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| “ | Everything I did, I did for Zoe. | „ |
| ~ Jenna rationalizing her crimes |
Jenna Scott is the main antagonist of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "The Presence of Absence". She is a delusional woman who catfishes and sexually abuses her best friend.
She was portrayed by Tory Trowbridge.
Biography[]
Early life[]
She went to college with Zoe Greene and they became best friends. They had a brief sexual relationship that Zoe thought of as merely "experimenting"; Jenna, however, became obsessed with her friend.
After college, Jenna married Richard Scott and they had a son, but she was neither emotionally nor sexually satisfied by him because of her feelings for Zoe. After Zoe's husband Brian died of an aneurysm, she moved in with Jenna and her family as she recovered from the loss. Jenna consoled her friend, but slowly began planning to find a way to satisfy her own needs.
Several months later, Jenna persuades Jenna to get back into the dating world by setting up a dating profile for her. Zoe is skeptical but agrees, and soon finds a match in a man named Klaus. For over a month, Zoe and Klaus would meet up for casual encounters and engage in bondage. Zoe tells Jenna about the affair, and Jenna congratulates her for moving on with her life. Unbeknownst to Zoe, however, Jenna is masquerading as Klaus, being able to avoid suspicion by having Zoe meet her in dark hotel rooms and disguising her voice.
A month later, Zoe tells Jenna that she wants to have a baby. Jenna goes to a sperm bank and takes a sample belonging to Cooper Davis, Richard's nephew, and plans to inseminate Jenna during her next encounter with "Klaus".
In "The Presence of Absence"[]
When meeting Zoe as Klaus, Jenna becomes aggressive and tries to forcibly inseminate Zoe, ignoring their mutually agreed upon safe word. Jenna promptly flees the scene after Zoe starts left crying. Zoe then calls Jenna to tell her what happened, with the latter feigning grief and taking her to the NYPD's Special Victims Unit to report the rape. While the shaken Zoe relates her story, Jenna portrays the concerned best friend and tells Captain Olivia Benson that she had tried to convince Zoe not to see Klaus again. The DNA is a match to Cooper, but he provides an alibi for the time of the assault.
Zoe goes to SVU and reveals that Klaus contacted her again and told her that "he" had to meet her one last time before fleeing the country. Benson sets up a sting operation to arrest him. At a hotel, Zoe prepares to see Klaus with the latter entering the room and starting to approach her. However, SVU moves in, with Benson unmasking "Klaus", revealing the assailant's true identity.
Sergeant Fin Tutuola and Detective Grace Muncy interrogate Jenna, who tries to justify what her crimes by saying that she did it to help her friend move on from her husband's death and start a family. Due to the complexity of the case, Assistant District Attorney Dominick Carisi Jr. offers Jenna a plea bargain in which she would plead guilty to misdemeanor sexual abuse, but Jenna's lawyer, Minonna Effron, refuses on her behalf.
During the ensuing trial, Jenna testifies that she thought that Zoe knew she was "Klaus", even though the encounters occurred while Zoe was blindfolded in the dark. To challenge her story, Carisi turns off all the lights in the courtroom, approaches her, and asks her to identify the person standing next to him. She replies that the person is Zoe, but when Carisi turns the lights back on, the person is revealed to be Richard, who angrily accuses her of cheating on him. Jenna tearfully admits that she assaulted Zoe to "fill a hole" in her life.
Jenna is found guilty of sexual assault in the third degree, although she is found innocent of the more serious charge of sexual abuse in the first degree. Carisi later tells Zoe that Jenna will likely serve a year in prison, but Zoe says she does not want Jenna to go to jail, so Carisi agrees to recommend probation and counseling.
Trivia[]
- Jenna’s crimes are inspired by the Gayle Newland case.
External Links[]
- Jenna Scott on the Law & Order Wiki
