Kristen Bouchard

*"Well, she's desperate for these killings to have some supernatural meaning, but he didn't murder seven people because there's whispering in his house."*
―Kristen about Orson and Emily LeRoux[src]
**Kristen Bouchard** is a main characters on *Evil*. She is portrayed by actress Katja Herbers.

Bouchard is a psychologist who joins forces with David Acosta to investigate unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and other extraordinary occurrences.

## Personality

Kristen has successfully split her personality between her work and home life. While working she is professional, logical and at times, seemingly lacking a sense of humor; Kristen also finds it hard to admit when she's wrong or fully accept other people's points of view due to her scientific background. She likes things to be her way. When at home with her husband and four daughters she is much more relaxed and caring, demonstrating calmness in the face of her daughters' habit of talking over each other and screaming and providing gentle but firm redirection. She is shown to frequently use a mixture of humor, redirection, and firmness to set boundaries and rules with her daughters. This is demonstrated when they try to convince her to let them stay up to watch a scary movie by saying not finishing it will lead to nightmares, to which she jokingly responds "That's exactly how that works. Lets go [upstairs to bed]." She is rarely shown to be reactive or angry with the girls while holding firm to boundaries she has set. She is also very protective of her family, especially her children.

## Appearance

She's a thin woman of average height in her thirties. Kristen is always seen in professional attire with short, dark hair and minimal make-up. She often wears turtleneck tops.

## Occupation

Like Leland Townsend she is a psychologist and so has many of the same duties. She interviews criminals for the District Attorney’s office to assess whether they are fit to stand trial and can appear as a expert witness when needed.

## Character Biography

Kristen was originally an avid climber who managed to summit multiple times alongside her husband Andy Bouchard. She eventually gave it up in order to have her four daughters.

As an independent contractor she is brought in to assess her former patient Orson LeRoux who claimed to have blacked out when he murdered at least three families with a knife. Her assessment is that he is likely lying and feels undermined and angry when on the stand she learns LeRoux has claimed to be possessed by a demon - something which is formally diagnosed by Dr. Leland Townsend - this leads to her yelling at Ben Shakir when she returns to LeRoux's interview room. She accuses Ben and David Acosta of coaching him. She ignores David's attempt to help and goes to verify LeRoux isn't in any way possessed which he confirms. However, when she lets curiosity get the better of her she starts to recite the Lord's Prayer which gets a violent reaction from him, LeRoux attacks Kristen and starts to chokes her only to be ripped away by guards. She tries to buy more time to assess LeRoux during his trial but is told that she either confirms her earlier diagnosis on the stand or they would 're-evaluate' Kristen working for the DA's office. Angry she storms up to the prosecution lawyer who'd all but threatened her and publicly refuses to lie on the stand while the Judge watches on.

After her daughter's birthday party David Acosta comes to her home - which is also her work address - and offered her a job working with him to assess cases of alleged possession and the possibilities of real miracles. Though Kristen is skeptical at first she agrees to the job as she is desperate for the money so she can repay a loan. As the first task of her new job she goes to interview LeRoux's wife, Emily LeRoux where she remains unconvinced by the odd occurrences she's told about and decides to look in to the head trauma LeRoux could have possibly suffered. That night she is terrorized by an Incubus who calls himself George, she tries to tell herself it is just a dream but George responds 'your eyes are open, it's a weird way to dream...' Though her daughters attempt to comfort her and end up sleeping in bed with her the encounter sticks with Kristen and prompts her to visit Kurt Boggs - her therapist - to discuss possible causes and why night terrors would start so late on; he prescribes her Diazepam. Unfortunatly for Kristen these night terrors persist and George visits her multiple times, in one instance he cuts her fingers off every time she give a perceived wrong answer to the test she'd previously given to Orson LeRoux. When LeRoux mentions her dreams to Kristen and David while pretending to be a demon named Roy, she theorizes that Dr. Boggs told somebody who leaked the information to LeRoux, she goes so far as to essentially accuse him while he is with a patient. She soon leans that his notes had been stolen, she goes through the sign-in book at the jail and determines it must have been 'L. Townsend'. She eventually determines, with David's help, that LeRoux had been encouraged by Townsend.

## Relationships

### Andy Bouchard

Kristen and Andy Bouchard have been married for many years and have four daughters together. While still very much in love their relationship has been tested by Andy constantly being away working as a guide leading explorers up Mount Everest. Upon his return Andy becomes slightly suspicious of Kristen's relationship with both Ben Shakir and David Acosta, especially the former since their daughters refer to Ben as 'Ben the Magnificent', believing that Kristen may have been unfaithful to him. However, despite his suspicions they remain just that and Andy blames himself more than Kristen since it is him who has been away so long.

### Her Daughters

Despite having a full time job and Andy often being away for long periods of time, Kristen always makes time for her four daughters - Lynn, Lila, Lexis and Laura - as best she can. She truly loves her children and is very fiercely protective of them all. She'll let them all sleep in bed with her on occasion almost as though they're in a nest of some type. Kristen puts on a brave face no matter what is bothering her to ensure her daughters have the happiest upbringing they can and will stop at nothing if it means keeping them safe, the best examples of this being when she slits Leland Townsend's throat to get him out of her house and her anger towards the debt collector that called the house and told her daughters they'd 'be homeless' if Kristen didn't soon repay her loan.

### Leland Townsend

Leland is as close to a nemesis as Kristen is ever likely to get. She's fully aware of his evil nature and just how much he wants to destroy her, David and by extension their friends and families. Though originally threatened and cautious about him, Kristen has come to sideline Leland after she learns his real name and background. She used this information to ridicule him in an attempt to turn the tables on him with worked to some extent.

### George

George is an Incubus who harasses Kristen's dreams. Originally she is terrified of George and wakes up screaming on a few occasions. However, after she discovers that her daughters have seen George as well she goes looking for a logical cause as she doesn't believe him to be real. Kristen eventually learns that her daughters had been watching a horror show on their laptop and comes to suspect that the image of George is taken from that show. She performs a test to see if it's really a dream and finds she can't read anything so she has to be asleep, using this as a weapon she grounds herself and isn't afraid of George after that, she actually ignores him much to George's confusion and irritation. In "Book 27" she stabs him in the back with a pair of scissors and seemingly kills him.

### David Acosta

After agreeing to work with David and Ben, Kristen forms a quick friendship with both men but her relationship with David Acosta is certainly the stronger of the two. The pair easily formed an attachment to one another that could easily turn romantic if it weren't for Kristen's husband and David's desire to become a priest. He is one of very few people she'll joke with while in a professional setting and is most open to religious opinions when they come from him.

### Sheryl Luria

Kristen has always had a strong relationship with her mother and the pair are very close. Sheryl Luria is one of the few people she trusts her daughters with and will often come ask her to watch them while she is at work. Despite their strong connection the introduction of Leland as Sheryl's boyfriend and later fiancé puts a strain on them. Eventually Kristen starts to notice a change in her mother which she doesn't like and give her an ultimatum, Kristen and the girls or Leland. Much to Kristen's shock Sheryl chooses Leland.

### Ben Shakir

Kristen has a strong friendship with Ben Shakir, the fellow skeptic on her team. She trusts Ben with things she doesn't feel comfortable talking about with David, including home security issues, problems with her family, and issues with David. However their relationship has grown somewhat strained after the murder of Orson LeRoux, as Ben is the only one who suspects it was her; though he has no way to prove that.

## Trivia

* She was the first woman to climb El Capitan in one day.

## Episode Appearances

	+ "Genesis 1"
	+ "177 Minutes"
	+ "3 Stars"
	+ "Rose390"
	+ "October 31"
	+ "Let x = 9"
	+ "Vatican III"
	+ "2 Fathers"
	+ "Exorcism Part 2"
	+ "7 Swans a Singin'"
	+ "Room 320"
	+ "Justice x 2"
	+ "Book 27"
	+ "N Is for Night Terrors"
	+ "A Is for Angel"
	+ "F Is for Fire"
	+ "E Is for Elevator"
	+ "Z Is for Zombies"
	+ "C Is for Cop"
	+ "S Is for Silence"
	+ "B Is for Brain"
	+ "U Is for U.F.O"
	+ "O Is for Ovaphobia"
	+ "I Is for IRS"
	+ "D Is for Doll"
	+ "C Is for Cannibal"

* **Season 3**
	+ "The Demon of Death"
	+ "The Demon of Memes"
	+ "The Demon of Sex"
	+ "The Demon of the Road"
	+ "The Angel of Warning"
	+ "The Demon of Algorithms"
	+ "The Demon of Cults"
	+ "The Demon of Parenthood"
	+ "The Demon of Money"
	+ "The Demon of the End"

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