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Mission Overview: Retrieve My Family

Remember My Family is a Stranger side-mission, the epilogue of Red Dead Redemption and the merely mission which can only exist washed with Jack Marston as the protagonist. It is classed as a Stranger side-mission due to the "?" shown on the map, but technically acts equally the final mission of the game, too as the chronological final mission in the Redemption serial.

one Walkthrough
- ane.ane Mission Prerequisites
- i.2 Mission Objectives
- 1.3 Mission Details
- 1.4 Mission Dialogues
- 1.5 Casualties
- 1.vi Optional Casualties
two Duel Details
3 Trivia
iv Glitches
5 Gallery
vi Video Walkthroughs

Walkthrough

Mission Prerequisites

Earlier this Stranger will appear on the world map, the role player must complete:

John Marston mission: "The Concluding Enemy That Shall Be Destroyed"

Mission Objectives

Later on speaking with Howard Sawicki, the role player must:

Ride to Lake Don Julio and speak to Emily Ross.
Ride to a location near Rio del Toro and speak to Phillip Ross.
Ride a short mode down the San Luis River and face up Edgar Ross in a duel.

Mission Details

The mission starts when the player talks to Agent Howard Sawicki in Blackwater, indicated by the "'? " on the map. During the cutscene, the amanuensis points Jack to the due south of Lake Don Julio; furthermore, the paper includes a story indicating that Edgar is living about the lake.

At the actor inflow, just Ross's married woman is present. She explains that Edgar went with his brother on a duck-hunting trip in Nuevo Paraíso.

In Nuevo Paraíso, close to the river, the player finds Edgar'due south blood brother, Phillip Ross, at a military camp. The latter indicates Ross' location. Down the riverbank, following Philip's indications, the role player encounters Edgar Ross. Ross expresses no remorse for killing John and threatens to kill Jack besides if he doesn't get out. Jack refuses to back down which results in a duel betwixt the 2, where Edgar Ross is gunned down.

Once defeated, Edgar stumbles backwards and falls to the basis, dead.

A cutscene follows, where Jack looks downwardly at his gun and walks abroad, as the camera closes on his face. The screen turns ruby-red and black, and the end credits follow.

Mission Dialogues

Main commodity: Remember My Family/dialogues

Casualties

Edgar Ross - Killed by Jack Marston in a duel to avenge his father'due south death.

Optional Casualties

It is possible to exact revenge on Ross' family unit as well, by killing his married woman and blood brother. After talking to them, and learning of Edgar'due south whereabouts. Doing so will, however, result in a loss of Honor (unless the Bandana is worn), although killing Ross will restore the Honor lost.

Emily Ross - Tin can exist killed past Jack Marston.
Phillip Ross - Can exist killed by Jack Marston.

Duel Details

For this duel, targeting Edgar in a lethal manner is required. If the histrion attempts to target the gun or arm of the target (normally a disabling shot), the duel will be lost (the bar will simply not fill when targeting his easily; this happens in other of import duels also). This volition upshot in the role player'due south death.

Trivia

It is classified as a Stranger side-mission due to the " ? " shown on the map, but technically acts every bit the final mission of the main storyline.
After the closing credits, Ross'due south trunk can be looted ($400).
Attempting to snipe Edgar prior to the duel will result in an automatic mission failure; as well as only looking at him through the scope, even if the trigger isn't pulled. The same goes for Edgar'southward wife and brother in the earlier steps.
- If the player uses a loftier powered weapon in the duel, Ross may be sent flying back into the river, causing his body to become impossible to boodle unless the role player pushes it out of the h2o by slowly walking into it.
This is the only side-mission which John Marston cannot complete.
If Edgar is hogtied, the mission will fail, and the credits will non start. Edgar must be killed during the scripted duel.
The motel that the Ross family lives in is the same motel Irish gaelic originally sends John to detect a gatling gun in "A Frenchman, a Welshman and an Irishman". Philip Ross' military camp is in the same location at Rio del Toro where Tubman's Gold is cached in Treasure Hunter Challenge Rank 5.
If you get to a campfire with people at that place, they may talk almost Edgar being killed past robbers.
Failing the duel and restarting it results in Ross using a different shotgun to hunt each time, either the Double-barreled Shotgun, Semi-car Shotgun, or the Pump-action Shotgun.
- The player tin can use this mission to acquire the Semi-auto Shotgun for free; simply fail the duel until Ross has the Semi-automobile Shotgun equipped, then kill him and loot the gun.
This and "I Know You lot" are the only stranger side-missions that take place in all three areas. It starts in West Elizabeth, you discover Ross's wife in New Austin and y'all find Ross's brother and Edgar Ross himself in Nuevo Paraíso.
While confronting Ross, Jack mentions that he saw him kill John, despite only hearing gunshots from a distance and riding back to the befouled simply to find his corpse.
Listening to Ross'due south comments earlier the duel, he tin can exist heard cursing when he misses the shots.
Based on accounts from his wife and his abiding cursing during his duck hunt, Edgar Ross appears rather unhappy with his retirement. He is existence badgered by the very organization he worked with, and he can't seem to shoot well anymore.
Ross' body cannot exist destroyed by the Explosive Burglarize until afterward it is looted.
Afterwards Jack guns downwards Ross, he looks at his weapon in an about questioning way, perhaps questioning if the decision to kill Ross was something his father wanted, as John always wanted Jack to have a life of peace.
In Red Expressionless Redemption 2, the mission "A Fisher of Men" foreshadows the terminal confrontation between Jack and Edgar Ross on the bank of a river. Additionally, information technology is too foreshadowed by a conversation between Jack and Abigail at Horseshoe Overlook, where Abigail and Hosea endeavour to teach Jack to read; he responds to these attempts with "but, I wanna be a gunslinger when I grow upward", to which Abigail replies "over my dead body". 15 years later, Jack would have revenge on Edgar Ross, becoming a gunslinger subsequently the deaths of Abigail and John.

Glitches

Occasionally, while dueling Ross, he will be facing toward the pond shooting ducks. He can even so exist killed and will non fire back.
Sometimes, a glitch will occur in which a 2nd shotgun tin can be seen floating beside Phillip Ross.