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/pm-me-turtle-nudes Jan 12 '21

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

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

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

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u/KingWhiteVll Jan 12 '21

Maybe they were expecting Arthur or Dutch to go for her? Obviously Arthur and Sadie did, while Milton was still there. I feel they could have potentially just used her as bait, but that feels like a far reach, since she would seem like an inconsequential gang member to them

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '21

It does make a lot of sense though, Rockstar might have foreshadowed it by the O'driscoll mission with leading Dutch into a trap