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/skizwald]

It's funny how many time the term " Lay Low" comes up in the gang. They pissed off Cornwall, robbed 2 banks, a train, a trolley station, became sheriffs, slaughtered hoardes of O'driscolls and other famous gangs, multiple gunfights in the middle of town, pitted 2 famous family's against each other, and many other glaring obvious things.

I do still believe Micah was the rat, but it's very plausible they only picked him up after Guarma. The gang left a trail of dead bodies behind everywhere they went. As for the other tips offs, they could have just trusted the wrong individuals, with, leads on robberies.

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom → u/skizwald]

a train,

A train? Try three. There was the O'driscoll bond robbery they stole the plans for, the train they stopped with the oil wagon to rob the passengers, and then the train they got the army payroll off of in Chapter 6.

Then they blew up a railroad bridge for good measure.

[u/skizwald → u/The_quest_for_wisdom]

I was just going off the top of my head. Just a few examples of the trail of destruction they left in their path.

[u/The_quest_for_wisdom → u/skizwald]

Oh yes. Their version of 'laying low' is not far removed from setting up a neon sign with an arrow above their camp and renting out billboard ads to let everyone know they're in the area.