- "I want my men, my guns and my heroin! Let me be very clear, Jackson. If that does not happen, the violence will not stop at the Stockton/Oakland borders. It will come to Charming. I will turn Mayberry into a goddamn killing field!"
- ―Henry Lin, warning Jax Teller
      
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Henry Lin (Chinese: 亨利林) was the Chinese-American leader of a Oakland-based Lin Triad on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. Played by American actor Kenneth Choi, Henry makes his debut on the episode "Giving Back" in season one and plays a recurring role throughout the show, he met his demise in the season seven episode, "Suits of Woe".
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Biography[]
Background[]
Lin was formerly the leader of the Oakland faction of the Lin Triad, Lin makes allies for the Triad with the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original charter based out of Charming, and the One-Niners, an African-American street gang based in Oakland. The partnership between the factions was formed in opposition to the Mayans Motorcycle Club, and the League of American Nationalists teaming up.
After Bohai Lin, leader and Lin's uncle of the Triad is killed at the hands of SAMCRO, relationships sour between the Triad and the Sons as Lin takes over as the leader of the Triad. The relationship between them would continue to be rocky and would end unfavourably for Lin.
Season 1[]
His gang was after a man named Chuck Marstein who was a bookkeeper for their illegal businesses but eventually stole from them. However, Chuck was being protected by SAMCRO. Lin and Clay eventually came to an agreement over this - SAMCRO handed Chuck over to the Triad and the Triad paid the SAMCRO $60,000 in cash.
Season 2[]
"The Culling"[]
The Lin Triad, SAMCRO and the Niners meet. Clay and Jax explain the the League of American Nationalists, led by Ethan Zobelle is pushing the Sons out of Charming and disrupting businesses. The League is working with the Mayans to help them take over the heroin trade. SAMCRO want to partner up with both of them, meaning they get back everything they lost to the Mayans and then some. Lin and Laroy are both satisfied with the proposal and a deal is made.
Lin later traded Chuck back to SAMCRO in negotiations to get new guns from Clay. Lin is likely the one who chopped off most of Chuck's fingers, leaving just one finger on each hand. Lin met with Clay and told him that he needed guns and would pay double. In the episode "Fa Guan," Lin makes a deal with Clay - if Clay can get a case thrown out, Lin would open a pipeline for him.
Henry, along with Laroy, ally with the Sons of Anarchy MC against the League of American Nationalists (who had allied with the Mayans MC, Nordics, and Aryan Brotherhood). The Lin Triad and One-Niners provide back-up for Jax's and AJ Weston's fight in Charming. Prior to the alliance with the SOA, both Henry and Laroy were losing territory and trade to the Mayans.
Season 3[]
"Caregiver"[]
The Sons pay a visit to the Triad, attempting to buy more guns, the Sons realise their price is too steep and Lin offers an alternative, some of his clients want the Cara Cara girls for an evening, they agree on the deal.
At the Chinese Cara Cara party, chaos erupts when Harry "Opie" Winston becomes enraged at seeing his girlfriend, one of the Cara Cara girls servicing one of the Triad's associates, he attacks the man, causing the rest of the club to jump in too. Clay watches from the side and sarcastically notes to Lin that he hopes someone is filming.
Lin is furious that Opie ruined his meeting and he tells Clay he won't give him any guns. Clay is able to save the deal by offering another contact, the Cacuzzaa Crime Family to Lin for a cheap price, Lin agrees and says he will get Clay the guns.
Season 5[]
Lin takes over for the Sons as the distributor of weapons to the Galindo Cartel.
Season 6[]
In the sixth season, Lin and the Triads try to lock down the Cacuzza Crime Family as gun buyers. At a meet between the Irish, SAMCRO and Cacuzza, Galen shoots Henry, injuring him. This results in the Chinese losing Cacuzza as a buyer, as well as Henry's uncle, Bohai, kidnapping Happy Lowman and demanding the Sons to hand over the gun business to the Chinese instead of August Marks. After SAMCRO and the One-Niners massacre Bohai and a bunch of Triads, Henry starts up a major alliance with Marcus Alvarez and the Mayans.
Season 7[]
Henry seems to have forgiven Jax and the Sons for what happened to Bohai after Jax sets him up with the Irish pipeline of guns. However, Jax secretly tortures and murders one of Henry's men, thinking he was responsible for Tara's death on Henry's orders. ("Black Widower")
Jax continues his plan to ruin Henry before killing him by having the Sons (along with the Indian Hills charter) follow Henry's men to a meet and massacre all of them. Henry finds out and is furious, telling Nero to organize a meet immediately with Jax. Jax lies and maintains that both the Sons and the Irish were innocent and were not responsible for the massacre. Henry believes Jax's story, but threatens him to find the perpetrators by noon the next day. Later that night, Jax and the Sons murder both Gib O'Leary and Renny (associates of the Indian Hills president, Jury), and frame them for the murder of Henry's men, telling Bobby to call and inform Henry that the perpetrators have been found and dealt with. ("Toil and Till").
Eventually, Henry finds out that it was Jax and SAMCRO who had killed his men and stolen his heroin. After discovering this, he sends his men to Diosa, where they massacre everyone, including Colette Jane. One of his men heads to Scoops, where he throws a grenade through the window, almost killing the SAMCRO members and Althea Jarry. Henry and the Triads are also informed of the location of SAMCRO's gun warehouse. Henry sends an unknown number of men there, who kill Orlin West and steal all of the guns. ("Poor Little Lambs")
In retaliation for this, SAMCRO has Charlie Barosky and his crooked cops pull the Chinese over in Stockton, where they are all handcuffed to a fence. Jax and Henry fight, with Henry calling Jax an idiot for thinking Henry ordered the murder of Tara. However, the fight is cut short when the Stockton SWAT team is on the way. Henry and his men are confused as they are taken into police custody. ("Some Strange Eruption")
After Juice Ortiz is sent to prison by SAMCRO, he is used by the club to record a confession of Henry admitting to who sold out the location of the gun warehouse. The club expects the traitor to be Jury White, who Jax had just murdered. Henry is handcuffed by prison guards in a boiler room, where they leave Juice alone with him. However, Henry admits to Juice that it was Barosky, not Jury, who sold out the location of the guns for a lot of money. After recording Henry's confession, Juice repeatedly stabs him in the neck, killing him. ("Suits of Woe")
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Appearances[]
 Season 1 appearances
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| "Pilot" | "Seeds" | "Fun Town" | "Patch Over" | "Giving Back" |
| "AK-51" | "Old Bones" | "The Pull" | "Hell Followed" | "Better Half" |
| "Capybara" | "The Sleep of Babies" | "The Revelator" | ||
| Season 2 appearances
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| "Albification" | "Small Tears" | "Fix" | "Eureka" | "Smite" |
| "Falx Cerebri" | "Gilead" | "Potlatch" | "Fa Guan" | "Balm" |
| "Service" | "The Culling" | "Na Trioblóidí" | ||
| Season 3 appearances
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| "SO" | "Oiled" | "Caregiver" | "Home" | "Turning and Turning" |
| "The Push" | "Widening Gyre" | "Lochán Mór" | "Turas" | "Fírinne" |
| "Bainne" | "June Wedding" | "NS" | ||
| Season 5 appearances
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| "Sovereign" | "Authority Vested" | "Laying Pipe" | "Stolen Huffy" | "Orca Shrugged" |
| "Small World" | "Toad's Wild Ride" | "Ablation" | "Andare Pescare" | "Crucifixed" |
| "To Thine Own Self" | "Darthy" | "J'ai Obtenu Cette" | ||
| Season 6 appearances
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| "Straw" | "One One Six" | "Poenitentia" | "Wolfsangel" | "The Mad King" |
| "Salvage" | "Sweet and Vaded" | "Los Fantasmas" | "John 8:32" | "Huang Wu" |
| "Aon Rud Persanta" | "You Are My Sunshine" | "A Mother's Work" | ||
| Season 7 appearances
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| "Black Widower" | "Toil and Till" | "Playing with Monsters" | "Poor Little Lambs" | "Some Strange Eruption" |
| "Smoke 'em if You Got 'em" | "Greensleeves" | "The Separation of Crows" | "What a Piece of Work is Man" | "Faith and Despondency" |
| "Suits of Woe" | "Red Rose" | "Papa's Goods" | ||