The Defenders recap: 'Worst Behavior' 

Mike Colter, Krysten Ritter, Charlie Cox, Finn Jones

Resurrections! Lessons about privilege! A hallway fight scene! “Worst Behavior” is definitely the most exciting episode of the season so far, and it builds to Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist accidentally assembling for the first time. (Let’s be real: These four people would never join forces on purpose.)

The episode opens with an extensive flashback to Alexandra learning of Elektra’s death (which we saw in

season 2) and mobilizing the Hand to resurrect her, which uses up most of their resources (read: blood?). But this is the Black Sky, damn it! It’s worth it! The newly resurrected Elektra is a blank slate; she has none of OG Elektra’s memories, which is perfect for Alexandra because she wants to turn Elektra into a killing machine. Through a pretty awesome training montage, we see Elektra graduate from training batons to real weapons. For her final trial, she has to defeat and kill a large group of Hand minions, which she has no problem doing because she’s the Black Sky, damn it!

Satisfied with Elektra’s performance, Alexandra finally answers Elektra’s “Who am I?” question. “This is the answer. This is who you are,” says Alexandra, as she opens a box that contains a red outfit for Elektra.

This moment is actually kind of weird when you consider it in the context of the Netflix/Marvel world and this story. Elektra has no memories whatsoever, so receiving some clothes shouldn’t really mean anything to her, right? However, it does mean something for comic fans, because it tells us we’ll finally see Elektra in her classic red outfit. This treatment of a costume reminds me of how the final season of

handled Clark’s Superman outfit: Jor-El withheld it from him until he was worthy of it, i.e. until the finale. What’s even weirder here is that the Marvel/Netflix shows are very anti-costume. Have you noticed how none of the subway posters for

show Matt Murdock in his Daredevil outfit, even though it would be a stronger visual? But I digress. This beat feels contrived, but I’m not mad at it — just intrigued.

From there we move to the present day and find Alexandra, with Elektra by her side, interrogating Stick about the Iron Fist’s whereabouts. These two have clearly been playing this interrogation game for quite some time, but now it has come to an end because Alexandra is on tight schedule. Rather than give up Danny’s whereabouts, Stick disarms Elektra and cuts off his hand in order to escape.

And now it’s time to start moving the Defenders into place for the big Hallway Fight Scene™. First up, we have Jessica and Matt. Matt tries to get Jessica to open up to him about whatever she’s gotten herself involved in, but Jessica, as she is wont, refuses his help. Once Jessica is released, Matt follows her, which leads to a very fun (especially visually) cat-and-mouse game that ends in Jessica managing to lose Matt

 snapping some pictures of him doing his blind parkour thing, which raises a lot of questions for her. 

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