Merritt McKinney

Merritt is one of the four who get the card and show up at the New York apartment. In the Las Vegas show, he is the group's mentalist. The FBI arrests the Horsemen but has to release them for lack of evidence. In New Orleans he joins the others in the heist on Arthur Tressler.

Merritt is the oldest of the Horsemen: a hypnotist and mentalist who calls himself a psychic. He was famous in his youth, until his brother and manager ran off with all his money. Since then he has been trying to win back his old glory.

In the second film, Merritt is on the run with the others and sees his own face on another man: his twin brother, Chase, who hands him over to Walter Mabry in Macau. The two brothers share a face and a tongue, but Chase works for the other side.

At the end of the second film, Merritt is with the others aboard Walter's jet. Walter's henchmen throw them out, but the plane never took off: it is a set floating on the Thames. Jack hypnotized Chase, Merritt's twin, to do the job. Merritt sees his own face in the middle of the sham.

Ten years later, Merritt is arrested in France, along with Jack and June. Veronika Vanderberg questions him at the police station, and he reads her in seconds: her father cheated on her mother, the mother took her own life, and Veronika killed the housekeeper and her son. Lula frees Jack and June, but Merritt can't escape. He becomes the bargaining chip for a diamond, while the others plan the rescue.

In Abu Dhabi, Veronika traps the Horsemen in a glass tank to bury them in sand. They escape by breaking a water pipe and using Henley's diamond ring. At the vault, Veronika finds the caller was Charlie, her half-brother. It was all a show, and the Eye they spoke of was his.

Merritt McKinney was created for the 2013 film. In the second film, Woody Harrelson also plays his twin brother, Chase. Merritt is one of the Horsemen who appear in all three films.