1992
Marty and Rust are being pressured to make way in the case or make way for the political response to the case. The political response is a made up task force sent by gubernatorial edict to look into the anti Christian crimes on the basis of linking a few animal cruelty cases to the Dora Lang case. They get until the end of the month.
2012
Rust is sussing more and more out of the detectives interviewing him, while Marty seems to be taking things at face value. He also spends a significant amount of time rationalizing his past behavior. While Marty has the dark suit and coffee compared to Rust's worn clothes and six pack, Rust seems to be much more at peace with himself. He works. He drinks. He doesn't hallucinate anymore. That seems to be all he needs. Marty's not reticent to discuss the case, but he's not as engaging as Rust and is slightly more defensive, which may indicate there are some things not yet uncovered that he wishes to leave un-discussed. He's ready to skip to the end and be done with it. Contrast with Rust2012 who admits "Yeah, I hallucinated, what about it?"
Some answers and partial answers previously sought:
- Will Marty and Rust have differing accounts?
- So far they are covering different ground it seems, rather than giving accounts from different perspectives on the same particular events.
- What drove Rust from Texas?
- The split from his wife coupled with his custom tailored job has him moving around the country doing different kinds of police work.
- How did Rust's daughter die?
- I'm thinking this may be a similar thing to Jesse's rehab group leader in Breaking Bad
- Rust gives different details to different people, but they all seem to be true and part of the whole story. So far there's a tricycle and a car accident, but it's unclear if Rust ran her over himself (he seems to have avoided prosecution if so) or if it was a third party
- What happened with Rust to put him where he is now?
- See above. Also ingesting drugs, chemicals via his undercover and narco work.
- Rust is set up to have a lot of demons, obviously, but what are we going to learn about Marty?
- Well, he has a mistress for one. And hates his in-laws. Him and his wife fight and it's not clear she is still in the picture come 2012. Walter White's "for the good of the family" may be the new euphemism for "exactly opposite of that".
- What does the "throwdown in the woods" refer to?
- Does "DB" refer to "dead body"? (more a technical question than literary)'
- Is there a cover up that Marty and Rust are complicit in?
Thinking the ravings of Dora's diary may have some literary significance, I scribbled down a reference to "Yellow King" and "Carcosa" to look up later. Sure enough, both appear right away on TVTropes.org which will never ever let me know. Maybe it's my nature due to Lost to run down the rabbit hole of any literary reference in a television show, but I had to find out. Here's what I have:
From Wikipedia on "Carcosa":
Fictional, ancient, mysterious. Viewed only in hindsight (after its destruction) by a character who once lived there. Originally from Ambrose Bierce (full text) * in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (Wiki entry) where a man becomes aware he is dead after a sort of lucid dream state.
Rust mentions that he always knows his hallucinations are hallucinations. He says even when he is hallucinating he knows the difference between what is real and what is not.
* This takes a hot second to read. It has a feel to Gallapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
It's featured again in The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers as the name of a play that ties together the short stories of the titular book.
From TV Tropes
The King in Yellow "the reading of which either drives people mad or leads them to a dark fate." Sounds like it could be Rust and Marty, either one taking the madness or darkness.
Because we live in the future, I've read "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" online and downloaded The King in Yellow to my Kindle already in about five seconds.
Round up
- References to a "whodunnit" and "in the red" both evoke Homicide. Must be a police thing more than a Baltimore thing
- FYI the opposite of a "whodunnit" is a "dunker"
- Rust raising his hand was hilarious. Maybe the only joke so far, but marvelously done.
- An oddly feminist-ish rant from the girl in charge of the bunny ranch
- Marty doesn't want to bring his work home, which is how he rationalizes his liaisons. But even so, it's still creeping in...with his daughters setting up a homicide scene with dolls.
- Rust's thoughts on humans politely causing their own extinction from the first episode is touched upon again when he speaks about the hubris it takes to "yank a soul out of non-existence"
- Just as Marty canvassed and Rust profiled last week, Marty wants to find johns and Rust wants to learn more about this tent revival thing, their conventional and unconventional approaches.
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