Nigel West Dickens

"I apologise if science is not your forté."

- Nigel West Dickens

"I know a cure for all ailments, Mr. Marston."

- Nigel West Dickens

 is a core character in Red Dead Redemption. Dickens operates as a traveling salesman, and is purported to have unique miracle cures for many medical and psychological problems. He is an impeccable dresser and travels in an opulent emblazoned stagecoach.

Nigel West Dickens, is involved in several essential gameplay missions, After working as Nigel's "Bodyguard" on several sales (or scams), Dickens helps the player out taking over Fort Mercer providing an armored stagecoach.

Red Dead Redemption
John Marston, after having working with Marshal Leigh Johnson to clear Pike's Basin, is tipped off by deputy Eli, that West Dickens has gone missing. He states that West Dickens is missed by his repeat customers in Armadillo. Marshal Johnson equates West Dickens with a drug dealer.

Marston finds West Dickens injured and exposed to the elements not far from his stagecoach south of Coot's Chapel and returns him to the Doctor in Armadillo.

Despite Marston's personal dislike of him, West Dickens becomes the central networker and orchestrator of Marston's plan to assault Fort Mercer. West Dickens puts Marston in contact with Seth Briars and Irish, as well as supplying his newly armored stagecoach as a Trojan horse to deceive the outlaws.

After the assault on Fort Mercer, West Dickens suggests that he intends to travel abroad, having exhausted customers in the region.

He is later seen in Blackwater, being arrested for possession of "illegal narcotics". John recognizes him and tells the officers to release him, stating he helped him catch Bill Williamson

Trivia

 * Dickens is likely partially inspired by the eccentric snake oil salesman in the 1976 Western film The Outlaw Josey Wales