First, the good news.
At this rate will have impossible to match expectations for Season Two. I can already hear the complaining.
Then the bad news.
1992
Rust spends a lot of time going through microfilm on the hunch this guy has satan-killed people before, they just haven't noticed. So he finds one with the same markings, and him and Marty run down the lead and the connections lead to a suspect who lives in a boondock-ish area, even for this show.
Marty pees on his lawn after Rust mows it.
2012
I like how Rust's general mood is dictated by how many beers he's had so far. He's a little more rambly and a little more ranty now that he's finished all his Lone Star. Not able to sit still, he's now fashioning the cans into little beer can figurines. If I recall correctly, Rust's interview takes place a few days before Rust's interview, so the detectives have Rust's version coloring how they speak with Marty. It may be purposeful that they spoke with Rust first, wanting to tailor their questioning of Marty for a specific reason
Questions answered/partially answered
- What does the "throwdown in the woods" refer to?
- Apparently the marshals, troopers and Rust and Marty heading down to this meth lab of Reggie Ladue. Nothing like a Walter White whitey tightey gas mask get up to set the scene
- Does "DB" refer to "dead body"? (more a technical question than literary)
- Tried Googling this but no dice
- 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"
- A jealous streak. Stating "I'm not a psycho" when all evidence at that moment points toward the contrary
- Marty, very conspicuously, looks at his wedding-ring-less hand after one account
- Will the show stick with this format, telling the story entirely through interviews with Marty and Rust?
- So far, but if we wrap up the old case next week I wouldn't be surprised if there's a shift afterwards.
- Rust is set up to have a lot of demons, obviously, but what are we going to learn about Marty?
- When will they reveal to us the 1992 murderer?
- It could be next week, it could be the finale, the way this is set up
- Unless there's some interesting timeline adjustments, Episode Four is a big week
- Oh, also, who is doing the murdering? Both in 1992 and 2012?
- Reggie Ladue?
- Is Reggie the guy?
- Did he do the painting too?
- What's the revival minster's involvement with the task force?
- Where is all this nonsense with Marty's daughter coming from?
- Where is Marty's wife in 2012?
Thoughts
A lot has been made so far on the show about whether the job makes Rust the way he is, or if the way he is makes him suited for the job. It seems like he is predisposed to the job which then exacerbates his tendencies. Reading about synesthesia is particularly interesting, and wholly appropriate for a guy who absorbs an investigation the way he does.
You are a stranger to yourself. The world is a veil. The face you wear is not your own.
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Round up
- I wasn't sure how to put this last week, but apparently the world stopped turning on its axis for a few minutes for everyone else as well.
- This week's Homicide allusion was referring to the interrogation room as The Box, the setting for so many great scenes from that show. Marty praises Rust's skill in this particular area. Rust, to the detectives, describes this in the same somewhat blase manner of his hallucinations. He gets into the box. He figures it out. That's how you do it. You do it by doing it and it's not a skill, it's the natural state of things. Frank Pembleton would love this.
- I think for the first time Rust was driving and Marty was in the passenger seat
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