Alby Grant
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Albert "Alby" Grant, played by Matt Ross, is a fictional character from the HBO series Big Love.
[edit] Overview
The character of Alby Grant was first introduced in the show's pilot episode. He is a hard-line member of the FLDS church and is one of the many sons of Roman Grant, the head of the Juniper compound. Tall and slender, Alby has a pale, smooth-featured face, sleek brown hair, and cold, brown eyes. Alby sees himself as being groomed by his aging father for the sect's number one position.
Both Roman and Alby have an intense hatred for protagonist Bill Henrickson, who they view as morally wayward, anti-compound, and disloyal. Bill is a successful business entrepreneur. Roman sees his wealth as a threat to his power. Before building his first Home Plus store, Bill had to buy land from Roman, who afterwards, for power reasons most likely, decided to up the land cost considerably. After Bill refused to pay Roman the fees, Roman dispatched Alby to help him take care of the situation. Alby engaged in many schemes to intimidate Bill, including scaring his kids.
After failing numerous times to persuade Bill to submit to his father's payment demands, Alby looses his father's favor, which resulted in him taking a sabbatical. During his sabbatical he had an encounter with a man he met at a market. The man made a sexual advance on him, which Alby rejectes.
During the final episode of the first season his father asks him to find new methods to punish both Bill and his ally brother Joey who lives on the compound with his wife and baby. Bill and Joey's interest in a UEB Priesthood seat arouses caution in Roman, who believes that Bill is setting up a plot against his interests. Alby begins his investigation by spooking Wanda, Joey's wife, by materializing inside her home, looking for her husband and Bill. Wanda tells him that Joey is not home. An impatient Alby snoops around her house, then makes an advance on her new born child, insinuating to her that he'll do whatever is necessary for her to cooperate with him. A terrified Wanda respondes by making a fake phone call to her husband, urging him to come home. She then offeres Alby ice tea, spiked with anti-freeze, sending him into a coma, nearly killing him.
[edit] See also
- Bill Henrickson
- Mormon fundamentalism
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
- Warren Jeffs
