[Ed. note: This story contains spoilers for Netflix’s Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider games.]
The new series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft deals directly with the events of the Survivor trilogy games, which introduced — then killed off — Lara’s mentor and adoptive father, Conrad Roth. In the games, Conrad’s death lingered as Lara hardened into a brutal relic-protector. But with the animated series, showrunner Tasha Huo wanted to dig even deeper into the psychological strife of the loss, to understand how the guilt would shape Lara as she evolved into the version of the character from the 1990s games. To do that, Huo invented a new character: Interpol agent Camilla Roth.
In Tomb Raider episode 4, “Big Lies, Small Secrets,” Lara needs top-secret info to chase down the supernatural terrorist Charles Devereux and the organized crime operation known as the Light. Securing it
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