Jenna York

**Jenna York** (Jaimie Alexander) is the main villainess of "Flight Risk," episode 7.18 of *CSI: Miami* (airdate March 16, 2009).

## Introduction

Jenna was introduced as a Pathways Air flight attendant who was a colleague of Suzanne Grady, the episode's victim, with the latter's corpse being publicly discarded amongst the baggage of Pathways Flight 88 from San Diego International Airport in the opening scenes. Her first appearance saw Calleigh Duquesne and Frank Tripp learning from her that Suzanne was experiencing a hangover after partying in San Diego on the day before the flight and voiced her worries about being caught by Carolyn Morrow during their latest "jump seat therapy" session. Jenna advised her drunk coworker to "sleep it off" in the plane's "romper room," where Suzanne secretly had sexual trysts with married pilot Grant Lawson—who was Flight 88's captain. Furthermore, she explained that Dormol (heavy-duty sleeping pills only legal in France) was used by flight attendants to help themselves get deep sleep, cope with jet lag, and keep them more attentive.

Along with stating that she did not see Grant follow her to the room in question, Jenna also sent the pair in the direction of Suzanne's stalker by giving them a picture that the person took of Suzanne while she was sleeping at a San Diego hotel, with the phrase "I enjoyed watching you sleep" handwritten on the back of it. The person who wrote those words and took the photo was unveiled as Marvin Duffy, a Flight 88 passenger. Denying that he killed his crush, he admitted that his infatuation with her drove him to smoke in the plane's restroom so that he would draw her attention. Marvin did so after noticing Suzanne behaving in a more relaxed manner than she did while working on past Pathways flights that he was on.

Additionally, a neck pillow emptied of its stuffing was found in the trash Carolyn collected, with a few Dormal pills being discovered inside of it; that meant someone aboard Flight 88 was smuggling the drug. Horatio Caine's suspicions fell on an arrogant federal air marshal named Aaron Nolan, as he was someone who could have snuck the pills onto the plane undetected. Following his admission to selling them for $10 each in order to "make a quick buck selling [them]" in the United States, Horatio and Frank tried to get Aaron to admit who his accomplice in the smuggling scheme was, but he refused to give up their identity before he was arrested for drug trafficking.

## Reveal/Arrest

Jenna's reveal as a villainess was initiated after her blood was identified as being on the door of an overhead compartment in the front of the plane by Eric Delko and Natalia Boa Vista. When she was asked about it by the pair, she cited that she cut her hands often while performing certain duties such as opening cans, handling passengers' suitcases, ripping their boarding passes, and continuously making sure the compartments are securely closed—while adding that it was all a nightmare for her manicure. After that, Jenna excused herself to catch a flight to Indonesia that she was on call for; it was to leave in two hours.

A gravitational drop of the aforementioned blood was found on Suzanne's uniform by Horatio, who proceeded to interrogate Jenna, with the latter cementing her reveal by confessing to everything. As shown through flashbacks, the greedy conspirator was unloading the Dormal pills from the neck pillow when Suzanne caught her trying to pick up a few of said pills from the floor, as the former had accidentally dropped them. The latter reported her discovery to Aaron, who then informed his accomplice of her colleague's intention to "point [her] out to security when [they] landed." Remembering how she told Suzanne to "sleep it off," Jenna paid a visit to the jet's "romper room" and found her taking a nap there.

She then decided to make sure "nobody in management would believe her story," beginning with drugging her with one of the pills as she stated that for "Suzie-Q," it was "time for landing." While Jenna dragged her unconscious victim to an access hatch located near Row 1, Aaron was asked by Carolyn to help her with a woman in coach class who "[wouldn't] calm down." With no one else sitting in first class except him, he wordlessly signaled for her to proceed. Jenna did so by opening the hatch and dropping Suzanne into Flight 88's cargo hold just as sudden turbulence sent it falling 100 feet and then another 60 feet. This resulted in her being flung up towards the cabin's ceiling, where the back of her left hand struck the overhead compartment, resulting in cuts that left behind some of her blood on its door; a drop of said blood fell onto Suzanne's clothes without her noticing.

After the jet landed at Miami International Airport, Jenna went down to the cargo hold and stashed Suzanne in a water ski case; the skis inside of it had been stolen by baggage handler Louie Clayton so that he could sell them online. The devious villainess left the case unlatched in the hopes that her colleague would harmlessly tumble out of it and be discovered unconscious on the baggage carousel for Flight 88's passengers, which would have made it appear that she was in league with Aaron. However, her plan backfired when Suzanne was tossed out of said case earlier than expected by the forces of the conveyor belt. Subsequently, several of her bones were broken, she was bruised numerous times, and some of her hair was ripped from her head as the baggage traveled underneath her—all before the sharp edge of the belt's luggage arm clipped one of Suzanne's carotid arteries, causing her to die from blood loss before her corpse arrived at the aforementioned carousel.

Defending herself by saying she had no idea of the fate that awaited Suzanne, Jenna admitted that her motive for becoming Aaron's accomplice was earning an extra $10,000 a year "helping out other flight attendants" (in her words). The deceptive criminal also expressed her opinion that her assistance with his illegal activities wasn't "that big of a deal," only for Horatio to reply by mentioning that "killing someone is always a big deal." After that, Jenna was briefly shown displaying some remorse for her actions before the episode's final scenes had her being arrested and also taken away along with Aaron.