Leon Ferris

* Main
* Human
* Alpha
* Behemoth

> I told you, this is my kingdom.
>
> Leon Ferris to Jacob Lee

Captain **Leon Ferris** is the main antagonist of *The Callisto Protocol*. He was the right hand man to Warden Duncan Cole in Black Iron Prison. He also served as the final boss of the game.

## Biography

Captain Ferris is one of the senior officers for Black Iron Prison, and makes his first appearance when the UJC Charon, piloted by Jacob Lee and Max Barrow, crash-lands on Callisto near the prison. As Jacob wakes up from the crash, the wall to the cockpit is cut open to reveal two security bots and Captain Ferris looking for survivors of the wreckage. Ferris gives Jacob a thermal respirator, and makes small talk with him as they leave the Charon. His attitude changes abruptly though when he gets a call from Warden Cole saying to apprehend both Jacob and Dani Nakamura.

During the ride to Black Iron Prison, Ferris ignores Jacob's pleas about him not being a prisoner, and drops any friendly pretenses he might have had, treating Jacob just like any other prisoner that needs to be processed. The ride ends with Ferris telling Jacob that Callisto is a dead moon, and Jacob, as far as anyone else is concerned, is a dead man, and that Jacob needs to drop his old life and accept his new one.

Captain Ferris isn't seen again until post outbreak, where he has taken up position in the command tower, giving commands to any surviving squads. Jacob attempts to sneak past him to meet up with Elias Porter, but Ferris is alerted to him when Jacob attempts to override a door lock. Ferris, already angry with losing a large portion of his men, starts taking out his anger on Jacob by tossing him around the room using his GRP. While he has Jacob held in place with the GRP, he starts to question him asking if Jacob had anything to do with the outbreak since it only started not too long after he arrived. In his anger, he throws Jacob close to the exit door, which now has Biophage-infected Grunts on the other side of it. With quick thinking, Jacob overrides the door lock and lets them into the room to attack Ferris. Ferris hits one with his stun baton, GRPs another one into the wall, but a third one manages to tackle Ferris through the command tower window. At this point, Jacob believes that Ferris is dead.

Later on, as Jacob and Elias attempt to leave the Habitat Dome, they enter an airlock and begin to suit up to cross the harsh, freezing cold surface of Callisto. Before they can fully suit up though, Ferris appears on the other side of the airlock door. He is visibly infected, with his voice no longer sounding completely human, although he appears to still have his mental faculties. He tells Jacob and Elias that there is always a price to pay, and then prematurely cycles the airlock, sucking both prisoners out before they finished suiting up.

Ferris doesn't make an appearance again until Jacob and Dani are attempting to leave the underground colony to reach the prison again. Jacob, having reached a lab connecting the two areas, ends up finding the source of the outbreak in one of the research areas. As he is examining a vial containing a sample of the Biophage, Ferris suddenly appears, telling Jacob they have unfinished business. He is visibly bulked up from the infection, and enhanced in terms of strength and agility, shrugging off a bullet from Jacob. The two fight it out, with Jacob buying time until Dani can open the door that will let them escape back into the prison. As Dani opens the door, Jacob falls back, but before the door can close Dani is attacked by a Parasite that infects her, with Ferris taunting Jacob saying that shortly she'll be one of the infected.

Shortly before the end of the game, it's revealed that in the previous outbreak, there was a special kind of Biophage called Subject Zero, someone that managed to merge himself with the infection and still keep his mental faculties. With this information, it's revealed that Ferris is the successor to Subject Zero, managing to merge with the infection rather than just becoming a mindless beast. Dr. Caitlyn Mahler also states that the only way to get a cure for Dani is to extract a sample from Ferris.

Nearing the end of his journey, Jacob confronts Warden Cole, who explains the outbreak was needed to speed up human evolution, and he pits Jacob, the survivor, against Ferris, the Alpha, to show the outbreak was worth it. Ferris begins to taunt Jacob, and says that when he was first infected, he believed it was a curse, but now realizes it was actually a gift, before attacking Jacob. The two fight, and Jacob manages to hold his own briefly against Ferris, but Ferris manages to gain the upper hand during their final fight and pins him to the ground. Before he can deal the killing blow though, Ferris begins to mutate uncontrollably, re-stating that there is always a price to pay. Distracted from his transformation, Jacob manages to break free, and the two fight a final time. Dodging his strikes and spit projectiles, and killing the Exploders that Ferris summons into the field, Jacob manages to best Ferris. As Ferris dies, Jacob extracts a sample from him using a syringe, as Warden Cole states that Ferris was only an imperfect vessel, and that this isn't the end.

## Characteristics and Personality

Pre-outbreak, Ferris is a company man, loyal to the Warden and the UJC and always getting the job done. He is jaded and indifferent to Jacob's situation, seemingly just wanting to get Jacob and Dani processed as fast as possible so he can finish his shift. He ignores Jacob's pleas, and taunts him by saying that as far as anyone else is concerned, Jacob is dead from the crash, and to just accept his new life.

After the outbreak happens, it becomes apparent that Ferris is close to breaking from stress, and his true personality shows as he takes out his anger on Jacob, throwing him across the room and taunting Jacob while he has him held in place with his GRP. He angrily accuses Jacob of having something to do with the outbreak, as things were fine until he showed up.

After Ferris is infected, his personality becomes a lot more confident after realizing that his new powers are a gift rather than a curse. He begins taunting Jacob a lot more during their fights, believing he can't be beat and that the infection has made him stronger than ever.

## Combat Strategy

### Alpha form

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### Behemoth form

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## Death Scenes

* In his Humanoid/Alpha form, Ferris will slam Jacob to the floor and start pummeling his face over and over till his skull is collapsed in. As Jacob lays dying Ferris delivers a curb stomp that crushes Jacobs head, spitefully spitting on his corpse as he walks away.
* In his Final Mutated form, 2 animations will play:
	+ Ferris will knock Jacob to the floor and then pick him up. Ferris stabs Jacob as he screams in pain, until the final blow obliterates his head completely. After that, Ferris violently chucks Jacob's body to the ground, blowing off his arms in the process.
	+ Ferris knocks Jacob to the floor and stabs him while he screams in agonizing pain. Ferris picks up Jacob and twists his body until he's split in half. Jacob lets out one final painful scream before he gets violently thrown to the floor, obliterating his head.

## Trivia

* Ferris was portrayed and voiced by Sam Witwer.

## Gallery

Mugshot of Leon FerrisClose-up of Leon Ferris during the start of the gameLeon Ferris mutated from the biophage pathogenLeon Ferris in his final transformation as the Alpha