Jackie (Fear Clinic)

Jackie is one of the supporting characters featured in the 2009 webisode series Fear Clinic hosted by FEARnet.com. She was played by actress Kate Nauta and was introduced in the second webisode, "Scotophobia". She appeared in four of the five episodes and was the central character in episode three, "Entomophobia".

Biography
Jackie was a young woman and a specialist in the field of entomology. However, an ill-fated sojourn into the Brazilian rainforest proved quite traumatic for her, and she developed an acute case of entomophobia - fear of insects. Returning to the United States, she was checked in to a special Fear Clinic run by an unorthodox scientist named Doctor Andover. Doctor Andover used drug therapy to treat his patients, creating elaborate hallucinations in a belief that the only way to conquer a fear was by facing it.

One of Doctor Andover's orderlies, a brutish man named Villatoro took great delight in tormenting the patients. He played a cruel prank on Jackie by placing a fake spider into her locker. This only exacerbated her condition and she could not get the imagery of spiders and other insects out of her head. She submitted herself to Doctor Andover's drug treatment and imagined that she was seeing bugs everywhere and began to lose control. Villatoro and another orderly named Garcia tried to restrain her, but when Villatoro produced a sedative, all Jackie saw was an enlarged, grotesque spider on the end of the needle. Villatoro administered the injection, but Jackie was convinced that he was infecting her with spider eggs.

After the session, she went to go see fellow patients Jonte and Ajax, but had little remaining hold on her sanity. She imagined dozens of insects clawing their way out of her body. Her two friends naturally saw nothing and tried to calm her down. Jackie took up a knife that had been hidden underneath a table and began slashing at her arms and stomach, trying desperately to get the bugs away from her. She finally collapsed to the floor unconscious.

Doctor Andover examined her and discovered insects crawling out of her wounds. He determined that the hallucinations brought on by her phobia were now manifesting in the physical world as well.

Notes & Trivia

 * The character of Jackie was created by Chang Tseng, Robert Hall and Aaron Drane.