Ted Palmer was a corrupt Marshal and the secondary antagonist from the Smallville Season 2 episode "Red".
He was portrayed by Michael Tomlinson.
History[]
Ted was a U.S. Marshal and bounty hunter who was in pursuit of Ed and Jesse Brooks, a father and daughter who had escaped from the witness protection program. He was originally assigned to protect them but then turned against them to seek out a reward of one million dollars in exchange for turning Mr. Brooks over to his former employer.
Palmer was seeking computer disks that Ed brooks had taken containing accounting files, memos and endless smoking guns, exposing the shady accounting practices of the company he once worked for. While in search of them, it led him to a college student named Kyle in Metropolis who dated Jessie. Palmer questioned Kyle about the whereabouts of his girlfriend Jessie Brooks.
When the questioning went nowhere, he threatened to shoot Kyle so he finally admits that Jessie had been calling him. He doesn't know exactly where she is but suggests that the marshal can check his phone records.
The marshal then explained that he couldn't let Kyle go because he might warn Jessie, so he dropped a radio into Kyle's bathtub electrocuting the boy to death. Palmer later visited a bar outside of Smallville where Jessie Brooks last called Kyle. He threatened the bartender with an investigation of underage drinkers and told him to call him if Jessie ever came back to the bar.
After Clark Kent took Lana Lang to the Wild Coyote, he started a brawl and left with Jessie. The barkeeper recognized Jessie and retrieves the phone number that the Marshal gave him and gave him a call. Palmer later went to the Talon where Lana and Chloe Sullivan discussed the "new" Clark.
The Marshall was on the phone with someone tracking down the address for the owner of the Ferrari that Clark was seen driving the night before. At the Luthor Mansion, Lionel Luthor walks in on Clark playing pool and mocks his blindness telling him that no one in Smallville wants him around when Palmer interrupts them looking for Jessie.
Clark denied knowing her but when Ted pulled out a gun, Clark uses his super speed to take it from him. Lionel leaves to fetch security while Palmer attempts an escape. Clark pins him against the wall with the pool table and asks why he is looking for Jessie. Agent Palmer explains that they are fugitives from the Witness Protection Program. Jesse's father's former employer has offered Palmer a million dollars to recover some incriminating evidence in Mr. Brooks' possession.
Palmer offered to cut Clark in, but Clark decides to go after the evidence and the money himself and knocked him out. Kal went to Jessie's house to pick her up for their getaway, telling her that they can't leave until she gives him the disks. She refuses because her father needs them for his own protection. Just then the Marshal arrives telling Clark he needed him to make the deal with the broker. He threatened Jessie with a gun, but Mr. Brooks shoots him dead from the staircase, protecting his daughter.
External Links[]
- Ted Palmer on the Smallville Wiki
