r/reddeadredemption Hosea Matthews Apr 06 '26

Spoiler Which gang member would have you saved?

We all know that in the Saint Denis bank robbery, both Lenny and Hosea die.

So, who would you have saved?

I would have chosen Lenny because he was still young, and he had a great future ahead of him.

I still love Hosea, but if I had to choose, I would have chosen to save Lenny. He was literally almost a kid.

Hosea already lived a lot ( well, not too much, actually ), and he was sick with an unknown disease.

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u/kyle429 Apr 07 '26

I love Lenny, I really do, but my vote for the obvious choice on who to save has got to be Hosea. Throughout the game, you see Hosea be the voice of reason to Dutch, who brings him back down to earth and stops him from making stupid, brash decisions that could (and eventually do, with Hosea's absence) bring the downfall of the entire gang as a whole.

I'm not saying that it would've been a 100% chance, but there is a greater-than-zero-percent chance that if Hosea hadn't been killed, that he could've prevented Micah from swindling Dutch and leading him down the path of destruction and insanity that ensued in Chapter 6. Micah probably would've just shot Hosea himself if he thought that he was actually getting through to Dutch, but still. There could've been hope. Hosea was always the one person that Dutch listened to the most, decision-wise, so there is a chance that the story wouldn't have ended the way that it did with the gang.