Lin

Lin is a character in Saints Row.
==Overview==
Lin is a lieutenant in the 3rd Street Saints and the self-proclaimed "best racer to ever come out of Chinatown". A 25 year old female of Asian descent, she has a somewhat cold personality, at one point showing little compassion towards killing two Westside Rollerz she had just been conversing with, and at another throwing a man's lighter across the room after he offers to light her cigarette.
Julius asks Lin to go undercover with the Westside Rollerz in an attempt to learn more about them and take them down from the inside – much of the information she learns within the Rollerz she relays to Playa, and together they use it to foil the Rollerz' plans.
Unsatisfied with her role and in an attempt to infiltrate the Rollerz further, Lin pursues a relationship with Donnie, a mechanic and best friend of gang leader Joseph Price. She continues to deceive the Rollerz by working with Playa, and these ill-fated attempts ultimately lead to her death when Price's uncle and financier, William Sharp, concludes that she has been betraying the Rollerz and has her killed.
Lin is the first of four allies to die in the Saints Row series.
==History==
===Saints Row===
Playa first sees Lin in the Saints' church following the reclamation of Harrowgate (and with it the entire Saint's Row district); not content with Saint's Row, Julius assigns his lieutenants to work on removing each of the three enemy gangs from Stilwater. Lin, a lieutenant in the 3rd Street Saints, is asked by Julius to go undercover and infiltrate the Westside Rollerz in an attempt to bring them down from the inside.
Playa somewhat assumes the role of being her handler, visiting her at secret locations to be updated on what she has learned. Lin first meets Playa at a parking lot outside the Ultor Dome and informs them of "a shipment of high performance cars [that] is coming in today". Lin has Playa hijack the delivery truck and deliver it to Samson, who outfits the vehicles with "a few surprises" before finishing the delivery.
Later, at a nightclub, Lin reveals that there is an upcoming race and that the cars being used – the same cars that Playa stole – have been "rigged to blow once the engine reaches a high enough temperature": Lin requests Playa take part in the race and force the racers to use their nitrous, thereby activating the explosives. Fellow 3rd Street Saints lieutenant Troy, who is deeply concerned over Lin's well-being, helps out by taunting the Rollerz into activating their nitrous.
Lin becomes frustrated with the slow progress she has made in the Rollerz and devises a plan to "get in good with Price's crew" by having Playa raid a garage; Lin shows at the last moment and drives the owner, Donnie, away before Playa reaches him. Lin knows that Donnie is close friends with the Westside Rollerz' leader, Joseph Price, and manipulates Donnie into thinking she has saved his life.
Donnie gratefully takes Lin to meet Joseph Price, as well as Price's uncle William Sharp, who financially backs the gang. Lin utilizes her new position in the Rollerz to have Playa disrupt their plans regarding the collection of parts for an upcoming shipment. During this time, Donnie bonds with Lin as they spend time together. After hearing of the Saints' recent actions, Sharp deduces that Lin has been betraying the Rollerz (as only Lin, Donnie, Price, and himself knew of the car parts collection) and promises Price that he will take care of it.
Holding her captive at a local pool hall, Sharp forces Lin to phone Playa and lure them there. When Playa arrives, they fight towards where she is being held but they are knocked unconscious while trying to untie her from the chair.
Sharp ties up and incapacitates the two in the back of Lin's Voxel near the river, where he invites Donnie to reveal to him her betrayal. Lin attempts to explain herself to Donnie but is shot by Sharp wielding a .44 Shepherd. Donnie, shocked and heartbroken, leaves the scene. Sharp closes the trunk of the Voxel and pushes the vehicle into the river, submerging it. Lin finds her lighter but only manages to set Playa free before she drowns. Before she dies, Lin remarks on Donnie's words, "Did you hear that asshole Donnie? He said I was his girl".
Following her death, Playa kills Sharp in retribution. Soon after, Lin's body is found floating in the river in the morning. After removing all enemy gang presence and claiming Stilwater for their own, Julius phones Playa and congratulates them for all they did. During the call, he briefly touches on the loss of Lin, saying that she was a soldier and that she knew the risk. Donnie reclaims Lin's vehicle and, overcome with grief, mourns over her for the next several years.
===Saints Row Gat out of Hell===
Lin in the final storybook of the game, playing volleyball with Oleg, Josh, Dane, Kinzie, and Gat.
==Gameplay==
:See also: Zombie Lin
Lin drives a white Voxel with a blue stripe down its center in Saints Row, which is unlocked in the Garage after completing "Semi-Charmed Life". Lin herself is never a Homie, but players must chase after her while she escapes with Donnie in her Voxel in "Guardian Angel"; during this mission, her vehicle can plow straight through other vehicles – even Peterliners on the freeway.
After completing the mission in which she dies, "Burying Evidence", the player can call Eye for an Eye (555-5966) to unlock Zombie Lin as a Homie.
Lin was to appear in Saints Row IV but was cut; she has a physical model, a Homie icon, and three Audio Logs, which are still accessible in the game data files.
==Trivia==
*Lin is the only lieutenant in the 3rd Street Saints to not wear a purple item of clothing.
*Lin is the only named 3rd Street Saint in Saints Row who is not featured as a mission Homie.
*Lin and Troy are the only members in the 3rd Street Saints who smoke, and both of these characters are undercover: Lin in the Westside Rollerz and Troy being an undercover police officer in the Saints.
*In the newscast following "No Time to Mourn", Jack Armstrong says that Lin's body was discovered in the morning along the shores of Stilwater Bay, and that "her clothes were missing". Lin was fully clothed when she died.
*In "Battlefield Promotion", Donnie has a photo of Lin; the filename of this image includes "photolynn", although that is not the correct spelling of her name.
*Lin's obituary on the Saints Row website originally listed her year of birth as 1983 and year of death as 2008.
*Because they are both of Asian descent, and because of Julius' comment in "No Time to Mourn" – "Johnny's gonna take it pretty hard when he finds out, and you can bet yo' ass that he's gonna be callin' for blood." – some fans assumed that Johnny Gat is related to Lin. To put the matter to rest, stated that they are not related.
*Lin is one of many cut characters in Saints Row IV. Her Audio Logs and appearance as a Homie remain in the game data files, and the game files can be edited to add her as a Homie.
** Lin's first Audio Log has her refer to Playa as "the boss" – "I probably should've been more careful about how often I passed the boss information, though..." – but Playa did not become the leader of the 3rd Street Saints until Saints Row 2, five years after her death, and no character ever referred to Playa as "the boss" while Lin was alive.
*Lin is pictured with the rest of the Saints on the Saints Row website, but does not have a bio.
==Quotes==
===Audio Logs===
:Main article: Audio Logs
Although ultimately not available in Saints Row IV, Lin has three Audio Logs that can be found in the game data files. Like many Audio Logs, the first two are a reflection on past events, allowing insight from her perspective. The third audio log references events that never happened in the game.
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