After Valentine becomes too dangerous, the Van der Linde gang rides south into Lemoyne and sets up camp at Clemens Point, on the shore of Flat Iron Lake near the town of Rhodes. Chapter 3 centers on a long-running feud between two local families, the Grays and the Braithwaites, which Dutch tries to exploit. It contains the gang's first major death and ends with the kidnapping of Jack Marston.
Full spoilers for Chapter 3 of Red Dead Redemption 2 follow.
Setting: the Gray and Braithwaite feud
Clemens Point is a lakeside camp in Lemoyne, a short ride from the town of Rhodes. Rhodes is dominated by two old, declining families: the Grays, who hold the local law through Sheriff Leigh Gray, and the Braithwaites, who own a tobacco plantation outside town. The two families have feuded for generations, and each believes the other is hiding a fortune. Dutch's plan is to work both sides and take whatever money he can from the conflict.
Working both families
The gang plays the two families against each other. Arthur wins the trust of Sheriff Leigh Gray by helping him catch the Anderson boys ("The New South"). Hosea works on Catherine Braithwaite, who pays the gang to burn the Grays' tobacco fields, while Arthur, John and Javier steal the Braithwaites' prize horses for Tavish Gray.
Sean MacGuire is killed in Rhodes
In "A Short Walk in a Pretty Town", the Grays spring an ambush in Rhodes. Sean MacGuire, the young Irishman the gang had rescued in Chapter 2, is shot in the head and killed instantly. It is the gang's first death since the Blackwater ferry job that opens the game, and it ends the Rhodes con. Arthur and the gang fight their way out, and Sheriff Leigh Gray is killed.
The Braithwaites kidnap Jack Marston
After the ambush in Rhodes, the Braithwaites kidnap Jack, the young son of John and Abigail Marston. The gang takes it as revenge for the theft of the family's horses. In "Blood Feuds, Ancient and Modern", the gang storms Braithwaite Manor and sets it on fire. Dragged out in front of the burning house, the family matriarch Catherine Braithwaite reveals that her sons gave Jack to Angelo Bronte, the crime boss who controls the city of Saint Denis. She then runs back into the burning house, where she dies. Recovering Jack becomes the gang's reason to move on the city in Chapter 4.
Other events in the chapter
Kieran Duffy, the O'Driscoll captured in Chapter 1, becomes a working member of the camp during this chapter, tending the horses and slowly earning the gang's trust.
Key characters
Chapter 3 introduces Angelo Bronte, the crime boss of Saint Denis who will drive Chapter 4, along with Catherine Braithwaite and Sheriff Leigh Gray, the heads of the two feuding families. It is also the chapter in which Sean MacGuire is killed. Arthur, Dutch, Hosea and John Marston all take leading roles in the feud.
Key events of Chapter 3
- The gang relocates from Horseshoe Overlook to Clemens Point, in Lemoyne.
- Dutch sets out to play the Gray and Braithwaite families against each other.
- The Rhodes con collapses into an ambush; Sean MacGuire is killed.
- The gang burns Braithwaite Manor.
- Catherine Braithwaite reveals that her sons gave Jack Marston to Angelo Bronte in Saint Denis.
- The chapter ends with the gang preparing to move on Saint Denis to recover Jack (Chapter 4).