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Somewhere, the release of this case released everything for him, and he was able to regaining actual feeling. Even though he woke up literally when he wished he hadn't, he acknowledged the feeling was not gone, but stronger than ever. The emotions he felt towards his daughter and his father in those moments reawakened him. No longer staring out into the "meaningless ghetto" of existence, and time's damning flat circle, he reached into a warm depth that comforted him with a beyond that he had locked away any access to.
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Marty wanted to take care of him, because Rust drew him into this - the case that defined a ruin part of his life - and what was next otherwise?įor Rust, the case made him born again as a human being.
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His attachment to Rust then made sense that it was stronger than ever before, and that it took on a new dimension. But when Marty's family came to see him and he said he was fine, and then broke down, there was a definite sense (especially with the close-up of that new rock of a wedding ring for Maggie) of his realization there was nothing else for him. Though there's still the possibility that Rust and Marty might team up to find and take down those other men, or take on other cases together (maybe just wishful thinking, but still), the reality we know is that both men faced the end in a way only this case could make them. What that meant for the detectives personally was, as always, what mattered the most. They closed this case, so far as they could. That's the reality, and as Marty points out, the darkness has always had the upper hand. The "why" has very little meaning here - Errol was dead, some of the men in the video were found, but not all. The story didn't really earn more exploration than that. Lord love you Louisiana, but it's not all that surprising in the end. It was earned.Įrrol's story, and the legacy of The Yellow King, were essentially summed up and dismissed as a lot of inbreeding on the one hand, and a group of voodoo-worshipping pedophiles on the other. Though last week was the real turning point when Rust realized he needed Marty for police records, "Form and Void" is where he also relied on him as a detective, and ultimately as a friend. Rust telling Marty it was his fault for pushing a good woman to the place where she would have to do something like that in the first place maintained the honesty of their friendship. The conversation the two had about Maggie, and the emotions there, was a natural way to both open and close that chapter for them (and interesting that Maggie did take Rust off the hook for it, to some degree). There are probably arguments to be made against the theatricality of the scene of Rust and Marty's stabbings at the hands of Errol, but in my personal, probably romanticized perspective, I felt it was a moment that was necessary to bind them together in their war against darkness. These "true detectives" were all of that in "Form and Void," going as far - as many suspected - as to put their own lives in jeopardy to bring down the killer. From there, the satisfaction of the whirlwind procedural that brought them to that nightmare house of death was augmented by familiar moments like Rust and Marty back in the car, the former waxing philosophical while the latter sat in confusion. Errol remained the crux of The Yellow King story (making the mystery as sick but straight-forward as many predicted), and it was up to Marty (of all people) to make the connection that put their detective work on warp speed to find him. The emotional and relationship aspects still outshone the murder mystery, but it was given its own creepy, fitting due. "Form and Void" brought together both sides of what has made True Detective so engaging.