Janice Higgins

Janice Higgins

Background

Janice "Jan" Higgins is a marine biologist for Aquatica Research. She is in a relationship with Jim Whitlock and is pregnant.

During the events of Deep Blue Sea (1999) played by Jacqueline McKenzie

Dr. Susan McAlester introduces Russell Franklin to Janice and Janice takes Russell on a tour of the facility. Janice introduces Russell to Carter Blake and after Carter is brusque with Russell, Janice tells Russell the crew knows he wants to shut down the project. Brenda Kerns tells the crew the water taxi is leaving and a storm is heading in their direction. Friend of Janice says bye to Janice before boarding the water taxi and Janice tells Russell they run a skeleton crew on the weekend. Brenda asks for Susan to come to the surface level over the PA system and the crew has a surprise birthday party for her. Janice tells Russell they have been using a hormone to increase the female generation 2 Aquatica Shark's brain to five times its normal size. Russell then tells her and Jim that he is amazed they have been able to accomplish everything without any genetic tampering. Susan takes Russell to the lab with Janice, Tom Scoggins and Jim while Carter wrangles the female gen 2 Aquatica Shark and the others watch his progress on a monitor system. They watch as the Aquatica Sharks synchronize an attack and swim backwards when Carter points his rifle at them. One by one the Aquatica Sharks destroy the cameras. Carter manages to wrangle the female gen 2 Aquatica Shark by setting a trap and brings her to the wet lab. Brain cells are taken from the Aquatica Shark and added to inactive brain cells, which causes the inactive brain cells to start working again. Russell congratulates Susan and as Jim is standing near the Aquatica Shark, it attacks him and bites off his arm. The Aquatica Shark starts to break free and before Carter can shoot it, Susan releases it. Helicopter Pilot and Helicopter Co-Pilot arrive at Aquatica and Helicopter Winch Operator drops a line down to Jim's gurney. As Jim and the gurney are being lifted towards the helicopter, the winch line gets stuck and then drops Jim into the water. He is grabbed by a Aquatica Shark and dragged, which causes the helicopter to crash into the radio tower killing everyone in the helicopter and Brenda as the others watch on a video feed. Russell sees Jim being pushed towards the wet lab windows by an Aquatica Shark which then tosses Jim into the glass, causing it to break from the impact. Carter suggests they go back and down a level to use the submarine to get to the surface. They hear one of the doors banging and Carter realizes it is an Aquatica Shark trying to break the door down. Russell asks Susan what she did to the Aquatica Sharks and she admits they broke the Harvard Genetics Compact in order to increase their brain size so they could harvest more brain cells. The sea lab group make it to the submarine, but find it destroyed. Tom shows everyone the door to the maintenance shaft, but tells them if it is compromised the entire complex could collapse. Susan and Tom start to argue and as Russell is giving a speech on sticking together, he is eaten by an Aquatica Shark. Carter, Susan, Janice and Tom go into the maintenance shaft and start climbing the ladder. An Aquatica Shark breaks through the door to the maintenance shaft and Carter opens the door to level two to let some of the incoming water drain into that level. The ladder breaks and Janice falls into the water and is eaten by an Aquatica Shark.