At the airport, Buzz and the toys extricate Woody and get rid of the evil Prospector, but are unable to free Jessie from the case, despite Bullseye being able to escape, as the case gets loaded into a plane bound for Japan. Woody and Jessie try to stand up to the Prospector, but they learn that the Prospector has never been sold from a dime store shelf, which makes him feel more determined to get himself and the others to Japan, where he believes he will finally be appreciated. But Stinky Pete, now showing his true colors, locks them in Al's apartment. When Woody offers to take the Roundup Gang with him back to Andy's house after having a change of heart and deciding to go back to Andy's room with Buzz and the other toys, Jessie initially feels uncertain. Upon seeing Slinky growl at Bullseye, Jessie orders him to stop and Slinky wraps his string around both of them. Potato Head, and Slinky Dog arrive (with another Buzz Lightyear) to recuse Woody and Potato Head tries to attack Jessie but fails. After hearing that story, Woody initially starts to leave, but with more of the Prospector's convincing, Woody, thinking that the same fate will happen to him as Andy grows up, warms up to the idea of going to the museum, and Jessie's feelings of bitterness and sadness brighten up to happiness and excitement. When Woody talks to Jessie, she tells him the story about Emily. The next day, after Woody's arm has been fixed, Jessie sarcastically lets Woody leave, but the Prospector convinces Woody to speak with Jessie to make amends. The Prospector breaks the fight, and Jessie still feels bitter about Woody caring only about Andy. That night, after Woody's attempt to retrieve his ripped-off arm has been sabotaged, Woody, having spotted the remote in front of Jessie's case, accuses Jessie for turning on the TV, to which Jessie responds by fighting Woody. She then begins to mock Woody for still having an owner. However, when Woody reveals that he still has an owner named Andy and has no intention of going to the Konishi Toy Museum in Tokyo, Japan with the Roundup Gang, Jessie begins to hyperventilate for fear that she'll go back into storage again. She is sassy, sweet, cute, athletic and has a habit of yodeling when happy or excited. In Toy Story 2, she is the second toy that Woody meets in Al McWhiggin's apartment after Bullseye and before Stinky Pete the Prospector. Being in a box for a long period of time, Jessie has developed claustrophobia or a fear of enclosed areas.
Eventually a man named Al McWhiggin found her and took her back to his apartment where Jessie met Bullseye and Stinky Pete. Jessie had spent one more time in the car with Emily, only for Emily to place her in a charity box, leaving her shocked and heartbroken that she has been given away. However, years have passed, and Emily has found more mature activities to do, forgetting about Jessie until finding her under the bed one day. Throughout her years as Emily's toy, Jessie has enjoyed being played with, such as being taken for a horseback riding, a drive in her car, and a swing on a tire. Jessie was once owned by a little girl named Emily. At the end of the third film in the saga, she, along with both her boss and significant other and the rest of Andy's toys, now belongs to Bonnie Anderson, a little girl who attends Sunnyside Daycare. Then, her next owner was Andy Davis at the end of the 1999 film, and she becomes Buzz Lightyear's love interest. In her story that she is telling Woody about, her first owner was Emily just before she got donated by her when she was a young adult.
She hates being in storage as it makes her claustrophobic or afraid of enclosed areas and not having someone to love her. She likes being loved by any other child and has a power to yodel. She has green eyes, red hair with a ponytail in braids and a yellow ribbon that is tied to the bottom of her ponytail, pink lips, a white long-sleeved western-style shirt with both yellow blouse and cuffs that have red doodles, blue jeans, a belt with a gold buckle, a pair of chaps that have cow spots all over, brown cowgirl boots, crimson cowgirl hat, and a pull string on her back with a white loop attached to it. She is slender and fair-skinned in plastic. Jessie is an excitable and tomboyish cowgirl doll. 4.2 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins.