	+ Cassaro Gallery
	+ 15th Precinct Police Station (mentioned)
* Israel (mentioned)

### Events

* Attack on Andrew Brandt
* Ambush at Alias Investigations Office (flashback)

### Organizations

* Alias Investigations
* Hogarth & Associates
* Cheng Consulting Management
* New York City Police Department
* WJBP-TV
* ARN
* Fire Department of New York City

### Mentioned

* Wendy Ross-Hogarth
* Pam
* Zoey Lyonne
* Vido Arocho
* Oscar Arocho
* Madeline Brandt
* Serena
* Tucker Price
* Jim Shaw

## References

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## External Links

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