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| “ | The Attorney General has formed an autonomous investigative agency to be headed up by veteran law enforcement officer Edgar Ross in an attempt to track high profile and dangerous criminals. […] Upon swearing in, he stated: "I want all criminals to know that here in America, everyone will eventually pay for what they have done." | „ |
| ~ “Bureau of Investigation founded” newspaper article in Red Dead Redemption II. |
The Bureau of Investigation, abbreviated as BOI, are the main antagonists of the 2010 action-adventure video game Red Dead Redemption and minor antagonists in the 2018 prequel Red Dead Redemption II.
Succeeding to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the BOI was founded when the U.S federal government was tired of not having an official fully staffed federal agency with its own federal jurisdiction to gather intelligence on criminal organizations and to eliminate the remaining outlaws in the country.
Biography[]
The BOI was founded in 1907 and former Pinkerton agent Edgar Ross was appointed at its head, assisted by Archer Fordham. They would discover Micah Bell’s corpse, one of their informant, and started to investigate and track down the killer, which led them to Beecher’s Hope, the ranch of John Marston and his family. Two years later, Nate Johns, candidate for Governor of the State of West Elizabeth, promises to clean up the rampant crime in the region as part of his campaign for election. Using the BOI, they decide to hunt down the remaining former members of the Van der Linde gang. For this, Ross has Abigail and Jack Marston kidnapped to force the cooperation of John into the plan.
John arrives in Blackwater via the Morningstar steamboat and is escorted to the train station by Ross and Fordham, being tasked to capture or kill Bill Williamson, based at Fort Mercer with his gang. The BOI sent a telegram to Marshal Leigh Johnson in Armadillo, requesting he helps John in his mission and arrange for a man named Jake to guide him to Fort Mercer. However, as John implores Bill to surrender, he is gunshot wounded and left to die by his former brother of arms, only to be saved by local rancher Bonnie MacFarlane. Williamson then fled to the Mexican state of Nuevo Paraíso.
In Nuevo Paraíso, John has the choice to either capture or kill Javier Escuella. The Bureau then retrieve Javier for John and Ross and Fordham then return to Blackwater, has Dutch van der Linde apparently returned to the area. Shortly later, Williamson meets his end alongside Nuevo Paraíso sadistic governor Agustin Allende, either killed by John or the Mexican rebel’s leader Abraham Reyes.
Following these events, John returns to West Elizabeth to find the whereabouts of Dutch. The Bureau and him then goes to one of Dutch’s hideouts, only to find their informant, who was tortured after he was unmasked as a spy. Later, the BOI and John attempts to arrest Dutch in a bank robbery in Blackwater but fails to catch him, as he kills his hostage Muriel Scranton and flees with the money in an automobile. Eventually, his hideout in Cochinay is discovered and the BOI launch an assault with the assistance of the U.S Army. However, to Ross’s disappointment, Dutch dies by suicide rather than at John’s hand. Anyway, he keeps his promise and authorizes John to see his family, as the three targets are now dead.
However, the Bureau decides to betray John and launch a join assault with the army and some marshals on Beecher’s Hope. Betrayed by the BOI, John manages to allow his family to escape at the cost of his life, being gunned down afterwards by a squad of armed men, including Ross and Fordham.
Epilogue[]
The Bureau took full credit for the deaths of Bill Williamson, Javier Escuella, Dutch van der Linde, and John Marston. For unknown causes, Abigail Marston dies three years later and is buried by Jack, left as the only confirmed survivor of both the Marston family and the Van der Linde gang. This year, Ross retires and settles to Lake Don Julio with his wife Emily, although the Bureau still asks for his advices, much to his wife’s chagrin. One day, as he is hunting on the Mexican side of the San Luis river, Jack confronts him on his father’s death, ensuing a duel between the two men. Ross, because of his old age, is unable to draw his gun before Jack, who guns him down, avenging his parent’s death.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- U.S Government
- U.S Military
- Law Enforcement
- John Marston † (temporarily)
- Nastas †
- Harold MacDougal
Enemies[]
- Dutch van der Linde †
- Van der Linde gang (disbanded)
- Dutch’s second gang (disbanded)
- Bill Williamson †
- Williamson's gang (disbanded)
- Javier Escuella †
- John Marston †
- Marston family
- Uncle †
- Del Lobo gang (disbanded)
Trivia[]
- Before 1908, the U.S. Department of Justice didn’t had any organized institution or group of investigators to gather intelligence. The Department of Justice hired Secret Service agents and private investigators, such as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. However, Congress was tired of having a secret department for every bureau and on July 26, 1908, Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte created the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935.
