Don Archibald Yates

Providence Herald

Ken Morgan (Colleague; deceased)

Theodore Kohn

Viñedo Yates (Owner)

Valentina Yates (Wife)

Zachary Yates (brother)

Jodie Ariella Rivera (friend)

**Don Archibald Yates** is a power lawyer, one of the founding members of Morgan, Yates & Kohn, the owner of Viñedo Yates, a Herald for Providence, and was the legal counsel for the Partners who was the top candidate for the Constant of Providence and is a target that appears in The Farewell, the fifth and penultimate mission of *HITMAN™ III*.

His brother, Zachary was a lawyer for Ark Society.

## Background

*Don Archibald Yates is a power layer and founding partner in the top legal firm Morgan, Yates & Kohn.*

*The son of New York real estate mogul Archibald Yates and business executive Helena Yates, née Castro of the famed wine-making Castro family in Argentina. Don Yates and his younger brother Zachary grew up privileged on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.*

*From an early age, Don was on a fast track towards the White House. Voraciously ambitious, Don was always top of his class, becoming student body president as his elite high school by a landslide. A larger-than-life personality, eloquent and verbose, flamboyant, and sociable, Don had an omnipresent energy and intuition, allowing him to galvanize every situation he entered. He would unabashedly tell anyone how he planned to make Attorney General by the age of 35 and President by the age of 42. However, during his stint at Harvard Law School, he landed a prestigious internship with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and was immediately enthralled by the cerebral blood sport that was court room dueling.*

*Casting his political aspirations aside with trademark lack of sentimentality, Yates founded a law firm with two of his closest friends, the dapper Ken Morgan, and the shy, analytical Theodore Kohn. Yates and Morgan would be the outward faces of the company, representing their clients in court, while the reclusive Kohn would specialize in tax law and handle the financial services side of their operation.*

*Morgan, Yates & Kohn quickly amassed an impressive client roster--their breath-taking unscrupulousness making them the go-to law firm in the "greed is good" downtown era of the 1980s. Yates and Morgan, in particular, rose to fame and notoriety when they successfully acquitted investment bank Milton-Fitzpatrick of illicit trade charges by extorting key witnesses. This audacious feat brought the firm to the attention of Providence which, unknown to Don Yates, already controlled his father's real estate trust.*

*By the 90s, Morgan, Yates & Kohn had become the most powerful law firm on the East Coast. Vilified by progressives as an instrument of pure corporate evil, these power lawyers would defend their wealthy clients by any means necessary, including intimidation, bribery, false evidence, entrapment, character assassinations, and flat-out murder. Their accolades include Ken Morgan's now legendary "affluenza" defense of murderous socialite Chelsea Whitmore, their masterful team defense of Kronstadt Industries after the Tungan Valley incident and Yates' shock acquittal of the Van Orten Tobacco Company following their indictment for spiking the ground water in sub-Saharan Africa with nicotine to boost their dwindling customer base.*

*Early in the 2000s, Yates fell in love with Argentinian top diplomat, Valentina Morales. Brilliant and equally ruthless in her pursuits, she and Yates have since enjoyed a long romantic and intellectual partnership. However, in 2016, Valentina was caught up in a political scandal which put an abrupt end to her career. She reluctantly moved home to Argentina to manage her ancestral vineyard, which the Yateses had long been running on the side, and Yates, now well into his 60s, began considering his own retirement from the firm. But history had different plans.*

*First came the unexpected death of Ken Morgan in Bangkok and the subsequent "months of terror" at the hands of Lucas Grey and his militia. Then, in the wake of his kidnapping at the Isle of Sgàil, Arthur Edwards approached Don Yates, indicating that a "change in management" may be imminent. Once the Providence partners were dead, Edwards would assume control of all Providence assets and he offered Yates the position of Constant--in exchange for setting up Edwards' new supra-national corporate entity.*

*Yates, whose ambition never softened with age, jumped at the opportunity. He announced his retirement from Morgan, Yates & Kohn and began prepping for his new position as the third Constant of Providence.*

*Don "Cojones" Yates is a shark of a man; elegant, charismatic, and deadly, his billion-dollar smile hides rows of jagged teeth. Although he is a man of words, he commands a powerful and intimidating presence. He is a man of refined tastes, an oratorical genius and master schemer, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.*
*And momentarily, the only person who stands in his way is Diana Burnwood.*

## Habits and Personality

Yates is ruthless and persuasive. He has proven in the past that he is willing to destroy anybody, even the career of his own wife, in order to win. He intends to murder Diana, against the wishes of Arthur Edwards, and will persuade the other Heralds to go along with this scheme.

Yates spends most of his cycle moving about his mansion and its rear grounds, often in the company of his wife and at least one mercenary. Despite his position as one of the world's most powerful people with a global agenda, he is also personally involved in the local wine production operation, and he can be compelled to leave the mansion area if something goes wrong with the wine-making equipment.

## Trivia

* Some players have drawn comparisons between Yates and former US President Donald Trump, both men being New Yorkers with political ambitions, the name Don and a wife of foreign descent. Ironically, Yates shares a surname with former US Attorney General Sally Yates, who Trump fired over conflicts over a travel ban. Yates also bears a faint resemblance to Trump's father, real estate mogul Fred Trump.
* Despite sabotaging his wife Valentina's career and being unapologetic when confronted, Don still appears to love her. After being stabbed by Diana, he will beg them not to let Valentina see him. He will also get upset if the wine pump is sabotaged and accuses the workers of "pissing on her ancestral vineyard".
* During Death in the Family, Alexa Christine Carlisle will call Yates to complain that sending their junior partner to sort out the legal mess in Edwards' wake instead of himself is grossly negligent of his duties as the primary attorney to the Partners.
* During Situs Inversus, Dr. Nicholas Laurent will call Don if he discovers Erich Soders killed his father but is not under the influence of medicine. Laurent will talk about how Don's clients want Soders to stay alive, which are Providence.
* If all NPCs hav been killed in the entire mission, he would go to his shrine and he would eventually kneel and pray in there.
* He is the only target in Mendoza that appears in both Elusive Target missions as a non-target NPC. In a Mendoza Elusive Target level, Diana Burnwood and Tamara Vidal both don't make their appearances.
* Don is Gynesexual