Americans at Rest

At the bar

Bill, Charles and Javier have gone ahead to Valentine, as Hosea tells Arthur. Arthur finds Javier and Charles at the bar of Smithfield's Saloon, drinking with two women; Javier waves him over to meet "our friends". One of the women, Anastasia, calls Arthur a "tough as teak mountain man"; the other says anyone can tell he is "a pussy cat", and Javier agrees.

Arthur asks them: "How much you cost, anyway?" Anastasia asks whether that is a nice way to talk to a lady; Arthur answers that he did not know he was talking to a lady, and the two women leave. Javier tells him he has "a fine way with the women, amigo". The three men drink at the counter. Arthur asks where Bill is; Javier says he dreads to think.

The brawl

Bill stumbles in and bumps into another customer, who tells him to take it easy. "He about to kiss that guy or punch him?", asks Arthur. Bill headbutts the man onto a table. "Oh, and we have our answer", says Javier. The whole saloon joins in: Javier smashes a bottle over a man's head, Charles breaks a chair and someone punches Arthur. Bill shouts: "Let's just shoot these bastards!" Charles answers that they can handle these fools. The bartender begs them to stop.

Arthur knocks out his first opponent. He can then help Bill, who is being beaten by three men, or Javier or Charles with theirs. Their calls follow him: Javier asks whether he is joining them, Bill tells him to get in and fight, Charles asks whether he has forgotten how to punch.

Tommy

A large man comes down the stairs: "What the hell is going on down here?" The bartender tries to keep him out of it: "No, Tommy, stay outta this!" Tommy goes for Javier, calls him a "little greaser" and tells him he hits like a girl. Javier lands a punch, but Tommy overpowers him and throws him around the room. Meanwhile another man grabs Arthur, who has to break free.

Bill tells Arthur to give Javier a hand: he and Charles can deal with the others. Arthur calls out "Hey, tough guy!" and hits Tommy. Tommy turns on him ("You want some too, huh?"), grabs him and throws him through the window into the muddy street, then follows him outside.

The fight in the street

"Come on, pretty boy...", says Tommy. A crowd gathers around them. Valentine's townsfolk, among them the barber, the gunsmith, the doctor and the hotel owner, cheer for Tommy and shout at him to put Arthur's face in the mud. Bill and Charles cheer Arthur on; Javier tells him to stop playing with Tommy because drinks are waiting.

After an early struggle, Arthur gets the upper hand and punches Tommy in the head again and again.

A man runs up from the crowd and begs Arthur to stop: "You won the fight already, surely that's enough?" Arthur asks him what business it is of his. "No business, sir. But, please..." The man is Thomas Downes. Arthur lets go of Tommy's bloodied face, pushes Downes aside and staggers through the crowd toward the general store.

Trelawny's news

On the porch, a voice calls out: "Making new friends again I see, Arthur." It is Josiah Trelawny, arriving with Dutch, who says they found him "sniffing about". Arthur thought he had gone to New York. Trelawny says he went to Blackwater looking for the gang and found they are not very popular there; Arthur answers that they left a lot of money there.

"And young Sean it seems", adds Trelawny. Sean is being held by bounty hunters who are trying to see how much the government will pay them. Trelawny knows he is in Blackwater, but there is talk of moving him. Arthur says that if they set foot in Blackwater they are dead men. Dutch answers: "There'll be Pinkertons all over the place, but... if he's alive we gotta try." Trelawny warns: "It's you they want, Dutch." "Always is", says Dutch.

Dutch hands out the tasks: Charles goes to find out what he can, carefully; Trelawny takes Javier; Arthur is to get cleaned up and join them when he is ready. Bill asks: "Well, what about me?" Dutch answers: "Well exactly, what about you?" and walks off with him. Arthur washes the mud off his face and hair in water by the saloon. The rescue follows in The First Shall Be Last.

Who to help

After his first opponent, Arthur chooses whom to help first: Bill against three men, Javier or Charles. Whatever the choice, Tommy then comes down the stairs.

Order of play

• If this mission is complete when Polite Society, Valentine Style is played, Arthur tells Uncle that he and the boys got into a fight at the saloon, and the Valentine shopkeeper recognizes him as the man who beat Tommy.
• Hosea's opening lines in Exit Pursued by a Bruised Ego change if this mission has been completed.
• Thomas Downes's dialogue when Arthur meets him in Valentine depends on whether this mission has been completed.

Before and after

• The saloon's barber can be used for a haircut before the mission by making the mission unavailable first.
• Entering the saloon through its left-side window breaks Charles's behavior: he attacks and shoots townsfolk, and the mission cannot continue although it does not fail.
• Arthur can hit people in the crowd during the fight with Tommy; it has no effect on the mission.
• After the mission, a blond chestnut Belgian Draft horse is hitched outside the construction site next to the general store and can be taken. It is a way back to camp if Polite Society, Valentine Style was played just before, without Arthur's own horse, and the horse borrowed to chase Jimmy Brooks was returned to its owner.
• Bill, Dutch, Thomas Downes and several Valentine residents, among them Ben Calloway, Cliff Douglas, Mickey, Ralph L. Dalton and Quentin Fern, have new lines after the mission.

Mission failure

The mission fails if the player:

• abandons the other gang members;
• lets any of the gang members be killed;
• dies.

• Yeah, a regular dandy and charmer.

  Arthur, after Javier mocks his way with women

• Pretty boy? You're kidding me? Pretty boy?

  Arthur, to Tommy, in the street

• You must be the village idiot, huh?

  Arthur, during the fight with Tommy

• Put that ape down, come on!

  Bill, during the fight with Tommy

• And miss all this glamour? You must be joking.

  Trelawny, when Arthur says he thought he had gone to New York

• "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin plays in the background in the saloon.
• When the brawl breaks out, the chair Charles throws was motion-captured by Benjamin Byron Davis, the actor who plays Dutch. In the same scene, Charles holding on to one of the women as she leaves was performed by Steve J. Palmer, Bill's actor.
• Anastasia and her friend are no longer seen in Valentine after this mission. One of the two women reappears in the end credits of the epilogue, in the scene where Edgar Ross and Archer Fordham question customers of Smithfield's Saloon.
• Bill is absent from the Horseshoe Overlook camp until this mission is complete.
• Thomas Downes, the man who stops the fight, comes back in Money Lending and Other Sins III, when Leopold Strauss sends Arthur to collect his debt.