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This woman has waged bloody war on us. More than a dozen heralds and operatives dead. Your colleagues and clients. My friend Ken Morgan. Not to mention the partners themselves. Our Founders. Our Benefactors. Make no mistake. This woman's hands are soaked in blood. Our Blood! And Arthur Edwards, the new supreme head of Providence... is handing her the keys to the kingdom. Now does that seem right to you my friends? Does that sound like Loyalty?
~ Don Yates in a meeting with the Heralds talking about Diana Burnwood
Why you? Why would Edwards trust you? Please... It will keep me up at night and I'm sixty-five, I get up four times to piss as it is.
~ Yates in his optional final confrontation with Diana.

Don Archibald "Cojones" Yates is a major antagonist in HITMAN III, where he would also be the main target of its fifth mission "The Farewell".

He was voiced by Nathan Osgood, who also voiced Sully Bowden in the same game.

Biography[]

Don Archibald Yates was born the son of real estate mogul Archibald Yates and business executive Helena Yates (née Castro). He and his young brother Zachary grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

From an early age, young Don was destined for greatness, reaching the top of his class and getting elected student body president by a landslide. Originally dreaming of becoming President of the United States, Don found his true home in the courtroom after serving an internship with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Don founded Morgan, Yates & Kohn with his two dear friends, the dapper English gentleman Ken Morgan and the shy, analytical Theodore Kohn. Their efficient ruthlessness and complete lack of moral code struck gold and they had become the most powerful law firm on the East Coast. Among their achievements were the successful defenses of socialite Chelsea Whitmore, Milton-Fitzpatrick, Kronstadt Industries and the Van Orten Tobacco Company.

Early in the 2000s, Don married Valentina Morales, an Argentinian diplomat whose brilliance and ruthlessness were only matched by Don. In 2016, Valentina resigned in disgrace after a political scandal, which was unknown to her caused by her husband and she and her loving husband retired to her ancestral vineyard, Viñedo Yates. The Yates' hopes for a peaceful retirement was interrupted by a series of unfortunate events.

After Morgan was assassinated in Bangkok alongside his former client, rockstar Jordan Cross, a war began between Providence, a vast corporate, conspiratorial power cabal controlling the world, and the mysterious Lucas Grey and his Private Militia. Caught between it was the International Contract Agency (ICA) and their foremost hitman Agent 47. After a few initial conflicts with Providence, the ICA agreed to work on behalf of them, assassinating Grey's militia members. However, revealing their past as brothers in a cloning project, Grey convinced 47 and Diana to betray the ICA and help him destroy Providence. Not long after, Providence's leaders, the Partners, were killed. Grey was killed soon after as well, and the ICA was later brought down as a result of a global data leak orchestrated by 47.

The Partners' treacherous second-in-command and Constant, Arthur Edwards, approached Yates, having orchestrated his superiors' deaths. As he assumed his new role as Providence's sole leader, he offered Yates the position of Constant. Yates leaped at the opportunity, but to his great dismay, he discovered that Agent 47's rogue handler, Diana Burnwood, was also in consideration.

Yates hosted his retirement party at Viñedo Yates and set up a meeting with Burnwood, hoping to covertly murder her and blame it on 47. However, 47 soon arrived and murdered him alongside Tamara Vidal.

Personality[]

From a young age, Don Yates was an eloquent, intelligent and charismatic young man who could gain control of any situation with a powerful and intimidating presence.

Beneath the his sophisticated posture and arm-around-the-shoulder warmth and amiability, however, is a gleeful willingness to disregard any moral code to get what he wants. Regardless, Yates can genuinely form connections with others. He does truly love his wife Valentina, and also genuinely cares about his late friend Ken Morgan.

Trivia[]

  • Some players have drawn comparisons between Yates and former US President Donald Trump, both men being New Yorkers with a background in real estate, political ambitions, the name Don and a wife of foreign descent. Don also bears a passing resemblance to Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump.
  • Yates is one of the only targets who can potentially kill another target, with Jordan Cross, Robert Knox, and Roman Khabko being other examples.
  • If the player reveals his involvement in the data leak that ruined his wife's career, he will be pushed off the villa balcony to his death by the latter in a fit of rage.
  • Should 47 neglect to finish off Yates after Diana stabs him in the "Closing Statement" story, he will eventually bleed out and die. This would make him Diana's first and only direct and personally committed murder.

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Protagonists
Agent 47 | Diana Burnwood

International Contract Agency
Executives: Benjamin Travis | Jade Nguyen | Erich Soders
Contracted killers: The Saints (Jennifer Anne Paxton | LaSandra Dixon | Heather McCarthy | Jaqueline Moorehead | Agnija Radoncic | Dijina Radoncic | Mary Garnier | Louisa Cain)
Agents: Birdie | Praetorians | Agent Banner | Agent Tremain | Agent Montgomery | Agent Thames | Agent Green | Agent Rhodes | Agent Swan | Agent Lowenthal
Researchers: Hush | Imogen Royce

Providence
Leadership: The Partners (Marcus Stuyvesant | Carl Ingram | Alexa Christine Carlisle)
Constants: Janus | Arthur Edwards | Diana Burnwood (undercover)
Agents: Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer | Silvio Caruso | Francesca De Santis | Claus Hugo Strandberg | Reza Zaydan | Erik Olander | Ken Morgan | Erich Soders | Yuki Yamazaki | Akira Nakamura | Robert Knox | Sierra Knox | Nolan Cassidy | Zoe Washington | Sophia Washington | Athena Savalas | Don Archibald Yates | Tamara Vidal | Orson Mills
Assets: IAGO (Dalia Margolis | Viktor Novikov | Nila Torvik | Owen Wagner | Scott Sarno | Kieran Hudson) | Haven (Tyson Williams | Ljudmila Vetrova | Steven Bradley)

The Franchise
Leader: Alexander Leland Cayne
Agents: Albert Fournier | Raymond Kulinsky | Angelina Mason | Mark Purayah II | Female Assassin | Maynard John | Eve | Mark Parchezzi III | Daniel Morris
Assets: Alvaro D'Alvade | Richard Delahunt | Anthony Martinez | Vaana Ketlyn

Private Militia
Leader: Lucas Grey
Members: Olivia Hall | Sean Rose | Penelope Graves | Ezra Berg | Maya Parvati | Alma Reynard | Orson Mills | Patrick Morgan | Richard M. Foreman | Pertti Järnefelt | Wazir Kale | Vanya Shah | Dawood Rangan | Noel Crest

Main Story Targets
Original Series
Hitman: Codename 47: The Five Fathers (Lee Hong | Pablo Belisario Ochoa | Frantz Fuchs | Boris Ivanovich Deruzka | Otto Wolfgang Ort-Meyer) | Odon Kovacs | No. 48s

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin: Giuseppe Guillani | Russian Generals (Rinat S. Rumyantsev) | Igor Kubasko | Masahiro Hayamoto Jr. | Masahiro Hayamoto | Brat Charliego Sidjan | Charlie Sidjan | Ahmed Zahir | Mohammad Amin | Abdul Bismillah Malik | Hannelore Von Kamprad | Deewana Ji | Agent 17 | Sergei Zavorotko

Hitman: Contracts: Campbell Sturrock | Andrei Puscus | Fabian Fuchs | Sergei Bjarkhov | Winston Beldingford | Alistair Beldingford | Rutgert Van Leuven | Arkadij Jegorov | Frantz Fuchs | Fritz Fuchs | Lee Hong | Philippe Berceuse (off-screen) | Richard Delahunt (off-screen) | Albert Fournier

Hitman: Blood Money: Joseph Clarence | Scoop | Fernando Delgado | Manuel Delgado | Alvaro D'Alvade | Richard Delahunt | Carmine DeSalvo | Rudy Menzana | Lorenzo Lombardo | Vinnie Sinistra | Mark Purayah II | Raymond Kulinsky | Angelina Mason | Lorne de Haviland | Chad Bingham Jr. | Mysterious female assassin | Gator Gang (Everett Jefferson | Skip Muldoon | Junior O’Daniel | William S. Corfitz | Adam Hendrikson | Joe Netberg | Elijah Krup | John LeBlanc | Hank Leitch Muldoon) | Sheikh Mohammad Bin Faisal Al-Khalifa | Tariq Abdul Lateef | Hendrik Schmutz | Vaana Ketlyn | Eve | Maynard John | Anthony Martinez | Mark Parchezzi III | Daniel Morris | Alexander Leland Cayne

Hitman: Absolution: Diana Burnwood (spared) | King of Chinatown | Dominic Osmond | Larry Clay | Bill Dole | Frank Owens | Edward Wade | Hope Cougars | Lenny Dexter (optional) | Marcus Green | Raymond Valentine | Warren Ashford | Sanchez | The Saints (Jennifer Anne Paxton) | Clive Skurky | Layla Stockton | Blake Dexter | Jade Nguyen | Praetorians | Benjamin Travis

World of Assassination Trilogy
HITMAN: Kalvin Ritter | Jasper Knight | Viktor Novikov | Dalia Margolis | Silvio Caruso | Francesca De Santis | Reza Zaydan | Claus Hugo Strandberg | Jordan Cross | Ken Morgan | Sean Rose | Penelope Graves | Ezra Berg | Maya Parvati | Erich Soders | Yuki Yamazaki

HITMAN 2: Alma Reynard | Sierra Knox | Robert Knox | Rico Delgado | Jorge Franco | Andrea Martinez | Wazir Kale | Vanya Shah | Dawood Rangan | Janus | Nolan Cassidy | Zoe Washington | Sophia Washington | Athena Savalas | Tyson Williams | Steven Bradley | Ljudmila Vetrova

HITMAN III: The Partners (Carl Ingram | Marcus Stuyvesant | Alexa Christine Carlisle) | ICA Agents | Hush | Imogen Royce | Don Archibald Yates | Tamara Vidal | Arthur Edwards

Elusive Targets
HITMAN: Sergei Larin | Anthony L. Troutt | Adalrico Candelaria | Jonathan Smythe | Vito Đurić | Dylan Narváez | Howard Moxon | Owen Wagner | Nila Torvik | Xander Haverfoek | Brendan Conner | Richard Ekwensi | Inez Ekwensi | Gabriel Santos | Etta Davis | Richard J. Magee | Wen Ts’ai | Richard M. Foreman | Walter Williams | Adeze Oijofor | Pavel Frydel | Akane Akenawa | Pertti Järnefelt | Kieran Hudson | Bartholomew Argus | Ji-Hu | Mr. Giggles

HITMAN 2: Mark Faba | Vicente Murillo | Miranda Jamison | Barbara Keating | Censor | Jimmy Chen | Legacy Elusive Targets (Ji-Hu | Owen Wagner | Adalrico Candelaria | Anthony L. Troutt | Richard J. Magee | Mr. Giggles | Bartholomew Argus | Richard M. Foreman | Brendan Conner | Vito Đurić | Walter Williams | Etta Davis | Adeze Oijofor | Xander Haverfoek | Gabriel Santos)

HITMAN III: Kody Haynes | Joanne Bayswater | Terrence Chesterfield | Philo Newcombe | Jack Roe | Robert Burk | Allison Moretta | Sully Bowden | Alexios Laskaridis | Legacy Elusive Targets (Anthony L. Troutt | Richard J. Magee | Jimmy Chen | Barbara Keating | Owen Wagner | Dylan Narváez | Mr. Giggles | Wen Ts’ai | Pertti Järnefelt | Ji-Hu)

Others
Non-Targets
Ivan Zilvanovitch | Tzun | Mister X | Malcolm Sturrock | Margeaux LeBlanc | Adam "Kane" Marcus | James Seth Lynch | Aleksander Kovak| Terry Norfolk | Tren Po | Sir Humphrey Titus Rutherford | Mabaya Mzabuni | Kurt Donovan | Nelle Brent | Max Decker | Isabella Caruso | Erik Olander | Dexy Barat | Thomas Cross | Benjamin Bertram | Lloyd Burgess | Katashi Ito | Akira Nakamura | Simone Larin | Whitecap | Tommy "the Hammer" Stoakes | Orson Mills | Jin Po | Sun Po | Hector Delgado | Kashmirian | Bhavin Sagar | Helen West | Frank Schmidt | Jebediah Block | Blake Nathaniel | Zachary Yates | Mateo Pérez | Fabian Mann | Gourd and Sugar Squirrel | Jason Portman | Leah Cooper | Zana Kazem | Mr. Fernsby | Zachary Carlisle | Emma Carlisle | Rolf Hirschmüller | Michael "Mishoo" Nenkpv | Angus Pritchard | Sister Lei | Xu Junli | Corvo Black | Juan Cortázar | Valentina Yates | Providence Heralds

DLC Targets
Patient Zero: Liberation (Oybek Nabazov | Sister Yulduz | Craig Black | Brother Akram | Bradley Paine | Owen Cage) | Klaus Liebleid
The Sarajevo Six: Sarajevo Six (Scott Sarno | Gary Lunn | Walter Menard | John Stubbs | Patrick Morgan | Taheiji Koyama)

Bonus Mission/Special Assignment/Post-Launch Targets
HITMAN: Kong Tuo-Kwang | Matthieu Mendola | Harry Bagnato | Marv Gonif | Marco Abiatti
HITMAN 2: Dmitri Fedorov | Blair Reddington | Basil Carnaby | Ajit "AJ" Krish | Galen Vholes
HITMAN III: Noel Crest | Sinhi Venthan

Sniper Assassin Targets
Hitman: Sniper Challenge: Richard Strong Jr.
HITMAN 2: Dorian Lang | Guillaume Maison | Doris Lee | Jin Noo | Re Thak | Lhom Kwai | Roman Khabko | Vitaly Reznikov

Organizations
Ark Society | Blue Lotus Triad | CICADA | Crystal Dawn | Delgado Cartel | Franchise | Gator Gang | IAGO | Khandanyang | Liberation | Private Militia | Providence | Red Dragon Triad | Yardbirds

Novels
Hitman: Enemy Within: Puissance Treize (Ali bin Ahmed bin Saleh Al-Fulani | Pierre Douay | Louis Legard | Cassandra Murphy | Mrs. Kaberov | Tova Holm | Hans Pruter | Aristotle Thorakis)
Hitman: Damnation: Hector Corado | Dana Linder | Darren Shipley | Bruce Ashton | Charlie Wilkins

Movies
Hitman (2007): Mikhail Belicoff | Yuri Marklov | Udrei Belicoff
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015): Le Clerq | John Smith | Dr. Albert Deleriego | Fabian


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