Anna Walsh (When the Bough Breaks)

Anna Walsh a.k.a Anna Devout (Jaz Sinclair ) was the main antagonist in the 2016 film *When the bough breaks* (released on September 9th, 2016).

## Backstory

Anna's biological parents passed away when she was 3 causing her to be placed in foster care. When Anna turned 16, her foster dad started sexually abusing her which prompted her to stab him with a pair of scissors killing him. Anna was placed in a psychiatric ward for two years and was released at 18. At age 19, Anna got married and changed her last name to Walsh. Anna's marriage ended but she continued to use her married last name and eventually started a relationship with a discharged military vet named Mike.

## Introduction/Events

Anna is first spotted doing an interview with a surrogate agency asking her why she chose to be a surrogate mother. Her interview impressed Laura and John Taylor, an infertile couple with only one embryo left. Anna was chosen by the couple and was invited to have dinner with Laura and John along with her partner Mike. While Mike doesn't make a good first impression with John, Laura opens up to Anna about having three miscarriages and the two women bond. Anna later becomes pregnant with the couple while also developing a dangerous fixation on John. The Taylor's get a phone call from the police that Anna was involved in a domestic violence incident that resulted in Mike brutally beating Anna. John goes the home and tells Anna that she can stay with them until the baby is born which causing Mike to violently lash out as he is being arrested. The Taylor's then order a restraining order on Mike and John threatens him that he will kill him if he continues to bother Anna. Anna sends John sexual videos while John is at work (which later causes John to get fired). John goes home and reminds Anna that he is married with Anna passive aggressively stating that she will leave with John pleading with her not to. One rainy night, John goes outside to fix something when Anna decides to get naked knowing that John is watching her. Mike breaks into the Taylor residence and attacks Anna reminding Anna that her surrogate pregnancy is a scam in order to get money. Anna meets up with Mike that night a bar with Mike telling Anna that he has plans to sell the couple's baby and then the two of them can take the money and disappear. Anna pretends to go along with his plan but her feelings for John prevent her from pursuing Mike's mission.

Anna turned heel after she went to Mike's home and stabs him to death then throws his body into the basement. Anna later goes to John's office with a bottle embarrassing him in front of his colleagues while once again trying to seduce him. John gets fed up with Anna and tells her that she can leave the residence and will have nothing but a baby that is not hers. Later that night, Anna goes back to the residence and causes a huge scene that results in the police coming to the home where Anna lies to both Laura and the police telling them that John abusing and has sex with her every night. Anna leaves with the police that causes a fight between Laura and John. Anna later calls John telling him that she wants him to divorce Laura and be with her. Laura tells John to play along with Anna's delusions so that Anna won't terminate her pregnancy. John meets Anna at an aquarium and pretends that he is in love with her and is leaving Laura. John takes Anna to his old vacation home telling her that they can raise a family at the home with Anna telling John that she will never hurt him. But later on, Anna follows John back to the Taylor residence and realizes that John lied to her about divorcing Laura. Anna has a psychotic breakdown and calls the couple telling them that she has gone into labor. John and his friend Roland go to the hospital only to discover that Anna never checked in and that she lied to John in order to get him away from Laura.

## Death

While John and Roland go to Mike's home and find his body, Anna breaks into the Taylor's home and kills the couple's cat. Anna later violently attacks Laura attempting to kill her when she goes into labor (for real this time) with Laura calling an ambulance for her. Anna knocks Laura unconscious and both women are hospitalized. Anna gives birth to the couple's baby, a little boy, and leaves the hospital with him going to John's vacation home. John tracks Anna back to home as he tells Laura to stay in the car so he can rescue the baby. While John attempts to leave with the baby, he steps on a toy which wakes up Anna prompting her to attack him. Anna stabs John in the back with a fire iron and is later knocked out after John body slams her into a glass case during their struggle (which contained guns). John reunites with Laura as the couple try to flee with their baby only to encounter Anna who is armed with a shotgun. Anna shots at the couple with the shotgun which prompts Laura (who is fed up with Anna's psychotic behavior) to run Anna over and kill her destroying Anna's chance at having John to herself forever.