Jason Teague

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Jason Teague is a character from the WB series Smallville. He is played by Jensen Ackles.

Jason is a young man in his twenties, who was the son of wealthy 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 and leave 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 three crystals that would endow the possessor with powers beyond those of normal 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 for Gertrude's condemnation of her. Feeling that neither he nor Lana would be happy in a relationship in which their meeting had been engineered, Jason broke up with Lana. Lana initially felt they had broken up because Jason felt she wouldn't have sex with him.

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 threatened to kill Genevieve with poison unless she stopped bothering the Luthors about the crystals. Not to be outdone, the Teagues captured the Luthors and tortured them; under torture, Lionel lied and said that he gave the crystal he had to Lana. During a confrontation with Lex, Jason was shot by Lionel, who arrived just in time to save Lex. They presumed Jason to be dead.

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 possessed Lana again and stabbed Genevieve to death with the Air Crystal stone. 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). However, at the time, 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 by saying that he merely died in the meteor shower and said that Genevieve committed suicide, so as to avoid any suspicions as to what really happened.

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