Trish, meanwhile, wakes up under her mother’s care and learns she slept for 26 hours. Her mom suspects she is back on drugs, which Trish instantly denies. Still, her mom informs her she has an interview with ZCN and gets her cleaned up. Trish is disappointed when she arrives and learns it is actually a proposal from Griffin. She realizes she doesn’t actually want to be with the man but rather wants to be him. She breaks it off, which pisses off her mom who accuses Trish of calling Tatum just to sleep with him again, causing Trish to slap her in the face, thus severing their relationship for the moment. In a bad place, she takes more of Simpson’s inhaler and it is clear she is becoming addicted once more.

During all of this, we get some cuts to the perspective of the powered woman, who we see burning all of Jessica’s evidence about IGH, and then settling into her quiet home, which seems strangely well-appointed for a “monster” murderer. We see her attempt to play the piano, teaching herself using her iPad, and she is visited by a neighbor who says the piano is calming to her infant and asking if she can stay and listen. The child’s cries seem to agitate the powered woman and the mom, sensing something is wrong, flees the house just before the woman goes berserk and smashes the piano to pieces, which we later see her burning outside. Clearly, the woman is not well in the head.

Hogarth agrees to take in Inez and it is clear she has other motivations, perhaps wanting Inez to set her up with someone from IGH to cure her ALS. They start to bond even as Inez demands a few items from Hogarth like fancy creams and a new outfit. It is clear Inez knows Hogarth wants info and will only keep her around until she gets it. Jessica, meanwhile, follows another lead which leads her to a mental institution, which she gains access to thanks to forged documents made by now friendly super, Oscar, who she had made amends with following an incident where she saved his son.

While speaking to the prisoner she learns he used to have lunch with a doctor at IGH who shared his love of octopi. The man was wrongly imprisoned for the death of a nurse who Inez claims was actually killed by the powered woman. Jessica heads to the local aquarium to try to find the doctor, Karls Malus, and when she spots him near the octopus tank she flashes to memories of his face from when she was being experimented on. Soon enough, the man is joined by the powered woman and it is clear they are a couple as both appear to be wearing wedding bands. As she takes pictures of them, Jessica is spotted and the woman smashes her fist into the glass tank, rupturing it just as the episode ends. (Continued on next page)