Character Relationship Map: Perpetrator

Characters

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste (played by Kiah McKirnan) — protagonist

  Jonny is an impulsive teenage girl and the central figure of the film. She lives in a town where young women continue to disappear, placing her within the story’s threatening mystery and making her th...

• Hildie Baptiste (played by Alicia Silverstone) — protagonist
• Principal Burke (played by Chris Lowell) — supporting
• Jean Baptiste (played by Melanie Liburd) — supporting
• Evelyn (played by Taylor Kinkead) — minor
• Kit (played by Vic Kuligoski) — minor
• Officer Sterling (played by Josh Bywater) — minor
• Gene Baptiste (played by Tim Hopper) — minor
• Aviva (played by Casimere Jollette) — supporting

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Officer Sterling (Professional Survival Instructor And Student) — Sterling's instruction provides the girls with emergency-response guidance that Jonny later invokes during their escape.

  Officer Sterling teaches the girls how to respond to attackers and participates in alarming survival drills at school.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Principal Burke (Professional Student And Principal) — Burke's survival drills shape the school environment Jonny must navigate as the danger to girls escalates.

  Principal Burke is involved in the school's survival drills, including a staged massacre in which students are told to escape, evade, and engage.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Gene Baptiste (Tense Family Relationship) — Their strained home interaction contributes to Jonny's uncertainty about her family and her attempts to understand her past.

  Jonny brings home rent money and has a tense exchange with Gene while searching for answers about her family.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Jean Baptiste (Family Daughter And Mother) — Jonny learns that Jean is her mother after Jean's long absence from her life, confronting a complicated shared history.

  Jean reveals that she is Jonny's mother and recounts circumstances surrounding Jonny's birth and childhood.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Aviva (Alliance Rescuer And Escapee) — Jonny helps Aviva get out during the escape, placing them together in the effort to flee the danger.

  Jonny helps Aviva and the other girls escape from a place where they have been held.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Evelyn (Narrative Empathic Connection) — Jonny's encounter with Evelyn manifests her inherited empathy in a disturbing physical and sensory experience.

  After an encounter involving Evelyn, Jonny experiences her face and voice changing and feels the other girl's blood leaving her body, though Evelyn is...

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Kit (Conflict Violent Adversaries) — A dispute over the book escalates into violence between them.

  Jonny tries to trade a first edition of Wuthering Heights to Kit; the encounter turns violent when Kit demands more and Jonny refuses.

• Jonquil 'Jonny' Baptiste → Hildie Baptiste (Alliance Empathy Guide) — Hildie helps Jonny understand the strange sensations and inherited ability she is experiencing.

  Hildie explains that Jonny has inherited an intense form of empathy and tells her that she must discover its abilities and limits.

Story Analysis

Jonny navigates danger to missing girls, unsettling inherited empathy, and a destabilizing revelation about her family.

Plot Progression

1. A Trade and a Fractured Home — Jonny's attempted book trade with Kit becomes violent. At home, she brings in rent money and has a tense exchange with Gene while seeking answers about her family.
2. Danger Enters the School — Burke and Sterling put the girls through severe survival drills as reports of missing girls establish a real threat. Jonny's encounter involving Evelyn produces disturbing sensory changes.
3. An Inherited Empathy — Hildie explains Jonny's intense inherited empathy but leaves its limits for Jonny to discover. Jonny struggles with the sensations and cannot reach her father.
4. Escape Under Pressure — As Sterling continues the attack-response lessons, Jonny becomes involved in freeing Aviva and other held girls. She fights an attacker, calls the emergency phrase, and leads the girls into flight.
5. A Mother Reappears — The girls escape in a van Jonny recognizes as her father's, and the driver says her mother found them by smell. Jean reveals she is Jonny's mother and begins recounting Jonny's birth and childhood.