| “ | I know, I know. Carls, look at me, okay? Look. We're gonna stay alive. We're gonna get out of this. We're gonna get out of these woods, we're gonna find the police and we're gonna make sure those motherfucks are punished for this. Okay? | ” |
— Jessie
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Jessica "Jessie" Burlingame is the deuteragonist in Wrong Turn. She is portrayed by Eliza Dushku.
Biography[]
Wrong Turn[]
Background[]
Jessie had recently broken up with her boyfriend in this film series. She never mentioned his name as of yet. Her friends Carly Numan, Scott Korbee, Francine Childes, and Evan Ross took her on a camping trip in the West Virginia, USA forest to get her mind off things. While driving down a dirt road Jessie and her friends accidentally run over a laid out strip of barbed wire that was placed on the road by cannibals. Jessie's group gets out of cars and check things out.
Trapped with the Cannibals[]
Chris Flynn is on the same road that Jessie and her friends are on and he accidentally crashes into their car when he wasn't paying attention to the road up ahead. Both cars were damaged, but no one was hurt. Evan and Francine were angry at what Chris has done to everything that was unintentional, but Scott calmed Jessie and Chris and them all down. Jessie shows the group the strip of barbed wire and thinks someone put it on the road on purpose. Carly jokes about redneck assholes doing it.
Jessie, Chris, Scott, and Carly go to leave to go get help, while Evan and Francine stay behind at the cars, where they are soon killed by the cannibals. Jessie, Chris, Scott and Carly enter a cabin in the wooded areas. The cabin is dirty and is filled with junk. Scott helps Carly try to find the bathroom. Chris looks in the kitchen and Jessie goes looking around and Chris goes looking with Jessie in room close by. Carly finds a hand in the tub. Chris finds body parts in a container in the fridge. Jessie finds barbed wire, the same one used on the road Jessie and Chris seen beforehand. Everyone meets back with each other and starts panicking everybody all at once. They hear the cannibals coming home, so they all hide (Jessie Burlingame, Chris Flynn, Scott Korbee and Carly Numan). Carly and Scott hide in a room. Jessie and Chris hide underneath a bed. The cannibals enter and drop Francine's body on the ground (next to Jessie Burlingame & Chris Flynn). Chris and Jessie see this and her blood drips to them. The cannibals then take Francine's body and place her dead body on a table. Saw Tooth drops a bullet to his gun and it rolls where Chris and Jessie are. They start to get nervous because Saw Tooth might look underneath the bed (with Jessie and Chris), but instead of looking for Jessie and Chris, Saw Tooth sticks his hand underneath and finds the bullet with his hand, then grabs it. Three Finger and Saw Tooth then begin sawing and dismembering Francine up with a saw. Chris and Jessie hear it. Scott and Carly see it through a small hole in the door.
Later, when the cannibals go to sleep, everyone gets out of their hiding spots. Chris holds the squeaky spring of the door because it makes a noise as Jessie looks around for the noise sounding/sound but Jessie gets worried about Chris and her. The others get out. Chris sees that Saw Tooth is awake and is staring at him. Chris, Jessie, Carly, and Scott run up a hill and into the forest. The cannibals go after them and get in their truck. The group finds a clearing in the forest and finds a whole fleet of cars that belonged to the people the cannibals killed. The cannibals show up with their truck on the other side and everyone including Jessie and Chris take off. Chris tries to distract the cannibals so the others can get their truck, but Chris gets shot in the leg. Scott kisses Carly and runs off and shouts at the cannibals, luring the cannibals away from the girls and Chris. Jessie and Carly help Chris up and they get to the truck. Jessie opens the truck's door and Evan's body falls out onto the ground. Carly screams and doesn't want to get in, but Jessie and Chris make her and they drive off.
°Dushku and Harrington° (still photograph) from 2017.
They try to look for Scott and they find him, but before he can make it to them, Saw Tooth shoots three arrows into his back, killing him. Carly screams and cries. Saw Tooth tries to shoot them in the truck, but the arrow hits the truck's window and shatters it. Jessie, Chris, and Carly drive away. Carly is a mess and wants to go back for Scott. Chris and Jessie try calming her. They end up at a dead end and get the truck stuck in the mud. They get out of the car. Carly sits down and doesn't wanna go any further. Chris finds a large stick and uses it to help him walk. Jessie reassures Carly that they are going to get out. Jessie, Chris and Carly walk through the forest and Chris is almost caught in a bear trap. Jessie screams and grabs Chris's side, while Carly laughs. They continue walking and after a while, they all decide to rest. Carly sees a watch tower and the three climb it, then they all get inside.
Boiling Point[]
It starts getting late, Carly finds glow sticks and gives some to Jessie and Chris. Jessie finds a first aid kit and fixes Chris's wound on his leg. Carly finds a radio and they try to get help, but no one answers. It's dark now. Chris looks out the window and sees the cannibals holding torches up, looking for them in the forest. They all hide the glow sticks and try to be quiet. A man on the radio begins talking, alerting the cannibals they are up in the watch tower. Jessie tries to get the man to help them, but he keeps asking what's their position. Jessie helps Chris move a desk on the hatch so the cannibals can't get in. Carly screams at the man on the radio to hurry up and help them, but he never answers back. It becomes quiet and then Three Finger sticks his hand and fingers through the hatch, but Chris stomps on it. Three Finger screams and pulls his hand away. Carly tries using the radio again, but the radio is yanked back by the cord by Three Finger. Everyone gets up and discovers the cannibals have set the watch tower on fire. Carly panics and finds an old big suitcase. She smashes a window and tries to jump, but Jessie and Chris stop her. But Chris realizes Carly is right. Jessie is confused with him. Chris tells them both that there are huge trees nearby and they can jump into them. Chris, Jessie and Carly begins crossing over big branches on the trees. The cannibals see them. Three Finger climbs the trees, while Saw Tooth tries to shoot Jessie and Carly with arrows. Jessie and Chris make it over the other side of the tree, but Carly is scared and stays where she is. Three Finger sneaks up to Carly while he's holding an axe. Chris and Jessie try to warn her, but as Carly turns Three Finger swings the axe and decapitates Carly through the mouth. Jessie cries for her friend, but Chris covers her mouth and holds her back.
Final escape[]
Chris and Jessie then make a plan. Jessie leads Three Finger to her and when he is about to attack her, Chris, who has pulled a large branch back, let's go of it and it swings back at Three Finger, knocking him out of the tree. Jessie and Chris then get out of the trees and hide under a huge waterfall. They both see the cannibals passing by, but the cannibals don't see them through the rushing water. Jessie and Chris sit down. Jessie tells Chris about how she came home one day, finding a message her boyfriend left, telling her he doesn't wanna be with her anymore and Carly, Scott, Evan and Francine planned the trip for her. She is sad that they are dead and Chris tells her it isn't her fault. They hug and soon fall asleep. Jessie wakes up and sees Saw Tooth swinging an axe at her, but it was only just a dream. Chris and Jessie leave the waterfall and goes through the forest. They get to a hill and find the road. The cannibals then show up and Chris is almost hit with an axe. The cannibals push Chris down the hill and takes Jessie away. The cannibals take Jessie to their place and as she is taken, Chris talks with a police officer.
Soon, the officer is killed and Chris saves a distraught Jessie, and the two are then safe and shown to be alive.
Trivia[]
- Jessie Burlingame is the final girl of Wrong Turn.
- As a homage, Jessie Burlingame has the same name of the protagonist from Stephen King's 1992 novel, Gerald's Game.
- There is a deleted scene, where Jessie and Chris kiss under the waterfall.
- Eliza Dushku was going to originally play herself as the opening victim in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End but was scrapped.
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