Jess knows the other side of the story, the bits slaked from headlines and sensationalist photos and courtroom renderings. After verifying who he was, Jess spent most of her week in New York putting him out of her mind. His sudden throwing of the trial didn't sit right with her but she wasn't going to fall into an investigative rabbit hole over it, not so soon after leaving Kilgrave behind. He was no longer hers to make sense of. Enter Cloneville.

"I'd bet you anything he's the one who took the case," Jess remarks while contemplating her last bite of food. Nelson signing on for the Castle horror show didn't sit right with her either, but it spoke seductively to Matt's magnetism for martyrs. Plus the firm dissolved after it tanked. Awful good thing they didn't crash into each other's lives back then.