Adam Veile is the main villain-protagonist of the Norwegian drama series Exit.
He is a Swedish-born financier living in Norway with his wife Hermine and always maintains a charming and caring façade. In reality, he is a selfish, scheming and manipulative man devoid of empathy who sees people, including his wife, as nothing but objects to be used for his needs and pleasure.
As the series progresses, he graduates from being merely a lying, cheating and overall petty man to become a much more dangerous and violent, yet cunning manipulator.
He was portrayed by Simon J. Berger.
Personality[]
For what it seems, Adam has always been a selfish man with no real care for others. He claims to have been in love with his wife Hermine but that is questionable, as he has manipulated her for as long as they have been married. In particular, he has cheated on her multiple times with prostitutes and when Hermine wanted a child, they tried to have a baby for five years with no pregnancy occurring. Hermine was worried there might have been something wrong with her. In reality Adam had sterilised himself because he had no interest in having children and thought it would just waste his time and energy should he have them. But he never told Hermine the truth and instead just went along with the act. When Hermine found out the truth she cheated with Adam's best friend Henrik and got pregnant with him. Adam acted joyful about the news but knew she had cheated on him and was in fact furious about it. After a heated argument he assaulted her and she left him. Knowing Hermine still had access to the security cameras in his house, Adam pretended to hang himself to make her scared and worried. After revealing ge was bluffing, Hermine had a miscarriage because of the stress and lost her baby. Finding out about Hermine's miscarriage, Adam didn't show any regret or care. The rest of the show basically consists of them trying to decieve and hurt each other.
Adam is also engaging in insider trading, which means that he buys info about a company's financial success before buying their stocks before the info becomes public and the stock increases, which he earns millions of despite it being extremely illegal.
On his spare time he also likes to do drugs and have sex with prostitutes and likes to live the life of a hedonist without boundaries.