![]() ![]() Cohle makes an unauthorized visit to ask Guidry about a son who’d gone missing some time ago he also drops by the psychiatric institution where Kelly - the surviving girl he and Marty had found enslaved by Reggie Ledoux - now sits, catatonic, in a rocking chair. There aren’t too many spirals or devil’s nests occupying “Haunted Houses,” although those dreamcatchers guarding Terry Guidry’s address remind us that, in Louisiana, symbolism is spirituality. Much of the imagery we saw in the episodes largely set in 1995 is also scarce. The only way we know for sure that it’s 2002 are those Segway riders shuttling within yards of Billy Lee Tuttle’s quarters. ![]() If one takes Rust’s point of view, this could be purgatory. Even though Rust seems to be seeing clearly and speaking plainly, or at least in more illuminating metaphors, his partner and the C.I.D.’s new major (hello, Paul Ben-Victor) still act as if Cohle is sermonizing about humanity’s “secretion of sense and feeling.” Meanwhile, to anyone paying attention, Marty’s circling the drain like the personification of those soiled pants he put in the wash yet, somehow, his rank remains unchallenged. The show has finally revealed just what tore him and Marty apart - not to mention him and Maggie, and Marty and Maggie - and it’s apparent that 2002 was when up became down, black became white, etc. No wonder Rust took off in 2002 and waited several years for the universe to right itself before he returned again. ![]()
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