Malcolm Janus - Season 5

Season 5

In "Forbidden Fruit," Janus contacts Boston Telegraph journalist Jeremy Tomlin with a "list of the U.S. locations most vulnerable to a terrorist attack," threatening the writer into publishing the story. Tomlin does, and Smith discovers that Janus was the leak; he proceeds to convince Tomlin to go public, only to have Tomlin name Michael Scannell (presumably under threat by Janus), chief of staff to Congressman Pat Kelly.

With Greg Stillson and Miranda Ellis's marriage quickly approaching, Miranda becomes even less sure of her choice, and turns to Smith for help. The two share an intimate liaison, and when Janus presents evidence to Stillson, Stillson demands that it be handled. Janus then delivers an envelope to Purdy, claiming that it contains Stillson's "public attestation of emotion," which he claims Stillson has requested Purdy to read at the wedding. He later presents Miranda with a pair of earrings as a gift from Stillson; the jewelry is laced with a snake venom that affects the heart, and as Miranda's heart is already damaged from a bout with rheumatic fever as a child, the earrings kill her as Greg waits at the altar.

Janus, at the head of a covert cabal, offers Stillson a place in the group's "New America" in "the Hunting Party"; with a hunting trip approaching for Vice-President Eric Danbury, Stillson is put in place on the trip to witness the assassination of the vice-president, take a bullet in the shoulder, and return fire to kill the gunman. While Kendra Crowe is the actual triggerman, Marshall Frost is set up to take the fall for the successful assassination. Stillson becomes the likely candidate to replace the fallen vice-president.