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Rust was right all along.īack at the Hart house (because home is where the-oh, never mind), Rust has returned Marty’s lawnmower, and he and Maggie are getting to know each other. In 2012, the cops ask Marty if Rust might have "led the case where he wanted it to go." No, says Marty. Marty thinks that Rust might be suffering from "tunnel vision," twisting the facts of the case to match his ideas. You are a stranger to yourself, and yet he knows you." (Guess who’s on which side?) Meanwhile, the pompadoured reverend (Shea Wiggam of Boardwalk Empire) preaches about the power of Jesus, to a crowd of people who feel powerless to change their own lives: "He saw you in those dark corners. They stand outside, debating whether religion is a destructive fairy tale or necessary for human connectedness and morality. Turns out to be a traveling revival-type affair, under a tent-"old-time religion," as Marty puts it. Rust and Marty are investigating the church that they believe Dora Lange started attending shortly before she died. Forget who killed whom-we’re now talking about whether being alive even matters in the first place.Īnd that’s pretty much were we begin this episode. It’s the buddy cop formula, the straight man and the zany guy, taken to its darkest extreme. The true stakes are philosophical: Rust’s bleak worldview against Marty’s conventional one.
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True Detective hits all the marks of its genre, but the more episodes go by, the less I’m inclined to call it a crime drama. "For a guy who sees no point in existence, you fret about it an awful lot," Martin Hart tells Rust Cohle in Episode 3, "The Locked Room." It’s not just Rust who frets about existence it’s the whole show.