Dr. Lawrence Grady worked as a physician in the memory department of the Summerholt Neurological Institute in the WB Television series Smallville.
He is the father of Kevin and Dillon Grady and served as the main antagonist in the Season Four episode "Blank".
He was portrayed by Tom Butler, who also played Dr. Glencliff in Ernest Rides Again.
History[]
Early life[]
Lawrence Grady lived in Smallville with his two sons Kevin and Dillon. One day while hunting with his sons in the woods, Lawrence accidentally shot and killed Dillon. Kevin had witnessed it and in order to prevent the truth from being known, Lawrence took him to the Summerholt Institution and subjected him to a memory alteration treatment in order to make him believe that it was him who killed his brother. The treatments had a side-effect; Kevin acquired an ability to emit from his fingertips a flash of green beam lights that could erase a short period of a person's memory.
Blank[]
During the morning coffee rush at the Talon, Lois Lane was working when Kevin Grady stole a muffin and a handful of cash out of the cash register. When Lois caught him, he blasts her with a green flash of light. Instantly, Lois has forgotten the incident and Kevin strolls away casually. When Kevin accidentally erased Clark Kent's memory causing him to have total amnesia, Chloe Sullivan looked after him and looked into Kevin's background. They found Kevin's ID at the Talon and traced it back to the Grady residence.
Kevin returned to his family home and packed his bag when his father found him. Kevin explained that wherever he was, they turned him into a freak and he knew that he couldn't stay because of what he did, so he was leaving for good. Lawrence argued that his therapy was not yet finished, but Kevin erased his father's memory and left. When Clark, Lois, and Chloe arrived looking for Kevin, Dr. Grady first told them that Kevin was out of town but then admitted that he was at the Summerholt Institute for memory treatment. He told them that Kevin had accidentally killed his brother Dillon while hunting, and that he was trying to get the tragedy erased from Kevin's memory.
Chloe sneaked into the Summerholt Institute and found video files of Kevin's treatment. Lawrence found Chloe searching his computer and captured her. He tied her up and connected her to the same surgical equipment, as he had done with Kevin. Chloe begged to be released and promised not to tell anyone about what really happened, but Dr. Grady was ready to wipe her memory clean. When he prepared to erase her memories, Kevin entered the laboratory and confronted him about his lies and attacked him.
Dr. Grady knocked him out, falling over a table and banged his head against an edge that rendered him temporarily unconscious. He then began the treatment on Chloe. When Lawrence finally started the procedure, Clark came into the laboratory and intercepted the beam that was intended to erase Chloe's memories. Clark thereby got his own memories back by the beam, but overloaded the machinery that it collapsed. Lawrence was hit and knocked out by a green beam of energy emitted from some bursting machine parts. After Clark had freed Chloe, Dr. Grady was taken into custody by the police.