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Dr. Hugo Grief, also known as Johannes de Leede and Hugo Greif in the TV series, is the main antagonist of the Alex Rider novel Point Blanc. He is the headmaster of Point Blanc Academy who plots to take over the world with his clones.

In the TV series, he is portrayed by Haluk Bilginer, who also played Agâh Beyoglu in Persona, and Dr. Ranbir Sartain in Halloween.

Biography[]

Hugo Grief was born in South Africa, specifically in the forties and during the Apartheid. He was raised to be contemptuous of black people, seeing them as nothing but animals, and harbored bitter feelings to them throughout his life. Grief became disgusted at how rebellions against Apartheid by black people soon became successful, and when South Africa was given away to Nelson Mandela, he fell into despair. He thought that black people were ignorant and had no idea how to run the state, and he had plans for a comeback and revenge.

In his twenties, Grief was approached by the Prime Minister Jon Voyer, where he was offered a government position as the Minister of Science. As the country was corrupt at the time, Grief manipulated the government into providing him scientific equipment, which was used to the political prisoners. Dr. Grief personally selected sixteen irrelevant females and used them, setting into a chain of cloning programs from which, ten years before the first cloning program was completed. He eventually completed sixteen clones.

After BOSS was shut down for scandals and replaced with the National Intelligence Service, Grief stole a very large sum of money from the government, faked his own death in an air crash, and moved to France. At the Point Blanc Academy, he patiently taught his clones for fourteen years before they become mature enough in assisting his plans. He also hired the doctor Walter Baxter for help in his plot.

As Nelson Mandela took the presidency in South Africa, and seeing the rest of the world condemn apartheid, Grief decided that he would be better suited to rule the world, thereby being able to reinstate apartheid globally. He knew that, in addition to having military strength and political holdings, to control modern life in the twenty-first century, he would need to control other areas, such as oil, the internet, diamonds, the media, and every other area.

Grief identified that the best targets for his plan to conquer the world would be the teenage sons of rich families, market leaders. The sons in question had no love for their parents, who in turn, had no time for their sons. He established the Point Blanc Academy, a supposed miracle school for these parents to turn their sons around; in reality, it was Grief's base of operations to launch the Gemini Project, his plan to take over the world.

Each of the boys at the school was a target; one of Grief's clones would be assigned to emulate the boy in question. When brought to Paris, the boy would be drugged, whereupon Baxter would photograph their bodies, to build a composite image of the boy's physical description. The clone would be surgically altered and indoctrinated to emulate the boy in every way, making it nigh-impossible to tell them apart. At some point, the clone would be switched with his real counterpart, supposedly taking on a new, studious attitude. The clone would be sent back to the family of his real counterpart, eventually inheriting their assets, and allowing Grief to theoretically live forever.

Discovery[]

However, his plan, the so-called "Gemini Project" (so named for cloning the sons) did not go unnoticed forever. Three parents were reported to have not been enjoying good relationships with their 'sons' after their return from Point Blanc: New York-based electronics market leader Michael J. Roscoe; Australian newspaper magnate Robert Merrick; and General Viktor Ivanov, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. As a security precaution, Grief ordered the deaths of all three men, thanks to contract killer The Gentleman.

Roscoe fell 60 storeys to his death in his own private lift shaft at his New York headquarters, after being tricked into stepping into a holographic lift; Merrick chocked to death on a chicken bone at a restaurant in Brisbane; and Ivanov was killed when his motorboat exploded on the Black Sea. The world news reported these deaths as "accidents", but it didn't take long for Roscoe's university friend, MI6 head Alan Blunt, to become intrigued. Merrick had been vegetarian for the last six years of his life, and Ivanov was not known to have had any political enemies.

Revealing his plans[]

Blunt persuaded one-time juvenile spy Alex Rider to investigate the Point Blanc Academy, and discover what was going on. Alex was sent to the school under the name of Alex Friend, allegedly the wayward son of British supermarket and art gallery magnate Sir David Friend. Alex discovered that the bedroom doors were locked automatically at night; after breaking out through his bedroom window, he discovered his friend, James Sprintz, being taken from his room by Mrs Stellenbosch and two guards, into the library, before they all seemed to disappear.

The following morning, after discovering that James had suddenly become studious like all the others, Alex climbed up a chimney to investigate the forbidden second and third floors, only to find that they had been designed to resemble the ground and first floors, down to a snooker table being exactly on the same slant, the library having exactly the same books as downstairs, and the bedrooms being identical to those downstairs, even down to the littlest personal details. However, the copying of the first two floors was not total; the third floor also contained an operating theatre and a biochemistry lab, where Alex found Dr Grief talking to Dr Baxter about the Gemini Project. Baxter wanted an increased final payment from Grief, before retiring to Spain; this prompted Grief to shoot Baxter dead with a silenced pistol, and order his body to be disposed of in the mountains.

After Alex had discovered that the real sons had been held in a basement prison, Grief overheard him reveal his identity (thanks to the cell being bugged), and captured Alex, before going into a monologue about his plans, and his ultimate goal to resurrect apartheid and conquer the world, using his cloned offspring. He then revealed that once his clones had fully integrated into their new families, he would painlessly kill all the originals, but such a fate would not be for Alex: Grief decided that the teenaged spy would die in a live dissection as part of the following morning's biology class.

Death[]

Alex made an escape from the academy (and Grief's guards) on a modified ironing board-turned-snowboard, but knocked himself unconscious after launching himself off a cargo train and crashing into a fence. MI6 faked Alex's death, in order to lull Grief into a false sense of security that his plan would continue without interruption. After learning of what Grief intended to do, MI6 deputy head Mrs Jones attached Alex to a seven-man SAS unit, formed to break into the school, rescue the real sons, and either capture or kill Grief. Alex was needed because of his knowledge of the school.

After a length battle in which the SAS overpowered Grief's men and killed Stellenbosch, Grief attempted to escape in his helicopter. However, Alex launched a snowmobile at the escaping madman, killing Grief and explosively destroying his helicopter.

Legacy[]

After his death, fifteen of Grief's clones had been captured by the security services of their countries and detained, with the hope that they can be 'undone' from the insanity of Grief. However, by the time of Scorpia Rising, two of the clones have died, and the remaining clones show little to no response to their therapists.

The only clone to escape from justice was Julius Grief, the clone of Alex himself.

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