“I think it’s going to be quite intensive,” Katja tells Den of Geek. “If not for the police looking for whoever killed him, but also just internally in Kristen’s mind, because she did that, and now what?”
Kristen’s therapist is able to determine the crime was clearly premeditated, and her training for assistance to the District Attorney tells her that’s going to be problematic at best. We wondered whether Kristen would have done the same thing if it was someone else’s family.
“I don’t think so,” Katja says. “No. I think she would have gone to the police. I think this was a very emotional act, and I think that kind of emotionality only comes if you’re protecting your own.”
The authorities aren’t the only ones who might have suspicions. David Acosta (Mike Colter), the ex-journalist, pre-ordained priest who brews up hallucinogen cocktails for mystical visions sees Kristen blithely walk towards the devil’s sickle as it separates wheat from chaff in a field of dreams. According to Herbers, Kristen may believe David’s overthinking it a bit. Kristen has a family and there was a clear and present danger.
“I think she’s not lying awake, pondering if she did the right thing, because I do think that she did the right thing and she thinks that,” Katja says. “It was him or her children, that was very clear to her. So, what mother wouldn’t want to protect their children? But she is now a murderer, and I think it has changed her and she’s become somebody who is way more willing to go to the edge of things.”
During Evil’s first season, Kristen and David danced towards the brink of vow-breaking with a subtle chemistry reminiscent of the will-they-won’t-they sexual tension of The X-Files’ Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. David is weeks from priestly ordination, and Kristin is on the prowl in more secular scenarios. But Herbers says it’s got nothing to do with anyone’s vows.