Jessica watched in horror as tears threatened to run down Kilgrave's face, his voice cracking in a pain she hadn't known he was capable of. And then he held his mother with a tenderness she didn't think was possible from him. For the first time since she had met the sadistic man, she saw a humanity in him that she didn't think was possible. She saw the abused boy he used to be and she pitied him.
Louise raised the scissors over her son as she embraced him before plunging the blades into his arm, the action made more cruel by the genuine apology and forgiveness that had been on Kilgrave's face only moments before. As twisted as it had been, it had been real. Jessica felt guilt sweep over her as the realization of what had just happened crossed Kilgrave's face. She knew what was coming. It had been the plan all along. But Jessica saw what she couldn't unsee. A child hurt and alone and afraid, confused and abandoned by the very people who were meant to care for him. And a genuine sociopathic inability to understand what he had done wrong. A child in a man's body.
Jessica slammed her hand onto the red button.
'I'm sorry, Kevin.'