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/regularjoeseph Jan 12 '21

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet but you can find a newspaper scrap of Dutch's wanted poster at Micah's camp in the mountains just outside of strawberry after you break him out of jail in chapter 2, if you return later. This may be a nod to the fact that Micah was the rat all along . I also question if blackwater was a set up as it allued to that it was Micah's job and information that led them to try to rob the ferry.

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u/ironwolf425 Xbox One Jan 12 '21

i made a theory a while back about mac callander possibly ratting about the blackwater heist and faking his death in exchange for his freedom, very similar to what michael did in gta 5

i can link it if i can go back and find it

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u/MissSadie_Lady Jan 12 '21

That would be really interesting, especially because I wonder who we’re going to play in RDR3. The RDR3 epilogue would have the entire gang in Colter, so you wouldn’t really be able to free roam once you finished the story. But if Mac faked his death for freedom, you could continue playing after the boat heist.

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u/ironwolf425 Xbox One Jan 12 '21

yeah that’s what i was thinking, it could help open up the plot for a prequel

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u/Dark-Pukicho Jan 12 '21

It could go the complete opposite direction and have you play as Mac, I think that’d be neat.

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u/andrecinno Jan 21 '21

Chances are there won't be an RDR3. Probably just gonna change characters/period.

I hope, at least... They already told a full story.

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u/regularjoeseph Jan 12 '21

That's something I never even thought of, good theory

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '21

This is literally what I’ve been trying to verbalise for a while with no success lol, I feel like that’s what the story is leading towards. I think his betrayal would be out of love for someone, i.e. an out-of-camp girlfriend to ensure her safety and their freedom together. It’s an interesting take on what Arthur and Mary could have had if Arthur had taken Milton’s offer whilst being reminiscent of John’s story too. It would show how the same situation ended up playing out so differently for them all. Perhaps in the end, Mac struggled to rat on the gang because he feared for the safety of his brother, Davey and therefore he turned his back on the deal and sacrificed himself. In typical Red Dead style, the player is left feeling depressed because Davey dies anyway and it feels like the sacrifice was made in vain.

Bill tells Uncle that Mac was a “heartless son of a bitch but he had a good heart” which is kind of how Arthur was sold to us in the beginning. I feel like when they were writing the game, they definitely had some sort of potential RDR3 plot figured out so that everything would make sense in RDR2. Having said that, I don’t think I can handle falling in love with another handsome video game cowboy ffs.