Jason Teague (Smallville)

Jason Teague is a male television character that features in Smallville.

Biography

Jason Teague was a young man in his twenties, who was the son of the wealthy and manipulative Genevieve Teague (played by Jane Seymour). Lana met and fell in love with him in Paris when she was attending art school. At a church in Paris, Jason showed Lana the tomb of a 17th century noblewoman and witch named Countess Marguerite Isobel Theroux, who was later revealed to be Lana's ancestor. When Lana touched Isobel's tomb, she gained a tattoo on her lower back, through which Isobel would eventually possess Lana and control her body.

When Lana returned to Smallville seeking answers about the tattoo, Jason followed her there. He took a job as an assistant football coach at Smallville High School, and it was there that he first met Clark (who was the quarterback of the team). Lex Luthor, partly motivated by his own desires for Lana, did not think it proper for a teacher and student to be dating each other, and so got Jason fired from his job.

Jason's mother, Genevieve, then came to town. She revealed to Jason that the Teagues were descendants of Gertrude, a duchess in France who had condemned Isobel, Lana's ancestor, to death for witchcraft in the 17th century. Both Gertrude and Isobel had been searching for Kryptonian Crystals which would endow the possessor with powers beyond those of mortals. It was imperative for the Teagues to locate and seize those crystals before Isobel did, since if the reverse were to happen, Isobel (in Lana's body) would destroy the Teagues in revenge. Feeling that neither he nor Lana would be happy in a relationship in which their meeting had been engineered, Jason broke up with Lana without telling her the truth.

Lex was also searching for the same three crystals that the Teagues were looking for. He had had photos of Jason and Genevieve taken in Paris prior to Lana's arrival, and knew that the Teagues were searching for the crystals due to the threat that Isobel posed. He recruited Jason to be his partner in his search for the crystals. Together, Lex and Jason went to Shanghai to find the second crystal, and Clark and Lana followed them there, only for all four of them to be captured by Chinese security forces. However, while the guards were torturing Lana, Isobel possessed her body again and thus got her hands on the crystal. After a sword fight between Clark and Isobel, Jason got the crystal and took it back to Smallville. No longer trusting Jason as he had lied to her about his trip to China and working with his mother, Lana then stole the crystal from their hiding place. Jason, suspecting Lionel of stealing the crystal, confronted him about it.

Jason knew that the third crystal was in the possession of Dr. Bridgette Crosby, the emissary of Dr. Virgil Swann. So, at the behest of his mother, Jason killed Dr. Crosby, obtained the crystal, and hastily buried her on the property of the Luthor Mansion so as to frame Lex for the murder.

Lionel found out about the Teagues' activities, and poisoned Genevieve's wine glass, withholding the antidote until Genevieve turned over the crystal and swore to leave the Luthors alone. However Genevieve and Jason (under her manipulation) captured the Luthors and tortured them; under torture, Lionel lied and said that he gave the Kryptonian Crystal he had had to Lana. During a confrontation with Lex, Jason was shot, not fatally, by Lionel, who arrived just in time to save Lex.

Genevieve paid a visit to Lana in her apartment and demanded the crystal from her at gunpoint. Lana defended herself, but in the ensuing fight, Isobel re-possessed Lana and stabbed Genevieve to death with the Air Crystal. Meanwhile, Jason suspected Clark of hiding the third crystal, and barged into the Kent Farm with a shotgun in his hand, demanding the crystal (not knowing that his mother had been killed).

Coincidentally, Smallville was besieged by a second meteor shower created when Genevieve's blood made contact with the stone she was stabbed with. Jason Teague died in Smallville when the meteor shower directly hit the Kent Farm. According to Lex Luthor in the fifth season premiere, he had Jason's death covered up so as to avoid any suspicions as to what had really happened.

Notes

• Jason Teague was an original character created for the Smallville show by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar where he was portrayed by actor Jensen Ackles

Appearances

• Smallville: "Crusade"

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