| “ | Mary-Beth Casey's younger sister. Jo-Beth likes to sneak out of her parents' house at weekends to fight crime and kill monsters. Her high school show and tell sessions are really something quite special. | „ |
| ~ TimeSplitters 2 official bio |
Jo-Beth Casey is a recurring character in the TimeSplitters video game series, appearing in the two sequels. She is the younger sister of Mary-Beth Casey and much like her older sibling, enjoys fighting crime and monster hunting. She is one of Sgt. Cortez's primary allies in Future Perfect, helping him out in the 1994 zombie levels. In TimeSplitters 2, she used the voice clips of Mary from TimeSplitters 1, who had an unknown voice actress. In Future Perfect, she was voiced by Melanie Bond.
Biography[]
TimeSplitters 2[]
Though not appearing in story mode, she is described as fighting monsters, and is in a minor side-mission.
Mansion of Madness[]
Her role in the threequel is much deeper; in 1994 Connecticut, she was sent by a kid named Donny to take pictures of a mansion that is rumoured to be haunted through scientific experiments (which turns out to be true).
Upon arrival, she meets Cortez, a time-travelling soldier from 2401, sent to stop the experiments in the mansion. Cortez had happened to arrive in the area just before Jo did, when he'd used his Temporal Uplink to travel to 1994 in the mansion's area.
After teaming up, the duo enter the mansion, where they are greeted by a scientist in the front room. The scientist desperately urges the two intruders to turn around and leave, since they'd "done something terrible" in the mansion, just when the large, burning chandelier in the room falls off its hinges and lands on top of the scientist, killing him instantly.
As Jo remarks on his "gross" death and takes a photograph of the crushed corpse, Cortez notices that the scientist had been carrying a flamethrower and had dropped it. Cortez picks up the flamethrower for defense, since he has no other weapons, when Jo mutters that she's cold. Just then, several pitch-black ghosts appear in the room and menacingly float towards the two individuals.
Cortez blasts them with the flamethrower, and they are luckily killed by the fire. Once the room is clear, they both run into an adjoining hallway, where Cortez fnds a baseball bat on the floor. He picks up the bat and they proceed to the next room, where they both discover several of the "rumoured" zombies that Jo had heard about.
As Jo cowers in the corner, Cortez whacks the zombies' heads off, when he finds a Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum beside the corpse of another scientist. He picks up the revolver and goes into another room with Jo, where they spot the grey ghost of a little girl staring right towards them from the opposite side of the room. As they approach her, the ghost girl sets fire to the room, awakening two more zombies in the process.
Cortez shoots the zombies' heads off, then goes out into the courtyard just outside, since the door to the next room is blocked by fire. Cortez and Jo spot two more scientists clinging onto a tree in the middle of the grass. One of the scientists, named Barney, makes a run for it; he runs along the grass, and a large, work-like monster comes up from the grass and drags him under.
The remaining scientist yells for Cortez to grab his flamethrower and torch the monsters when they surface from the grass. Once they're all burned, the scientist descends from the tree, thanks Cortez for saving him, and advises the two to leave the house, and to especially stay out of the attic.
By this point, the flame from earlier had died down, so Cortez and Jo go through the door that leads to a hallway, where they find two double-barrelled shotguns shelved on either wall, with some shells. They both arm themselves, then go beyond the next door, which leads onto a conferance room with a deer's head on the wall. As they walk to the next door, it suddenly slams shut on its own, and from the balcony above, zombies fall down to their level.
Once Cortez and Jo have blown their heads off, the seemingly-taxidermy dear-head comes alive and breaks down the wall from which it was "hanging", revealing a grotesque, mutated body, with hooks for claws. After a short battle, they had both unloaded several shells into the hideous monstrosity, killing it.
They then go to the doors that had shut themselves and open them, revealing a staircase, form which a scientist was fleeing a running zombie butler. Cortez kills the zombie, and the scientist cries as he tells them that his colleagues upstairs are dead. They both go upstairs and kill several more zombies, finding another scienist in a bedroom alone rcoking himself as he tells himself that it's all a dream.
After a few minutes, they both ascend some more stares, where they find a long hallway with adjoining bedrooms and bathrooms. In one of the bathrooms, they find a corpse in a full bath of blood, terrifying Jo. They go down the hallway and find another scientist spraying his flamethrower, before he screams in agony as he runs into a room.
As Jo looks closer, she realises that he is being eaten alive by tarantula-sized beetles, so she runs into the bathroom in fear, leaving Cortez to pick up the third flamethrower and torch the beetles. Jo stays in the bathroom as Cortez presses onwards, finding and killing a few more zombies, before coming across the staircase that leads to the attic.
Later on, Jo comes out of the bathroom and follows Cortez, finding him in another courtyard just beyond some rubble. They both then proceed further and find a kitchen, where they find and kill a couple of zombie chefs and several mutilated, zombified cow carcasses. After going through the kitchen, they find a ladder that leads downwards through a hatch, where they hear zombies moan, making Jo recoil in fear and ask Cortez to go first.
What Lies Below[]
Once in the cellar, with Cortez armed with a revolver, the two press on, when Jo curiously wanders beyond a barrier to a sign on the wall. After taking a photo of the wall, the floor collapses below her, and with no way to get back up, Cortez continues without her. Only a minute later, Cortez find Jo again, though now hanging upside-down from a piece of rope, when zombies climb out from under the soil and out of cold lockers.
Cortez wanders the room and finds a shotgun by a box of shells, which he uses to kill the zombies that reach up to Jo as the try to eat her. Just then, Jo unties herself and falls on the floor. The two go down a staircase and look through a window into a lab, where they see a scientist screaming for help from just beyond the window as two zombies close in on him, blocking the exit to the room. Before Cortez and Jo can go around to the room's entrance, the two zombies have already sunk their teeth into the scientist, turning him.
Cortez then kills the three zombies and opens the next door using the nearby computer. After fighting through zombies that can channel electricity, Cortez and Jo end up in a room with slides that lead inside, when the doors shut, and zombies begin to slide down into the room. As Cortez blows the zombies' heads off, Jo manages to open the door using the nearby computer. From there, they both find more sick experiments and discover the core of the research in the mansion's bowels.
After Jo takes a photo of a zombie that is trapped inside a room through the window, they find a mad, but friendly scientist named Dr. Harvey throwing zombies' legs down a large pit, seeming to feed something called 'Princess'. Inside the next room, Cortez and Jo then find Jacob Crow, who pulls a lever, releasing a trap door that Cortez was standing on. As Cortez fights his way through the deep underground, Crow kidnaps Jo and puts her in a horizontal cage (similar Willie's cage in Temple of Doom), lowering it down towards a pit of lava with Princess in it, the monster that Cortez fought outside, just before reaching the kitchen.
After Cortez finds a harpoon gun and kills Princess, Dr. Harvey rescues Jo from her trap, whilst Cortez takes an elevator up to her level. Cortez and Jo then go through the room where they met Crow, and head to his office, where they find no sign of life. However, Cortez goes onto Crow's computer and discovers his name and some intel, when he sees a bomb timer appear on the screen.
As Cortez learns that this is how the mansion was burned to the ground, he and Jo haul ass back upstairs and to the elevator, dodging and shooting many hazardous zombies and monsters as they run for their lives. After Cortez and Jo leave the mansion, they find Crow in the yard with his elderly future-self from 2052, when they disappear together with a hand-held time machine.
Cortez then talks to Anya in 2401 through his radio and asks for some co-ordinates in 2052, to which Anya is able to oblige; Jo witnesses this and figures out that Cortez is from the far future. After a brief goodbye, Cortez presses a button on his Temporal Uplink and teleports away to 2052 so that he can continue his mission through time to chase Jacob Crow, whilst Jo can go home with her photos. From that point, it is assumed that she was let into Donny's "gang" after showing him the pictures of the mansion's experiments.
Appearance[]
In TimeSplitters 2, she wears a typical (though skimpy) school uniform; a white collared shirt, a red tie, a red miniskirt, long sport socks, and black shoes, as well as a brown handbag and a pair of glasses. In Future Perfect, she wears a vastly different outfit; a grey t-shirt with red sleeves, a red miniskirt held by a blue belt, a brown choker with spikes, a blue teddy-bear backpack, thigh-high fishnets, black boots, a pale-blue headband, and casts on her arms. She is known to have a large bust, in spite of her young age.
Personality[]
She has no personality in TimeSplitters 2, but she is a typically quick-witted and rebellious teenager in Future Perfect, apparently with a desire to join a gang of sorts. She is also very promiscuous, evidenced by her clothing - or lack thereof. However, she still kept a glimpse of her innocent childish side, wearing her old teddy-bear backpack to keep her camera in.
Despite adapting impressively quickly to the usage of artillery such as a double-barrel shotgun, she is very cowardly, especially when unarmed, though she does kick Cortez in the groin in self-defense when first meeting him, believing him to be a zombie.
Quotes[]
| “ | Shake your money-maker! | „ |
| ~ Character select. |
| “ | Did Donnie send you? Boy, it isn't enough for me to this stupid house, he has to send someone to try and scare me, too? Who does he think I am? I'm good enough for his gang! Why should I go and take pictures of zombies in some- [...] Zombies. You know. Undead, flesh-eating creatures of the night?... From the graveyard this house was built on?... That's why it's haunted? C'mon, everyone knows the stories... You're not from around here, are you?... | „ |
| ~ Meeting Cortez. |
| “ | Okay, I'm gonna get my photos and get out of here. You coming? They say this house is haunted, but it's just stories to frighten kids. Well, I don't scare easily, but I do get cold, so like, hurry up, will you?... So, like, why are you standing around in the rain?... What's the matter? Scared?... Hurry up!... Come on, will you?! What're you waiting for, a butler? | „ |
| ~ Entering the mansion with Cortez. |
| “ | Eww, like, something's eating him! Oh, ew... sorry, we- we didn't realise you were... Oooh, he's just trying to pull it out! Huh!... This is more gross than getting kissed by Boogers Benson. Look out! Oh, no - zombies!... Don't let them eat my brain! | „ |
| ~ Seeing Dr. Pustule pulling a stake from Blanche Deadwood. |
| “ | Hello? Hello? Whoa, what's going on? I am not hanging around here!... Brr, I feel cold. I really wish I, like, stayed home and studied! Well, I'm not going back alone - come on. | „ |
| ~ Entering the cellars with Cortez. |
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Trivia[]
- When Anya sees Jo being held prisoner above Princess (seeing through Cortez's goggles), she points her out using her name, despite Jo never revealing her name in cutscenes. However, Jo and Cortez may have made introductions as they climbed down to the cellars, after the end of the cutscene.
- Due to a developer oversight, Jo's sister Mary is roughly thirty years her senior; Mary appeared in the first game's story mission "Mansion" (set in 1965), whilst Jo appeared in the third game's story mission "Mansion of Madness" (set in 1994). Both girls appear to be a similar age during their respective missions; Mary seems roughly 16-18 in 1965, and Jo seems roughly 15-16 in 1994. If Mary was born in 1949 (making her 16 in 1965), and Jo was born in 1979 (making her 15 in 1994), there'd be a thirty-year age gap between them. Moreover, if their mother birthed Mary at age 18, then birthed Jo at age 48, she'd be 63 in 1994.
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