Jessica Jones: Built, Not Born

He is the one man in New York who can hear the Purple Man say "kneel" and pour himself a drink instead. Vincent Halloran, a washed-out private investigator who died in a 2026 fire, wakes three weeks before Kilgrave returns to Hell's Kitchen - immune to the compulsion that owns everyone else, able to read a stranger's deepest wound through four seconds of skin, and built tougher than the streets that should have killed him. He thinks he got lucky. He didn't: a hidden lab flagged his crossing soul and anchored it into a dead man's body for reasons he won't learn until the file lands. Every command he refuses costs him a memory of someone he loved, every power he spends takes a piece of his future, and the price of breaking the man who steals free will is to slowly erase his own past. He can save the city, the sister of a friend, the woman he's falling for - but the bill comes due in everything he can no longer remember, and the people who made him are still collecting.