But internet theories about his green headphones being the "green ears" that the traumatized girl remembered all seem to match up and be clear here.īut finding Errol isn't the end-game. I had to look up how Rust could have missed this the first time, and it was because Rust originally saw him with a beard, hiding the scars. The other part of that is so interesting is that Errol, the lawnmower guy, is revealed to be the Scarred Spaghetti Monster. She asks if he's saying goodbye - is he? It feels very much like the two men are going on a suicide mission. When Marty visits Maggie to find out what she told the detectives, he thanks her for raising their kids up so well, and looks around at their flourishing life without him.
"It's like you've been alone too long." This case gives them meaning. They're both alone and seemingly washed up.
Besides, what else do they have going on? Marty is eating TV dinners alone night after night, and Rust is dumping his beer bottles in the trash can on his way to work as a bartender. Both of these men proved in this hour that they are both "true detectives." They internalized the case (and other cases, as we see Marty's reason for leaving the force was one too many a microwaved babies), they've lived it for almost two decades, and in that moment, they decide to see it to the end no matter the personal cost. The possibilities of either Marty or Rust being the perpetrators of the crimes ends early in this episode definitively. Ultimately, Marty is man with a sense of justice. If Rust hadn't slept with Maggie, they might have been able to keep working the case. If Marty hadn't hauled off and killed Reggie Ledoux, they might have been able to get the truth out of him. Rust compels Marty, who now runs a private investigator / security business, to continue working the case with him because it was owed. They have to be together, because the case is inside them. Even though their relationship is tied in completely with The Yellow King case, Rust's years investigating without Marty are only alluded to and not seen.
We never really see the years that they spent apart. The show is, after all, a 17-year look at the course of their relationship.
At least Elisa Montgomery, the host of the True Crime series interviewing Wayne, thinks so.I think everyone can agree at this point that True Detective is the Ballad of Marty and Rust. Perhaps these similarities are on purpose. (Season 1 was originally planned to be set in the Ozarks, but the tax breaks in Louisiana were far more enticing, so HBO persuaded him to change it.) The time jumps also match those in the first season, and the cases both contain evidence of missing children, which could be part of a conspiracy. Creator Nic Pizzolatto used some details initially planned for Season 1 in Season 3, including the setting. When True Detective Season 3 arrived in January, more than one reviewer noted how alike it was to the first season. Warning: Spoilers for all True Detective seasons to date follow. Are all the True Detective seasons connected? At least one character in this season's case thinks so. However, this week's episode has fans questioning what they know. More recently, Ryan Murphy brought the genre back, but this time with the notion of standalone seasons, with American Horror Story. The Twilight Zone is one of the more famous early examples, where each episode is an independent story unconnected to those which came before and after. The concept of the anthology series stretches back to the dawn of television, especially when it comes to mysteries and science fiction.