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Came across this while searching for the Sandusky look alike guy
This is the crazy knotted up ending many were hoping for...
Series creator Nic Pizzolatto has stated that the last two episodes serve as Act III, and elements from the first six episodes will now start tying together and be finally revealed.
So on the eve of Episode 7, here is the complete unified theory to the entire mystery (based on several fan theories and plausible speculations posted throughout the Internet).
Be warned -- this theory ties nearly EVERYTHING together and could turn out to contain actual SPOILERS:
**Why was Dora’s body put on display, and the second victim’s in 2012?
The person who displayed her body in 1995 did not kill her, but has been trying to expose the cult. Since Rust and Marty failed to do this in 1995, this person displayed the body of a second victim of the cult in 2012. This helpful person could be the lawnmower guy Rust chatted with in 1995.
**So lawnmower guy is the spaghetti monster?
Most likely. He appeared to be chasing after the little girl who saw him, but he may have been actually chasing her off, away from something or people who wanted to harm her.
**Okay, that would work. So what’s been going on with Marty’s daughters?
Macie, Marty's youngest daughter, was molested as a child during some creepy "coming-of-age" ritual where a little girl is blindfolded and wears a crown of deer antlers, and must find her way through a wooded area. (The little girl represents an innocent, virginal fawn who must navigate her way around predators and other dangers in order to reach a “safe” zone -- which could be a field of flowers.)
This incident traumatized her of course. So she spent some time in the same mental ward that Rust visited in 2002. As part of her therapy, Macie painted a drawing of a field of flowers -- this represents a close-up from her POV of what she saw while she was laying on her stomach and being molested. (The “safe” zone was just a few feet in front of her which she failed to reach.) This drawing she did hung over her parents' bed on the wall in 1995, and a larger version of her work was painted on the back wall of the mental ward.
Audrey, her older sister, probably witnessed what happened to her sister during this ritual, but was powerless to do anything. This explains her behavior over the years, especially her sexually promiscuous actions. It also explains in 1995 why she took the princess crown away from Macie and threw it up into a tree -- it was Audrey's symbolic attempt at protecting her sister.
Yes, this creepy "deer princess forest" ritual is connected to the cult. Perhaps its historic origin started innocently enough but then grew perverted over the generations. The lawnmower guy/spaghetti monster knows about this ritual, and dressed Dora's body with the deer horn crown and blindfold as a strong clue to the police that the people behind her murder are also the ones who practice this absurd custom on little girls.
**Man, that’s DARK. What are the devil catchers all about?
They have been placed in areas where a victim of the cult has been found or taken from. They were left not by the killer(s) but by someone who has inside knowledge of these bad people. (Perhaps the lawnmower guy.)
He left them to serve as clues for someone in law enforcement who would be willing to help. (Reggie Ledoux said he dreamt of Rust, which could be interpreted to mean he/they have been hoping for someone uncorrupted to come to expose the truth of Carcosa and bring justice for the victims.)
The devil catchers also serve as memorials to the victims, especially those who remain missing, whose bodies have never been found.
**What is this five leaders of a cult thing?
There are five leaders of the cult. Rust in 2012 knows this, which he discovered throughout the course of his investigation after he left the police in 2002. He had the 2012 detectives bring him beers, not really to drink them, but so he could make the five figures out of the empty beer cans.
He flicked one of them over. This represents Rev. Tuttle who died in 2010. So there are four leaders left in 2012.
Rust did the beer-can figure crafting not for the benefit of the 2012 detectives (who didn't seem to notice anything odd about him doing this) but as a direct message to the people who he expects will watch the video of his interview: the four remaining leaders.
**Well then, who are these five leaders?
First of all, the lawnmower guy is NOT one of the five. He’s a minion who has witnessed these five do bad things. Lawnmower dude has been trying to help by leaving clues through the devil catchers and by the way he displayed Dora’s body in 1995 and the second victim’s in 2012 (wearing horn crowns, blindfolded and marked with the spiral). He hasn’t come forward to the police because he knows these five control the police (and some ARE the police), so he would likely be forced to suicide.
Rev. Tuttle. Many fans agree he is/was one of the five. He died in 2010. In 2012 when he’s being interviewed, Rust makes five beer-can figures and flicks one over. This probably represents Tuttle.
Maggie’s father (Marty’s ex father-in-law). In 2012, Rust makes the figures out of empty LONE STAR beer cans. This is the same brand of beer that Maggie’s father is clearly shown drinking in 1995.
Commander Speece. He’s the hunched-over Jerry Sandusky lookalike in the police department who acted like he was getting in the way of Rust and Marty’s investigation in 1995. Is he still alive in 2012?
Geraci. He’s the police detective in 1995 whom Rust slapped, and the two got in one another’s face. What are his whereabouts in 2012?
Okay, now here’s the most controversial member, and many viewers will not want to believe this, because it may be considered over-the-top. But some things seem to uncomfortably hint that this person is Number 5…
Maggie. It would fit with her behavior in Episode 6: The theory many have pointed out that she may have purposely seduced Rust to break him and Marty apart. And she may have recognized the evidence photos of the deer horn crown in Rust’s apartment in 2002.
Maggie’s involvement would of course be a controversial reveal considering the criticism the show has gotten for its depiction of women. But Nic Pizzolatto may be going for the angle that Maggie is what happens to someone who herself could be a victim of sexual child abuse. Also, the young woman who killed her three babies may have been foreshadowing leading up to this reveal about Maggie. Pizzolatto may also be going for the “everybody is guilty in this fucked up world” angle.
Also, in the opening credits, Maggie’s face is superimposed with images of jellyfish. This sea creature has traditionally represented acceptance, faith, “going with the flow.” Interpret this what you will in regards to her character.
**Where is Carcosa? Is it a real place?
This is not based on anything in the first six episodes. It’s derived from the images and probable symbolism inferred in the opening credits:
Yes, there is a place referred to as “Carcosa” by this cult. Carcosa could be on the grounds of a chemical processing plant, one of the many factories spewing pollutants into the air we’ve seen in the background throughout the series. (Thus, the answer has been right under Rust’s and Marty’s noses. Recall in the first episode that Rust commented about the air quality of the region due to these factories. So this reveal would be both literal and figurative, and have been foreshadowed very early on.)
One of the five leaders of the cult could own one of these factory plants. It could be Maggie’s father.
So the season finale could play out “inside Carcosa” on the grounds of a chemical processing plant, and there will be a huge explosion. It will be a fire and brimstone, Judgement Day climax.
**Now that sounds BAD-ASS! Okay, what about the Yellow King? Who is it?
Speculation at this point: It’s not an actual person, but a vision of an entity or light that the followers and victims of this cult hope to see when they take LSD during a ritual. (The so-called monster at the end of the dream one has about being a person.)
Perhaps in the finale, when he gets too close to the truth, Marty is kidnapped by the cult, taken to Carcosa, and drugged so he too can see the Yellow King and become willing to join them. (He won’t of course, but he will have to face his figurative demons, the monster at the end of the dream, in a nearly literal way. He himself will become “blind” -- tripping his shit out -- and must navigate his way through Carcosa and its dangers to reach a “safe” zone.)
**The spiral?
Speculation: It’s the symbol of this cult, but specifically is a mark that appears in areas (on a tree, on the street, buildings, etc.) directing those who seek Carcosa to its actual location. The pathway and actual entryway to the site known as Carcosa could be marked by spirals.
Bonus symbolism point: the spiral design itself could represent smoke blowing out of a chemical processing plant.
**So has this cult been holding actual human sacrifices inside this “Carcosa” over the decades… and on top of that organized gang-rape inside it, too?
Yep.
**Seriously, for real?? I mean, dude, that’s just sounds… crazy, unbelievable, and sick as fuck.
Yep. And maybe even the bodies of the 3 dead babies of the young woman who “confessed” she killed her babies were used in these sacrificial ceremonies.
**UGH!
Sorry.
**This theory seems to cover everything in True Detective’s first six episodes. Is there anything else?
The words SIN, CULT and HERO together form RUSTIN CHOLE.
**Whoa.
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Yeah, but that's how it felt, didn't it? Like it was "nice" to have the hard-boiled, nihilistic Cohle sudddenly see there might be a positive future (even though it might be in death) and to come to believe "the light is winning". Granted, a knife to the gut might change a man's perspective, but this guy had already been through a lot. I had the feeling that wasn't the worst thing that ever happened to him.
