Dr. Paul Brenner is a Checkmate operative working at Metropolis General Hospital and a supporting antagonist in the ninth season of the CW Television series Smallville.
He was portrayed by Jonathan Lloyd Walker.
Biography[]
Checkmate[]
Dr. Brenner meets Chloe Sullivan.
Dr. Brenner was working at Metropolis General when he was approached by Chloe Sullivan who was trying to get information about several missing patients who were meant to check in at the mental institution Belle Reve, but instead ended up at Checkmate.
At first Brenner was evasive in her questioning and initially hostile towards her. He then saw that Chloe was trying to copy his PDA and initiated a counter-scan while trying to buy some time, he offered to show Chloe the documents she wanted which were down in the basement.
Dr. Brenner realized Chloe was the target Checkmate was after and had her taken to the agency's headquarters. Brenner and Checkmate agents drag a bound and gagged Chloe into a secret room. He held Chloe at gunpoint at Amanda Waller's orders.
When Checkmate's headquarters lost power, he fired his gun but Clark Kent arrived and took out the Checkmate agents before stopping a speeding bullet aimed for Chloe and knocked Brenner out. After the fight, Clark took her back to Watchtower.
Brenner accompanied Waller back to her office when she spotted a Red Queen chess piece on her chessboard. She asked who has been in her office and Brenner states no one has since they're secured. Waller then said that Checkmate has been blocked by a new player and, sweeping the Queen aside, said it was time for a new game.
Sacrifice[]
Agent Brenner later returned alongside Agent Campbell to hunt down Tess Mercer. They were working on getting information they had received from Watchtower and were trying to find its location. With Campbell's help, they successfully hacked Watchtower of all of the information about the aliens on Earth.
Later, Waller told Campbell to stop looking for Tess since they found the Kandorians, but he refuses to stop and ordered Brenner to continue his search. They managed to track Tess to Metropolis General Hospital who was in the process of removing her tracker. Once removed, Brenner and his team couldn't manage to find Tess and Campbell ordered them to move out unaware that she was hiding in the examination room.
