Jessica and Mike

Jessica and Mike
Relationship	Partners
Status	Dating
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“	Jess, I really like you. Whoever you think I am... Just give me a chance and I will show you what you need.	”
—Mike

Jessica and Mike is a relationship in Until Dawn.

Overview

Sometime after the prank and before the main story starts, Mike left Emily for Jessica, being drawn to her fun-loving personality as opposed to Emily's more high maintenance one.

Since the start of the game, the two are both shown to be an intimate and laid-back couple, constantly flirting, playing pranks on each other, and heading to the cabin to have intercourse.

Both show a high level of care for each other, as when Jessica is attacked, Mike bravely chases after her in order to save her. He will feel incredibly guilty if he couldn't get to her in time, even blaming her potential death on himself if the player took the longer paths or stumbled too much. But if Jess survived, she will be grateful for him saving her.

Until Dawn

One Year Ago

Jessica orchestrates the prank on Hannah, involving Mike leading Hannah up to the bedroom and embarrassing her by pretending to be sexually interested in her. She will later claim that Hannah can't take a joke. The remake indicates that Jessica already had feelings for Mike at this point when she eyes him and attempts to get closer to him with a seductive smile on her face, despite claiming the prank was thought up to look out for Emily.

Chapter 1

Jessica is introduced at the cable car station, awaiting Mike's arrival with a romantic letter in her hand. Chris then snatches the letter from her and teases her about her crush on Mike. She can reveal that Emily and Mike had split up and that she and Mike were now dating, or tell him that he'll figure it out eventually.

Upon his arrival, the two participate in a snowball fight, which finishes with Mike tackling Jessica onto the ground and the two flirt, which she can either reciprocate by kissing, playfully throwing a snowball in his face, or by doing nothing, which results in an awkward moment between the two. The two then head up to the lodge to meet up with the others.

Relationship Status

• If Jessica hit the bird with a snowball, Jessica and Mike's relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Jessica kisses Mike, their relationship will increase.

Chapter 2

The two arrive at the lodge and cuddle on the couch together, which can be interrupted as Emily engages with Jessica in a fight, while Mike observes. Alternatively, Matt can engage in a fight with Mike. Either way, Josh breaks the confrontation up and suggests Mike to go to the guest cabin, which Mike invites Jessica to, taking her by the hand. After exiting the lodge, the two continue to flirt and Jessica gets Mike to take a selfie, which if done correctly, she'll comment on how they look like the "cutest couple".

On their way to the cabin, Jessica falls into the mines, which Mike is immediately concerned about. Depending on the player's decision, Mike can be brave and jump down to her aid, which impresses her, or stay up and give her instructions on how to get out, ultimately frustrating her with his lack of care for her.

Following this, Jessica continues to tease Mike playfully, laughing as a mine cart may knock him over, saying he "literally ate shit." If Mike evades the mine cart, Jessica will show concern for him, asking if he's okay. Upon exiting the mine, Jessica finds a telescope and will claim to have seen a figure at the cabin. Mike may then spot said creature if he decides to take a closer look. Afterwards, the two find the path blocked, so Jessica climbs over it and calls Mike a Debbie Downer for his complaining, followed by throwing a snowball at his face. As Mike turns away to pick up a snowball, Jessica vanishes and lets out a shriek of horror, worrying Mike.

Relationship Status

• If Jessica and Emily fought and Mike agrees with Jessica that Emily was being a bitch, Jessica and Mike's relationship will increase.
• If Jessica and Emily fought, Mike defends Emily, but then agrees with Jessica about her afterward, Jessica and Mike's relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike and Matt fought and Mike calls Matt a dick, Jessica and Mike's relationship will increase.
• If Mike and Matt fought and Mike is evasive on both occasions afterward, Jessica and Mike's relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike shows respect towards Hannah and Beth, Jessica and Mike's relationship will slightly increase.
• If Mike asks Jessica if she remembers anything about the night of the prank, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike comes to Jessica's aid immediately, their relationship will increase.
• If Mike comes to Jessica's aid reluctantly, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike is witty after the bird scares him, their relationship will slightly increase.

Chapter 3

Mike searches for the seemingly missing Jessica, trying to play it off as a prank even though he is scared for her safety. Ultimately, Jessica pops out at him while holding a deer head, recording his reaction. The two continue on their journey to the cabin and find a small shack on the way. Inside, Mike finds an old mask and can choose to scare her for revenge. If he does, she will fall into the creek and be extremely upset about getting wet and gets mad at Mike. The two then continue heading to the cabin, and upon arrival, Mike attempts to rush into the intercourse, but Jessica demands a proper romantic setting, despite Mike's eagerness to warm up with her.

Following Mike starting the fire and closing the shutters, different scenarios can play out depending on their relationship meter based on player decisions. If Mike didn't upset Jessica at all, Jessica will lead the sexual intercourse by pushing Mike onto the couch, and performing a strip tease for him. Otherwise, Jessica will comment on how she's not feeling it yet, revealing her insecurities to Mike, which he can either brush off or support her, the former upsetting her, stating that he's a dick. Otherwise, she'll warm up to Mike again, which will presumably lead to intercourse. If Mike scared Jessica with the old mask, she'll still be angered by him and she blames him for the loss of her phone. However, she warms back up to him after he gets her a blanket. Depending on how romantic their relationship has been made by the player, she will either be in her full outfit, a shirt and jeans, or in her undergarments.

Jessica becomes paranoid after hearing noises outside and a glass shattering, which she orders Mike to investigate. Following this, she goes outside to rant, believing this all to be a prank by their friends. However, someone then bursts through the window, grabs Jessica and pulls her out of the cabin, leaving Mike in shock.

Relationship Status

• If Mike is witty after Jessica scares him, their relationship will slightly increase.
• If Mike is grumpy after Jessica scares him, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike admits the truth about the tree carving, their relationship will slightly increase.
• If Mike conceals the truth about the tree carving, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike scares Jessica with the mask he found, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike grabs the key to open the cabin door, their relationship will slightly increase.
• If Mike and Jessica's relationship is maximized and Mike doesn't grab the key to open the cabin door, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Mike scares Jessica with the gun he found at the cabin, their relationship will decrease.
• If Mike shows Jessica the gun he found at the cabin, their relationship will only slightly decrease.
• If Jessica resisted Mike's advances, and Mike asks her what's wrong, their relationship will increase.
• If Jessica resisted Mike's advances, and Mike attempts to seduce her, their relationship will slightly decrease.
• If Jessica resisted Mike's advances, and Mike reassures her that she's super hot, their relationship will slightly increase.
• If Jessica resisted Mike's advances, and Mike is dismissive about her feelings, their relationship will slightly decrease.

Chapter 4

Mike immediately tails Jessica and the presumed murderer, following them in order to save her, while she screams out in horror for Mike's help. Mike can either take the safe or more risky paths to save her, with taking too much of the former resulting in her death (as well as failing too many QTEs). Mike ultimately finds Jessica inside a mineshaft.

If he stumbled or took too long on the way there, he'll find her being dropped from above onto an elevator shaft, dead with her jaw missing. Mike will mourn her death before the elevator suddenly drops. If Mike was quick to reach Jessica, he'll find her laying on the elevator shaft, alive but in a very bad state. Jessica asks him for help, however, before Mike can help her, the elevator shaft collapses with Jessica on top of it, sending her to the bottom of the mine at high speed, with Mike assuming she has died. After Mike climbs up to a higher level of the mineshaft, he sees someone walking away. Mike believes this must be the person who attacked Jessica and follows him to the Sanatorium.

Chapter 5

Mike enters the Sanatorium, fueled with vengeance by Jessica's demise, believing this is where her attacker must to be residing after following the Stranger there.

Chapter 7

When Mike finds Sam in the old hotel, she may ask where Jessica is, to which Mike will take a moment before replying that she is dead. Sam is shocked by this as Mike goes on about how he would enact revenge on whoever did it. The two of them come to believe it was the same person who attacked both Jessica and Sam. After Josh is revealed to be the Psycho after unmasking himself, Mike thinks Josh was the person who forced Jessica out of the cabin and murdered her (whether Jessica is actually dead or not), resulting in him knocking Josh out, fueled with rage due to her death. On the way to the shed, Mike continues to be convinced Josh killed Jessica as Josh tries to explain he had nothing to do with it. When a tied-up Josh starts making lewd comments about Jessica, Mike gets furious and brings the pistol up in Josh's face, in an attempt to intimidate him.

Chapter 8

When the group hear someone banging on the door, they wonder who it might be. Chris suggests it could be Jessica, to which Mike somberly says it is not, believing she is dead. Then, as the Stranger is explaining the lore of the Wendigo to the group, Mike flashbacks to the moment Jessica was pulled through the window, realizing it was one of the Wendigos that took her.

Chapter 10

If Jessica had died in Chapter 4, Mike and Sam will find Jessica's head in the Wendigo's lair. Mike will be visibly shaken and stutter upon seeing Jessica's head. Later, while Josh and Mike walk back to the lake, Mike will apologize to Josh for thinking he killed Jessica, admitting fault in his assumption.

Credits

During the credits, if Jessica survived, she always comments on how Mike came for her after she was carried away, seemingly admiring him and feeling grateful for his commitment to save her. She desperately asks where he is and if he is still alive before it cuts off.

During Mike's interview, he always explains that he originally thought Josh was the one who attacked Jessica at the cabin. If Jessica died in Chapter 4, Mike will then blames himself for her death by saying he was too slow to reach her, and that, if he was maybe a little bit faster, he could have saved her.

Trivia

• Mike and Jessica are two of the four characters to have a song on the soundtrack named after them, the other two being Ashley and Chris.
• Mike and Jessica's walk up to the guest cabin was used to audition scriptwriters, and it was Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden's script that was selected.
• In the remake, Mike and Jessica share one trait: "driven."
• In the PlayStation 3 beta, the player had to use the PlayStation Move to to take off Jessica's clothes as Mike in the guest cabin.

Quotes

• "You're a worthy opponent, Miss Jessica the Snowball Queen." - Mike.
  • "Okay that sounds vaguely dirty." - Jess and Mike flirting after their snowball fight, Chapter 1.

• "I mean, I could stay out here for pretty much, ever, provided I was making out with you the whole time." - Mike.
  • "Just making out?" - Jess.
  • "Quote unquote." - Mike.
  • "Well, I think we might freeze to death somewhere in between those quotes." - Jess.

• "Oh my god!" - Jess.
  • "That was... really close!" - Mike.
  • "Yeah. Good to know I've got a hot B.O.D." - Jess.
  • "I'll say." - Mike.
  • "Bodyguard On Demand." - Jess.
  • "Whoa. Sexy AND smart." - Mike.
  • "Roll up your tongue and let's get back to the lodge, hotbod." - Jessica and Mike if Jess hit the bird and failed the QTE to roll out of the way.

• "Play your cards right and maybe you will get lucky." - Jessica to Mike after they leave the lodge, Chapter 2.

• "What was all that muscle flexing back there with you and Matt?" - Jessica questioning Mike's fight with Matt.

• "Oh my god, this is perfect. We're like, the cutest couple." - Jess.
  • "Damn, you should be a model." - Mike.
  • "You keep that camera handy and maybe I'll let you start my portfolio... at the cabin..." - Jess.
  • "Wink! Noted." - Mike.

• "Emily's as dumb as she looks if she thinks she can cut in on what we got goin' on. Maybe if we're lucky she'll try and follow us out here and get eaten by a bear!" - Jess.
  • "I think you bring out the worst in her." - Mike.
  • "Is that so?" - Jess.
  • "Epic jealousy." - Mike.
  • "Suck it." - Mike and Jessica talking about Emily if they fought and Mike agrees with Jess.

• "I appreciate your confidence in my physique, but I don't think the "ladies" are gonna fit." - Jess.
  • "Oh, right, with the...okay, gotcha." - Mike and Jess flirting after she falls into the mines and Mike asks her to squeeze between the cart and the wall.

• "Mike. You're a big boy. You gotta think on your feet." - Jess.
  • "Yeah, of course, Jess, I know-" - Mike.
  • "You need new pants?" - Jess.
  • "What?" - Mike.
  • "Well you pooped all over those." - Jess.
  • "Jess..." - Mike.
  • "No, no, for real, don't turd out on me like that again, homeboy. Not attractive." - Jessica chiding Mike if Mike fails to take action when they run from a potential threat.

• "Ugh... I'm sorry. I think I'm a little freaked out and it's hard for me to like, keep this up, and-" - Jess.
  • "What? Keep what up?" - Mike.
  • "Look, I act all confident and like a total sexy babe and everything but underneath, I gotta be honest, I'm... really kinda insecure." - Jessica talking with Mike about her insecurities, Chapter 3.

• "Well maybe I'm complicated." - Jess standing up to Mike if he dismisses her insecurities as sounding complicated.

• "Oh. Michael. You're kind of a dick, you know that? Part of me wishes you weren't so cute." - Jess to Mike if he is dismissive of her feelings.

• "You have nothing to be insecure about." - Mike.
  • "Oh, you have no idea-" - Jess.
  • "Sure I do. You're just like me and everyone else. We're all insecure! But, you know how to handle yourself. You might call it a front but, it's real." - Mike.
  • "Yeah. I guess I do." - Jess.
  • "And that's super fucking hot." - Mike.
  • "Really?" - Jess.
  • "Yeah. Hell yeah it is." - Mike.
  • "Come here. Maybe I know how to handle you too." - Jess lighting up if Mike is reassuring of her insecurities.

• "Jessica is dead... He killed her, Sam. There's some maniac up here on the mountain who's trying to kill us. All of us. And I swear to God when everyone is safe and accounted for I am gonna hunt that fucker down and rip his nuts off one at a goddamn time!" - Mike to Sam after she asks him about Jess, Chapter 7.

• "Mike... He came for me... He did. Where is he? Did he make it?" - Jessica if she survived until dawn, Credits.

• "I just wasn't fast enough... I was so close man. If I'd just been, just a little bit faster, I... I could have saved her. I could have saved her. So it's my fault... I'm the reason Jess is dead." - Mike grieving over Jessica's death if she died in Chapter 4, Credits.