I don’t think it was meant to incriminate Rust. It is left somewhat ambiguous why those two bodies were left to be found, but the explanation that seems likely to me is that Errol wanted to display his power in some way, or to get caught in order to commence his ascension or stick it to his family or some other reason known only to his deranged mind.
According to Nick Pizzolatto:
Well … isn’t the 1995 case reopened/reviewed as a result of the discovery of the recent body: Rust and Marty are both brought in during the case review that was triggered by the most recent body?
Someone is waving a finger in Cohle’s direction, as the interviews in 2012 identify.
Yeah, but I think it’s the detectives themselves. I don’t think that Errol had any grand plan to incriminate Rust. Just a happy unintended consequence, perhaps.
Not Errol, for sure. Senator Eddie Tuttle or associates possibly …
I just finished watching the series and I was totally captivated! I kept telling friends while watching that my mind seem to process it like a novel. I kept having the strange thought that I wanted to get back to reading it rather than watching. Then I found out that the writer is a novelist! Points for me for being so smart I guess.
One thing that I noticed during the final episode was Rust saying something about the smell of aluminum in the air. I felt sure this was going to explain the madness of this family. But no.
Well, there’s a very interesting line half disguised that maybe supports the madness idea. When talking to Rust at the front door the sister says “the water 'round here’s not real good”. Read what you will into that … obv. “the taste of aluminim” also came up earlier.
The whole southern in-bred thing did seem a little crass for this quality of work.
Two more questions - both on E8!
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What did folks make of Carcosa - a cavernous brick-built construction sitting in the middle of no where. Remember it also had that central courtyard kind of thing: Slave quarters, pirate/revolutionary? Any thoughts?
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The link that got them scarface/Errol was really cheap, I thought. The repainted green house in 95 = green ears. Marty remembers the green house from canvassing after Dora Lange was found, finds a photo of it in a file at his feet - well, kind of okay.
But then he compares it to a pre-95 photo of the same house already pinned to the wall - I can’t think of a reason why a photo of that house is pinned to the wall in the first place?
sorry, when talking to MARTY at the front door …
It’s a pre-Civil War fort in real life, and that’s exactly what it looked like in the show. The main room, with the oculus was weird for a fort though. Perfectly weird for the show. The thing that keeps haunting me is that huge hunk of onyx right in front of the Yellow King that was clearly meant to be an altar on which the most depraved shit imaginable clearly happened over several generation.
I feel like true detective cases would often hinge of the mundane, over-looked details.
Yeah, the set dresser really spent the budget in the house and Carcosa. I didn’t notice it was onyx just a smooth slab for the rituals …
I get the details thing and Marty’s lightbulb moment. I just don’t get what a photo of that particular house pre-1995 was doing pinned to the wall in the first place … sure, it’s needed for the story arc because Marty needs to compare and show Rust but it’s totally random as best I understand.
They found one of those little dreamcatcher-type things in that shed.
Good shout but are you talking about when they visited Marie Fontenot’s uncle Danny (end of E1)?
Rust found a latticework in the shed out back?
If that’s it, it’s a different property.
Stand down, it just clicked; when the earlier report came in from the girl about being chased by the green eared monster, this house must have been close to where the girl lived.
I guess we accept they took photos of houses around where that girl lived.
So what’s being compared is a photo taken in canvassing after the green-eared monster chased a girl through the woods and … a photo taken in canvassing after Dora Lange was found.
I knew immediately Carcosa was a fort. It reminded me of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island off Charleston, SC.
What was the significance of the guy who killed himself in the jail cell? Why did he?
He was Charlie Lange, the ex-husband of Dora - the body under the tree.
Charlie shared a cell way back with Reggie Ladoux, and spoke about/shared photos of his wife. Reggie was part of the paedo/torure/sacrifice ring.
Charlie to Rust: “Do’y think me talking to him about Dora helped get her killed?”
Rust: “It probably had something to do with it”
Next scene - Marty: “You didn’t have to tell him it was his fault”
Rust: “Fuck him”
I don’t think that was Charlie, but I’m not in a position to check at the moment.
Okay I can’t remember his name, but he was a petty robber who had shot two pharmacists in a robbery. Rust did his usual trick of getting him to confess but then he said he recognized Rust as the detective involved in the Ledoux incident. He told Rust something about the Yellow King and Rust panicked and beat him up, spoiling the confession. Rust left to tell Marty that maybe the killer was still at large but by the time they went back to the jail the guy had killed himself after a phone call with his lawyer, who turned out to be calling from a pay phone in the middle of nowhere.
Sorry, I was barking up the wrong tree!
Whether or not he killed himself, one of his guards was a Childress.
Have any of you rewatched the final episode? I watched all the others at least twice, but I can’t psych myself up to watch #8 again. I think that’s because of what BrokenBriton said about the inbred crassness – yuck.