Dr. Rachel Quest

Dr. Rachel Quest is the deceased mother of Jonny Quest in the franchise of the same name.
==Appearance==
In both the first film and Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures, Rachel was depicted as a woman with short blonde hair.
==Biography (Non-Canon)==
During Jonny's Golden Quest, when Race beats Jonny in a tag-based training session where the latter played the bad guy, Jonny receives a call from his mother Rachel Quest to tell his father that 3-DAC received a call from Intelligence-One and is coded Geronimo.
At the Mexican Quest HQ, she was there when Commander Burns informs Dr. Quest that all Intelligence-One missions are an utmost concern for national security. Burns tells Benton that during the adventure in the Southern Hemisphere, Race Bannon has been instructed to remain armed at all times. Dr. Quest also has her join for this mission.
Once Burns patched them through the I-One headquarters in Peru, they are greeted by a general who told Team Quest about strange mutations occuring in a remote region of the rainforest
Upon seeing the footage, Race asks what to think of it. Benton asks Rachel to go first, Rachel could not tell much from the pictures and puts on glasses. She finds that the genetic anomalities could be a sign of drastic alterations on the region's ecosystem, potentially leading to the plant and animal life risking extinction.
Arriving in the jungle to cleanup the mess, Team Quest was alerted to the sounds of screeching wheels where Race meets Jade again. It is here that Race introduces the Quest parents to her.
After Race Banon introduces his ex-wife Jade, Jade explains she ran into some of the mutations that were reported a few weeks back and called I-One, making her the civilian contact, she calls it the fastest 5000 bucks she made. Jade then drives off.
At a river, Jonny talks with his mother who found the trip more exciting than what she did at the age of 12. When Jonny asks about the other cases with his father, she told him to try stuff with him since he is a great listener.
When Jonny asks if his mother still loves her husband, she explains she can never get over her first love and will happen to him someday much to his disgust. Rachel assures him it depends on the girl and will come to like it. Jonny still insists on holding some crocodile eggs any day.
Just then, they are greeted by a pair of dolphins and ride them back to camp when they are spotted by two of the replicants.
While Jonny, Hadji, and Race enter a race, Benton and Rachel get captured by the replicants on flying machines, leading to the racing party trying to track them down to Dr. Zin’s then-current lair.
At Zin’s lair where the two were in a laser cage, he laments that all things must come to an end and is glad to see an unsurprised Dr. Quest face to face for the first time. When Benton asks Zin about the genetic cesspool he caused in the valley, Dr. Zin responds by asking why he must meddle in his affairs and if he actually bothers to go to where Dr. Quest works and bothers him.
After taking a look at Rachel, Zin shows the pair the creatures he is creating and asks if they are frightened, He then tells Benton that he will be the first to his crowning achievement in creating life and one of his crudest beginnings and his earliest experiments. Just then, one of his replicants melts to ooze and bones much to Zin’s frustration.
When Zin asks where to find a rival close to his class, Dr, Quest tells him to pick a rock and look under it. Zin smacks him in response in front of Rachel. Zin then summons Snipe, one of his later models from a time after his team resolved the genetic decomposing problem. Zin then proceeds to use this secret to recreate himself. After Zin creates the clone, Race and the boys invade the lab to save the Quest parents.
After Jonny knocks out a scientist to free his parents, and Benton is thrown a gun by Race, Hadji uses his magic to seal a door only for Snipe to get through. When his lab was being destroyed, a strange man swipes a cd and runs for it. Just then, Zin recaptures Rachel and flies off.
Jonny drives in the truck to try and save his mother from Zin who shoots at them until they are blocked by a group of animals. When Jonny uses a grappling hook on Zin’s craft. Dr. Quest tries to shoot at Zin, but he uses her as a shield. When Zin tries to escape with her on a copter, it gets caught in the magma, killing both.
This event upsets Jonny where he asks his father why he did not shoot. Benton reasons he would've hit her, but this does not make Jonny feel better as he felt Benton let his mother die. Back at the lab, Jonny throws rocks while Bandit and Hadji watch.
Benton records a speech on a tape by the photo of his deceased wife that the last of Zin’s mutant cells were dealt with and all mutated samples have self-destructed and the last satellite sweep of the region indicated that there were no more contaminants. This also lead to his temproary retirement from Intellegence-One.
Benton goes to Jonny where he talks with him about the dolphins Rachel used to take care of and they must let them go as she would’ve wanted no matter how hard Jonny finds it. Benton warns his son that things will only begin to deteriorate between them as he cares about him as do Race and Hadji. Race watches as the argument regarding Rachel’s death continues.
Just then Hadji offers to take Jonny into town which he accepts readily. Benton asks Race if he could have made that shot to save his wife, Race replies no one would’ve made it and he must stop blaming himself as Jonny is doing enough of that for both of them and must face his demons himself.
In town, Hadji shows Jonny the Day of the Dead festival which was an old Mexican celebration which Jonny’s mother would've loved and used to see the Mardi Gras with Jonny and Hadji.
When Jonny looks at a replicant’s headgear after dropping it when Bandit thwarted its theft of a gold mask, he finds that Dr. Zin was still alive and that the Zin who died alongside Rachel was a clone. Zin then proceeds to declare his intent to regain the gold-processing secret he lost.
Watching a projected memory of an age when Rachel was still alive from the Synapse-Imager, Jessie remarks that Jonny’s mother was beautiful. He offers to let her see a memory of her father, but refuses as she would rather keep it in her head. Just then, Jonny shows her the memory of the time she spent in Peru before she died. Jonny asks her if she would be still alive if it was not for him.
Lastly, he shows her the time his mother died and vows to finish the job Dr. Quest could not. He then leaves and slams the door. She then puts on the device where she laments being separated from her mother.
After Dolphins save his father from Zin and help him escape the exploding salination plant, Jonny reconciles with his father, apologizing for how he treated him when he could not shoot Zin when he had his mother, having blamed him when it was Zin he hated all along.
==Canon Biography==
Prior to the events of the first show, she passed away which lead to Race Bannon being hired to protect Jonny and his father Benton.
==Trivia==
Her canon self sharing a name with the version in Golden Quest is nothing more than a coincidence as cited by Lance Falk.
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