r/reddeadmysteries • u/ImAgIrAfFe72 • Jan 11 '21

Theory When Micah was picked up by Pinkertons

This may seem a bit far fetched so strap in guys, it’s a weird one. (Excuse the rubbish format, I’m on mobile.)

So, we know Micah was picked up by the Pinkertons right after Guarma, yeah? And as you don’t retrieve your horse until a little bit later, you can steal one. Now to me, it seems the player is directed to a specific horse hitched outside the bar (is it Annesburg or Van Horn? I can’t remember) and that horse is a tobiano Hungarian Half-Bred.

However, during the Chapter Two mission ‘The Sheep and the Goats’, you can see a Pinkerton agent next to Cornwall, saddled on a tobiano Hungarian Half-Bred. This horse is pretty hard to find unless you’re extremely lucky and find one at a camp or nab one off a bounty hunter, so we know they’re not super common and are kind of exclusive to these characters, right?

SO, my line of thought is, an agent could’ve been inside the town’s bar and that’s where Micah was grabbed- maybe the horse you can steal is a Pinkerton’s and that’s why you don’t lose honour for taking it as you would by stealing an ‘innocent’s’; also, Micah takes a while compared to others to reach Lakay, but I realise this could be down to not knowing where the gang was holed up at the time and I’m just grasping at straws or something.

I feel like this isn’t just a random coincidence because, y’know, it’s Rockstar and I thought it would be a pretty neat thing, like a red herring, maybe?

But, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk, please tell me your thoughts!

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u/titanlmao Jan 12 '21

Maybe not. There's also that 1 week where micah was alone and nothing happened, so he probably didn't snitch. Theres a lot of things that makes me think micah wasn't the snitch but someone else

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u/ImAgIrAfFe72 Jan 12 '21

True- that’s a very valid point, although you can find Dutch’s wanted poster at Micah’s camp site if that’s the time you meant when he was alone

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u/titanlmao Jan 12 '21

I'm not sure, it was after the strawberry massacre, so again I feel like he didnr snitch then. Like that massacre was at the level of all the other town massacre but for some reason the Pinkerton didn't show up?

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u/Tron_1981 Jan 12 '21

Well, he wasn't caught by the Pinkerton at that point either (nor did they make it to Strawberry after he was arrested), so he didn't have any reason to snitch. As far as the sheriff knew, he was just a guy he caught for murder, it didn't seem that he was aware of his ties to the Van der Linde Gang. Had the Pinkertons made it into Strawberry before Arthur broke him out, it would've changed things.

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u/titanlmao Jan 12 '21

What i mean is that the Pinkerton would be lured there by that massive massacre. And I doubt that they wouldn't recognize a micah bell poster.

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u/Tron_1981 Jan 12 '21

Yeah, but Arthur and Micah were long gone by that point. The Pinkertons caught up to the gang after some of their activities most likely caught their attention (especially the train robbery). And as for the Strawberry cops and Micah, he was already scheduled to be hanged for double murder, and they didn't seem to have any interest in the rest of the gang (and there's no reason why they would either).