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Honestly we do just sit around shooting rats in Arkansas or [TRUE DETECTIVE s3]
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On November 7, 1980 there was a full moon. It was the night that Steve McQueen died. It's also the night that the two Purcell children of West Finger, Arkansas vanished in the neighboring Devil's Den. Mahershala Ali's Detective Wayne Hayes ask the big question of whodunnit over three different time periods. The audience of course is mostly asking if Nick Pizzolatto can recapture the spark of the much praised season 1 of True Detective. We once again find ourselves dealing with time, memory, and murder back in a rural south. Though with the Nortwest Arkansas that Pizzolatto lived in for many years filling in for season one's Louisiana.
Let's put our heads together and figure out what happened to the Purcell children and if Pizzolatto bites the bullet and goes full Lovecraft finally (he won't)
Also for bonus. I am from the town this series was shot in so I HAVE FUN TRIVIA SCOOPS also some reflections on how it plays with the actual history of the region.
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Obvious answer is the cousin, but it could have been the father or the murdered kid.
Granted he's from Fort Smith and that means I should hate him on principle and believe he is the murderer
I don't think we've at all seen the killer so far.
Which is interesting because, as Gustav pointed out in the TV thread
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S1 has that thing where everything in the past was how it happened and they would directly contradict the shit on screen.
S3 seems like it is doing that, with the beer drinking while shooting rats, then you have the 4th wall break as Past Wayne looks at the camera and says “I’d like to stop.”
Edit: oh yeah, and when future Wayne says that he didn’t feel like his race affected the decisions of his superiors when it’s obvious past Wayne felt otherwise
I expect there's gonna be SOMETHING where it turns out what we saw was a false memory or omitted a crucial detail that Hayes lost at some point over the years.
Also remember that he is trying to keep his memory problems hidden in 1990 when it also seems like there is some common knowledge among his peers that he has these issues.
And he is using techniques that you use with people with dementia/memory problems to keep himself stable. Focus on very specific details of the story, like the moon or a notable death, record things in your own voice reminding you of things. Etc.
Anyways it's a major tourist town with a weird history all its own. It was settled near springs which were thought to have magic healing properties. Eventually a hotel there was transformed into an asylum by a con-man named Norman Baker with some falsified degrees and medical credentials. Loads of folks scammed and a lot of others died. Anyways a few years later it was turned into a hotel again called The Crescent. The construction had its own mishaps and more folks died. Now a days it is considered one of the most haunted hotels in America.
Which I don't think will play into the story particularly. But the town since has become a bit of a folk art and hippie hold out. So I could see the investigation into the dolls absolutely leading them there.
Also worth noting that if they get closer to the Buffalo River they enter a whole region just drenched in cult history and satanic panic. The initial Purcell disappearance actually matches up time wise with a couple sacrificing their infant child to the devil on the mountain I was raised on. And that's hardly scratching the surface of all the cults that have been out here.
It absolutely was.
Also the way drills work, sawdust is pulled towards the side that's being drilled I'm pretty sure.
Now there might still be something to this, say if the mother was a willing exhibitionist or something like that.
If it's Julie's room that puts an even bigger suspicion on the cousin.
Also I think they explicitly said that the two kids rooms were next to each other the scene before they found the hole.
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The boy drilled the hole in the closet to watch his sister.
The porn mags are exactly the kind of thing kids would leave in a communal space like the watch tower, so that’s where I suspect the boy got them (I don’t think the cousin brought them even though he says he did).
The cousin had relations with the wife while he was visiting and that was the breaking point for the marriage.
Something’s up with the VW kids. Maybe not the murder, but they specifically turned off to watch the Purcell kids go past.
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My accent is a mess.
This is pretty good.
Some details about the kids
The long haired leader of the black sabbath trio also lied to the police saying he never saw the kids, but he had the boys bike at the fire lookout.
The kid from 13 reasons why tells the police that he saw the kids. And now there's tension between him and the long haired one.
I'm assuming one or all of them will be the one's falsely accused/tried for it.
Also it'd be very true detective for the part about Julie and her father in '90 that led to Hays leaving the force be about her actual father, and not Mr. Purcell.
I could probably go on
she has found these two episodes downright spooky in how well things are portrayed