| “ | Emma, what's on your lizard brain? | ” |
–Kristen Lang to Emma Duval, Psycho | ||
Kristen Lang was a recurring character in the television series Scream. She is portrayed by Austin Highsmith.
Description
A young, idealistic high school psychology teacher at George Washington High who becomes a confidant and mentor to her students. She is determined to build a relationship with her students targeting the Lakewood slasher survivors mainly Emma Duval.
Appearances (8/24)
Season 2 (8/14)
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- Psycho
- Dawn of the Dead
- Jeepers Creepers
- Let The Right One In
- Village of the Damned (voice)
- The Orphanage
- Heavenly Creatures
- When a Stranger Calls
Trivia
- She was dubbed the "New Gale Weathers" in an interview with the executive producers, despite her role as a teacher being similar to Seth Branson from the previous season, minus the inappropriate relationship with a student (albeit still informal conduct of secretly recording them, albeit it was due to her being the school therapist).
- She marked her first appearance in the series in the second season premiere, I Know What You Did Last Summer.
- Kristen's attack as both an educator and as mental health professional (therapist) are done so and alluded for the first time in Scream VI, almost 7 years later, of whom she both survives.
- Laura Crane (similar to Kristen, both were current employees of the educational institutions they were teaching at. Unlike Kristen who survived, Laura doesn't. Unlike Kristen, Laura would be attacked outside at night after hours, whereas Kristen was attacked at the high school during the day, but also after-hours. Like her, both were closely tied to the protagonists in each: Kristen to the Lakewood Five, Laura to the Core Four, in how both taught them: Lang with Psychology and Crane in Film Studies, of who specifically taught about Slashers).
- Christopher Stone (like Kristen, both were also therapists, despite in the sixth film, it's unstated as to whether or not Stone worked for Blackmore University, seeing as Samantha Carpenter in an dilemma with her younger half-sister and college student, Tara, asks her if she'd gone to see in their time living in New York City to the "counselor". However, unlike Lang, Stone wasn't recording his patient without their consents. However, Stone didn't survive, and Lang did).
- She is a psychology teacher at George Washington High School.
- In Psycho, she recorded her talk with Emma while meeting with her at the Grindhouse Cafe.
- According to Brooke, Noah has a little crush on her.
- She has a cool yet quirky way about her, often using greetings and phrases that often puzzle others. "Hey Sigmund and Sigmundafroids!", "Emma, what's on your lizard-brain?"
- With the absence of Piper Shaw and Seth Branson, Kristen Lang has taken over both of their roles as an attractive teacher and as the older sisterly like friend for Emma to trust and talk to.
- In Dawn of the Dead, she locked Emma in an office alone, after fighting Haley in the learning center.
- In Jeepers Creepers, Gustavo Acosta revealed that she is in a secret relationship with Seth Branson.
- She has the same age as Seth Branson.
- In Jeepers Creepers, Sheriff Acosta claims she was Branson's alibi for the night Jake Fitzgerald was killed.
- However, Brooke discovered Kristen lied whilst pretending to be distraught with guilt saying she was with Seth that night.
- She was thrown down the stairs by the Lakewood Slasher in Let The Right One In. However, she survives the attack.
- Making her the first and only survivor to survive a fall.
- In Let The Right One In she tries to contact Emma and tries to apologize for locking Emma in the classroom during the lockdown. Later in the episode, she records herself saying how her relationship with Emma has come to a stop as Emma is now avoiding her. This happens minutes before she gets the call from the killer.
- It was revealed in Let The Right One In that she has a collection of recorded tapes in the drawer in her office of conversations that she's had with each member of the Lakewood Six (except for Jake) and Gustavo Acosta.
- These collection of tapes were taken by Sherrif Acosta in Village of the Damned due to her injury from the attack from the Lakewood Slasher in Let The Right One In.
- She is the fourth person in the series to get a call from the killer.
- It was revealed in The Orphanage that she and Piper Shaw were foster sisters.
- She revealed in Heavenly Creatures that she did not talk to Piper while she was in the orphanage.
- In When a Stranger Calls, she gets out of the hospital.
- In this same episode, she was last seen writing a book called "The Madness of Two", primarily based on the psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief and hallucinations are transmitted from one individual to another.
- This references what she thinks to believe Emma Duval and Audrey Jensen are experiencing at the time.
- This action resembles Gale Weathers, who also wrote a book after the events of Scream.
- In this same episode, she was last seen writing a book called "The Madness of Two", primarily based on the psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief and hallucinations are transmitted from one individual to another.
- Along with Officer Reynolds, they are the only known supporting characters in the franchise to be viciously attacked by the killers and survive without being killed at a later time.
- In both the films and TV series when a supporting character is attacked, they are usually killed.
- As both Jake Fitzgerald (who technically appeared in all the episodes before his death, but is still considered a guest character) and Seth Branson are the first to break this trend, as both are attacked (Jake walks into a trap) and killed at later time while Reynolds and Kristen are presumably still alive.
- In both the films and TV series when a supporting character is attacked, they are usually killed.