Karin Matthews

Karin Matthews (played by Sarah-Jane Redmond) is the therapist of teenagers Bobby Rich and Lisa Baiocchi, possesses the ability to control trees. Abused as a child, Matthews encourages her patients to empower themselves against others in positions of authority. However, she is trapped by the memories of her own abusive father, who died twenty years prior, and she not only projects her abuse onto her patients to the point of twisting their family relationships, she also uses her supernatural ability to murder Bobby's stepfather and later, Lisa's father and aunt. It's implied either an alternate personality or a piece of her abusive father resides in her psyche and spirit, turning her into the supernatural murderer she is, either without her conscious, willing understanding, or believing she's being haunted by her father or something else evil she wants to stop from using her murderous powers. When Karin attempts to kill Mulder and Bobby by dragging them underground, she is decapitated by the local orchard caretaker, her remains sinking into the soil. ( "Schizogeny")
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