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We're thieves in a world that don't want us no more.
— Red Dead Redemption 2 • 2018
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Arthur says out loud what Dutch's speeches never admit: the gang's dream of freedom has no place left to live, and the outlaw age is over. Dutch answers with a poet's shrug, and the exchange sums up the whole game in two sentences. Fans quote it as the series' epitaph, and it is a favourite for tattoos, wallpapers and Wild West sign-offs.
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In context
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Chapter 3, Clemens Point, at the start of the mission "The New South". Dutch stands by Flat Iron Lake in Lemoyne and talks of the lofty goals of the gang, to reform society toward a kinder, truer way, and says there are bound to be casualties. Arthur, uneasy about the men lost at Blackwater, answers with this line, and Dutch concedes they are dreamers in an ever duller world of facts. The two then join Hosea for a fishing trip that is interrupted when a prison wagon and the escaping Anderson boys send Arthur chasing a train.
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- Red Dead Wiki: The New South (dialogues)opening dialogue at Clemens PointReference checked
- Red Dead Wiki: The New Southinfobox and Story sectionReference checked
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