Jeannine Kovac is the sister of Mark Kovac and the daughter of Josip Radik and Sasha Radik who was introduced in The Scare in the Score.
During her introduction, she poses as the wife of Mark Kovac who used two of her listings as hideouts when he tortured and killed Aldo Clemens, Michael Reiss, and Margaret Kwan. In The End in the End, It is revealed that she is the sister of Mark Kovac and responsible for the destruction of the Jeffersonian as well as the murder of Max Keenan. She helped her brother escape to exact revenge on Booth for killing Josip Radik in 1995. According to Caroline Julian, she would make sure that Jeannine will be locked up for the rest of her life without seeing freedom.
Trivia[]
- Jeannine Kovac could be considered as the Anti-Karen. Jeannine herself is a skilled manipulator, to the point where she could even trick a polygraph into making it seem like she was telling the truth to average investigators, except for Booth who could tell she was holding back the truth. Karen Delfs was also a skilled behavioral analyst at the BRIU, who manages to make astute deductions based on her observations of her colleagues and potential suspects. Unlike Karen, who uses her knowledge on human behavior to identify killers and potentially determine any underlying psychological isues, Jeannine uses this to make herself appear as the ideal wife and widow-in-distress, in order to protect her brother and assist in his crimes spree, even to the point where she had a hand in creating the bomb used to detonate the Jeffersonian Institution and endangering hundreds of lives in order to avenge her father for her brother's sake.
- Ironically, while Jeannine and Mark pretended to be husband and wife, Karen and Aubrey end up starting a relationship once their doppelgangers were respectively arrested and killed.