![]() Only he clearly has from the 2012 questioning, the result of his conspicuous sighting at several crime scenes. I think the desheveled demeanor, drunk, burnout persona is all a low profile act so he can continue investigating without drawing task force (govt. He had been an undercover narc for 4 years and this was him going deep again, in 2012 he's still there. I think you are on the right track, this episode was about Rust cutting all ties in 2002 and going to ground. Poetic that he's never fixed it, or their relationship, yet. I rewatched the final fight between Marty and Rust and the tail light gets broken when Marty crashes into it lunging at Rust. Something clicked in my head when I saw that photo of the broken tail light. ![]() Did he deliberately get himself fired by confronting Tuttle in his ministry? Did he pour salt in his own wound by going back to the barracks allowing Marty to brawl with him out in the parking lot? Has the corrosion reached such a level that he can't think straight anymore culminating with is assignation with Maggie? Or, by doing all of the aforementioned did he give himself the freedom to act on his own much as he did when he pursued the leads that led him to the Iron Crusaders and he went "off reservation." You have to ask yourself how much of Cohle's story is calculated by him. As Cohle said to his partner, "Without me, there is no you." It's Cohle that has this story at it's center. It's certainly not your classic "whodunit." And as much as Martin Hart's character was central in the whole cover up and web of lies following the end of LeDoux and his wife's Maggie's act of revenge. It's become apparent, at least to me, that this season of True Detective has increasingly become the story of Rust Cohle. How long can he endure? Where is his breaking point? Something that was once made of finer steel. His character, Rust, is something that has corroded over time. I'd like to think that True Detective writer and creator, Nic Pizzolatto, is familiar with Neil Young's work. I shook my head as the credits rolled and said to myself, "this guy never sleeps, he's tireless!" Or in Cohle's case, to keep people off balance. ![]() By the end of the last episode, Haunted Houses, I marveled at the tenacity of Rust Cohle and how he's progressive just like Neil Young was in his day, fighting the good fight for artistic integrity and preserving his own sense of theatricality in order to keep things real and new. Young wrote the concept album about avoiding artistic complacency. I was thinking of Neil Young and Crazy Horses magnum opus album from1979, "Rust Never Sleeps" in the context of Detective Cohle's dogged pursuit of the Dora Lange case. Judging by the broken brake light as seen in the picture above, he never seems to stop either. "It's better to burn out than to fade away."Ĭan anyone imagine the character of Rust Cohle fading away? He's already seemed to reach burn out status, or at least, that's how he wants to be perceived.
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