Rebecca "Becky" Quinn (née Patterson) is one of the four tritagonists (alongside Mama P, Gina Silvers, and Jake Williams) of the Prime Video original series Just Add Magic. She was a protector of the Cookbook from 1965 to c. 1975, alongside her closest friends Ida Perez and Gina Silvers, who had solved mysteries and helped out her town with the book's magic. She's currently the mother of Scott Quinn, and the paternal grandmother of Kelly and Buddy Quinn.
She was portrayed by Dee Wallace as a senior, Samantha Bailey as a teenager, Sara Hogrefe as a young adult.
Her Good Ranking[]
What Makes Her Close to Pure Good?[]
In General[]
- While she and Gina aren't perfect per se, both of them have more restraints and morals than their former/on-off friend Ida Perez, and know when to limit themselves with the magic.
- She's easily the nicest member of her trio as she's friendlier and more approaching and forgiving then her partners.
- While she cares about all three members of the girl trio and their safety, she's especially close to her granddaughter Kelly. She'd repeatedly tell Kelly to not be overly reliant on the cookbook and the magic, claiming that not all of the answers were in the book.
- And yet in spite of this, she doesn't try to play favorites among her grandkids. While she may spend a lot of time with Kelly (most due to magic), it's clear that she cares about and loves Buddy just as much.
The Past[]
- While she was scared of Chuck Hankins knowing about the magic and tried to erase his memories of magic, she still showed great concern for when the Can't Recall Caramel backfired on him and he disappeared in thin air. She and Gina spent years trying to bring him back, to no avail. In fact, it was one of the main factors that kept the trio together, in spite of their disagreements.
- While she did use her morbium to end her trio protectorship era, and played in an indirect role in Becky and Gina being miserable for 40 years, it's clear that Becky didn't intend for this to happen, and mostly did it because she didn't want Ida and Gina's feud to get even worse. Plus, she secretly regretted doing so, and leaving her friends cursed, even if she wouldn't openly admit it for decades.
- In contrast to both Ida Perez and Gina Silvers, Becky was able to live a happy, normal life, spending time with her family as a loving wife, mother and grandmother. (Although considering her partners had cursed each other, leaving them miserable and at a disadvantage, this isn't a completely fair comparison)
- She spent several years doing (non-magical) recipes with Kelly and teaching her how to cook, while also giving her some friendly advice and pointers. Her influence would serve as the main reason why Kelly picked up in interest in cooking, and has such skill and vast attention to detail with the recipes.
- When the cookbook started appearing near her granddaughter Kelly, Becky gets nervous as she didn't want the magic to ruin Kelly's friendship with Hannah and Darbie, the same way it ruined her friendship with Ida and Gina. And so she'd repeatedly try hiding or getting rid of the cookbook for two months (even trying to return it to the Traveler once), though the cookbook would return every single time. This just goes to show how much she cares about her Kelly and her safety.
- Eventually, Becky would turn to Gina and ask her for help getting rid of the book for her (Becky's) granddaughter's sake. Then, when Gina would provides Becky with some spices the latter requested, Becky tries to use them to create a brew to destroy the book for good, though she doesn't get very far before the book fights back and curses her to be silent and emotionless.
Season 1[]
- Upon first learning that Kelly had gained ownership of the cookbook and used a recipe from it (Shut 'Em Up Shortcake), Becky fights her own curse long enough to desperately warn Kelly to trust her instincts, knowing that a selfless act would reverse the shortcake's effects.
- In spite of her curse having all of her thoughts jumbled up, Becky would try to get some clear thoughts through to assure the girl trio she was still there when they're using the Mind-Peering Peppermints.
- Becky would temporarily cure herself thanks to some Livonian Peppermint Oil, and during this brief time she'd tell Kelly to stop using magic, claiming that not all of the answers were in the book and that she'd have to trust herself. She also clarified that Mama P didn't curse her.
Season 2A[]
- "Just Add Summer" reveals that a lot of people had grudges against Becky for various reasons, and for the most part, Becky was willing to take ownership of them, often by giving a reasonable explanation, apologizing, or agreeing to the person's terms.
- She used a recipe that allowed her to locate The Traveler and talk to her, where the latter would cryptically warn her about "Rose".
- She goes to Corky's to stall Chuck by discussing his plans with him, which would buy some time for Darbie, Jake and Mama P to cook a recipe to save Kelly from being locked in Chuck's trailer.
- While doing so, Becky assumed that Chuck was out for revenge towards what she did to him, and she'd apologize for sending him away.
- After Chuck stole some specific spices out of Gina's spice pantry, she, Gina and Ida decided they had to deal with Chuck before he could cause any harm with the spices and made an agreement. Using a spell to trap him in Lavender Heights, one town over from Saffron Falls, as a way to keep Chuck away from magic, but close enough for the trio to keep tabs on him.
- She attended Hannah and Darbie's intervention regarding Kelly being over-reliant on magic, and while she acknowledged that Kelly had helped a lot of people of the magic and had good intentions, she still advises her to slow down.
- While under a "spill the beans" spell, she admits that she secretly regretted using her morbium to break her trio's protector-bond, and leaving her friends without a real way to un-spell themselves. She also acknowledged that she was wrong to do so, and wanted to apologize but didn't because she thought it was too late for that.
- Upon finding out Chuck had somehow possessed Jake and took over his life, she and Gina would go to Chuck's trailer where they'd find some leftover remnants from Chuck's spell, and Gina used Spice Detecting Simple Syrup to see which magic spices he used, so they and the other girl trio could find a reversal.
- Upon learning that Chuck/Charles was actually from the 1860s and that Hannah was being imprisoned inside the cookbook like Rose was, she and Gina would do some research on Charles' history to learn why he was spelling Hannah. Then after learning that Rose was Charles' missing sister and a former protector they'd join up with Kelly and Darbie in West Peizer Park to confront Chuck/Charles, thinking he had sacrificed Rose on purpose.
- In the Season 2A finale, she'd finally apologize to Gina for using her morbium to break up their trio, admitting that it was selfish and she had no proper justification for doing so, wishing she had tried something different.
- While she understood Charles' pain and reasons why he trying to imprison Hannah and have her take Rose's place in the cookbook, she still refused to allow Charles to go through endangering another person.
- Plus, after Charles breaks down in tears due to having to remember his happy memories with Rose, Becky saw Charles for who he really was: an insecure, desperate and lonely teenage boy, who simply put on an act of being stoic and composed for 150 years, but was truly a good person deep down grieving over his sister's loss. Thus, she was willing to forgive Charles for everything he had done up to that point.
Season 2B[]
- She realized that with Kelly's father working from home all the home, Kelly and her friends would be unable to cook with any piracy at Kelly's house. So after realizing Chuck Hankins' trailer in Lavender Heights was about to be junked, she took it back to Quinn residence, so Kelly and her friends could have some piracy and be able to cook.
- She began to run an antique store, and after finding a wooden box with the fork-knife-spoon logo, she calls Gina to discuss who could have brought the box in, and the two of them look for the key that came along with the it.
- She'd go to Laura Coburn's house to talk with her about the wooden box the latter had sent her, and she'd learn about how Laura had served the Palmer family before they had moved. And after finding a photograph of Laura with Jill, she'd send a voicemail to Kelly telling Kelly to call her back, warning her about the wooden box and how "the book [was] the key to the magic" shortly before losing her memories of magic mid-sentence. She likely would have also warned Kelly about Jill not being who she seemed if she had maintained her memories long enough.
- However, Kelly managed to get Becky's voicemail, and Hannah realized the box had to be opened with the book-end of the key, which led to Kelly and her friends finding a vanilla bean, and a photo of RJ White, Noelle Jasper and Arthur Morris together.
- Kelly also realized that Becky had managed to take the photograph from Laura's house, which Kelly's able to find to Becky's purse, allowing her and her Hannah to learn that Jill was Caroline.
- And when Jill/Caroline managed to destroy nearly all sources of magic, the girls were able to use the vanilla bean from the box to create a recipe which would restore their spice garden.
- In short, by taking the photograph from Laura's house and warning Kelly about the wooden box and how the key was meant to be used, Becky played a posthumous role in the girl trio learning that Jill was Caroline and saving the magic from going extinct forever.
- While she was upset with P for aiding Adam Lever in his campaign and finding dirt on Terri, she was willing to put her differences aside to assist P in stopping Adam Lever from becoming mayor, using a scheme that involved breaking into Lever's political headquarters and looking through his records. Ida would distract everyone with muffins while Becky and Gina stuck in his office. Then when Adam Lever arrives in the room and brings that he had no intention of actually living up of his promises as mayor and that he had a reporter trash Terri to make himself look better, the trio caught Lever's speech on tape and sent to the news, resulting in everyone turning on Adam and him getting disqualified from the election.
Season 3[]
- After having her memories of magic restored and learning that her granddaughter was the Night Bandit and was trying to trick her friends into cooking with her to keep the book forever, Becky's reasonably shocked by this, but also glad that Hannah, Darbie and Silvers restored her memories of magic, so she could properly aid them and deal with Kelly.
- She suggests trying to reason with Kelly so the gang can find out why she wanted to keep the cookbook.
- She helps Hannah and Darbie get into their trailer for spices undetected by Kelly, by distracting Kelly with a bracelet her late husband gave her on their third date.
- She (alongside Gina and Ida) assists Hannah and Darbie with cooking the "In Your Banana Bread" recipe, which they'd use to get inside Kelly's head and find out why she wanted to keep the book.
- After Kelly returns to normal, she doesn't hold Kelly's actions up to that point against her, as she knew Kelly didn't commit those actions on her own accord and was under the effects of magic poisoning.
What Prevents Her From Being Pure Good?[]
- After Ida and Gina cursed each other with the magic, Becky got fed up with magic completely. And rather than trying to reverse their curses or help them out, she went behind their backs, used her morbium to end their protectorship era, and threw the cookbook over the falls, leaving them cursed for over 40 years with no easy way for them to undo their curses or have normal lives. Even worse, Becky refused to take responsibility for the incident, insisting she was in the right to do so, and that the two of them brought their fates upon themselves. While she'd later come to regret doing this, she still should have taken responsibility earlier, or shown proper concern for friends' misery.
- Plus, while she'd eventually apologize to Gina for what she did, she's never shown apologizing to Ida for it, despite Ida being just as much a victim as Gina.
- While she passes the overall Admirable Standards, she fails the In-Story Standards to both of her partners (Gina Silvers and Mama P) who have far more prominent roles in aiding the girls with magic threats due to their stashes of spices in their cabinets/pantries, whereas Becky prefers to stay away from magic whenever possible.
Trivia[]
- She's the only Just Add Magic NPG to fail the In-Story Standards.
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