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/zadidoll]

Micah came to the gang six months prior to the start of Chapter 1. From the moment Micah came things began to go sideways for the gang. I still believe Micah was a plant BUT not. Pinkerton plant. I believe Micah was sent by Colm to drive a wedge between Dutch, Hosea, & most importantly Arthur, as he was the enforcer & basically bodyguard. This is why eventually it became about Colm capturing Arthur. Micah did his best to drive that wedge further & further which led to Dutch not going to save Arthur. We know by this point, Colm was working with the Pinkertons & flat out said so.

Then after Guarma, Micah was caught by the Pinkertons & was out to save his own hide. Pinkertons knew of Micah from Colm, who had sent Micah to Dutch as a mole. I now think that Micah didn’t work directly for the Pinkertons until after Guarma but did indirectly via Colm.