Jen is an outsider who came to Capeside from a fast-paced New York lifestyle. Ostensibly, she's come to help her strict grandmother, but she's hiding a troubled past that everyone soon found out about. More sophisticated and worldly than the other teen characters, she's an old soul, having done a lot and grown up fast. She made some mistakes, and got sent to Capeside by her parents in hopes that she'd begin to realize she should slow down and change her ways, but it's an ongoing battle for her
