When Micah was picked up by Pinkertons

[u/ImAgIrAfFe72]

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!

[u/gutturalmuse]

I feel like Micah was such an obvious snitch that he wasn’t actually the snitch - that he was likely loyal to Dutch the entire time. My memory is fuzzy since I finished my last playthrough to chapter 6 over a year ago, but I like the theory someone posed here that Molly used to run with the O’Driscolls and was possibly the real rat in the beginning, as she’s seen getting more and more irritable as time goes on, not to mention she sees herself as objectively superior to the rest of the girls at camp, talks to Arthur at one point about loyalty, etc.

I also like the theory of Abigail being the final rat, as it wasn’t out of deceit for the gang but out of anger that Jack was kidnapped and life put at extreme risk by the gang - making her desperate to find an escape for her, John and Jack through any means possible.

[u/pm-me-turtle-nudes → u/gutturalmuse]

i buy into the abigail ratting to protect john theory it makes sense

[u/[deleted] → u/pm-me-turtle-nudes]

But why does Abigail get captured and tied up / jailed? You'd think they would leave the rat as long as they can

[u/Wildcat_twister12 → u/[deleted]]

Cause the Pinkerton’s just decided to double cross her, they want the whole pie not just a few pieces at that point

[u/[deleted] → u/Wildcat_twister12]

Abigail was an extremely inconsequential member of the gang compared to the ones they were after though. They were willing to cut a deal with Arthur who was one of the high profile members of the gang, why would they give him better treatment than Abigail?