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* TheDogBitesBack: When Townsend decides to get very brave and starts [[spoiler: dating Sheryl]] in order to infiltrate Kristen's life, she isn't having any of it and [[spoiler: slices his neck open with a kitchen knife]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: When Townsend decides to get very brave and starts [[spoiler: dating Sheryl]] in order to infiltrate Kristen's life, she isn't having any of it and [[spoiler: slices his neck open with a kitchen knife]].
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* TheDogBitesBack: When Townsend decides to get very brave and starts [[spoiler: dating Sheryl]] in order to infiltrate Kristen's life, she isn't having any of it and [[spoiler: slices his neck open with a kitchen knife]].TrademarkFavoriteDrink: She ''really'' loves her canned margaritas. Everyone else...[[BizarreTasteInFood not so much]].
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* JunkieProphet: When he cannot access his visions, he resorts to inducing them through drugs. He is later called out for resorting to this instead of relying on faith.
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* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: "7 Swans a'Singin" reveals that he is a former sex and drug addict, and he is shown to frequently struggle with deep feelings of shame towards his own sexuality, mostly from the celibacy requirements of his chosen profession.
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* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phone call with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
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* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phone call with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux [=LeRoux=] for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
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* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch, and she does not disagree.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux [=LeRoux=] that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch, and she does not disagree.
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* MonaLisaSmile: Might be giving one of these when [[spoiler: Mira tells her Leroux is dead]].
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* MonaLisaSmile: Might be giving one of these when [[spoiler: Mira tells her Leroux [=LeRoux=] is dead]].
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She becomes increasingly unhinged and erratic after killing [=LeRoux=].]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he can: " find someone else to lie for him on the stand " in front of the judge he was talking to.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he can: " find someone else to lie for him on the stand " in front of the judge he was talking to.
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She becomes increasingly unhinged and erratic after killing [=LeRoux=]. The Ifrit attaching itself to her exacerbates this.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss hecan: * Secan: " find someone else to lie for him on the stand " in front of the judge he was talking to.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he
* SelfHarm: In season two, as part of her SanitySlippage, after she accidentally burns herself with a cross, she starts heating it up deliberately and burning herself, and is shown to have done this several times.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She has a revenge fantasy dream in which she [[spoiler: attacks Orson Leroux instead of him attacking her]]. This might be foreshadowing for the fact that she [[spoiler: could be the one who killed him]].
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She has a revenge fantasy dream in which she [[spoiler: attacks Orson Leroux [=LeRoux=] instead of him attacking her]]. This might be foreshadowing for foreshadowed the fact that she [[spoiler: could be is the one who killed him]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: The death of his girlfriend Julia hit him very hard, and he's a recovering drug addict.
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* DawsonCasting: Ben's implied to be in his mid-forties (his twin sister is played by a much younger actress), but Aasif Mandvi is in his late 50s.
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* SecretKeeper: He figures out that Kristen killed [=LeRoux=] almost immediately, but keeps it to herself, as well as the fact that a cross burned her right afterwards.
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* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in "Rose390". [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: The death of his girlfriend Julia hit him very hard, and he's a recovering drug addict.
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in"Rose390". "[[Recap/EvilS1E4Rose390 Rose390]]". [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently accidentally encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
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* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: He at least attempts to divine cosmic secrets as well as getting in touch with a fallen friend by taking illegal drugs.
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* PsychicPowers: Sister Andrea claims that he shares her ability to see demons in the real world, but this ability is nowhere near as reliable as hers, and he has trouble believing her.
* SelfHarm: He resorts to this when his hallucinogens stop working and he wants to continue his visions. Sister Andrea derides him for this, calling it a trick for tourists, and teaches him a meditation technique that is more successful.
* SelfHarm: He resorts to this when his hallucinogens stop working and he wants to continue his visions. Sister Andrea derides him for this, calling it a trick for tourists, and teaches him a meditation technique that is more successful.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, (to the point where 'his' height is also marked on their wall measure) and happily call him the nickname he gave himself when he met them: "Ben the Magnificent".
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* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, (to the point where 'his' ''his'' height is also marked on their wall measure) measure above those of the daughters) and happily call him the nickname he gave himself when he met them: "Ben the Magnificent".
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A forensic psychologist who has worked with the District Attorney's office and now serves as a psychriatic consultant for David's team. Kristen stays in New York to raise her four daughters while husband Andy works as a mountain guide. She's an accomplished mountain climber herself, but gave up on it after having her daughters.
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A forensic psychologist who has worked with the District Attorney's office and now serves as a psychriatic psychiatric consultant for David's team. Kristen stays in New York to raise her four daughters while husband Andy works as a mountain guide. She's an accomplished mountain climber herself, herself but gave up on it after having her daughters.
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* BeingGoodSucks: By the end of the first season it is safe to say she has not exactly been rewarded by the universe for her good deeds.
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* BrokenBird: Shows signs of this even before the events of the show. She has weekly therapy sessions and has admitted to being 'too soft'. Her husband has left her to her own devices and her mother isn't much help either. Her overall demeanor also fits as she can be quite cynical and sarcastic, but she is very loving nonetheless.
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* BrokenBird: Shows signs of this even before the events of the show. She has weekly therapy sessions and has admitted to being 'too soft'. Her husband has left her to her own devices and her mother isn't much help either. Her overall demeanor also fits as she can be quite cynical and sarcastic, but she is very loving loving, nonetheless.
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* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and physically assaulting him]].
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* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters SheWhoFightsMonsters, this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going season, going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and physically assaulting him]].
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* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch and she does not disagree.
* HeroicBSoD: At the end of Rose 390 the team realises that [[spoiler: the psychopathic boy they have been trying to assess (Eric) was killed by his parents in order to protect their newborn baby]]. When Kristen is on the couch with her girls later that day she runs to her kitchen where she breaks down crying.
* HeroicBSoD: At the end of Rose 390 the team realises that [[spoiler: the psychopathic boy they have been trying to assess (Eric) was killed by his parents in order to protect their newborn baby]]. When Kristen is on the couch with her girls later that day she runs to her kitchen where she breaks down crying.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch bitch, and she does not disagree.
* HeroicBSoD: At the end ofRose 390 "Rose390" the team realises that [[spoiler: the psychopathic boy they have been trying to assess (Eric) was killed by his parents in order to protect their newborn baby]]. When Kristen is on the couch with her girls later that day she runs to her kitchen where she breaks down crying.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIdone: In the very last shot of the first season we see her [[spoiler: placing a rosary on her palm and getting burnt by it]]. The look she gives herself in the mirror is akin to this showing that there is at least hope for her.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIdone: In the very last shot of the first season season, we see her [[spoiler: placing a rosary on her palm and getting burnt by it]]. The look she gives herself in the mirror is akin to this showing that there is at least hope for her.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: She's not actually single, but faces many of the same situations because her husband is absent for much of the time and his income from guiding climbers in the Himalayas is unpredictable.
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* CelibateHero: Due to his being in training for the Catholic priesthood. He still faces temptation, [[spoiler: and in one Season 1 episode, succumbs to it.]]
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in Rose 390. [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in Rose 390. [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
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* CelibateHero: Due to his being in training for the Catholic priesthood. He still faces temptation, [[spoiler: and in one Season 1 episode, succumbs to it. It only gets worse after he becomes a priest.]]
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events inRose 390."Rose390". [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in
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* BeneathNotice: A laborer who's around during investigations into demonic possession strikes most people as a non-factor, which cuts both ways. Ben overheard a killer calling the cops on his wife without being noticed, but was dismissed out of hand at David's deposition.
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* BeneathNotice: A laborer who's around during investigations into demonic possession strikes most people as a non-factor, which cuts both ways. Ben overheard a killer calling the cops on his wife without being noticed, noticed but was dismissed out of hand at David's deposition.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, and happily call him the nickname he gave himself when he met them: "Ben the Magnificent".
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* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, (to the point where 'his' height is also marked on their wall measure) and happily call him the nickname he gave himself when he met them: "Ben the Magnificent".
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* MysteriousPast: In Season 1, it's openly a mystery why a man with his profession would be such a wiz with technology and chemistry. Season 2 reveals he's actually a scientific genius and former geneticist, who retired from that field after his work inadvertently led to birth defects. The details are still fuzzy, but he seems to still carry the guilt of this with him.
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* MysteriousPast: In Season 1, it's openly a mystery why a man with his profession would be such a wiz with technology and chemistry. Season 2 reveals he's actually a scientific genius and former geneticist, who retired from that field after his work inadvertently led to birth defects. The details are still fuzzy, but he seems to still carry the guilt of this with him. It remains to be seen whether his genetic work is connected with the fertility clinic that runs through the plotlines.
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* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: While the trio has what [[Series/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor]] would call "a flat team structure", clean-headed David is the one the Church vests authority in.
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* GeniusBruiser: His quick thinking and encyclopedic knowledge are his chief weapons, but he's the likely winner of any one-on-one fight if it comes to it. Not for nothing did his actor play Series/LukeCage.
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* GeniusBruiser: His quick thinking and encyclopedic knowledge are his chief weapons, but he's the likely winner of any one-on-one fight if it comes to it. Not for nothing did his actor play Series/LukeCage.Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}.
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* MamaBear: In the pilot her daughter Lila tells her a man called to threaten her about her student loans. Kristen doesn't take too kindly to this and tells her former employer that they can go ahead and scare her, but NOT her children. The final catalyst for her in the series finale [[spoiler: snapping and possibly killing Orson [=Leroux=]]] also seems to be that [[spoiler: he broke into her house and left a gift basket there whilst her children were sleeping at home alone]].
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* MamaBear: In the pilot her daughter Lila tells her a man called to threaten her about her student loans. Kristen doesn't take too kindly to this and tells her former employer that they can go ahead and scare her, but NOT her children. The final catalyst for her in the series season 1 finale [[spoiler: snapping and possibly killing Orson [=Leroux=]]] also seems to be that [[spoiler: he broke into her house and left a gift basket there whilst her children were sleeping at home alone]].
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* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, and grant him the loving nickname, "Ben the Magnificent".
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* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, and grant happily call him the loving nickname, nickname he gave himself when he met them: "Ben the Magnificent".
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* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and phsyically assaulting him]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal with Leeland again, something she could have technically avoided.
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phonecall with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal with Leeland again, something she could have technically avoided.
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phonecall with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
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* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and phsyically physically assaulting him]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal withLeeland Leland again, something she could have technically avoided.
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: herphonecall phone call with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal with
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her
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* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She gets driven into murkier and murkier territory, mostly by Dr Townsend. [[spoiler:By the first season finale it is clear that through her actions, she opened herself to evil]].
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* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She gets driven into murkier and murkier territory, mostly by Dr Dr. Townsend. [[spoiler:By the first season finale it is clear that through her actions, she opened herself to evil]].
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* StupidSexyFriend: On top of everything else she has to deal with, there is her attraction to David despite having a husband. George taunting her about this in her dreams suggests that she feels guilty about it. In '2 Fathers' her and David get [[spoiler: high on sangria spiked with psylocybine leading them to almost kiss]].
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* StupidSexyFriend: On top of everything else she has to deal with, there is her attraction to David despite having a husband. George taunting her about this in her dreams suggests that she feels guilty about it. In '2 Fathers' her and David get [[spoiler: high on sangria spiked with psylocybine psilocybin leading them to almost kiss]].
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* CerebusSyndrome: The [[spoiler: burn mark of the holy cross]] recontextualises the series as us being witness to [[spoiler: the slow process of her possession]].
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* CerebusSyndrome: CerebusRetcon: The [[spoiler: burn mark of the holy cross]] recontextualises the series as us being witness to [[spoiler: the slow process of her possession]].
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:She becomes increasingly unhinged and erratic after killing [=LeRoux=].]]
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* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She gets driven into murkier and murkier territory, mostly by Dr Townsend. [[spoiler: by [[spoiler:By the series first season finale it is clear that through her actions, she opened herself to evil]].
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!!Dr. Kristen Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KatjaHerbers
-->''"Well, I heard a doctor today talking about prescribing chlorpromazine and aripiprazole and trauma exercises, and I realized it sounded just as much like leeches."''
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A forensic psychologist who has worked with the District Attorney's office and now serves as a psychriatic consultant for David's team. Kristen stays in New York to raise her four daughters while husband Andy works as a mountain guide. She's an accomplished mountain climber herself, but gave up on it after having her daughters.
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* ActionMom: Takes on the supernatural/psychopathic while raising her four daughters.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Finding out your daughter has been born from an invitro clinic that may or may not be controlled by demons]]. Getting [[spoiler: your hand scorched by a holy cross]] also isn't too great.
* BeingGoodSucks: By the end of the first season it is safe to say she has not exactly been rewarded by the universe for her good deeds.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT try to come after her children.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a kind person but she will also [[spoiler: stab or even supposedly kill you]] if you endanger the people she loves.
* BewareTheHonestOnes: She holds herself to a high moral standard and often says her allegiance is always to the truth. [[spoiler: By the end of the season however, she has used a deepfake in court, slashed a man's throat and even potentially murdered someone]].
* BigShutUp: Gives [[spoiler: Townsend]] one of these before she [[spoiler: she slices his neck]]
* BrokenBird: Shows signs of this even before the events of the show. She has weekly therapy sessions and has admitted to being 'too soft'. Her husband has left her to her own devices and her mother isn't much help either. Her overall demeanor also fits as she can be quite cynical and sarcastic, but she is very loving nonetheless.
* CatScare: The orange cat her and her husband find in their house really does not like Kristen. [[spoiler: This is most likely due to the cat sensing her inner corruption/evil]].
* CerebusSyndrome: The [[spoiler: burn mark of the holy cross]] recontextualises the series as us being witness to [[spoiler: the slow process of her possession]].
* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and phsyically assaulting him]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal with Leeland again, something she could have technically avoided.
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phonecall with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
* FaceYourFears: By the end of the first season [[spoiler: she stabs George to death in one of her night terrors]].
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Inverted. She is the one who is in the morally grey most of the time, not her coworkers.
* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch and she does not disagree.
* HeroicBSoD: At the end of Rose 390 the team realises that [[spoiler: the psychopathic boy they have been trying to assess (Eric) was killed by his parents in order to protect their newborn baby]]. When Kristen is on the couch with her girls later that day she runs to her kitchen where she breaks down crying.
* MamaBear: In the pilot her daughter Lila tells her a man called to threaten her about her student loans. Kristen doesn't take too kindly to this and tells her former employer that they can go ahead and scare her, but NOT her children. The final catalyst for her in the series finale [[spoiler: snapping and possibly killing Orson [=Leroux=]]] also seems to be that [[spoiler: he broke into her house and left a gift basket there whilst her children were sleeping at home alone]].
* MonaLisaSmile: Might be giving one of these when [[spoiler: Mira tells her Leroux is dead]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being the one mostly having the moral high ground she obviously enjoyed her ReasonYouSuckSpeech and even goed as far as to call Townsend [[spoiler: impotent]]
* NightmareSequence: Though all her night terrors with George are already disturbing, she suffers through a particularly awful sequence of nightmares in nightmares where even the audience doesn't know what is real.
* GoodParents: She's trying to provide the best for her four daughters, even when she's basically living as a single mother while her husband is on the other side of the globe.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Where David's size and strength serve him well in rare physical fights, Kristen can be just feral. She slashes Leland's throat to keep him from dating her mother [[spoiler: alas, it doesn't work]] and in the first season finale it's implied that she [[spoiler: killed Orson [=LeRoux=] after he started hanging around her house]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIdone: In the very last shot of the first season we see her [[spoiler: placing a rosary on her palm and getting burnt by it]]. The look she gives herself in the mirror is akin to this showing that there is at least hope for her.
* PragmaticHero: She allows Ben to create a deepfake of Townsend, ordinarily a profound violation of ethics, although the damning evidence he manufactures is a close paraphrase of what Townsend actually said.
* RaisedCatholic: She grew up in the Church but has had nothing to do with it since, which is one reason her husband is nonplussed that she's working for priests and would-be priests now.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: She delivers a particularly brutal one to Leland.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he can: " find someone else to lie for him on the stand " in front of the judge he was talking to.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She gets driven into murkier and murkier territory, mostly by Dr Townsend. [[spoiler: by the series finale it is clear that through her actions, she opened herself to evil]].
* StrugglingSingleMother: She's not actually single, but faces many of the same situations because her husband is absent for much of the time and his income from guiding climbers in the Himalayas is unpredictable.
* StupidSexyFriend: On top of everything else she has to deal with, there is her attraction to David despite having a husband. George taunting her about this in her dreams suggests that she feels guilty about it. In '2 Fathers' her and David get [[spoiler: high on sangria spiked with psylocybine leading them to almost kiss]].
* TeamMom: Gives Ben and David Christmas presents and checks up on Ben and his new lady.
* TearsOfFear: During her night terrors she can't do much else but this.
* TheDogBitesBack: When Townsend decides to get very brave and starts [[spoiler: dating Sheryl]] in order to infiltrate Kristen's life, she isn't having any of it and [[spoiler: slices his neck open with a kitchen knife]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She has a revenge fantasy dream in which she [[spoiler: attacks Orson Leroux instead of him attacking her]]. This might be foreshadowing for the fact that she [[spoiler: could be the one who killed him]].
* YourWorstNightmare: Her night terrors with George are awful. This is true in particular in the pilot when she does not yet know if she is dreaming or not. He starts slicing her fingers off whilst mocking her with her own true or false questions.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The holy cross shaped incineration on her palm]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:David]]
!!David Acosta
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MikeColter
-->''"See, the problem with my job is that possession looks a lot like insanity, and...insanity looks a lot like possession. I need someone to help me distinguish between the two."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_david_acosta.jpg]]
A priest in training who works for the New York diocese as an assessor, determining the validity of possessions, miracles, and other debatably supernatural occurrences. David had a conversion experience while on a publicized trip around the world.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: While the trio has what [[Series/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor]] would call "a flat team structure", clean-headed David is the one the Church vests authority in.
* CelibateHero: Due to his being in training for the Catholic priesthood. He still faces temptation, [[spoiler: and in one Season 1 episode, succumbs to it.]]
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in Rose 390. [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
* GeniusBruiser: His quick thinking and encyclopedic knowledge are his chief weapons, but he's the likely winner of any one-on-one fight if it comes to it. Not for nothing did his actor play Series/LukeCage.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: He at least attempts to divine cosmic secrets as well as getting in touch with a fallen friend by taking illegal drugs.
* NiceGuy: Soft-spoken, respectful of differing opinions, and loyal to both friends and colleagues.
* [[TokenReligiousTeammate Token Christian Teammate]]: Of the trio out in the field he's the only one who actually follows Christianity. Kristen is an apostate, whereas Ben is a non-observant Muslim.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ben]]
!!Ben Shakir
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AasifMandvi
-->''"We live in a world that is made up of bits and pixels. And it is so easy to manipulate them and create whatever we want. And I hate that because it encourages superstition and conspiracy theories."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_ben_shakir.jpg]]
A carpenter and contractor who helps David by assessing whether seemingly uncanny events have mundane environmental causes.
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* AgentScully: He's even more of a skeptic than Kristen, usually being the first one to advocate for a more mundane, reasonable explanation.
* BeneathNotice: A laborer who's around during investigations into demonic possession strikes most people as a non-factor, which cuts both ways. Ben overheard a killer calling the cops on his wife without being noticed, but was dismissed out of hand at David's deposition.
* BollywoodNerd: His primary occupation is contractor, but he's very good at figuring out computer systems, surveillance, etc.
* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, and grant him the loving nickname, "Ben the Magnificent".
* JackOfAllTrades: For a man who identifies himself as a contractor/carpenter, he's got quite the eclectic skillset when it comes to debunking the supernatural. He has some knowledge of IT, plumbing, chemistry, and even film production. However, he freely admits when his knowledge reaches its limits, and will consult actual experts when necessary.
* LimitedWardrobe: Nearly always wears the same jeans and denim jacket.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: As a Muslim-raised atheist who doesn't really like authority he seems a strange fit for a Catholic Church job. As he tells Kristen, he doesn't work for the Church, he works for David, and he likes David. He also notes that he enjoys working with Kristen now too.
[[/folder]]
!!Dr. Kristen Bouchard
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/KatjaHerbers
-->''"Well, I heard a doctor today talking about prescribing chlorpromazine and aripiprazole and trauma exercises, and I realized it sounded just as much like leeches."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krist.jpg]]
A forensic psychologist who has worked with the District Attorney's office and now serves as a psychriatic consultant for David's team. Kristen stays in New York to raise her four daughters while husband Andy works as a mountain guide. She's an accomplished mountain climber herself, but gave up on it after having her daughters.
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* ActionMom: Takes on the supernatural/psychopathic while raising her four daughters.
* AdultFear: [[spoiler: Finding out your daughter has been born from an invitro clinic that may or may not be controlled by demons]]. Getting [[spoiler: your hand scorched by a holy cross]] also isn't too great.
* BeingGoodSucks: By the end of the first season it is safe to say she has not exactly been rewarded by the universe for her good deeds.
* BerserkButton: Do NOT try to come after her children.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a kind person but she will also [[spoiler: stab or even supposedly kill you]] if you endanger the people she loves.
* BewareTheHonestOnes: She holds herself to a high moral standard and often says her allegiance is always to the truth. [[spoiler: By the end of the season however, she has used a deepfake in court, slashed a man's throat and even potentially murdered someone]].
* BigShutUp: Gives [[spoiler: Townsend]] one of these before she [[spoiler: she slices his neck]]
* BrokenBird: Shows signs of this even before the events of the show. She has weekly therapy sessions and has admitted to being 'too soft'. Her husband has left her to her own devices and her mother isn't much help either. Her overall demeanor also fits as she can be quite cynical and sarcastic, but she is very loving nonetheless.
* CatScare: The orange cat her and her husband find in their house really does not like Kristen. [[spoiler: This is most likely due to the cat sensing her inner corruption/evil]].
* CerebusSyndrome: The [[spoiler: burn mark of the holy cross]] recontextualises the series as us being witness to [[spoiler: the slow process of her possession]].
* CorruptTheCutie: Coupled with SheWhoFightsMonsters this seems to be the journey she is set on over the course of the first season. Going from cowering at Townsend's threats in the pilot to [[spoiler: both verbally and phsyically assaulting him]].
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: In '3 stars' she helps the mother of a boy that Townsend wants to retry and send to adult prison even though she's not responsible for his case anymore. This means she has to deal with Leeland again, something she could have technically avoided.
* EyesNeverLie: Depending on how optimistic/pessimistic you want to be [[spoiler: her phonecall with Mira can be read as either her hearing about Leroux for the first time or her knowing full well and feigning surprise]].
* FaceYourFears: By the end of the first season [[spoiler: she stabs George to death in one of her night terrors]].
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Inverted. She is the one who is in the morally grey most of the time, not her coworkers.
* GoodIsNotSoft: She tells Leroux that he will rot away in prison and die there from old age, amongst other things. He calls her a bitch and she does not disagree.
* HeroicBSoD: At the end of Rose 390 the team realises that [[spoiler: the psychopathic boy they have been trying to assess (Eric) was killed by his parents in order to protect their newborn baby]]. When Kristen is on the couch with her girls later that day she runs to her kitchen where she breaks down crying.
* MamaBear: In the pilot her daughter Lila tells her a man called to threaten her about her student loans. Kristen doesn't take too kindly to this and tells her former employer that they can go ahead and scare her, but NOT her children. The final catalyst for her in the series finale [[spoiler: snapping and possibly killing Orson [=Leroux=]]] also seems to be that [[spoiler: he broke into her house and left a gift basket there whilst her children were sleeping at home alone]].
* MonaLisaSmile: Might be giving one of these when [[spoiler: Mira tells her Leroux is dead]].
* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite being the one mostly having the moral high ground she obviously enjoyed her ReasonYouSuckSpeech and even goed as far as to call Townsend [[spoiler: impotent]]
* NightmareSequence: Though all her night terrors with George are already disturbing, she suffers through a particularly awful sequence of nightmares in nightmares where even the audience doesn't know what is real.
* GoodParents: She's trying to provide the best for her four daughters, even when she's basically living as a single mother while her husband is on the other side of the globe.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Where David's size and strength serve him well in rare physical fights, Kristen can be just feral. She slashes Leland's throat to keep him from dating her mother [[spoiler: alas, it doesn't work]] and in the first season finale it's implied that she [[spoiler: killed Orson [=LeRoux=] after he started hanging around her house]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIdone: In the very last shot of the first season we see her [[spoiler: placing a rosary on her palm and getting burnt by it]]. The look she gives herself in the mirror is akin to this showing that there is at least hope for her.
* PragmaticHero: She allows Ben to create a deepfake of Townsend, ordinarily a profound violation of ethics, although the damning evidence he manufactures is a close paraphrase of what Townsend actually said.
* RaisedCatholic: She grew up in the Church but has had nothing to do with it since, which is one reason her husband is nonplussed that she's working for priests and would-be priests now.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: She delivers a particularly brutal one to Leland.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Perhaps her establishing character moment in the pilot is telling her boss he can: " find someone else to lie for him on the stand " in front of the judge he was talking to.
* SheWhoFightsMonsters: She gets driven into murkier and murkier territory, mostly by Dr Townsend. [[spoiler: by the series finale it is clear that through her actions, she opened herself to evil]].
* StrugglingSingleMother: She's not actually single, but faces many of the same situations because her husband is absent for much of the time and his income from guiding climbers in the Himalayas is unpredictable.
* StupidSexyFriend: On top of everything else she has to deal with, there is her attraction to David despite having a husband. George taunting her about this in her dreams suggests that she feels guilty about it. In '2 Fathers' her and David get [[spoiler: high on sangria spiked with psylocybine leading them to almost kiss]].
* TeamMom: Gives Ben and David Christmas presents and checks up on Ben and his new lady.
* TearsOfFear: During her night terrors she can't do much else but this.
* TheDogBitesBack: When Townsend decides to get very brave and starts [[spoiler: dating Sheryl]] in order to infiltrate Kristen's life, she isn't having any of it and [[spoiler: slices his neck open with a kitchen knife]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: She has a revenge fantasy dream in which she [[spoiler: attacks Orson Leroux instead of him attacking her]]. This might be foreshadowing for the fact that she [[spoiler: could be the one who killed him]].
* YourWorstNightmare: Her night terrors with George are awful. This is true in particular in the pilot when she does not yet know if she is dreaming or not. He starts slicing her fingers off whilst mocking her with her own true or false questions.
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: The holy cross shaped incineration on her palm]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:David]]
!!David Acosta
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MikeColter
-->''"See, the problem with my job is that possession looks a lot like insanity, and...insanity looks a lot like possession. I need someone to help me distinguish between the two."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_david_acosta.jpg]]
A priest in training who works for the New York diocese as an assessor, determining the validity of possessions, miracles, and other debatably supernatural occurrences. David had a conversion experience while on a publicized trip around the world.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: While the trio has what [[Series/DoctorWho the Thirteenth Doctor]] would call "a flat team structure", clean-headed David is the one the Church vests authority in.
* CelibateHero: Due to his being in training for the Catholic priesthood. He still faces temptation, [[spoiler: and in one Season 1 episode, succumbs to it.]]
* HeroicBSoD: Just like Kristen he suffers a lot after the events in Rose 390. [[spoiler: David blames himself for Eric's death as he feels he accidently encouraged him to hurt his baby sister when he told the boy about praying]].
* GeniusBruiser: His quick thinking and encyclopedic knowledge are his chief weapons, but he's the likely winner of any one-on-one fight if it comes to it. Not for nothing did his actor play Series/LukeCage.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: He at least attempts to divine cosmic secrets as well as getting in touch with a fallen friend by taking illegal drugs.
* NiceGuy: Soft-spoken, respectful of differing opinions, and loyal to both friends and colleagues.
* [[TokenReligiousTeammate Token Christian Teammate]]: Of the trio out in the field he's the only one who actually follows Christianity. Kristen is an apostate, whereas Ben is a non-observant Muslim.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ben]]
!!Ben Shakir
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/AasifMandvi
-->''"We live in a world that is made up of bits and pixels. And it is so easy to manipulate them and create whatever we want. And I hate that because it encourages superstition and conspiracy theories."''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_ben_shakir.jpg]]
A carpenter and contractor who helps David by assessing whether seemingly uncanny events have mundane environmental causes.
----
* AgentScully: He's even more of a skeptic than Kristen, usually being the first one to advocate for a more mundane, reasonable explanation.
* BeneathNotice: A laborer who's around during investigations into demonic possession strikes most people as a non-factor, which cuts both ways. Ben overheard a killer calling the cops on his wife without being noticed, but was dismissed out of hand at David's deposition.
* BollywoodNerd: His primary occupation is contractor, but he's very good at figuring out computer systems, surveillance, etc.
* FriendToAllChildren: Ben is a little grumpy, but in his own awkward way he cares for Kristen's daughters, helping to protect them from a potential online predator and later keeping a framed picture they drew of him. Kristen's daughters adore him, and grant him the loving nickname, "Ben the Magnificent".
* JackOfAllTrades: For a man who identifies himself as a contractor/carpenter, he's got quite the eclectic skillset when it comes to debunking the supernatural. He has some knowledge of IT, plumbing, chemistry, and even film production. However, he freely admits when his knowledge reaches its limits, and will consult actual experts when necessary.
* LimitedWardrobe: Nearly always wears the same jeans and denim jacket.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: As a Muslim-raised atheist who doesn't really like authority he seems a strange fit for a Catholic Church job. As he tells Kristen, he doesn't work for the Church, he works for David, and he likes David. He also notes that he enjoys working with Kristen now too.
[[/folder]]
