- "But for the first time, I'm grateful, because it takes a monster to stop a monster, and that's what's coming for Trish!"
- ―Will Simpson[src]
The Murder of Will Simpson was an attempt by Alisa Jones to kill Will Simpson, who was protecting Trish Walker.
Background[]
- "Don't come any closer."
- ―Trish Walker to Will Simpson[src]
Trish Walker was sobbing on the set of a movie, and noticed her multiple missed calls from Griffin Sinclair and Jessica Jones. Walker inspected some suspicious noises she heard and found Will Simpson in a black hoodie. Walker pulled out a gun, warning him not to take another step, and then he did she shoot him in the leg. Despite this, Simpson seemed not to care and still limped forward.
Jones knocked down Dorothy Walker's apartment door and Dorothy attacked her with a golf club, but Jones easily knocked it out of her hands, saying she had sixty seconds to tell her what happened between her and Walker. Dorothy hastily said she had a right to a relationship with her daughter, and that if Walker wanted Jones to know, she would have told her. But Jones continued to count down from sixty, until Dorothy revealed that Walker wanted to know Max Tatum's contact information, and the fact that he was currently in Brooklyn filming a movie.[3]
Murder[]
Jessica Jones finds Will Simpson tied up
- "It's here! Take Trish, and run. Run!"
- ―Will Simpson to Jessica Jones[src]
Jessica Jones arrived at the Brooklyn movie set, which had closed for the night, and followed a trail of blood to an empty stage, where Trish Walker had tied up a bleeding Will Simpson. Walker showed Jones some drugs she found on him, commenting on how they were like the pills he took before, as they kept him from feeling pain. Jones accused him of killing Whizzer and Miklos Kozlov, but he denied it, saying the new drugs he was taking prevent him from losing control like before, and that he only wanted to protect Walker from IGH.
Simpson told the two IGH sent someone to stop Walker's investigation into them. He said that he was the only one who knew about what Kozlov was involved in because he was trapped in an IGH clinic, where Jessica herself was experimented on, by someone other than Kozlov according to Simpson. He said he overheard a conversation between Kozlov and the other person about wanting Walker out of the way. Walker asked why she was still alive if they wanted her dead, and Jones suggested it was because perhaps Simpson has been truly protecting her.
The lights suddenly went out, and Simpson told Jones to take Walker and run. Joned untied his bonds, and Walker gave Simpson her gun, and he struggles to run with his limp in the opposite direction of Walker and Jones. The two women hurried towards an exit and heard Simpson shooting far away. They ran into a shadowy figure, who leapt into the air above them, and exitsed through a stage door behind them. Jones remarked that they were not after Walker. They ran and found Simpson dead on the floor with his neck snapped.[3]
Aftermath[]
- "Simpson was right. It takes a monster to stop a monster. He just wasn't the right monster."
- ―Jessica Jones[src]
Jessica Jones and Trish Walker visited a beach vacation spot that Jones used to go to with her family to dump Will Simpson's body out at sea. Walker was disappointed that he didn't get a proper funeral, but Jones pointed out that the police had already found her with too many bodies. They prepared to abandon Simpson's stolen car and remove the evidence. Walker found an arsenal of guns and the special drug he always took in the trunk. Jones wanted to dump them, too, but Walker insisted on keeping it.[4]