In Kill Jackie, Jackie Price has never been the woman who can be controlled or tamed. She was at the top of the coke business in her time, building an empire 20 years ago, only to leave it behind for unknown reasons. Since that fateful day, Jackie kept a low profile until Charlie’s mistake put not only her life at risk but also everything she built.
At the end of episode 2, Jackie Price is dealt a hard blow despite taking down a Demon. Karenina is able to track Charlie through the coffee royalty card and has her stabbed by another Demon named Li Dong. Charlie dies in Jackie’s arms, uttering the words ‘keep the faith’ as a last reminder of her undying fidelity towards her.
To get a better understanding of Jackie’s circumstances, episode 3 opens with a quick flashback scene of Jackie fleeing after killing her former business partners. She runs outside and texts someone to come get her, but before she can escape, she’s shot from behind by a mysterious man. She falls to the ground, and her bulging belly reveals she was indeed pregnant.
Fortunately for her, Jackie survived by shooting her killer before passing out. The next time Jackie regains consciousness, she’s in the hospital. A doctor monitors her, but as soon as she sees the tattoo on his arm, Jackie figures she’s still not safe. The doctor immediately tries to smother her with a pillow, but she ends up gaining the upper hand and kills the guy.
Jackie makes a kill list
The flashback intercuts to the morning routine of Li Dong. He’s a music and fitness fanatic who loves working out and enjoys keepsakes from his victims, like the stuffed penguin he took from Charlie’s bag. He takes out his phone, and there’s a picture of Jackie on it, which he licks in anger as if mentally preparing to make it as painful as possible when he finds her.
Back at Jackie’s apartment, she hallucinates Charlie, who keeps telling her to get her game together if she wants to survive. Jackie is obviously grief-stricken, but she can’t lose focus, so she makes a kill list for anyone who has crossed her. She also orders another package from the Poltergeist, and this time it’s a Northern Soul CD. Jackie must have picked the ‘keep the faith’ motto from Charlie and is now preparing bait for her killer.
She takes the record to a vinyl shop to sell it, but the shop owners try to scam her, saying it’s a reissue, so there’s essentially no resale value. However, Jackie points out that it's an original since it says 1976 on the imprint footer. She also tells them that, since it is an unplayed 140-gram copy of ‘She’s Gone’ by the Hamilton Movement, this record is one of only four in the world.
Jackie makes a deal with the owners; she knows the value of the copy is about $9,000, but she’s willing to take only 1,000 euros if they agree to post on their subscriber list that the record can only be collected in person. They will also contact her on a given number once someone places an offer.
She then leaves to go somewhere else, but Sam confronts her, saying she always leaves him in the dark and never explains the plan. Jackie doesn’t take him seriously because she can’t think beyond her crush on him, but she still gives him an important task. Jackie gives Sam the name of a banned antidepressant and tells him to get it, and she promises that once they find Li Dong, they’ll hand him over to the police.
Later, Jackie uses the Poltergeist’s services once again to find someone who doesn’t want to be found. When the person is located, she’s sent to an isolated, rundown house at the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere. When Jackie arrives at the door, she’s shot from behind with a dart that knocks her out.
When she comes to, Jackie sees a man standing over her, not too thrilled to see her, but nonetheless, he unties her and practically demands that she sit at the table. It turns out the man is an old acquaintance of Jackie’s who made every effort to disappear, but she still found him.
Like classic Jackie, she beats about the bush, talking about old times, how the man took out a powerful family all by himself and presented their body parts as trophies and even ate some of them. However, he doesn’t have it and threatens Jackie to get to the point because people who find him don’t get to live to tell the tale.
Jackie talks about how she knows why he left the Demons all those years ago. Zigor argues that he only set up a few contacts for Jackie 19 years ago and she paid him well, so he doesn’t owe her any favors for what she’s about to ask. However, Jackie offers him revenge and money, but Zigor is furious because dreams of revenge and the attempt to leave the Demons left him rotting in a hole all alone.
Jackie reassures Zigor that she will destroy the Demons no matter the cost, but she’ll need his help. Zigor says he needs a drink, and they go to a local shack. They talk about how it's every gangster’s dream to leave the business unscathed, and Jackie achieved that. Why on Earth would she want to go back to the old days? She insists it's no one from her past; it’s a spoiled trust-fund kid she refused to sell some art to.
Unfortunately, by killing Charlie, they have made it personal, and she won’t stop until all the Demons are gone. As they drink, Zigor offers Jackie some painkillers that later turn out to be ecstasy. When the drug’s effect kicks in, the two dance the day away at the beach, reminding Jackie of the good times in her life.
Later, when they are sober, Jackie points out that she knows the Demons killed Zigor’s wife when he tried to leave them. Zigor gets a quick glimpse of his dead wife on the beach and admits that he comes here to find some closure.
Somewhere in the city, Sam is searching for Jackie’s banned drug and ends up at a shady makeshift pharmacy at the back of a truck. He gives the gangster-looking pharmacist the drug's name, but she refuses until Sam offers cash. She gives him the drug, saying it's best he doesn’t mix it with Viagra.
The Seven Demons meet their match
The next day, Jackie wakes up with an envelope from Ziggy saying he’ll help, but he names a hefty price for it. The next second, Jackie receives the text from the Vinyl guys that the buyer will soon arrive, and it's none other than the Demon she’s hunting.
Li Dong arrives at the shop and buys the copy for a whopping 9,000 euros. As he’s leaving the shop, he hears Jackie talking on the phone across the street from him, and he immediately runs after her. Jackie leads him on a long chase, appearing and disappearing here and there until she leads him into an underground cage. It turns out that it was all a trap, and Jackie had Sam dress as her to distract Dong.
A few moments later, Zigor arrives with a camera and starts mixing the medicine Sam brought. It takes a second to register, but Sam realizes that Jackie never intended to turn Dong in. She wants to torture him and send the Demons a message. When he starts to make a scene, Jackie takes Sam out for ice cream. He complains he can’t trust her and that she’ll go to such lengths. However, Jackie argues that the people they are up against are supposed to be dealt with harshly.
The mixture they gave Dong causes the person unimaginable pain and psychological torture that they end up harming themselves. That’s why they placed a potato peeler in the cage for Dong. Sam is disgusted and angry, but he can’t do much about Jackie’s dark sense of humor.
She later calls Karenina and tells her to look at the live feed. As she opens the link, Doc arrives, who is impressed by Jackie’s ways. It's something she herself would have done to her targets. Jackie tells Karenina to show the video to all the Demons and tell them she’s coming for them all.
The Doc lauds Jackie’s cleverness but then prepares another one of the Demons to take up the task. Back at her apartment, Jackie plays the record she took from Dong and dances her sorrows away as she hallucinates Charlie dancing around with her.
Up next is Kill Jackie episode 4! You can watch the full series on AMC+ and Prime Video right now.
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