Chapter 6 of Red Dead Redemption 2
Failure after failure has finally taken its toll on the gang at this point. Seeing that the end is near, people are beginning to flee the camp. Even Arthur has resigned that the dream is basically dead at this point, and just wants to finally do some good for once with whatever time he hast left.
He starts by helping Sadie (who has grown into quite the outlaw throughout the course of the game), free John from prison, reuniting him with Abigail and Jack. Then, Arthur tries to help Rains Fall keep the Wapiti people out of a conflict with the U.S. government stationed nearby.
Rains Fall’s son, Eagle Flies, is young and hotheaded. Dutch sees this is an opportunity. He wants to convince Eagle Flies to attack a compound owned by the U.S. government, in order to cause a big enough distraction for one last big score, the one he has been searching for the entire story.
Dutch’s plan, as heartless as it is, seems to work. Dutch confronts Cornwall and kills him, in hopes that it will relieve the pressure from the Pinkertons. Despite Arthur and Rains Fall’s attempts to dissuade him, Eagle Flies leads an attack on the U.S. government which gets himself killed, but did indeed cause a huge distraction.
Charles decides to stay with the tribe for now to help them get through what is about to be a really tough time. And finally, around the same time as all of this, Colm O’Driscoll, the leader of the rival O’Driscoll gang, is finally hanged.
In a messed up sort of way, everything is starting to come together for Dutch who is morally lost at this point. This is thanks in part to the cold-hearted guidance of Micah, who has replaced Hosea as Dutch’s right-hand man in the time since.
Thanks to the attack by Eagle Flies, Dutch is able to secure information that a train filled with Army payroll is on the way, and the plan is to intercept it, rob it, and finally have enough money to flee once and for all. Arthur, with not much else to live for at this point, begrudgingly agrees to help with this final job.
The attack is somewhat successful, well, at least for Micah and Dutch as they are able to secure the payroll. During the robbery, John is shot and presumed dead, and Abigail is captured by the Pinkertons back at the camp. The Pinkerton raid forces just about everyone else that was still hanging on to hope, such as Tilly, to flee.
Dutch, Micah, and those still loyal to Dutch such as Javier and Bill, decide to leave Abigail behind. Sadie and Arthur to try to and help Abigail.
Sadie and Arthur lead a successful attack on the Pinkertons at Van Horn, rescue Abigail and finally kill Agent Miller. However, before he died, he revealed that Micah, had been an informant for the Pinkertons ever since they returned from Guarma.
Originally, Molly O’Shea, Dutch’s girlfriend, was believed to be the informant. With Abigail now safe, Arthur goes to confront Micah and Dutch with this newly found information.
Micah denies Arthur’s accusations, and Dutch is left confused, not knowing who to believe. He ultimately sides with Micah, and things get more dramatic when John returns. He’s not actually dead as it turns out, but this is not surprising since we know he obviously survives to be the main character in Red Dead 1.
John accuses Dutch of leaving him for dead (twice now after the Saint Denis bank robbery) and Arthur also sees Dutch for who he truly is now. Dutch previously also left Arthur for dead back during Eagle Flies’ attack on the army compound.
Things are about to go down between the two factions, when the Pinkertons show up and forces everyone to scatter. Micah, Dutch, Bill and the rest of his loyalists escape. Arthur and John flee into the caves near camp.
At this point in the game, the player has two choices to change the outcome slightly. You can either help John or choose to go back for the money.
If Arthur helps John escape, he convinces him to run with his family and never look back. Arthur, knowing he doesn’t have much time anyway, tries to hold off Micah and Dutch as well as all the Pinkertons.
Micah inevitably catches up to John, and the two engage in a fistfight which more or less ends in a draw. Arthur tries to reach for a gun to finish off Micah, but Dutch interrupts him. Arthur tries to plead with Dutch and convince him them Micah is the true rat, but Dutch is left confused.
Dutch doesn’t kill Arthur, but he doesn’t help him either. Arthur, extremely weak from his sickness, and broken with nothing else to give, or live for, but notes that he tried his best to change and in the end he won in doing so. He dies looking off into the beautiful view, his tuberculosis getting the best of him.
If Arthur chose to go after the money, though, this ending is altered in that he is ultimately overpowered by Micah, and Micah then shoots him dead.
Note that ultimately what truly matters for your ending is whether you were honorable or dishonorable by the end. If you were honorable, Arthur dies peacefully knowing he truly turned over a new leaf. If you were dishonorable, Micah shoots you in the face.
This kicks off the epilogue.
Red Dead Redemption 2 Story Summary: The Epilogue
The game picks up a few years in the future with John Marston now as the main character. He is trying to make Abigail happy by leaving his old life behind, and staying out of trouble, but is struggling to do so. The two of them wind up on a ranch, where John works as a hand.
He still isn’t able to shake his past though. Bounty hunters confront John, and an attack on the ranch forces John to get involved in a violent defense of the ranch. Abigail can’t take it anymore and leaves with Jack.
John, upset but not broken, tries to prove to Abigail that he can change. He works at the ranch long enough to convince a bank that he’s worthy of a loan to buy land (Beecher’s Hope) that Abigail had previously told him that she wanted. He runs into Uncle and Charles, and the three of them help John build up his dump of a property into a beautiful livestock ranch of his own.
Abigail eventually returns to John with Jack, and for some time, the five of them live in relative peace. In that time period, John learns to be a better man to Abigail, and father to Jack. John eventually formally proposes to Abigail, and the two decide to get married.
However, in the time period leading up to this, John also ran into Sadie. Sadie had discovered the possible whereabouts of Micah, and not long after John and Abigail decide to get married, Sadie lets Charles and John know that it’s time to finish off Micah and get their revenge. Despite Abigail’s protests, John decides that he needs to close this part of his life once and for to feel truly free.
The three of them storm the mountain compound where Micah is hiding. Charles and Sadie are injured along the way, but not gravely. It does force John to confront Micah alone. Sadie catches up and tries to help John get the jump on Micah, but is captured and held hostage. To John’s surprise, Dutch emerges, and standoff begins.
John calls out Micah for all the terrible things that did to the gang, and Arthur especially. Dutch appears visibly torn about what to do, and isn’t really saying much. He seems completely broken, despite having made off with lots of money, and even after finally recovering the money back from the original Blackwater robbery in the time since.
Much to shock of everyone, Dutch shoots Micah. This gives John the opportunity he needs to finish off Micah. John is thankful, and although it doesn’t completely absolve Dutch of everything he did, it does appear that Dutch feels some remorse for all that he did to John, Arthur, and the rest of the gang. Dutch flees, and leaves the money behind, which Sadie and John collect.
The game wraps up with a post-credit sequence, showing Charles and Sadie going their separate ways, where various members of the gang ended up, and Abigail and John living happily in Beecher’s Hope.
However, it also shows how Edgar Ross, one of the villains of the first game, learns about John’s identity and whereabouts. This completes the link to the events of Red Dead Redemption 1.
That does it for our story summary of Red Dead Redemption 2. We hope you enjoyed the plot as much we did.
