The Watson Boys are antagonists in Red Dead Redemption 2. They are an outlaw gang consisting of four brothers and their mother Mama Watson.
History[]
The Watsons are an outlaw gang consisting of Mama Watson and her four sons Elijah, Edgar, Ezra and Ethan. Operating out of Watson's Cabin in Big Valley, West Elizabeth, they make their money through robbery and murder and carry out jailbreaks for associated criminals. A scrapbook inside the cabin reveals that Ethan has a $500 bounty on his head and Edgar once escaped from prison hours before he would have been executed.
Red Dead Online[]
The protagonist can encounter Mama Watson at her cabin. She will not be afraid of them and will offer them stew before hiring them to break some associates of hers out of a jail wagon. After completing this mission she can be found at the cabin again and will offer paid killings, robberies and jailbreaks. Accepting these missions will decrease the player's honour.
Red Dead Redemption 2[]
The player (Arthur Morgan/John Marston) can enter the Watson's Cabin, where they will find Mama Watson alone. Mistaking the player for an associate, she will tell them to place whatever they have in the cellar. Upon doing so the player will find a semi-automatic shotgun and has the option to steal it. When the player returns upstairs, Mama Watson realizes that they aren't who she thought they were and leaves to get her sons, warning the player to leave before she gets back.
If the player didn't kill Mama Watson and returns a few days later, they will find Mama Watson arguing with her sons about their plan to flee the country using the money from their criminal activities. If they attempt to enter, Mama Watson will recognize them as the man who robbed her a few days ago and her sons will burst through the door, knocking the player back and opening fire. The player has the option of killing them all, incapacitating them or running away. Once all her sons have been killed, Mama Watson will pursue the player firing wildly at them with a repeater and can also be killed. If she is spared, then the player will find her rotting corpse in the bed if they return to the cabin a third time.
Trivia[]
- It is possible to kill Mama Watson during the first encounter. Doing so will mean that if the player returns to the cabin they will find her grave outside. However, the sons will still be present inside the cabin and the same gunfight where they charge the player through the door will happen if the player attempts to enter the building.
- For some reason, if the player peeks through the window on the right side of the cabin during the second encounter, the Watson sons (and Mama Watson herself if the player spared her during the first encounter) won't spot them, even if the player shatters the glass.
- The Watsons appear to be based on the Daltons from the French Lucky Luke comics, with both being Western outlaw gangs consisting of four brothers and led by their elderly mother.