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Burton Jernigan was one of four international spies. He was a level-headed, yet naïve member in the group who pursued a missile chip for a mob boss.

Biography[]

Jernigan traveled to the San Francisco airport with Petr Beaupre, Alice Ribbons, and Earl Unger in search of a remote controlled car with a missile chip inside. After the team looked around for the car, Beaupre announced that they were heading to Chicago to find the car, since it was the only American Airlines flight that was either not delayed or cancelled out of San Francisco.[1]

When they arrived in Chicago, Alice saw Greta Hess with the toy car after getting her sourdough bread mixed with their toy car since they both had the same kind of bag. After running through O'Hare International Airport, the group caught up to Hess, who jumped into a cab, but Jernigan was able to get the number of the taxi that was printed on its trunk. After dropping of Mrs. Hess at her house, the taxi driver returned to the airport where Unger and Jernigan chatted with him about where Mrs. Hess lived.[1]

The car was eventually found to be in the possession of Hess' neighbor Alex Pruitt. Donning a gray-and-white camouflage suit, Jernigan accompanied his fellow spies in trying to get it from Alex. He ended up electrocuted by a chair connected to a car battery, sprayed with freezing cold water, getting a bad haircut by a lawnmower, falling through a hole in the floor to the basement, getting accidentally hit in the groin by Alice, using Molly Pruitt's hockey stick, and, finally, crashing through a trampoline and into a frozen swimming pool along with Unger. He was later found by police and arrested and soon developed chicken pox from his contact with Alex.[1]

Personality[]

Burton Jernigan was a lot like Marv Murchins, as like the latter, Jernigan lacked common sense, was somewhat naive, and was prone to act without thinking, and make dumb decisions.

One example of acting without thinking was when he was chasing the toy car with the chip, he drove recklessly fast, and did not notice Unger, until he ran Unger over. That evening, Unger reprimanded Jernigan for the latter's recklessness.

Quotes[]

  • "Now things are looking up!"
  • ”details, details” (finding about the microchip in the toy car's location when it got lost)
  • (finding Alex's toy car) " It's a video camera, someone's on to us!"
  • (seeing Alex through the doorway) "Gotcha!"
  • (noticing the chair's wired) "Think you're smart, you little brat!"
  • (to Alice after she tried to kill Alex Pruitt's pet rat, Doris) "You smacked my winkie!"
  • "How?"
  • "Don't push."
  • (thinking it's Alex) "I got him!!"
  • (talking about guy with the missile chip) "He's clean."
  • (warning Earl Unger) "Sometimes when kids get scared, they wet their pants."

Trivia[]

  • He is played by the late Lenny Von Dohlen.
  • As said by Stuckey, He and his group have been working for a North Korean terrorist organization.
  • Jernigan is the calmest of the group.
  • Like Harry Lyme:
    • Jernigan gets his head caught in a booby trap except he got a haircut from a lawnmower while Harry got his head burnt by blowtorches.
    • Jernigan gets a pet [that belongs to the protagonist or the protagonist's family] on him, and gets accidentally injured by a teammate trying to kill the animal, when the animal escapes in time:
      • When Buzz McCallister's Tarantula was flung off onto Harry's chest (by a frightened Marv Murchins), Marv tried to hit the tarantula with his crowbar. However, because the tarantula escaped, Marv ended up accidentally hitting Harry in the ribs.
    • Jernigan could be English since his name is an alternate form of an English name which is Breton
    • Jernigan takes a blow to the groin area, causing his voice to reach a high pitch:
      • Kevin McCallister aims Buzz's BB gun at Harry's groin (from inside the house) at a point-blank range, while Harry [with Marv] is pretending to be Santa and his elves. Kevin then fires the BB gun into Harry's groin, owing its aiming position, causing Harry to squeal like a pig, and hop around (holding his groin), cursing.
      • When Doris the rat was in the middle of Jernigan's pants, Alice tried to kill her with Molly Pruitt's hockey stick, but ended up hitting Jernigan in the groin, causing the latter to operatically howl in pain.

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