Krysten Ritter is back. Tuesday, April 21st. Seven years after the credits rolled on Jessica Jones Season 3 and Marvel quietly let the Netflix era end, the private investigator from Hell’s Kitchen returns to the MCU in Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Episode 6 — titled “Requiem.”
The timing Marvel has chosen for this reunion is not accidental. It’s also not comforting.
Episode 6 drops on Disney+ at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT Tuesday night. The official Marvel image released ahead of it says everything: Daredevil in his red suit, Jessica Jones alongside him on a rooftop, New York City spread out below. They’re together for the first time since The Defenders in 2017. Whatever brought her here, she’s in.
Here’s what we know about how it happens. The midseason trailer for Season 2 showed the Anti-Vigilante Task Force — Fisk’s enforcement arm, the weapon he’s been wielding against every vigilante and dissident in the city — raiding Jessica’s home. Her daughter is there. She watches. That’s the trigger. Jessica Jones has been keeping her head down, presumably trying to have something resembling a normal life, and Fisk’s people just walked through her door. That’s not something she walks away from.
What’s Jessica been doing since 2019? The show hasn’t told us yet — and at this point, the withholding feels deliberate. Producer Brad Winderbaum described her role in Season 2 as “comparable” to how much we saw of the Punisher in Season 1. Which means she’s not the lead. She’s the cavalry for one specific stretch of the season. But the new detail — a daughter, a life she’s built — reframes everything about what her presence in Matt’s war actually costs her. This isn’t Jessica Jones charging in because she wants to. It’s because someone forced her hand.
That matters, because the context she’s walking into is the worst it’s been.
Episode 5 ended with Vanessa Fisk on the floor, a shard of glass in her head, the result of Bullseye’s ongoing spiral destroying everything around him. Fisk’s wife — the one anchor that has ever made Wilson Fisk something close to a human being — is either dead or close to it. If you know anything about how Kingpin operates in the comics, you know what this version of Fisk looks like when his control breaks. Daredevil already saved Bullseye’s life at the end of this episode, against all logic, following Foggy’s example. He made the moral call. Fisk, untethered, will not be making moral calls.
Jessica Jones showing up right now, at peak Fisk, is not the relief valve everyone’s coverage is treating it as.
Here’s what nobody’s asking: what if she makes it worse?
We know — courtesy of Mike Colter’s briefly-public Instagram post from the set of Season 3 — that Matt Murdock ends up in an orange prison jumpsuit. He’s behind bars at some point in the Season 3 story, with Luke Cage and Karen Page visible in the same shot. Showrunner Dario Scardapane has said the final five minutes of Season 2 reveal Season 3. The path from “Jessica Jones joins the resistance” to “Matt Murdock goes to prison” runs through whatever is about to happen in the remaining three episodes of this season.
That’s not a road that ends in victory. Or at least, not a clean one.
The Defenders reunion fans have been waiting for since 2017 is finally materialising — Finn Jones confirmed for Season 3, Luke Cage confirmed, Jessica arriving now, Iron Fist actor Finn Jones commenting “well, guess the cat’s out of the bag” on Colter’s remaining post. It’s all coming together. But the structure of what the show has laid out suggests the reunion happens on the other side of something going badly wrong. Jessica Jones arriving in Episode 6 may not be the moment Fisk’s hold on New York cracks. It may be the event that forces the final, catastrophic confrontation that costs Matt everything.
“Requiem” is a mass for the dead.
That title isn’t nothing.
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Episode 6 premieres Tuesday, April 21 at 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT on Disney+. Three episodes remain in the season, with the finale set for May 5.