Michael Westmore is a psychopathic serial killer in the WB TV series Smallville, appearing as the main antagonist in the Season 5 episode "Tomb".
He was portrayed by Damon Johnson.
Biography[]
Past[]
Michael was the son of a jeweler who was secretly a serial killer. In 1995, he befriended a young girl named Gretchen Winters. She was a troubled teen who called him Mikey. He listened to her problems, before deciding that murdering her was the only way she would be at peace.
Mike murdered Gretchen in the Talon apartment and placed her body behind the bathroom wall. Since his father owned the building, Mikey had access to the apartment. He placed on all his victims a bracelet with a bejeweled green meteorite claiming it helped them be at peace.
Tomb[]
Michael worked as an orderly at the Smallville Medical Center, and was ordered by Dr. Sydell to take Chloe Sullivan from the ER into an observation room. Chloe had been possessed by Michael's victim, Gretchen, whose spirit was haunting her and caused her to slit her own wrists.
Chloe was then admitted to the hospital and put under suicide watch. While in the hospital, Chloe heard a voice begging for help coming from the bathroom in her hospital room. She panicked when she saw the ghost of Gretchen but was unseen to everyone else in the room. The doctors ordered Michael to restrain her for sedation because she was hysterical.
Clark Kent later helped Chloe escape the hospital and took her back to the Talon apartment. When they discovered Gretchen's body, Chloe touched the bracelet allowing Gretchen to gain possession of her body. Sensing it wasn't safe there, Clark took Chloe to the Kent Farm while Lois Lane planned to investigate Gretchen's murder. While in the apartment, Lois encountered the hospital orderly, Michael Westmore who was standing at her door.
He claimed he was concerned about Chloe but Lois was suspicious. Michael mused that his father used to manage the Talon when it was a theater and Lois politely ushers him out. She tried to call the Sheriff, but Michael forced his way back in and drugs Lois with chloroform until she passes out.
He then took Lois and tied her up in his basement. Chloe became fully possessed by Gretchen's spirit and went to Michael's house wanting revenge. She subdued him with a taser and almost bashed him to death until she heard Lois screaming in the basement. Distracted, Michael knocked her out and tied her to a chair next to Lois. He terrorizes them and talked about how his father used to make bracelets with green gemstones (meteor rocks). He put one on Chloe and gave Lois a large knife, instructing her to slit her wrists, or he will shoot Chloe. Instead Lois threw the knife at Michael.
Enraged, he knocks her down and she fell unconscious and he stood up to stab her. Michael was about kill Lois when Clark arrived to fight him, but Clark was weakened by the Kryptonite bracelet Michael put on Chloe's wrist earlier and got easily knocked to the ground. Chloe called Michael "Mikey", a name that Gretchen used to call him.
Michael was shocked after Gretchen revealed that she was in Chloe's body. He touches the bracelet and Gretchen's spirit leaves Chloe and flies into Michael. Gretchen's spirit transferred into Michael's body and she forced him to stab himself in the stomach and kill himself, despite his plea. Once Westmore was dead, Gretchen left his body, completed her revenge and her spirit could rest in peace.
