In Rockstar’sRed Dead Redemption , John Marston is pressure by the government into run down several of his former gang member , many of which players later match and become acquaint with inRed Dead Redemption 2 . John hesitantly concord , recognize that the lives of his married woman and son are on the communication channel .

Over the course of the game , John track down and kills Javier Escuella , Bill Williamson , and the crew ’s former leaderDutch Van der Linde . But there were many more members of the Van der Linde gang than just those three , and as such , it may seem stupefy as to why John was tasked with hunting down only those phallus .

Red Dead Redemption 2,acting as a prequel to the original game , cast illumination on what happens to theother Van der Linde gang membersand reveals why they were n’t mellow antecedence for the government . It may seem like a plot of land hole , but there is right reason as to why the government had him focus on the master three remain members of the gang .

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Why John Didn’t Go After All the Van der Linde Members

Many of the main work party member perish before the conclusion ofRed Dead Redemption 2,including Arthur Morgan , Lenny Summers , Sean MacGuire , and Micah Bell . That only leave a few primary members for John to go after . He belike would ’ve been pressure to hound down Sadie Adler and Charles , but both of them purportedly bequeath the state atRDR2’sclose ( Sadie talked about going to South America and Charles wanted to go to Canada ) . So , that can explain why the governing did n’t task John with research for those companion , since they were so far out of their range .

Then again , the government did haveJohn go to Mexico to hound Javierand Bill , so perhaps players are mean to admit that Sadie and Charles were n’t as eminent a priority as the other ring members who had been associated with the Van der Lindes for longer . There are other Van der Linde gang appendage   — Simon Pearson , Reverend Swanson , and Josiah Trelawny   — who were n’t as active in the gang ’s heists but were still member , yet the government supposedly was n’t concerned with tracking them down . This signify the government was mainly concerned with the gang appendage directly responsible for orchestrating and committing the worst of the heists .

Even more , most of thewomen in the Van der Linde gangstayed out of the holdup and mission , including Mary - Beth Gaskill , Tilly Jackson , and Karen Jones , who were able-bodied to dodge the law and go on to have more or less normal lives after the bunch disbanded . Other distaff members , like Susan Grimshaw and Molly O’Shea , died beforeRDR2’send . likewise , even though Abigail Marston managed to escape the political science raid on the cattle farm , it appears they never tried chase after her down , likely because they knew she ( nor her son ) was not culpable for the heist her husband confide . Even though it may seem complicate as to why John only hunted down a few select members of the Van der Lindes inRed Dead Redemption , it makes gumption given that they were the ones direct creditworthy for the criminal activity .

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