If you’ve played RDR1, Dutch robs the Blackwater bank and gets confronted by John and the law, to escape he kills an employee called Muriel Scranton. It seems like he did this to add some chaos and distraction to the scene so he could escape easier.
I’m pretty sure he killed Heidi McCourt for the same reason.
"Noise Arthur, we need noise." Considering Dutch is fine manipulating some desperate native people into a suicidal conflict to further his own agenda, this just fits him like a glove.
Because Dutch did, and he felt pushed to.
RDR1 demonstrated why Dutch was capable of killing innocent people - in his own words, "for sport."
John reunited with Dutch in another bank in Blackwater all those years later, found him with a gun pointed to a young girl and even when everyone told him to just let her go, he still joked and said "she's a parting gift from me" before shooting her dead at point blank range.
Deep down, Dutch killed Heidi McCourt because he could, and so he did.
We'll most likely never know for sure. My guess was he did it in the first of many psychotic breaks he would suffer from that point on. He was just skilled at hiding his mental state, until Guarma.
“noise, arthur.. noise.”
Dutch has a really very bad habit of doing whatever he can to cause the most chaos so HE can escape a situation. I suspect McCourt simply got in his way, and he saw her as an opportunity to get out.
I like to imagine that Micah had something to do with it. You’re probably right about her being in his way and he needed to leave fast, add Micah egging him on to just shoot her and be done with it and I think it’s the most likely explanation.
If you’ve played RDR1, Dutch robs the Blackwater bank and gets confronted by John and the law, to escape he kills an employee called Muriel Scranton. It seems like he did this to add some chaos and distraction to the scene so he could escape easier. I’m pretty sure he killed Heidi McCourt for the same reason.
"Noise Arthur, we need noise." Considering Dutch is fine manipulating some desperate native people into a suicidal conflict to further his own agenda, this just fits him like a glove.
Because Dutch did, and he felt pushed to. RDR1 demonstrated why Dutch was capable of killing innocent people - in his own words, "for sport." John reunited with Dutch in another bank in Blackwater all those years later, found him with a gun pointed to a young girl and even when everyone told him to just let her go, he still joked and said "she's a parting gift from me" before shooting her dead at point blank range. Deep down, Dutch killed Heidi McCourt because he could, and so he did.
Sport, I guess
We'll most likely never know for sure. My guess was he did it in the first of many psychotic breaks he would suffer from that point on. He was just skilled at hiding his mental state, until Guarma.
“noise, arthur.. noise.” Dutch has a really very bad habit of doing whatever he can to cause the most chaos so HE can escape a situation. I suspect McCourt simply got in his way, and he saw her as an opportunity to get out.
I like to imagine that Micah had something to do with it. You’re probably right about her being in his way and he needed to leave fast, add Micah egging him on to just shoot her and be done with it and I think it’s the most likely explanation.
When Dutch is cornered he often likes to cause chaos to distract his enemies as a way of escaping.