Jason Teague
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| Jason Teague | |
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| Family | Genevieve Teague (mother, deceased), Edward Teague (father, deceased), Duchess Gertrude (ancestor, deceased) |
| Occupation | Student (Central Kansas A&M), assistant coach (Smallville High School) |
| Played By | Jensen Ackles |
| Status | Deceased (Commencement) |
Jason Teague was a student at Central Kansas A&M, and the assistant football coach at Smallville High School. He was also Lana Lang's boyfriend during her senior year of high school.
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[edit] Early life
Jason was the son of Edward Teague, a high-powered, well-known attorney, and Genevieve Teague. He and Genevieve were the descendants of Duchess Gertrude, who was cursed to be annihilated by Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux and her descendants.
Every summer, when Jason was a child, Genevieve would take him on treks to exotic and remote locations to all types of civilizations. However, these were not vacations; they were research trips to investigate Countess Thoreaux.
Shortly before the first meteor shower that hit Smallville, Jason would play with Oliver Queen, Patricia Swann, and Lex Luthor while his parents attended meetings for the secret society known as Veritas.
When Jason did not follow in his father's footsteps into law, Edward cut him off financially. Jason attended Metropolis University, and set a pass record while playing for the football team, but tore his rotator cuff, ending his future in football. When he followed Lana Lang to Smallville, he transferred to Central Kansas A&M.
[edit] Season Four
Jason encountered a variety of strange happenings during his year in Smallville, where he became an assistant football coach at Smallville High School.
[edit] Relationship with Lana Lang
"Lana, I tell you you're beautiful because of who you are - not because of what I see. You're the girl I flew halfway around the world to be with, the girl who kicks my butt at XBox and thinks it's hysterical. I mean, I've seen you with stomach flu - your eyes were all puffy and your nose was running... The reasons I tell you you're beautiful can't be seen in the mirror...that's good. I'm going to write that one down and use it later." – Jason Teague, to Lana Lang, Façade
Jason and Lana Lang met seemingly by chance when Lana moved to France to study art. He crashed his motorcycle, and she spent hours in the emergency room with him. They became a couple and, the day before her eighteenth birthday, Jason took Lana to visit the tomb of Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux where she received the mystical Mark of Transference.
Lana inexplicably returned to Smallville to try to figure out what the mark meant, and Jason followed her. He enrolled in CKU and started a job at Smallville High School as the assistant football coach. Jason and Lana discreetly continued their relationship, and she eventually showed him the tattoo and explained why she returned. Jason vowed to be by her side as she searched for answers.
Jason was fired when Lex Luthor informed the school board that Jason was having a relationship with a student. Later, Lana began to notice changes in Jason's behavior when he began working with Lex, so she followed him to China. When they returned, she gave the Crystal of Air to Jason, but Jason began to suspect he was being manipulated by his mother. Jason realized that Genevieve orchestrated his and Lana's relationship from the beginning, and began to pull away from Lana. He broke up with her, saying he didn't think Lana was ready for a sexual relationship, but eventually confessed the truth. Jason realized that even if they didn't meet by chance, he still loved her, and they got back together. Jason claimed that he was done searching for the Stones of Power, but continued to covertly help his mother recover them.
[edit] Search for the Stones of Power
Jason became caught in the middle of Lex and Lionel Luthor, who were both earnestly seeking the Stones of Power. Lionel offered him a job at LuthorCorp to spy on Lex and his actions. Jason was given a copy of the map that Lex obtained, detailing location of the Crystal of Air.
Jason and Lex went to China, where they secretly searched for one of the mysterious Kryptonian crystals. However, they were arrested and interrogated, and had to be saved by Clark Kent and Lana Lang. Lana was possessed by Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, who obtained the Crystal of Air.
Genevieve continued to put pressure on Jason to locate the stones, and was dismayed that he actually did fall in love with Lana. When Lana stole the Crystal of Air, Genevieve tried to blackmail Lionel into giving it to her; Lionel, in turn, threatened her and Jason.
The search for the stones intensified, and Jason helped his mother kill Dr. Bridgette Crosby for the Crystal of Water. He then planted her body on the grounds of the Luthor Mansion to frame Lex.
The Teagues then kidnapped Lex and Lionel, and held them hostage in a cabin. They tortured Lex to try and get the location of the Crystal of Water. Lionel lied, saying that he sent it to Lana. Genevieve went to Lana's to find it, leaving Lex and Lionel under Jason's watch. They managed to get loose and tried to escape. Jason chased them into the woods, but Lex cornered him on a cliff over a river. Jason started to say something about Clark when Lionel appeared and shot him, and Jason fell off the cliff before he could reveal his information to Lex.
Jason somehow survived the fall and returned to Smallville the day of the second meteor shower. Having realized that Clark is somehow connected to the stones, he went to the Kent Farm and took Jonathan and Martha Kent hostage, threatening them with a shotgun to try and force the stones' location from them. Jason was apparently killed when a meteor struck the Kents' house directly above where he was standing.
Lex later visited the Kents' house and disposed of Jason's body, as Lana later read a joint obituary featuring Jason and Genevieve, with a note from Lex reminding her that she now owes him a favor.
[edit] Season Seven
Jason appears as his younger self in Lex's flashback when Lex remembers secretly sneaking in on Lionel in his conversation with Edward Teague and Robert Queen. It is revealed that Jason's parents were members of Dr. Virgil Swann's Veritas Society.
[edit] Notes
- Interestingly, Jason's body is not found when Clark searches the ruins of the house, and the Kents apparently never discuss his death. The only evidence of his death is an article that Lana reads relating that he and Genevieve died in the meteor shower. It is likely that both Lionel and Lex had a hand in this, as Lionel was the one who disposed of Genevieve's body, and Lex was seen alone at the Kents' destroyed home after the meteor shower.
- It is never revealed how much Jason and Genevieve discover about Clark. In fact, Genevieve never actually meets Clark, but still uses the idea of him to goad Jason. Jason later tells Lex that "Clark has more to do with [the stones] than any of us." This could be a reference to Clark being the Traveler, a plot point later explored in the second half of Season 7.
- Jason Teague appeared in 21 episodes. He appears as a child in a flashback scene in Veritas, played by Owen Best.
