Frank Loder was a recurring antagonist from the WB TV series Smallville making several appearances in Season 3. He was a corrupt FBI agent on the payroll of the Luthors.
He was portrayed by Gary Hudson.
Biography[]
Crisis[]
Loder was an FBI agent who was originally contacted by Lex Luthor to help him get the charges dropped against him for the murders committed by Adam Knight at Metron Pharmaceuticals. In exchange for this favor, Lex agreed to help Loder try and take down his father Lionel Luthor. Loder established surveillance on Lionel, keeping track of his every move while Lex wore a wire.
Legacy[]
Lex later consults with Agent Loder and told him to disregard Lionel's comments about the Kents, saying that he only agreed to help him bring Lionel down and to not interfere with the Kents. Loder was dubious at Lex's insistence that Clark was an ordinary boy. Lex went to Frank Loder who explained that the FBI was not interested in the Kents.
Forsaken[]
Loder seemed to be working for Lionel as well when he contacted him informing Luthor that Lex didn't have any evidence against Lionel, but if he did, it will stay buried. He said he will also look into the Ross kid while holding a file about Clark Kent. Pete was driving home when Loder pulled him over, saying he had to ask him some questions about his mother's federal judgeship. He took Pete to a dock and beats him up while demanding to learn Clark Kent's secret, assuming that since Pete is his best friend he must know it.
Lex arrived to save him just in time to pull Loder off, revealing that Lionel paid him off to drop the case and investigate Clark instead. Lex ordered him to get back to Lionel's case and gave him a transcript of Lionel's voicemail confession. Loder backed off, but remarked that Pete was keeping a secret bigger than Lionel. Lex later went to Lionel's office again and asked him about Emily Dinsmore. He was soon followed by Loder and other federal agents, who arrested Lionel for the murder of his parents and ushered him away in handcuffs.
Covenant[]
Even in jail, Lionel expected Loder to continue investigating Clark. Loder refuses at first, believing that Lionel is powerless. Though he refused, Loder was curious as to why both Lionel and Lex were so fixated with Clark. He went to the Kent Farm and listened in on a conversation with Kara, a woman supposedly from Krypton.
In reality, she was Lindsey Harrison, a girl who disappeared in the first meteor shower and was being used by Jor-El to manipulate Clark into returning to him. As Loder listens in, Kara senses him and super speeds to his car. Loder tried to drive off but Kara killed him by vaporizing his car and everything in it to dust. Martha wanted to call the sheriff but Jonathan said what would they tell him that a Kryptonian girl vaporized a Federal agent.