Thread:Wagwan piffting23/@comment-38834301-20191214035829/@comment-37973629-20191215171456

I personally don’t think it’s impossible for John to think that Bill left him behind. A lot happens when Bill jumps on the train, and given that John only sees it for a split second while having to process lots of other things, it may not be a detail that he would remember. John gets shot off a few seconds later and may have become unconscious, so it’s therefore possible that he may not have remembered the events very clearly, as a result of this or not.

The fact that John mentions Bill leaving him to die in “Spare the Rod, Spoil the Bandit” in a context where he isn’t angrily insulting Bill to his face, it suggests that he genuinely thinks that Bill left him to die. If John never saw the posse, it’s perfectly possible for him to assume, rightly or wrongly, that Bill left him behind. I’m not convinced that this is 100% a continuity error.