Louis Bouchard

Louis Bouchard is a secondary antagonist in the game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.

Biography
A prominent businessman, Louis Bouchard is a secret leader of a local Paris Mafia organization, operating around the Parisian Ghetto. He has a fearsome reputation among his men and other gangs around Paris for being a man who was ruthless and arrogant. He is also good at convincing people.

Bouchard was a member of The Cabal but seemed to take more interest in the operation within his gang than with the The Cabal, implying that he despises the Cabal. It seems his role within The Cabal is to overlook operations in Paris.

Fighting a losing battle against The Monstrum, Bouchard and surviving members of his gang have retreated to his Hideout in the cellars of St. Aicard's Church, following heavy casualties encountering The Monstrum. Later when Lara Croft manages to infiltrate his hideout and interrogate him for weapons, he presents her with a business opportunity, that Lara should go to Daniel Rennes to buy them off him, and also deliver some fake passports to Rennes.

Louis Bouchard encounter Lara again later, and he offers to take Lara to Von Croy's Apartment, Lara thanks him and genuinely believes Bouchard to be an ally. However once Lara investigates Von Croy's Apartment, Bouchard's hired assassin The Cleaner attempts to murder her, this proves unsuccessful after a long battle. Bouchard tries to contact The Cleaner to see if he has finished his contract, but Lara hears Bouchard over The Cleaner's phone and she threatens him, after this Bouchard immediately drives away from outside the building.

Lara encountered Bouchard for a final time at The Monstrum Crime Scene, where she finally figures out that he is a member of The Cabal. After Lara has questioned him for what the reason for murdering her and he say he is threaten death to his family and his men by The Cabal, she ties him up with handcuffs on a radiator in Mathias Vasiley's apartment. Later when she returns she doesn't find him tied up, but when she opens a closet nearby, his corpse falls out. It is unknown who killed him or how he died, possible a another member of The Cabal murdering him.

Death Theories

 * It is possible that he escaped and someone killed him before he could leave or maybe he couldn't live with the fear and killed himself.
 * It is possible that Pieter Van Eckhardt killed him for his incompetence and that he did not kill Lara Croft or that he was just a loose end such as Dr. Grant Muller and Kristina Boaz.
 * He could have also been killed by Joachim Karel, as Karel was trying to kill members of The Cabal, so he could take over.
 * It is possible that Bouchard was killed before Lara entered Mathias Vasiley's premises, and that Karel had killed him. A deleted dialogue with Luddick says that he saw Bouchard exiting the crime scene, which could be Karel in disguise as Bouchard. Lara later says that she found him dead inside. It is unsure whether the dialogue is canon in the Angel of Darkness timeline.

Trivia

 * He is the only villain in The Tomb Raider series whose cause of death was unknown.
 * He doesn't seem to be in contact with other members of The Cabal such as Dr. Grant Muller or Kristina Boaz.
 * The Character Profiles design document from year 2000 and Tomb Raider The Official Fact Files give conflicting birth-dates.