Red Dead Redemption 3: 10 Predictions For The Story

Annabelle was Dutch's lover, and that in itself is an enticing prospect. No, we shouldn't expect Red Dead Redemption 3 to be a love story by any stretch, but if it does focus on Dutch (at least in some capacity), it'd go a long way in humanizing the fallen gang boss.

Dutch treated all of his disciples like his children, but it's hard to tell what was sincere, and what was disingenuous sycophancy for the sake of manipulation. To see Dutch in love - truly, deeply in love - would cast him in a new light.

What's more, we know that his darling Annabelle was taken from him too soon. We could see a Dutch van der Linde whose guard was down - whose heart was open, only to have the person he opened up to snatched away from him by the cruel, violent hand of the life he chose to live.

After that, he only ever kept women at a distance, romantically. Molly O'Shea is proof enough of that.

Why wouldn't he allow John and Abigail to leave? This is just speculation, but maybe - just maybe - it would remind him of his own failure to save his beloved Annabelle from his world.