The Insurgence Team are an antagonistic group in Smallville.
They were a team of professional corporate saboteurs that had been hired by Lex Luthor to plant listening devices inside the LuthorCorp offices in Metropolis, allowing Lex to spy on his father Lionel Luthor. The team consisted of Kern, Pine, Nicky and Bishop.
They were portrayed by Byron Mann, who also played Commander Cheng in the same series and voiced Tian Zhao in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Kevin Gage who also played Waingro in Heat, Gabriel T. Rorke in Call of Duty: Ghosts, Billy Joe in Con Air, The Killer in Kill Theory and the titular character in Chaos, Colin Cunningham who also played Julian Slink in Blood Drive and Karen Holness.
Biography[]
Lex Luthor hired the team after he discovered listening devices in his own office at the Luthor Mansion and confronted his father about it but he denied the accusation. The team arrived at Lionel's office at LuthorCorp Plaza in Metropolis and began planting listening devices. During their operation to bug the LuthorCorp office, Kern and his team discovered that both Lionel Luthor and Martha Kent were in the building.
When Lex learned that Lionel and his assistant Martha Kent were in the building, he called his team to call off the operation, but unknown to Lex, the team, besides Kern, decided to become burglars. Kern told the others to abort the mission, but Pine took control of the operation, intending to burglarize the office instead to steal the contents of Luthor's vault. Kern protested this but Pine shot him.
After murdering the team's leader Kern, Pine took command and held both Lionel and Martha hostage while his team tried to break into Luthor's private vault. Bishop manged to open the vault and the team expected to find money or something of obvious monetary value. Instead, they found confidential files and a pile of meteor rocks that were refined into bars and an octagonal disc within the vault. What the group didn't know was that the bars were made of meteorites and that LuthorCorp had been studying their properties and effects on people.
Clark then storms the building trying to find Martha and confronted Pine and his team, but the presence of the Kryptonite weakens him. While Pine was distracted threatening Clark, Martha wheels the trolley of Kryptonite back into the vault and closes the door. Pine tried to stop her, but got his arm caught in the vault door. As Martha went to her son, Pine grabbed a power drill and threatened to bore through Lionel's skull. With the Kryptonite back behind the lead-lined vault door, Clark used his super-speed to disarm Pine. At that moment, Lionel took the opportunity to seize Pine's gun and shoots him dead.