Lt. Carrie Boyd

Lieutenant Carrie Boyd is an MP at Camp McCarran in 2281.

Background
Carrie Boyd is highly observant and notes anyone who comes into McCarran, as Lieutenant Boyd is the officer in charge of policing Camp McCarran. Her duties are broad in scope, ranging from the mundane tracking of suspected AWOL soldiers, missing rangers, checking inventory discrepancies, to interrogating captured prisoners of war. A lot of work is required on Camp McCarran on top of general MP duties, and Boyd often jokes that her job would be easier if she was allowed to "shoot anyone who talks back." While the shooting part is a joke, Boyd isn't beyond contracting outside the NCR for expertise in enhanced interrogation techniques in order to skirt around the cumbersome humanitarian laws the Tandi administration put in place. The Courier: "Do you need any help?" Carrie Boyd: "Yeah, so far this has gone exactly as expected - poorly. But with the work you've done for NCR already, you might be just what I've been looking for. We captured an honest-to-God centurion of Caesar's Legion recently." The Courier: "Is that a big deal?" Carrie Boyd: "Better believe it. Everybody, everybody in Caesar's Legion from Caesar on down will kill themselves before they can be captured. They're so twitchy they'd probably do it if you reached out to hug them. But here's this guy who's an elite commander in their army and he just gives himself up, even as his men are slitting their own throats around him." The Courier: "What do you think it means?" Carrie Boyd: "Well, I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like a man who's willing to cooperate. Except he hasn't. Only times he speaks up are to insult you. He's a real prick, by the way. And I'm supposed to get information out of this guy." The Courier: "What about a truth drug?" Carrie Boyd: "Don't have anything like that. Sounds nice. Like the kind of thing I'd want to take home and use on my husband. But even if we did, I don't know that I'd be comfortable using it. If there's any risk of overdose, it's not worth it. Asshole's too valuable." The Courier: "Why don't you just beat your prisoner senseless?" Carrie Boyd: "I like the way you think. Have I said that yet? Problem is that the NCR frowns on using that sort of tactic. There are some restrictions still in place from President Tandi's administration. But here's my favorite thing about you - you're not in the NCR. Plus, for all this guy knows, you're completely insane. That's a winning combination." The Courier: "So you want me to do what you can't." Carrie Boyd: "I think if you rough him up enough and really put some fear into him, he'll sing like a choir boy. So let's do this. When you're ready, I'll go in and give you a little intro. Then I leave the room and you make him regret the day he was born. We go back and forth a couple of times until either he talks or he can't move his jaw anymore. Either way we've had our entertainment for the day." (Carrie Boyd's dialogue)

Personality
Carrie Boyd is an avid smoker and retains a sarcastic and laconic demeanor in spite of (or perhaps because of) the amount of work on her plate. But Boyd is far more sadistic of an officer than her demeanor lets on, however. As mentioned before, she finds the humanitarian laws pertaining to the human rights of POWs as constraining and takes a wry pleasure in the act and thought of torturing and the ironic punishment of the prisoners she's in charge of.

Boyd loathes Caesar's Legion like any NCR officer would and is invested in NCR's propaganda against the Followers of the Apocalypse, questioning whether the Followers as a whole are doing more harm than good. Boyd also has little patience for anything outside of her expertise in policing and torturing and makes comments demeaning Tom Anderson's expertise on water systems. Despite her constant sarcastic comments, Boyd does show her heart when a murder is involved and makes a note to contact the families involved to give them closure.

Quests

 * The White Wash: After speaking to Captain Curtis about things going wrong at Camp McCarran, the Courier can ask Boyd about missing people; she will mention Bryce Anders, who was sent to take out Motor-Runner, leader of the Fiends. If the Courier asks her who else has gone missing, she'll mention White, and the quest begins.
 * Silus Treatment: Boyd is interrogating a Legion member who was captured and is pumping him for information.
 * Dealing with Contreras: If the Courier decides to turn Contreras in to the authorities, Boyd grants them This Machine.
 * I Put a Spell on You: She is one of the people the Courier can ask about suspicious activity around the camp.

Effects of player's actions
After completing "Silus Treatment," she will move around the building, but can often be found in her office on the east side of the second floor.

Appearances
Carrie Boyd appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.