Louis Leery Jr was the secondary antagonist in the Season Three premiere "Exile" of Smallville.
He was portrayed by Ryan Robbins, who also played Conklin in Arrow.
History[]
After Lex Luthor married Helen Bryce, they boarded a plane to their honeymoon. Along the way, something went terribly wrong and Lex awoke to find the plane empty and crashed into the ocean. Lex managed to survive the crash and ended up on a deserted island where he spent over three months there. On the island, Lex met Louis Leery Jr who helped nurse him back to health after he contracted malaria through leeches.
Louis was a free-spirited individual who seemed perfectly content to be stranded on the island and torments Lex with the suggestion that either Lionel or Helen betrayed him. Lex responded by threatening Louis if he ever insulted Helen again.
He told Lex to let go of his old life and enjoy living on the island. Lex survived by eating insects on the island when he saw a plane fly overhead. He tried to send out a smoke signal but Louis wouldn't help and the opportunity was missed. Louis repeats that Lex belongs on this island and he must accept his fate now.
Lex would attempt several more escape attempts from the island but would be constantly ignored by Louis. Once Lex attempted to build a raft, but Louis refused to help, claiming that he was not going to let Lex commit suicide. Lex used the compass Jonathan Kent gave him on his wedding day to forage for food when he came upon a skeleton. He saw a necklace floating in a puddle of water but when he pulled it out it was attached to a skeleton.
Louis appeared and reveals himself as a psychopath by admitting that the skeletal remains were of his father, whom he had to kill because only one of them could survive. He then tearfully admitted to Lex that he thought that they were kindred spirits, to which Lex responded that Louis was a psychopath. Louis retorted "Well, there's one in all of us. I just let mine out."
He then attacked Lex with a machete but he ran away. Louis chased Lex through the jungle and they fought on the beach. Lex got the upper hand and hacks Louis to death with a machete. But he was approached by a third figure, a crew member on a boat that had come to rescue him. Lex tried to explain that he had to kill him but was astonished to see that Louis disappeared, the machete was really a stick, and that most of his experiences on the island were, in fact, a figment of his imagination. Lex later spoke about his experience and of Louis to his therapist Dr. Claire Foster.
Trivia[]
- His name Louis Leery is an obvious spoof of Lex Luthor; both names are abbreviated L.L.
