Alby Grant

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Albert "Alby" Grant, played by Matt Ross, is a fictional character from the HBO series Big Love.

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The character of Alby Grant was first introduced in the show's pilot episode. He is a hard-line member of the fictional Mormon Fundamentalist group United Effort Brotherhood and is one of the many sons of Roman Grant, the "Prophet" of the organization. Tall and slender, Alby has a pale, smooth-featured face, sleek brown hair, and cold brown eyes. Alby, who usually accompanies his aging father on rounds, sees himself as being groomed the sect's number one position.

Both Roman and Alby dislike protagonist Bill Henrickson, who they view as morally wayward, anti-compound, and disloyal among other things. Bill is a successful business entrepreneur, owning the popular surplas store Henrickson Home Plus. After Bill refused to give Roman a percentage of his income on his second store, he 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 rejected.

During the final episode of the first season his father asked him to find new methods to punish both Bill and his ally brother Joey, who lived on the compound with his wife and baby. Bill and Joey's interest in a UEB Priesthood seat arouses caution in Roman, who believed 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 that he will do whatever is necessary for her to cooperate with him. Wanda responded by making a fake phone call to her husband, urging him to come home. She then offered Alby ice tea, spiked with anti-freeze, sending him into a coma, nearly killing him.