Sergeant Leo Barnes

Leo Barnes
The Purge character
First appearance	The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Last appearance	The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Created by	James DeMonaco
Portrayed by	Frank Grillo
Information
Aliases	The Sergeant
Occupation	Police Sergeant (Anarchy), Head secret service agent (Election Year)
Affiliation	Los Angeles Police Department (Anarchy), Senator Charlie Roan (Election Year), Anti-Purge Insurgency (Election Year),

Leo Barnes, also known as The Sergeant, is a fictional character in The Purge film series. The character is portrayed by Frank Grillo.

Grillo was credited as "The Sergeant" in The Purge: Anarchy and "Leo Barnes" in The Purge: Election Year.

Several months earlier before events of “Anarchy”, Warren Grass commits a criminal act by drunk driving which resulted in the death of the son of Leo Barnes, a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant. He is then charged with driving under the influence and was acquitted on legal technicalities. An enraged and bereaved Barnes works painstakingly on how to avenge his son’s death then comes up with the plan to do it on the next annual Purge.

In the year 2023, one year after the events of the first movie, prior to the sixth annual Purge, a Los Angeles-based anti-Purge group headed by Carmelo Johns and his partner, the Stranger from the first film named Dwayne Bishop (Edwin Hodge), hack into satellite feeds to denounce the New Founding Fathers.

Leo Barnes (who is only identified as the Sergeant throughout the film’s course) is off-duty on that day and arms up before the commencement. His wife Janice sees what he is doing and tries to convince him that purging would not bring their son back and would not instill justice to them. She urges him not to go through with his plans, but Leo goes against her advice. He goes out to the streets heavily armed in his modified muscle car posing as a vigilante.

Upon the Purge’s commencement, he continues to drive along Los Angeles. After Eva and Cali’s lecherous superintendent Diego is shot to death by a paramilitary platoon led by a purger named “Big Daddy”, the two women are being forced out of the building by the platoon to a purging truck where Big Daddy awaits. Leo witnesses this and thinks twice if he should rescue them or not. But after seeing the women fight back, he chooses to rescue them instead. Leo then kills the platoon, wounds Big Daddy, and rescues the women by offering a ride. As this happens, married couple Shane and Liz, who are being persuaded by a masked gang of bikers before the start of the Purge, stow away at the back of his car. After Leo, Eva and Cali get into a light argument with Shane and Liz, they find out that they are also seeking shelter from purgers. Joining forces, the group flees just as Big Daddy fires at them, heavily damaging the car.

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