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An Honest Mistake, Red Dead Redemption 2 Mission

Walkthrough for the mission An Honest Mistake in the game Red Dead Redemption 2. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the mission smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.

Quest Group: Chapter 3 - Clemens Point

Category: Story Mission

Prerequisites: To play this mission, you must first complete the mission American Distillation.

To start this mission, you must first complete the American Distillation mission and then talk to Molly O'Shea. You will find her in your camp at Clemens Point.

An Honest Mistake

An Honest Mistake

Molly is worried about Dutch and wants to talk to you about him, but then Uncle interrupts your conversation and you start talking with him, Charles and Bill about something completely different.

An Honest Mistake

Uncle receives a tip-off and rides out with Arthur, Charles and Bill to rob a wagon carrying payroll.

Gold Medal Checklist

Objectives of An Honest Mistake

1. Follow Uncle / Wait for the wagon

Follow Uncle. When you arrive near a crossing where a wagon should be passing, put a bandana on your face. After a while, you will see the wagon you are waiting for.

Follow Uncle / Wait for the wagon

2. Approach the wagon / Keep up with the wagon / Rob the wagon

Ride up to the wagon. After a moment, the coachman should stop it.

Approach the wagon / Keep up with the wagon / Rob the wagon

Get off your horse and check the box at the back of the wagon. You will find a lot of cash in it.

Approach the wagon / Keep up with the wagon / Rob the wagon

Unfortunately, when you enjoy your take, another wagons and their guards will arrive and you will have to escape as quickly as possible. The guards will start chasing you.

Approach the wagon / Keep up with the wagon / Rob the wagon

3. Escape the pursuers with the gang / Hide in the barn

Follow your companions as fast as you can. At some point you will turn into a forest and some time later you will reach the farm and decide to hide in the barn.

Escape the pursuers with the gang / Hide in the barn

Escape the pursuers with the gang / Hide in the barn

You will hide inside the barn and wait until nightfall.

Escape the pursuers with the gang / Hide in the barn

4. Keep hidden

After dark, when you were about to leave the barn, Cornwall's people, who are still looking for you, will come to the farm. The farm owner will tell them that he heard the sounds in the barn some time ago, and two guards will head towards the barn to check it out. One of them will enter the barn.

Keep hidden

You have to stay hidden while the Cornwall's guards search the area. Just don't move.

Keep hidden

When the guard is about to leave the barn, suddenly one of your companions does something that draws his attention and a shooting starts.

5. Fend off the attackers

The opponents will attack the barn from all sides. Remember about the requirements to get a gold medal, i.e. high accuracy and a large number of head shots. Most of them you need to get during this shooting.

Fend off the attackers

Fend off the attackers

Fend off the attackers

After some time the barn will start to burn so much that you will have to leave it.

Fend off the attackers

6. Escape through the hole in the barn wall

Bill made a hole in one of the barn walls. Leave the barn through this hole and then run into the forest.

Escape through the hole in the barn wall

7. Follow Uncle / Get into cover near Uncle

You split up, you follow Uncle.

Follow Uncle / Get into cover near Uncle

Hide with Uncle behind a big rock.

Follow Uncle / Get into cover near Uncle

8. Deal with the pursuers

Wait until the two enemies on your way pass through the rock, get behind them and quietly kill the one on the right.

Deal with the pursuers

Unfortunately, uncle will not be successful like you and will be knocked to the ground. You have to help him to score one of the requirements for a gold medal. If you don't do it fast enough, the old man will free himself after a while.

Deal with the pursuers

9. Help Charles and Bill

Run toward Charles and Bill and help them kill a few remaining enemies. It will be a few more opportunities to get some headshots.

Help Charles and Bill

Help Charles and Bill

Once you've dealt with all your opponents, your group will split up and this mission will be completed.

Help Charles and Bill

After completing this mission, you will be able to play the mission Preaching Forgiveness as He went.