Simone Jenkins was a bank teller at the New Amsterdam Bank and Trust on Lex. During a phony hostage crisis set up by Ron Brandt, Simone, then in the thirty-second week of her pregnancy, was one of the hostages taken along with Castle and his mother, Martha. When Brandt, posing as fellow hostage Sal Martino, attempted to stir up trouble by accusing Castle of provoking the hostage situation by calling the police, Simone calmed the tension by commenting that the robbers had set off the silent alarms before they ever found Castle.