A few days have passed since they've arrived in the snow and it was about time for the train heist. Arthur went inside to one of the other cabins to find Reverend Swanson checking on John of his wounds. Reverend turned to Arthur who just entered the shed.
"I thought you was reading his last rites," Arthur told him. "now I see you're introducing him to your other passion."
Reverend stood up and faces Arthur sternly, "I'll mind if you to show me some respect, Mr. Morgan," he told Arthur sternly.
"Mind away, Reverend," Arthur replied.
As Reverend left, Arthur looked down at John still looking sullen over the fact he did something like a long time ago. Shortly after Jack was born, a minute before Rachel, John couldn't handle the responsibilities of being a parent and the fact that these children are his children and he left the gang for a whole year. A year elapsed, he returned to the gang and was welcomed with open arms, except Arthur, who was still resentful at him for what he did. He's still not letting this one go as John still not taking his responsibilities as the father of the two children.
"You're still here, then?" Arthur retorted as he sat down in a chair next to the bed.
"I owe you," John barely told him, there's a big gauze over his head, mostly to heal up the wounds he got from the wolves.
"And you'll pay me," Arthur told him. "but for the moment, just rest."
Just then, Dutch enters the cabin with the map in his hands, he looks very eager to hit the train this afternoon.
"Arthur," Dutch told him. "I think it's time for the train."
"You want me to come?" John asked him.
"Of courses I do, but," Dutch paused a bit. "look at you."
"I was always ugly, Dutch," John told him as he tries to sit up. "it's just a scratch."
But Dutch stopped him from standing up and help him lay back on his bed.
"Lie still, son," Dutch told him.
As they put John back in bed, Abigail and her children enter the cabin and the two just noticed them entering.
"Hello, Abigail," Dutch told her. "Jackie, Rachel."
"Dutch," Abigail replied as she approaches John. "The kids wanted to see you, John," she told him.
The children approach John, however, John doesn't give a bit of glance to his own kids and ignores the fact that they're here for him.
"They're seeing me now," John sarcastically said, not even glancing at them. "or what's left of me." He turned to Abigail. "What about you?"
"Guess I was hoping to see a corpse," Abigail retorted.
"Bide your time," John replied sarcastically. "you'll see plenty of them."
Abigail was quite disappointed in John that he never take responsibility as a parent. "You're a rotten man, John Marston!" She hissed at him.
"He is an idiot, Abigail," Dutch told her. "we all know it." He turned to Arthur as Abigail and the children left the cabin. "Now, railway men."
The two head outside of the cabin and meet up with Bill who had just load up the dynamite on his horse.
"Bill, now you ride ahead and set the charge at the water tower," Duch told him. "just before the tunnel."
"Ain't a problem," Bill complied as he mounts on his horse and rides away.
Hosea walks up to them and doesn't seem to like the idea of robbing a train. It was only been a rough few days in the snow after they barely escaped with their lives from the Pinkertons plus, Leviticus Cornwall is a man who is not to be messed with.
"Why are we doing this?" Hosea asked Dutch who just noticed him walking by. "Weather's breaking, we could leave. I-I thought we was lying low."
"What do you want from me, Hosea?" Dutch asked annoyed as he checks his horse.
"I just don't want any more folks to die, Dutch," Hosea told him.
"We're living Hosea," Dutch replied. "we're living, look at me, we're living, even you... But we need money, everything we have's in Blackwater. You fancy heading back there?"
"No," Hosea protested. He never likes this idea even in one bit and knows that robbing Cornwall will only bring a lot more heat on them just like the failed heist at Blackwater. "Listen, Dutch I ain't trying to undermine you," he tries to reason with Dutch. "I just... I just want to stick to the plan which was o lie low, then head back out west. Now suddenly, we're about to rob a train."
"What choice have we got?" Dutch asked him.
"Leviticus Cornwall's no joke, Dutch, he's..."
"Who is Leviticus Cornwall?" Arthur wondered.
"He's a big railway magnate, sugar, dealer, oil man," Hosea clarifies.
"Well how good for him," Dutch remarked sarcastically. "Sounds like he has more than enough to share."
Hosea narrowed his eyes at Dutch. He couldn't believe that Dutch was willing to risk this, especially that they just escaped from the law and lay low here in a few days.
"Dutch!" Hosea tries to reason with him once more, only to be ignored again.
Dutch called to his gang, "Gentleman, it is time to make something of ourselves!" Dutch called to them as the rest exited their cabins and mount on their horses. "Get your horses ready, we have a train to rob!"
The gang ride away from camp and make their way to the location where the train might be. They went on the same path they used when going to the O'Driscolls camp and also changed paths to the train tracks. Once they get this done, they'll finally have enough money for the whole Van Der Linde gang to escape the country.
"Okay, gentlemen. Listen up, all of you," Dutch explains. "According to the information so kindly provided to us by the O'Driscolls, the train will be coming north, from Big valley." We're gonna pick it off after it crosses the border into the Grizzlies. There's a raised spot there that should give us good vantage. Charles, you'll keep lookout for any outriders. How's that hand, by the way?"
"I'll be fine," Charles replied.
"Good," Dutch continued explaining his plan. "I'll take the driver and engineer, then run point. Lenny and Javier, you take the two front cars, deal with any guards. Arthur and Micah, you head straight for the back. That's what we're after... Mr. Cornwall's private car."
"You and me, Morgan," Micah told Arthur.
"Great," Arthur replied sarcastically. He would rather do all the work than doing his part of the job with Micah.
"Have you got a problem with that?" Micah asked him.
"Not if you keep your head for once," Arthur told him.
"You worry about yourself," Micah replied.
"Enough! After Bill blows the tracks, we're gonna move fast," Dutch continued as they ride down the snowy hill. "Is everyone clear on what they're doing?"
The others replied with approval and pure determination. They were more than prepared to hit this train.
"Good, now, come on. Let's ride."
The gang continues riding through the snowy forests and hills, after seemingly like 10 minutes of the ride, they finally made it to the less snowy area and the air is getting warmer and warmer as they went further.
"Out of the snow, finally," Arthur said.
"Feels good, doesn't it?" Dutch replied. "But we need to get this done fast now it's thawing... before anyone gets here after us."
As they continued to Big Valley, Dutch turns back to his gang following him, he smiles and feels like that this is his time to shine.
"Look at you boys. See?" Dutch admitted. "This is what I called a crew. Micah Bell, Charles Smith, Arthur Morgan, Javier Escuella, and what about young Lenny here? Always the first man on his horse."
"Just happy we're back at 'em, Dutch," Lenny said smiling.
"You sure you're ready for this, kid?" Javier asked him.
"'Course I'm ready," Lenny replied.
"So we do this, then we go back to Blackwater to collect?" Micah asked.
This is the 10th time Micah asked the same thing, it's pretty obvious that because of their stunt, Blackwater was heavily patrolled by Pinkerton Officials.
"How many times are you going to ask the same question, Micah?" Arthur asked him annoyed.
"That's a lot of damn money to leave sitting for too long," Micah told him.
"It would be crazy to go back there now," Charles reminded him. "The place will be swarming with Pinkertons."
"We go back when I say we go back, and that's the end of it," Dutch declared. "The money's safe, you'll just have to trust me. And if the O'Driscolls are right, there'll be a stack of railroad bonds on this train, good money, once we work out how to cash them. Now everyone shut up and get your mind on the job at hand. Come on."
So after another few minutes, they finally arrived at the location and stop their horses over the ledge. They see Bill down below by the train tracks, setting the dynamite underneath the tracks.
"You wanna head down?" Dutch asked him. "See how he's getting on?"
"Okay," Arthur nodded.
So Arthur went down the ledge and to Bill who is still setting up the dynamite.
What's taking him so long with that dynamite? Arthur thought.
"How you getting on?" Arthur asked Bill.
"Yeah," Bill replied, not bothering to look back at him. "I'm okay."
"You sure?" He asked again.
"Of course," Bill answered again.
"Can I help a little?"
Bill sighs and then he turned to Arthur. "Go ahead... and set up the detonator by those rocks over there."
"Okay, sure," Arthur nodded.
"Now, just unspool the wire and then attach it to said detonator," Bill instructed.
So Arthur picks up the wire spool and then carries it to the rocks whilst connecting the wire over to the detonator. Once that was done, Arthur heads back over to the ledge and mounts his horse.
"About time," Micah said. "I have to say, I am rather looking forward to this."
"Just be ready to move quick," Dutch reminded them all. "and remember the plan... all of you. No mistakes. And remember, cover your faces. Train should be here any minute now."
So the gang put their bandanas on and ger ready for the oncoming train. Arthur hopes that this will plan may work this time unlike what happened back at Blackwater, robbing a wealthy business such as Cornwall can be very risky, especially if the train didn't stop. Until then, the train has arrived.
"Good luck, all of you," Dutch told them. "You all know what to do."
As the train comes along and passes over the dynamite underneath, Bill sets off the detonator. Only for it didn't work thus this part of the plan backfires.
"Shit, no!" Bill cried, setting it off again but it didn't explode. "God. Fuck!" But it's too late, the train already passes by and it's still moving.
I swear I made sure the detonator is all set! Arthur thought. Bill must've fucked up with the bombs! Moron.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" Dutch groaned.
"Where did you find that moron?" Arthur exaggerated.
"You said it was fine," he reminded him.
"So it's my fault?"
The others dismount their horses and started to catch the train while it's still passing through the tunnel, Arthur sees this coming and dismount his horse as well.
"You're pathetic you know that?!" Arthur told Dutch as he followed suit.
Arthur runs backward off the ledge with Javier and Lenny, the train energies from the tunnel and the trio jumped from the ledge and barely made it to the last train car but Javier hits the edge of the car and falls off to the ground. Lenny rolls over to the left and is hanging on the side and holding on for his life.
"Help!" Lenny cried out loud.
Arthur stands up and lends Lenny a hand to help up.
"I've got you!" Arthur told him as he pulls him up. "Now stop yelling!"
After a bit of struggling, Arthur finally pulls Lenny up and they run alongside the train cars.
"You're okay," Arthur told him. "now let's slow this thing down."
"Where's Javier?" Lenny asked while continuing running on the train cars.
"He fell," Arthur replied. "the others'll get hin."
"You and me, big man," Lenny replied.
So they climb down the train cars and goes through another one, and they quickly stop and hide when they see a guard guarding outside the other train car.
"There's a guard up ahead," Lenny warned. "You want me to take him out?"
However, Arthur decides to take care of the guard himself so he eliminates the guard, resulting in a gunfight igniting. So they have to shoot their way to the train engine to stop the train.
"What the fuck was Bill doing?" Lenny asked as he gunned down another guard and keep going. "He had long enough to see that charge."
"Well, I hooked up the wire," Arthur replied. "but we won't mention that."
They continue through another train car and there are more guards up ahead. They quickly took cover behind some crates and fired back at them, killing them one by one. When they're dead, they keep going.
"If we don't stop this train soon, the other boys'll never catch us!" Lenny reminded him.
"I know, just stay calm," Arthur told him.
After minutes, the guards were drop dead and they were very close to the train engine, however as Arthur gets closer to the front car, the train engineer comes out of a cool bin and smacks Arthur with a shovel. He then tries to grapple with Arthur as he struggles to break free.
"You got him?" Lenny asked, aiming carefully at the engineer s head. "I ain't got a clear shot."
Arthur eventually breaks free and overpowers the engineer and throws over the edge of the train and falls underneath the bridge the train was passing through. With the train engineer gone, Arthur went straight to the front car and abruptly pulled the lever to stop the train, as the train comes to a stop, the two gets off the train and more guards arrived and they both took cover behind some rocks.
"Shit, more guards coming out of that train car!" Arthur cried.
"There better be some money at the end of this," Lenny added.
"All these bastards must be guarding something," Arthur told him.
"We need the car at the back, right?" Lenny asked him.
"Yep," keep pushing on 'em!" Arthur told him.
So they eliminate each one of the guards coming out of the back of the train car. They advance on the hill and slowly outgunning the guards, thus resulting them to lose quite a lot of numbers as the two outlaws keep going and shooting. Eventually, Dutch and the others have arrived and put in short work on the last remaining guards.
"Good shooting, kid," Arthur told Lenny as the others dismount their horses.
"I can see now why the O'Driscolls brought so many boys up here for this," Lenny commented.
Dutch came to the two, "Are you two alright?" Dutch asked them both.
"Yes," Arthur replied. "lets get the money and go." So they walked to the last train car with their guns holstered.
"We got some fellers holed up in this last car," Dutch told him.
"Ah, shit," Arthur grumbled.
So Dutch started speaking to the people in the train car whilst his gang was behind him. "What are you boys planning on doing in there?"
They approached the train car with their weapons in their holsters.
"Listen to me," Dutch continued. "we don't want to kill any of ya," he turned to his gang, "any more of ya," he chuckled and then turned back to the train. "I give you my word, but trust me, we will."
"I work for Leviticus Cornwall!" one of them shouted inside the train car.
"Come on, boys," Dutch told them.
"We got our orders," one of them replied.
"Okay, you asked for it," he then proceeds to count from five. "Five..."
"We ain't opening this door!" One of them shouted.
"Four..." he ten quickly counted down instead. "Three, Two, One!" He turns back to his gang. "Seems our friends have gone deaf." He walks back to his gan and pulls out his gun and so does the rest.
"Wake 'em up a little!" He declared.
So they all started shooting at the train, they give every bullet they got. After a full minute of constant shooting at the train car, the guards in the car still not giving up no matter how many times they put a bullet in the car.
"We ain't coming out!" one of them yelled inside. "You got no way in here!"
The gang stops shooting, Dutch turned to Bill. "Mr. Williamson, give Mr. Morgan and Mr. Smith some dynamite, you two boys go blow that door up."
So Arthur and Charles comply and take some of the dynamite from Bill and place the dynamite on the door.
"Here we go..." Arthur muttered.
"Seems good enough," Charles told him. "Now light up the fuse."
So they light up the dynamite and quickly step away and the train door exploded.
"Alright, come on," Dutch told the guards. "just walk on out here."
The guards walk out of the train with their hands up.
"We don't want to kill you," Dutch told them. "we just wanna rob your boss." He turns to his gang. "Get on up there, search that train."
So Arthur Lenny and Micah enter the train car and sees the interior that is so high life-like.
"Look at this place," Lenny said, taking a good look at the interior. "It's like a palace."
"Now I've seen everything," Artur said. "You two got the safe? I'll search the rest."
So Arthur starts searching around the train car while Lenny and Micah search the safe.
"You're just gonna stand there, kid, pour me some brandy will ya?" Micah asked him. "I'm parched."
"Shut up," Lenny told him. "Me and Arthur did all the work."
"Yeah," Arthur added. "kid did good. Didn't see you rushing to jump on that train."
"He's keen," Micah replied. "I'll give you that."
Two of them continued looking into the safe while Arthur search everywhere. Arthur found a few more things from the desk, cabinets, and drawers, one is another Miracle Tonic, Health Cure, Potent Snake Oil, and some more Gun Oil. Micah found something in the safe and was not satisfied.
"Shit," Micah grumbled. "just a pile of papers."
"Bonds?" Arthur asked him.
"I don't think so," he hands them to Lenny. "Here, make yourself useful. Least we all know you can read."
"Give me those," Lenny replied, snatching them from Micah and reads them.
"Railroad contracts... invoices... blah blah blah." Micah said. "You got anything?"
"Not really," Lenny protested. "Sugar imports from the Spanish West Indies... a lot of sugar. Some fancy new boat he's ordered from Europe."
Micah chuckled. "I am not robbing another boat as long as I live..."
After searching, Arthur eventually found the real bonds inside another one of the cabinets.
"I think I got 'em," he announced.
"Well thank god," Lenny said. "Come on."
So they hop out of the car and meet up with Dutch and the others.
"What did you find?" Dutch asked them.
"These... bonds," Arthur answered, giving them to Dutch. "They worth anything?"
Dutch nodded. "Oh, sure... bearer bonds. I think we could probably sell these pretty easily. Well done." He turned the train. "Now would you get rid of all this?" He asked Arthur.
"Yeah, get it out of here," he ordered.
Arthur turned to the guards still sitting by the rock. "What about them?"
"What do you think?"
"I don't know,"
"It's up to you," Dutch told him as he walks back to his horse. "Kill 'em, leave em' here... take 'em with you on the train... Just make sure they don't send no folk after us."
"Okay," Arthur nodded.
"See you back at camp," Dutch told him as he mounts on his horse. "When you get back... we'll be moving on. The rest of you... let's ride!"
So the rest of the gang rides away, leaving Arthur to deal with the remaining survivors. Arthur decided that killing them only solves the problem for the moment but not long, so he thought about sparing them but also warning them not to tell a soul.
"Okay, get on the train, quick, all of you!" He told them.
They stood up and quickly hop inside the train and started moving the vehicle.
"Any bright ideas, I'll kill all three of you!" Arthur warned them. "So behave!"
As the employees left with the train, Arthur decides to head back to the others. He mounts his horse and rides away, after a few days of holding up in the snow, it was finally time for the gang to move. And Arthur couldn't wait to get away from the snow after spending a few days there.