Red Dead Redemption 1&2 - The Complete Story Summary

[Music] the west 1899 but wild no more no longer is there a clear line of advancing settlements the frontier is confined to history the indian wars have been won native americans put out to reservations the world is shrinking fast communication and transport is connecting towns and cities and the corporations have their hold over the land the wealth that it contains and its people the type of freedom that was afforded to gangs to make their living has gone [Music] like the dutch vandaling this group is suffering in this changing world corporations have the money and the power to protect their interests corporations run by the likes of leviticus cornwall who can hire ruthless muscle like the pinkerton detective agency they were waiting for duchess gang in blackwater the day of the boat heist they were now on the run i'm the patient wolf i'm a let's play and filmmaker whose main focus while playing video games is the story when i play through a game and i do so on the channel before making critics in other videos i look for the emotions in the characters and the narrative and find them and tease them out wherever they exist so each one of these people has a story each one of them has had a loss somewhere along the line they've all got skills and they all contribute to the camp the world of red dead redemption has a fascinating and complex story that weaves over multiple years and through multiple protagonists this is the ultimate story of the dying of the west and i the patient wolf will retell it for you now if you enjoy this video leave a like if you are not subscribed make sure you are and if you are and want to support my work further you can do so via patreon this is the ultimate story summary of red dead redemption one and two the gang flew north into the mountains and would have been caught but for a storm but now they need a place to rest our protagonist arthur morgan is sent ahead they reach the abandoned mining town of coulter some of their number of missing some dead they have nothing fleeing the pinkertons in a hurry they have shelter but they need food john marston and micah are out looking for supplies mr pierce miss graveshaw i need you to turn this place into a camp dutch vanderlund is their leader hosea is the other elder statesman dutch's council his right-hand man arthur is his protege his deputy veteran arthur right out to check on the supply run do you think it was a trap in black water that many men oh they knew we were coming but there was money on that boat all right lots of it i stashed what we took with all our money in town just before we fled they first fined micah bell one of the newest additions to the gang mica had saved dutch's life in a bar and is now one of them found anything found a little homestead down that away maybe it has supplies but this homestead is occupied by members of the o'driscolls a rival gang where hatred runs high they interrogate the last surviving o'driscoll the gang i hold up nearby their leader and duchess nemesis colm o'driscoll has a plan to rob a train they searched the house for supplies and in doing so come across sadie adler the o'driscolls invaded her home killed her husband and took her hostage yes it'll be okay dutch takes her into the care of the gang in good times and bad this group worked together to survive all have complementary skills susan grimshaw oversees the smooth running of the camp pearson makes sure everyone is nourished karen mary beth and tilly offer their skills as thieves and scout for tips leopold strauss he keeps the books and runs the money lending operation uncle and the reverend swanson have their uses but are more concerned with their addictions bill williamson javier esquella charles smith and lenny summers offer muscle and gunmanship another man of that ilk is currently out in the storm feared missing husband to abigail father to jack an adopted brother to arthur john marston arthur and javier set out to find him arthur learns more about the blackwater heist dutch killed a girl in a bad way but it was a bad situation i ain't like him though they find jon cuts to his face under siege from the mountain wildlife they return to the safety of coulter dutch rallies the gang to go and scope out colm o'driscoll's camp nearby dutch says for supplies but arthur and hosea suspect revenge i learned a long time ago that you hit como driscoll wait for him and people you love will die dutch and culm used to run together but turned enemies dutch killed calm's brother and cole killed annabelle the woman he loved dutch also wants to know more about the train job they were planning i know you don't think much of my ideas recently but this is the right move okay you know i got your back calm leaves but kong can wait they invade the camp kill the o'driscoll's occupying it and leave with dynamite and the plans to attack leviticus cornwall's train on returning to culture they pick up kieran duffy a newish member of the o'driscoll gang and take him hostage he could be useful dutch wastes no time as they have a train to catch why are we doing this weather's breaking we could leave i i thought we was lying low i just don't want any more folks to die dutch but we need money everything we has in black water leviticus cornwall is no joke dutch sounds like he has more than enough to share it is time to make something of ourselves the gang have already kicked the hornet's nest in blackwater and they do it once more the gang stopped the train and relieved the armored carriage of bonds another fly in the ointment but the cornwall lead corporation [Music] as the snow thaws the gang make their way down into the heartlands they need to keep moving dutch sends lenny and mica ahead for reconnaissance and the gang eventually arrive at horseshoe overlook near the town of valentine here we are gentlemen home sweet home dutch insists the plan is still on track we make a bit of money here in a few months buy some land i hope so we are safe now and we are far too poor so it is time for everyone to get to work the camp exists with dutch at its center often flanked by his adoring and often neglected girlfriend molly o'shea he bloody well lost you know he probably does the camp is home some are more comfortable than others kieran imprisoned until the gang are ready for him but first light dutch said the gang need money each member of the gang has their way to bring in their share hair strauss puts many out on the street which arthur collects isaiah's got a line on fencing carriages charles contributes more honest work on occasion in hunting the gang also acts on tips that the girls find mary beth got wind of a train heist and karen a bank job these are the riskiest methods but invariably the most profitable the law could quickly be on you and it's a great way to further rile the corporate entities needing to protect their investments all that work can be exhausting but valentine is a great place to get some r r the boys are supposed to be lying loud bill starts it but arthur finishes it besting the local brute tommy before he can do serious damage he is stopped by a good samaritan thomas downes surely that's enough what business is it to you i beg you making new friends again i see arthur jose josiah is a con man and a part-time member of the gang kept around because of his sporadic but often crucial information here this time with news of sean mcguire a member of the gang lost during the failed heist in blackwater he's being held by some bounty hunters trying to see how much money the government will pay them while sean is being moved the gang infiltrates and take him back you're a great manager morgan the coin young whipper snapper can really admire shut up there hasn't been much cause for celebration of late but a safe return of one of their number is definitely one of them a win for the gang but they still have work to do arthur has more debts to collect and one of those debtors is thomas downed ill desperate and with no hope of paying up arthur leaves empty-handed crippled by debt the family won't last long and arthur knows it coming up against corporations and other outlaws arthur configure but something about real people caused real pain he can't thomas downes succumbs to his illness and his wife and son are left destitute dutch finally gets around to questioning karen okay okay listen i know where o'driscoll was hold up and you're right he don't like you any more than you like him he's at six point cabin they take kieran and kill morro driscoll's but colm is not there kieran saves arthur's life in the process you all right sure thank you in payment for this kieran can stay with the gang in the camp as a free man lenny returns to the camp shaken he and micah have been missing ever since being sent ahead for scouting micah has been arrested in strawberry for murder you know my feelings about him dude i think i can't see past his bluster to the heart inside he is a fine man arthur reluctantly agrees to break him out you're lucky that she's got your back for some unknown reason we're family now sons of dutch makes us brothers the saying that you can't choose your family is never truer than in dutch's cat his other brother jack marston has nion recovered from his wounds in his up and earning but in the camp he has a family a family he has a record of neglecting he ditched us for a goddamn year running off on that kid is one thing but there's code john like arthur wrestles with who he is john struggling to be a father as well as an outlaw in the meantime though young jack seems to have his share of father figures in the camp arthur takes jack fishing when packing up agent milton and agent ross of the pinkertons show up you're a wanted man mr morgan is five thousand dollars for your head alone we want vanderlin bring in vanderlin you have my word you won't sway loyal to the cause arthur refuses and returns to dutch well what do we do now i say we do nothing we just need to stay calm stay calm those they have wronged in the past with their way of life had not the power of levisicus cornwall by stealing his assets robbing his trains and disrupting his advancements the gang have made themselves targets and the world is closing in safe for now arthur meets jon for another job wrestling sheep to sell in valentine you was at that thing in black water we already seen pinkerton's here this life this way well we're the last i reckon and we ain't long for it after herding their stolen sheep back to valentine they meet dutch and strauss in the saloon john and strauss exit the saloon and dutch and arthur's conversation gets interrupted get out here get out of here you don't know me but you keep robbing me my name is leviticus cornwall i am not a man to be messed with by the likes of you get out here before i have these men killed deal with this nonsense arthur manages to free his friends and the gangs shoot their way out of valentine we can't stick around after this let's go this time to clemens point near rhodes [Music] imagine what a slew of rich simple tins there must be down here oh this is perfect for you hosea you'll be able to play them like a fiddle the gang find themselves in a land caught between two warring families the greys and the braithwaites dutch spots an opportunity and divides the troops with arthur heading up the investigation of the greys and hosea to spearhead the braithwaites the greys are tobacco plantation owners and own half the businesses and roads lee gray is the town sheriff the braithwaites are former slave owners and cotton farmers now turn to moonshine since the civil war awful people truly awful they've been fighting with the greys for as long as i can remember if i don't get out of here soon i'm gonna kill somebody sadie adler is emerging from her cloud of grief and beginning to feel penter up in the adler ranch she was a self-sufficient woman that shared all the work with her husband including the hunting the menial work in the camp is getting her down and she wants to be involved in more of the heavy lifting so bad but we do more than just hunting we're hunting sadie's inaugural outing to rhodes turns south a local gang attack but she and arthur hold their own sadie has emerged from a cocoon of grief a different woman one fueled by hate and revenge towards their driscolls these two families i really think we can play this from all sides we gotta convince each family that we're on their side and then we rob them both before they figure out it was us the donor and on the other lot we'll be long gone the gap helped the greys confiscate moonshine liquor from the breakthroughs selling it back to them then giving it away in the road saloon to undermine the grave profit margin stealing braithwaite pedigree horses burning grey tobacco giving satisfaction to either family with one hand and dealing disarray with the other hoping that in doing so they could earn enough trust to learn more information about the legendary confederate gold that lies somewhere between them although away from valentine and a new location unknown to the pinkertons for now their reach cannot be underestimated the gang gets wind the odrisculs are looking to draw a line under their feud and broke her a peace treaty have you lost your mind always telling us dutch do what has to be done but don't fight wars ain't worth fighting despite his hatred for colmo driscoll dutch is persuaded they suspect a trap but due to the heat on them from all sides it's a chance they have to take arthur takes position with his rifle but their suspicions are correct dutch and micah leave unscathed but arthur on the hill is colm's real target now kidnapped they hope to lure dutch into their possession and hand him over to the pinkertons in exchange for the freedom to be outlawed after all it's dutch they want arthur escapes the pinkertons fail again back in rhodes it seems dutch underestimated the land and its people they thought they could pull the wool over the eyes of both families and use the hatred between them to mask their intent it seems the gang overstepped not only did the families use the gang for their own means they knew their plan and now look to nip it in the bud the greys request a meeting in rhodes this don't feel right now i don't feel right i could have told you that sean mcguire is the first casualty since blackwater but the greys underestimate the shooting power of dutch's gang this is the grey's town only grays i see left around here is you in a few short minutes a dynasty that has had a hold on this land for decades is removed but another gang member has fallen he was like an annoying little brother to me what fun we had riding together what a goddamn mess we are making of things where's my goddamn son while the grey's got the measure of the gang so have the braithwaites catherine braithwaite uncovering their theft of her much-loved horses retaliates by taking their youngest son jack their plans now floored they set out to get him back the mythical gold that divides this family seemingly stays mythical as the gang conclude it may not exist both these redneck families think they can ruin us i don't think so just like they decimated the greys the gang filled with purpose wiped out the break once not before extracting the whereabouts of jack where's the boy my sons gave him to angelo bronte so my guess is sunday they have a name and a location but before they leave for pastures new the pinkertons finally come face to face with dutch vanderlund in the perceived safety of their camp this is a civilized land now this place ain't no such thing as civilized it's man so in love with greed he has forgotten himself and found only appetites agent milton's plan to test the ties that bind that's come with them now and the rest can go free i don't want to kill all these folk dutch just you in that case it'll be my honor to join you the loyalty that dutch values is strong and the pinkertons leave empty-handed but it's time to move on again welcome home shady bell is their new home george yes could i have a word with you not now everything okay with you two i got far more important things to worry about right now than molly o'shea dutch and arthur ride to sandini i think we need to move a little further put some ocean between us and all of this the gang's dream of heading west may be over each job they pull engenders more determination from the country to track them down dutch now plans to take them abroad but not yet their driver now in this progressive town is to find jack and earn the money needed for a new life hey there have you ever heard of a man called angelo bronte angelo bronte is a gangster with the town in his pocket that includes the law and the city mayor they track him down at his town mansion how about this you perform a simple job for me and you get your son back you boys what they comply and jack returns to the relief of the gang i got my son back jack jack jack everything's okay now a moment of harmony in a sea of disorder sandini is the biggest city around home to industry criminality people flock here to make ends meet in all sorts of ways mrs downes is one of those in order to keep her and her son afloat she has turned to prostitution and when arthur the symbol of their ruination crosses her path not you help help man is bothering me her shame and hatred is evident angelo bronte runs this town he has the law the government and now he wants duchess gang to use them for his own ends he invites them to a ball hosted by the mayor to set this dynamic in motion the gang however see this as the perfect opportunity to get the measure of the opportunities in this town so this is sandini high society whether dutch knows this or not this party represents a world that is slowly killing the way of life he holds dear hobart crawley represents the army that help facilitate the economic expansion both at home and in islands like guam and alberto fuzar the cuban installed as leader in guama by the us he facilitates levisica's cornwall sugar empire there while oppressing its people to assist another oppressed nation the wapiti indian tribe is also here to plead against the government breaking their treaty and allowing cornwall's oil interests to enter their land the gang is not the only way of life being threatened in this country but at this moment the agenda of the guests of this party are not their concern they leave armed with information on jobs at a casino a trolley station and the biggest score of all at a bank so they have a plan that's back on track and some space but the pinkertons aren't the only aggressors that want the head of dutch vanderlund what is that what the hell have they done to me the odriscal's attacked the clamp the gang are pushed back to the house but sadie is trapped outside as arthur moves in to help he witnesses the anger and rage against the o'driscoll's that has been brewing ever since they took her husband she has believed herself a capable outlaw for some time from this moment the gang believe it too although not fully fledged they have lost another gang member to their enemies in kieran duffy later on both sadie and dutch get to see como driscoll hang although this does not stem their anger if the o'driscoll can find that camp the pinkertons won't be far behind we need to leave forever but for us all to leave together we need enough for a boat now i found a friendly ship captain he's willing to take us to australia or tahiti for this they need money the casino job they trick their way into the safe room for a decent haul but still not enough the trolley station a tip given to them by angelo bronte the gang march in but the tip is a poor one in fact they have been set up by bronte sandini's finest are waiting for me put the law on us what did i do to him i guess he thinks he's the king around here there is a pattern to touch his actions thus far he will not be walked over or governed by anyone and anyone who slights him or anyone who holds dear will run the risk of extinction on more than one occasion he has denied it as revenge and conjured a pragmatic reason for the action he takes the gang now infiltrates bronte's mansion they take care of his gangsters and dutch planning to ransom him kills angelo brutally while enraged it ain't nice i know it but it is us or him isaiah's bank job is the last on their list do that and they're off to tahiti since the failed blackwater heist the other members have been questioning dutch's decisions more and more first isaiah then arthur and now john this is it gentlemen the last one where have we heard that before what has happened to you john you lost all your heart i'm just trying to stay real about all this dutch is beginning to lose patience hosea with karen sets off a decoy the gang move in and look to leave with the money they need but the pinkertons are waiting and they have hosea as hostage someone must have squealed never should have gone after bronte dutch hosea dutch's partner in crime is guiding light his voice of reason is executed by agent milton in the street god damn it kill those bats you lost john killed arrested i couldn't help well we better go we'll be next with isaiah dead and john arrested they make their escape over the rooftops only to suffer another casualty to their member lenny he's gunned down the remainder take haven in an abandoned building sandini is now in complete lockdown the only way out is by sea we leave we lie low we come back for the rest in a few weeks charles causes a distraction while the remainder of the bank job crew stow away on a ship setting sail for cuba while the storm up near coulter allowed the game to escape the storm in the atlantic ocean found them in chains escaping a sinking ship the gang washed up on the island of guama and are quickly scooped up by the overseer of the sugar plantation the right-hand man of alberto fuzzar to fill cornwall ships with sugar and to keep profits high fuzar and his men work this land and its people hard a land of press it has those that would fight back the rebels bring their brothers in chains and dutches boys too but in the melee javier is shot and captured don't lose face son we'll find you in order to get off this island and back to the gang members they left behind they need to get back javier the rebels know where he is being held and in return for a bit of help with their cause they can find them a boat arthur joins dutch where javier is being held so what happened with john in that bank he survived the only one they took alive an abigail i presume she was able to slip away in time i began to wonder maybe for somebody this is all going exactly to plan the fact that arthur has failed to comprehend since the failed bank heist in blackwater is how could dutch have deliberately killed an innocent person in pursuit of his goals that's not who they were as a local guide attempts to extort more pay for sneaking them into the compound arthur sees this hand pain now what are you doing oh jesus she was gonna betray us arthur couldn't you tell you keep killing folk dutch they spring javier battle their way through fouzar and his men and leave the island destined for van horn they are to slip ashore individually and find the rest of the gang arthur tracks them down in lakay closely followed by dutch trust me i am gonna get us out of here we are here to arrest you the pinkertons are waiting for them once again under fire sadie and arthur manage to flank them eventually they retreat you okay son what do we do dutch clearly we need to leave i just need somebody to buy me some goddamn time one of you you'll figure it out boss you always do what's remaining of the gang are all here bar molly dutch's girlfriend and john imprisoned dutch still not quite sure who tipped off the pinkertons but his money is on john what are you gonna do about john dutch not now miss hi not now sadie has other ideas the gang find a new home counting culture beaver hollow is their fifth but final stop as the dutch van der lifken molly o'shea is a woman marginalised by the events that have transpired deeply in love with dutch but attempts to connect with him have failed uncle finds her drunk in sandini a woman scorned she submits that she is responsible for tipping off the pinkertons about the bank robbery i told them miss grimshaw does what gang rules require she knew the rules arthur there is one thing that dutch demands of both himself and the people he has mentored under his guidance and that is loyalty in the past he's been able to command it not through money like leviticus cornwall or fear like come on driscoll but through love or at least the love he exudes through his words proud of you boys all of you a paternal word of praise from dutch exudes love and if you are the recipient you would follow him anywhere but duchess actions have increasingly failed to match his words and the questioning of those actions by his adopted sons arthur and john are in contravention of this loyalty in order to get through this he needs their cooperation not their opposition they need to be like micah all right sir do you have my back always dutch but there's more than your back to worry about i ain't got a final plan yet i just need time i need time and no traitors [Music] arthur sets off to meet sadie in sandini to free john on the road he collapses since moving from horseshoe overlook arthur has suffered increasingly intense coughing fits rescued and taken to a doctor he is given a diagnosis of grave severity all those weeks ago near valentine being a man he did not want to be arthur had contracted tuberculosis from the dying thomas downs really sorry for you son it's a hell of a thing oh you mean you're real sick you it's a progressive disease arthur morgan has weeks to live rocked by this news arthur starts to invite in a clarity that was previously missing to his situation although his time left is finite he has a choice in what he does with that time he has a destiny that does not need to be tied to dutch with this epiphany still clarifying in his mind he sets off with sadie to free his friend they break him out of sissica island penitentiary and return him to the game abigail is delighted dutch is not john what are you doing here another example of his leadership being questioned loyalty i had a goddamn plan arthur still coming to terms with a new view on the world he bumps into mrs downes this country is man unleashed that's the thing and it ain't my fault any more than is anyone else unleashed then unleash goodness not just hell's feeble brother sir charles smith put it best when he heard of arthur's terminal illness any day we can die we could both die tonight in a way it is a gift to know in a way you are lucky you still have time to make amends the others jose lenny sean all them they didn't you got the chance to to do something better he starts this process with the downes family freeing them from poverty in order to start a new life i ain't looking for forgiveness it ain't about that but don't forgive me just take the money and get out of here please i know i ruined your life i suffer for it every day but don't let yourself get killed for pride i seen it kill too many folks still hoping that dutch is a man that can be salvaged he meets him and micah in ansburg michael reckons there's a rat oh does he on whatever dance we've been on the run since you two fools went crazy in black water we don't need a rare we got sloppier than the town drunk this time they are here for leviticus cornwall dutch wants to confront cornwall and strike a deal to call off the pinkertons this better not be no stupid revenge mission dutch oh arthur it's just a simple social call what do you want sir you kill i kill you rob i rob only difference i can see is i choose whom i kill and rob and you destroy everything in your path you give me this ship ten thousand dollars and safe passage out of here i'll let you live i'll do no such thing [Laughter] you sure good i prefer it this way you've lost your man with cornwall death they escape with information on a job big enough to help them find freedom before this moment the gang could be considered pesky annoyances to the civilized world flies and the ointment have changed but in killing the country's captain of industry a man more powerful than even the government the gang have not just the pinkertons on them all the law but the army too to stem the flow of the army and to give them breathing room they need to destroy the army's main route into the area they blow the bridge well i guess old dust got all the smoke he i love dutch he saved me a long time ago killing him cold blood revenge he seems to enjoy it now you know all that ever mattered to me was loyalty that's all i knew it's all i ever believed in not anymore john you got a family when the time comes you gotta run and don't look back the gang are now working towards differing ends with an unbridgeable rift but there are still people in this gang and out that arthur cares about his fate is bound with theirs they have diversion they have confusion but dutch needs more there is too much heat on the go charles and arthur have been doing all they can to help the wapiti tribe and their chief reigns full we've made peace treaties and those treaties were broken and we've been moved and punished and moved the army are now doing their utmost to provoke the indians into undermining their agreement to allow cornwall's empire to dig for oil on their land dutch recognizes the hot-headedness of the chief's son eagle flies colonel favors is a liar and a murderer his people won't stop until we're all dead and dutch whips eagle flies into a frenzy to attack the oil plant some good honest conflict between the army and the indians might be just the distraction we need the gang ride with them half of them to protect the indians from certain death and half for another purpose with eagle flies in trouble the gang fight through to support but the army turn up with heavy artillery arthur and dutch enter the factory you know why i wanted them to attack this place i have no idea we're getting our ticket out of here that's an arthur find the bonds in the office we're nearly there the army step of their escape and arthur succumbs to a burst pipe he is pounced on by soldiers dutch able to help leaves him eagle fly saves him but is shot in the process you you ran away i did no such thing don't be a fool arthur and charles take eagle flies back to a pity i feel like he's descended into the kind of man he told us never to be maybe he's just become more who he really is there used to be some reason to lines that couldn't be crossed we even helped some folk those lines have been gone for some time now the time has come for us to draw our own lines arthur decide where we go from here arthur returns to the camp to a shell of what it once was by this point a number of the gang of fled uncle mary beth karen reverend swanson the cook pearson dutch is now beyond saving whether he is a man turned or just now more of who he really is that's unclear but for years he had good counsel at his side in hosea matthews his best friend and anchor with him gone and the recent addition of micah to his side he is taking counsel from a man fueling his ego and feeding his tendencies for chaos micah is allowing dutch to become the man he was in the past able to keep at bay the man that kills innocent people the man that chooses revenge over pragmatism the man the before would not leave the week behind with their world closing in and his illness taking hold arthur needs to make sure those most dear to him are safe arthur agrees to help dutch with this last job he insists that after the job they let the women and the masters go dutch hides his shock and anger but agrees insists upon it they bought the train for their last job onboarding john gets shot dutch and micah agreed to go back for him the remainder of the game blow the carriage and it is the score that they dreamed of where's john he didn't make it that patrol killed him we had to run dutch now has the means and the noise tilly with jack meets them and reports that abigail has been captured by the pinkertons dutch's new voice of reason gives his counsel dutch it's just a girl you're right uh smica it pains me to say it arthur but he's right touch come on boys jack be brave sean i'm gonna go get your mama arthur and sadie reach van horn and fight their way to reach abigail sadie gets caught in the process arthur fights his way to them calm down mr morgan we offered you a deal mr morgan michael bell we picked him up when you boys came back from the caribbean and he's been a good boy ever since molly o'shea sweated her a couple of times never talked a word had to let her go horrible man they leave via horseback fighting off pinkertons arthur ayling asked them to stop he tells abigail they think jon's dead he loved you he loved you and jack he did you gotta go get that boy armed with this revelation he rides back to the camp hopefully this can break the spell dutch is under and free him of the devil on his shoulder we all need to have a little chaff you talked that's a goddamn lie dutch john you left me to die all of you you pick your side now because this is over oh them years dutch for this snake you live in the clouds no you be quiet mr bell and put down your gun there's pinkerton's coming fast now who amongst you is with me bill i'll be here think for yourself dutch is now lost forever the truth can't even drag him for what he craves most chaos violence and power he has become what he hates about this new america a man controlled by his appetites not his head arthur hasn't got much time left but the pinkertons are closing in [Music] arthur's life is drawing to a close but if he can reunite a family free a brother to start a new life that would be something jon and arthur escape through the caves and make their way into the mountains they continue on foot and with honor high he fends off the pinkertons to allow his friends to escape it would mean a lot to me please go i got you now black [Music] [Music] i gave you all i had ah we made it we wanted come on sean made it he's the only one i tried in the end i did come on let's go we can make it come on dutch since arthur was a boy he has engaged in and fought for the philosophy of his mentor [Music] blind loyalty was his only compass as arthur dies facing the dawning of a new day he does so as a man of his own choosing if this country is man unleashed in his final act he attempted to unleash goodness his hope is that this goodness can live on in the marston family john did make it and so did his family but going straight is not easily done abigail is desperate to see them be a normal hard-working family but john has committed too many infractions to this plan and they are on the run as john has killed a man in roanoke what do you know about strawberry i know they like good honest hard-working men a whole lot more than angry killers they arrive in strawberry and quickly find work and lodgings at pronghorn ranch to the ranch owner david geddes john marston is now jim milton but all quietly know his name is a fake but jon has undeniable skill sets and the ranch is in danger from the laramie boys john is drawn into protecting his new boss from half and reverts to type stop acting like a goddamn storybook hero will ya what choice did i have john is now a ranch hand but he still has the skills of an outlaw although fraught with violence abigail has cause for hope i was reading about a old ranch beecher's hope down by blackwater i thought maybe we could raise some money bank could lend us the rest we could be happy john bank loans i got a goddamn price on my head woman i know i know all about that with the violence showing no sign of leaving jon abigail takes jack and leaves i had so many dreams john i hoped you would change this very act by abigail serves as the catalyst for john to change he works hard on the gedi's ranch to earn some capital and the bank does the rest he is the owner of beecher's hope before john settles into his new ranch he meets a friend it is you well i never i i thought you was dead boy uncle with no better place to be joins john for the hard work ahead what are we gonna farm here rocks we you don't have a hope here without a wise hand at the till enough of that get out of here on your way no you're stuck with me the pair are also joined by two other old friends john marston sadie now a successful bounty hunter and charles smith charles now a bare knuckle boxer glad for a way out john earns bounty money with sadie adler to help pay the debt and charles uncle and john work together to make beach's hope into a working ranch with jon gone straight abigail and jack return so you happy i think so and i did good you did good jon has his family his friends and a future john takes abigail to blackwater and allow themselves some time together as well as space to escape arthur gave john his satchel in it was his diary which jon resolved to continue and also a ring a ring that arthur gave to his former girlfriend mary gillis the ring returned to arthur a symptom of his loyalty to the gang abigail agrees to marry him [Music] before this can happen sadie arrives with news of the whereabouts of micah you coming no he's not coming i will that's your business his business is here yeah yeah i'll ride with you please try to i ain't got no other choice although he's risking it all micah is the reason for much pain jon sadie and charles need retribution they track him to his mountain hideout john confronts micah hello scarface did you miss me come on now micah at least doubt like a man all the matter folk paying social calls hello son what are you doing here dutch same as you i suppose you betrayed me i could say the same as you dutch we all did our best for you since arthur's death little is known about the movements of the people who sided with dutch bill javier micah we do know they went their separate ways probably at the moment of arthur's death whatever happened until this moment dutch chose to discount the fact that micah was a rat putting all their lives at risk on multiple occasions in fact dutch had recently partnered with micah to get back the stash they had left in blackwater all those years ago say something dutch i ain't got too much to say no more [Laughter] ever the enigma dutch walks away from john and from the money ever the enigma to john ever the enigma to himself perhaps his sense of loyalty prevailed here or maybe his sense of revenge revenge now complete and wealthy charles moves north to canada in search of peace and happiness sadie moved south in search of adventure with john's share of the money he pays off the farm marries abigail and begins to settle into the paradise that they dreamed of the name john marston gave to the folks in pronghorn ranch was jim milton when combined with his make up the name of the author of this book paradise lost a cruel prophecy in a world that does not forgive [Music] miss mcfarland i'm married i thought you was dead i have a son years before that i rode in the gang we robbed banks trains held people ransom we killed people we didn't like bill williamson was in that game if i don't capture my former brother in arms great harm will befall my family every story has an end this is the story of john marston's john arrives in blackwater with a job to do flanked by the fbi men john is their means to an end he must hunt down and kill his former gang mates bill williamson javier esquela a gang which was led by the mercurial dutch vandalism [Music] [Applause] the year is 1910 the wild west is on the verge of being tamed methods of communication form a spider web across the country as do the train lines that connect every major town and city along the way motorcars are becoming a common site government is centralized no longer is this survival of the fittest the west has been won and the corporations have come to claim their prize apparently mr johns wants to run for governor which is why he's so concerned with cleaning up the state there is no room for outlaws anymore and agent ross has been enlisted to rid the west of bandits he has forced john to help him by imprisoning his wife and son john wants to leave the life of a bandit behind him he now wants the quiet life he doesn't want to kill anymore but he will for them i'm jake your friends from blackwater hired me to guide you [Music] promising his family he'd only be a few days john wastes no time in heading to the last known whereabouts of bill williamson and his new gang he finds them at fort mercer bill i've come for you you were as my brother i've come to try to save you well things are different now john now i'm in charge no more dutch and no more you not the start he hoped for clearly cannot do this alone but in a place where friends are in short supply one surfaces bonnie mcfarlane miss bonnie mcfarland rescues and nurses him back to health what would you do now now i'm gonna take my time and go after him the less kind way after helping bonnie out on the ranch to repay her kindness he heads back to armadillo to quiz the local marshal lee johnson on bill's whereabouts in the free states nothing is free especially information marksmanship horsemanship and tenacity are in short supply so to earn help with his cause john has to give help to theirs the first being marshall johnson of armadillo i got the railway the people who pay my salary trying to get me to turn the blind eye to them burn down settlements up there i got a bunch of cattle rustlers out near box canyon and each shutting down not forgetting the gang that keeps murdering homesteaders out in the back country and i got a bunch of hoods over in the saloon drunk threatening to shoot up the whole town let's go deal with them hurts then we'll discuss williamson despite john's help the marshall could not come through but he did put him on to this guy nigel where's dickens at your service and because john helped him after he was grabbed me blind and left me to die he came up with this plan we will make them into trojans i don't rightly get you roughly translated means with the help of nigel's friend irish it'd be my pleasure i'll source a machine gun mount it onto nigel's cart and use the help of nigel's friend seth the glass eye to get into the fort to get to bill the friends john earns along the way gather outside the walls of fort mercer this is the finale of the first act gentlemen i bring you wisdom from the east bill's gang is decimated but no bill mr marston we got a live one bill's already run off to mexico yesterday morning he's going to see javier esquela the hunt continues welcome to mexico amigo john transitions south of the border to nuevo pariso but has taken refuge with another former friend and gang member of john's javier escuela in the waiver pariso john encounters a very different landscape but the underlying struggle is much the same this whole place has been a hotbed for revolution since before the spanish left now there's another local guy running around promising the peasants their freedom local government foul bunch colonel allende he runs this place like a feudal king he's an awful individual the rebels want the land in the hands of the people the government and its military want to bring them a more civilized world here too greed power and progress look to strip away what came before my people have worked here for a hundred years we brought civilization your politics are not my concern john recognizes the struggle at one time he used to be an idealist himself but these ideals no longer matter to him all that matters is famine his following ideals that led him to kill for dutch i tried to go straight i left the gang after the gang left me he now craves the peaceful life but he can't get it until he finds and kills his former brothers in arms a different land but information arrives at the same currency he plays both sides to try and get the info he needs perhaps you can do me a favor and they play him jon helps the army kill the rebels and the rebels kill the army just be careful john keep jumping from one side of the fence to the other you might just get impaled on it and he nearly does colonel allende promises the location of bill and javier but it's a trap sick of a man and loyal to the cause they make to execute him but is saved at the last minute by reyes he finally now has a side pick for him and it is this side that eventually triumphs john tracks down and kills javier and bill and hands them over to the agents but his work is not over head to black water we have reason to believe that dutch vandalism is in the area so it's goodbye too and hello usa now the story continues in west elizabeth home to the major town blackwater you can't erase your past mr marston but we can john's past is a sorry one born in a whorehouse orphaned at eight years old he became a runaway doing what he needed to survive he eventually fell in with dutch we were all bad kids lost angry and forgotten he kind of saved it although john intends to kill dutch he speaks of him often with great fondness he taught me how to read taught me how to see all that was good in the world he was a great man in a way john's contention is that dutch started in a good place he wanted to help his fellow man he was a man of great ideals we robbed banks stole from the rich and we gave the money to people who needed it more he saw that the system of power was rotten that good people had been crushed for too long and he believed that change could only succeed if it was brutal and relentless make america what he felt it was supposed to be in the end he went and sing lost faith in everything and everyone good intentions corrupted by power just like the governments that now look to control this wildland and the land south of the border money power and weapons all lead to corruption this is the overwhelming theme here we don't know if that's turned bad over time or overnight but for now all we know is that dutch has formed a new gang in the same way that he attracted the disaffected young idealistic minds of john and his friends all those years ago he was doing the same thing now with the disaffected minds of young native americans [Music] another setback but at least dutch has been found just another fortress to infiltrate unable to infiltrate alone jon eventually catches up with dutch during a bank heist oh it's nice to see you john we all make mistakes john i never claimed to be a saint but equally i never took you for an errand boy she's trying to help my family dutch by making compromises we all have to now let her go it's over you always wear the romantic sword [Music] we aren't thieves john we're fighting for something a bit like you when we were fighting for an idea not just for ourselves that's what a good man wants a far better man than you so what made him this way i don't know bastards like you seeing that things never change john is hopeful that things can change in fact he's counting on it with duchess fortress located agent ross's bureau enlists the help of the us army and john to go get him looks like it's me and you john with his gang once again disbanded dutch is finally cornered we can't if i change when i'm gone they'll just find another monster [Music] with all trace of the gang eradicated john returns to his family his wife abigail another gang member and jack the son that they had together while still outlaws in the gang they left i know i ain't been the best father jack i made some bad choices but all that life it's over now john realizes that his soul is tarnished and he's doing everything he can to leave the world in a better state than he found it he sees his son as the best chance of that throughout the story in this game indeed within its very title we are invited to consider the theme of redemption can we atone for the wrongdoings of the past can we escape the consequences of our evil doings can we change john arrives back to a tired-looking ranch hoping that these last few weeks in the service of the government has earned him his ticket to a quiet life a life where he can nurture and protect the family he has made free from the violence the death the crime and the evil that exists in all areas of society it doesn't go away never over you think those government men are just gonna leave us alone now and after all john has been through he'd be forgiven for thinking that he could no you're real good with them tools thank you paul to make this land real nice one day me and your mother do our part by the time your turn comes hell this could be the nicest farm in the county take a look at that agent ross returns and violates the agreement made with john corrupted by the power bestowed to him by the government he is unable to let john be the last surviving member of dutch's gang john sends abigail and jack away to take refuge while john faces the u.s marshals and the us army alone [Music] by doing this he secures the lives of his loved ones in the hope that they can live in the way he always wanted to free of violence and in peace his final act of redemption abigail and jack bury john on his tombstone there is inscribed blessed are the peace bakers that is what he tried his best to create but his past and this powerful world would not let him three years later jack buries his mother john left the gang for a safer quieter life for his family to give jack the best start they could some pasts however you can never escape from they sometimes linger for generations in killing john marston agent ross only succeeded in making another outlaw another monster jack is his father's son now retired ross cannot escape his past either and he cannot escape jack's vengeance [Music] at present this is the final word on the red dead redemption saga a dynasty of outlaws reduced to that young boy who charmed and delighted the dutch vandaling gang the government painted john marston as the last surviving member of the gang but their information was not whole there were others that escaped that life and lived on their fate unknown i for one hope to learn more about these people and jack in the future but for now if you enjoyed this video leave a like if you are not subscribed make sure you are and if you are and want to support my work further check out my patreon page in the link in the bottom right i'm the patient wolf and this has been a complete story summary of red dead redemption 1 and 2.

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Length: 58min 52sec (3532 seconds)

Published: Sat May 30 2020