Mr. Yin (real name: Karl Rotmensen) is a major antagonist in the TV show Psych.
When masked, he was portrayed by Chris Turner. While unmasked, he was portrayed by Peter Weller, who also played Alexander Marcus in Star Trek: Into Darkness, Stan Liddy in Dexter, Caleb Thies in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Christopher Henderson in 24, John Frederick Paxton in Star Trek Enterprise, and Batman in The Dark Knight Returns.
Biography[]
Mr. Yin was an infamous serial killer who often taunted the police in a Zodiac type of fashion before he killed his next victim. He is arguably the most infamous, darkest, and cruelest villain on the show. He abused and brainwashed his daughter, Mr. Yang, into being a sociopath. He would commit crimes while under her own alias, leading everyone to believe she was the killer herself. He would mail the police letters about how they could find the victims before he'd kill them.
Although he did not play fair as he would change his own rules once his plans were discovered. Yang betrayed Yin out of her admiration for Shawn and helped save the latter's mother. She was later arrested without anyone knowing about Yin. Out of anger at losing her as an apprentice, he targets Shawn in "Mr. Yin Presents..." and reveals his existence by killing a waitress who served Shawn, Gus, and psychologist Mary at a diner. He begins targeting them in ways that mirror that of Alfred Hitchcock films. Once they find him, he kills Mary in a way similar to the staircase scene from Psycho and uses his death as a distraction to kidnap Jules. Yin later kidnaps Shawn's girlfriend, Abigail, and gives him the options on who to save, trapping Jules on a clock tower and Abigail under a dock. When Shawn finds Abigail, he meets a masked Yin, but is forced to let him go and save Abigail. Jules is later saved by Lassie and Gus.
Needing an apprentice, Yin makes one of Allison Cowley, and has her pretend to be a former victim of his in order to kidnap Shawn and Gus. This plan works and Allison kidnaps them after pretending to be kidnapped by Yin again, tying them both to a chair in front of Yin. Yin has her leave and attempts to inject them both with poison. However Shawn and Gus manage to keep Yin distracted long enough for Yang to arrive. She pretends to want to come back as an apprentice, only to inject Yin with the poison he intended for Shawn and Gus, killing him, but not before he admits he never loved her.
Trivia[]
- Yin is inspired by some real-life serial killers
- Dennis Rader, a.k.a. "The BTK Killer", an American serial killer, mostly of women but also entire families, across Kansas, with a history of resurfacing with coded messages to dare police to stop him.
- The unidentified "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer of couples in lover's lanes in San Francisco, challenging police with phone calls and sending coded messages with signsture symbols.
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Mr. Yin | Mr. Yang | Allison Cowley | Pierre Desperaux | Chelsea Patterson | Valeria Crossley | Dolores O'Riordan | ||