TRUE DETECTIVE Season 4 Episode 2 BREAKDOWN, ENDING EXPLAINED, and Season 1 Connections

is Matthew mcc's Russ Cole about to make his triumphant return to True Detective will we finally uncover the yellow King mystery and learn the truth behind the spiral cult welcome back screen Crush I'm Ryan AR and these are all the Easter eggs references and little things you might have missed in episode two of True Detective season 4 and guys there are a lot of huge references to the first season in this episode but before we get into those I want to talk about a few really cool Easter eggs that we actually missed in last week's episode so the scientist Research Center is called salal now this is a Hebrew word meaning to become dark so that's of course in reference to the long night that we're seeing take place here in inis Alaska but in Edgar alen POS The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pim n Tucket Salah was an island in Antarctica where essentially a very stereotypical group of primitive natives lived and practiced cannibalism and this may even have a connection to carosa and the yellow King as we discussed last week here's a big one we think this guy Travis is actually Russ [Applause] dad now we know from season one that Russ spent a lot lot of time in Alaska so what's Alaska like uh it's beautiful and we know that his dad's name was Travis coincidence I think not this season is heavily connected to season 1 the best season by far and I'm starting to think that the connections are going to go beyond that of the Spiral cult but have a direct connection to rust and maybe even bring the character back to help solve this case so the previous episode ended with them finding the scientist out in the ice on this guy's forehead we can see the infamous spiral from season 1 meant to depict carosa this alternate realm the cultists are trying to ascend to and as we'll discuss later the spiral tattoo was also on Annie hey now wait a minute I thought they caught that spal cult guy from season 1 well they did but it was heavily implied that the cult was much bigger than just a few creepy Hicks in Louisiana and that implies that this spiral cult could still be out there operating on a much larger scale as we'll discuss later after all this episode name dropped the Tuttle family from season 1 which had deep ties to the spiral cult as their respecting the bodies we learned that one of these scientists scratched their own eyes out giving the impression that they saw something so mortifying it drove them to Madness now this is a call back to the VHS tape in season 1 that made each viewer scream uncontrollably now this goes back to the lovecraftian style of writing that forces you to draw on your fears of what the terror could be it also goes back to Cosmic horror characters like cthulu and hter AKA The King in Yellow and their ability to drive mortal men mad by showing them the complexities of the cosmos in our prev prev breakdown we discussed how the True Detective series especially season 1 played heavily into the cosmic horor genre popularized by HP Lovecraft season 1 had subtle references to Lovecraft characters like the Beast cthulu and even more over references to characters like the king and yellow by having the cult worshiping the yellow King and striving to ascend to a realm called carcosa there's this place down sou all these rich men go to uh devil worship something about some place called carosa and the yellow King but another key pillar of this genre is to give the suggestion of a supernatural presence and that's exactly what True Detective is once again doing brilliantly but I think the reality of what's going on here could be even darker there's something going on with in us the lights flickering the radio signals the bad water and that damn mind something is in that mind something that is affecting everyone's sanity and I think I may know what that something is but more on that in just a bit so on this whiteboard we can see a drawing of the earth and its layers now this could be symbolizing the evil lying beneath in us and tying to the weird stuff going on down in the mind the Earth's core would also be connected to the Earth's magnetic poles which could cause interference with radio signals and the lights now over to the side on the Whiteboard we see this little drawing of what looks like a horned figure with a smiley face and I think that this is the king in yellow or hter the being that is worshiped by the spiral cult as Danver questions the teacher about what was going on at the research facility we learned that they were sequencing DNA to essentially achieve immortality they spent decades trying to sequence the DNA of an extinct microorganism that potentially could stop cellular Decay this is exactly what the cultist pursuing the realm of carosa were hoping to find the path to immortality and as we'll later learn this research facility is being funded by the same organization that was funding the private schools in Louisiana the same schools where the children were being abused to put it lightly all in relation to the spiral cult aka the Tuttle cult in the classroom we also see this walk for our planet flyer a reference to Annie and her protest against the mind a connection to the fact that whatever they're doing down in the mind is causing damage to Nature and is likely connected to the line from the last episode about the water being bad water's bad turned to [ __ ] about 3 days ago perhaps what they're doing in the mind is polluting nature and it's responsible for the madness ensuing and inis the miners could also be disturbing the resting place of an ancient evil oh here we go anyways in the Roses home we can see this giant set of antlers a call back to the many antlers seen throughout season 1 of True Detective in relation to the cult on her coffee table we can see a book by Gregory baton called steps to an Ecology of mind now this book contains a collection of essays about Psychiatry Evolution anthropology and epistemology all of course connecting to the themes that we've discussed in connection to True Detective and the reality of the universe and Truth as we know it DW Harden of New York Review of Books says that Bateson examined the nature of the mind seeing it not as a nebulous something lodged somewhere in the body but instead as a network of interactions relating to oneself and their society their species and the Universe At Large Bateson was also very big on the understanding of Truth a connection to the overall theme of understanding truth and shared delusions that we'll discuss just a little bit later next we got one of my favorite lines from the episode is where the fabric of all things is coming apart at the seams this line about the fabric of reality coming apart is straight up Cosmic horror because it can mean so many things not only can It have a literal interpretation connecting to our magnetic poles and their connection to animals such as the reindeer and even our mammal brains but also the magnetic poles connection to radio waves and F green lights but there's also the metaphorical level of the unraveling of society and how the mind can be torn not just our minds but our Connected Mind with our fellow man going back to the writings of biton last week we talked a lot about ghosts but not literal ghosts but ghosts that we create via our memories here Rose talks about the difference between the spirit realm and mental illness implying that she personally believes that her visions of Travis are real whereas Navaro sisters Visions could be trauma based illness and then things get Eerie when we see that Rose knows all about the spiral it's old Missy older than anus older than the eyes probably that line about the spiral being older than Enis and maybe even older than the I sit chills down my spine now this is another reference to the ancient evil that we discussed last week that could be lined beneath the ice of Venice metaphorically and it can also be alluding to a supernatural Beast like cthulu who in Legend is at the bottom of the ocean but in reality it could be in reference to whatever Lies Beneath the ground deep in the minds of inis and the Very stuff that the research scientist were searching for this line about the spiral symbol being very old is also in reference to this line from arrol Chis in season 1 my family's been here a long long time Rose's knowledge of the Spiral could also be another hint that she is the mother of rust Cole during R time back in Alaska he likely obsessed over the case for those eight years so let's talk about these frozen bodies and how they're morphed together in the thawing ice we hear Peter say from the outside that they can see five heads and nine feet now this reminded me so much of the beast called The Marauder from evil dead rise Pete also theorizes that something may have been chasing them to which Danver says there's no yetis now I love how this is kind of a fourth wall break that reels the audience back in from our Supernatural suspicions surrounding the case we then hear mention of delirium being caused by the cold now delirium is defined as being an alternate State of Consciousness this of course ties back to the madness that can be caused by love crafty and characters like cthulu and the King in Yellow as well as the hallucinatory episodes we saw rust hav in season 1 I mean you could argue that those were episodes of delirium in the bar we see see these two guys get in a fight over the mine you mining people are poisoning your own kids sck you pretending you don't see it fing feed your kids now this mimics the real world debates that we see occurring surrounding our everchanging climate good-hearted people point out the fact that certain fuel methods are causing irreversible damage to our planet and its ability to sustain life While others argue about the importance of those fuels to sustain our way of life now we mentioned in our previous breakdown that the scientists were also exploring the effects of climate change and we even theorize that the entire Fire season could be a metaphor for our changing climate and the sociological and economic impacts those changes to our planet can cause Pete theorizes that a polar bear may have gotten into the facility causing the scientist to flee a call back to the polar bear imagery that we've been getting with both the stuffed animal and the polar bear we saw at the end of the previous episode speaking of polar bears here we can see a polar bear drawing looking over them now during Pete's investigation we hear this guy say you see people who are gone sometimes it's a long night even the dead get bored now I watched the scene of few times trying to decide if I thought this guy genuinely believes in spirits or if he's acknowledging the fact that the weeks of Darkness can often cause hallucinations among the residents of inis a kind of shared delusion if you will and it would make sense that weeks of Darkness would begin to mess with you and everyone experiencing this Darkness could experience delirium the same can be said for the cultist of the Spiral cult they all share a delusion okay so next things get really eerie for those of you hardcore Dre detective fans we get the name drop of Tuttle United if you follow the taxes you can trace it back to a shell compy called NC Global strategies which in turn belongs to Tuttle United in season 1 we met Billy Tuttle his ministries oversaw the funding of the private schools where children were victimized by the spiral cult rust questioned Tuttle regarding the murders and their possible connection to the tutal schools whatever information we still have from Wellspring this led Russ to being punished by the police department for daring to question a man of power like Billy Tuttle but years later rust broke into tuttle's house and in his safe he found the VHS tape containing the horrific acts the cult performed on women and children so the Tuttle empire being involved with the funding of This research facility is a huge reveal that we as the audience are aware of but Danvers just doesn't see it this is likely because the Attorney General did a lot to cover up the accusations that connected the Tuttle name to the spiral calls but we as the audience know that this powerful family had major ties to the cult and the quest to find carcosa so what if the researchers were unknowingly searching for something tied to the lore of the Spiral cult as we mentioned earlier carosa promised immortality which is the same thing the researchers were essentially searching for the work they were doing could end up curing cancer autoimmune diseases genetic disorders now these three line chin markings are common amongst native women in Alaska I've read that the three markings can be meant to represent the three stages of your life and they can also be meant to deter the presence of evil spirits in the flashback of Danver and her son we hear the song Twist and Shout playing answering the question of why Danvers was quick to stop the song from planing in the research facility and in this flashback we can see her son covering his eye a call back to that oneeyed polar bear now in our previous video we discussed how a single eye in Native culture is meant to represent the ability to see in darkness and how that's fitting for the show's setting another thing this single eye could be referring to is the allseeing eye also known as The Eye of Providence which is often associated with the Illuminati one interpretation of the Eye of Providence is that it's the eye of God and later in this episode we actually see what looks like the Eye of Providence drawn on this wall but more on that in a bit hey is the one eye thing kind of like a pirate actually a little bit so the reason Pirates weree eye patches right it's not like every single pirate had their eye cut out Pirates wore eye patches because one eye would be adjusted to Daylight while the other eye would be adjusted to the dark so whenever they were raing a ship and they went into the hold they would actually moved that eye patch to the other eye that was already accustomed to the darkness it is possible that some native cultures did something similar when they went into a dark place to hunt they moved the eye patch to the other eye so they could see better now next we learned that Clark had the infamous spiral tattoo on his chest just like like the cultist we saw in season 1 and interestingly enough he got the tattoo after Annie did got the same tattoo as her that's 4 days after she died now here on the wall of the skating rink we get another look the blue King logo now as we discussed last week this could be another reference to the yellow King and throughout this episode we're led to believe that there is something going on with Pete's father Hank he wasn't happy to see Andy's file box was taken and I think it's possible that he could be involved with the cult Peter said that his father was raised by a monster to be a monster so perhaps Peter and his father are part of the bloodline that is linked to the spiral cult we even hear Hank say this weird line about the importance of blood blood is blood Peter remember that the name of this camper is the Golden Eagle now the golden eagle is classified as an Aven apex predator hinting that Clark could be a force to be reckoned with in Clark's book we can see documentation of different fungus and then as danverse turns through the pages we see some chaotic drawings and writings so bear with me here some of this doesn't make any grammatical sense but I'm going to read it exactly as it's written oh God never say her name never say I can hear feel her I can hear her name I can hear her moving her fingers and then we have this drawing that looks like a drawing of the Earth's layers like we saw on the classroom whiteboard the layers read cold dark her eyes and then the drawing of the Earth core is split in half depicting her eyes the writings continue I can hear her calling her eyes her face her eyes her face the next page repeats these lines and adds other lines like don't forget and her fingers cold and on the second page we can see the addition of oh God never sleep and these writings are clearly made by a man who has lost his mind and entered a state of delium exactly these drawings and writings continue in the camper we see this drawing of a smiling face that I got to be honest with you looks exactly like salad fingers somewhere the rainow but he's got got this third eye on his forehead now this mirror is the spiral on the scientist's forehead at the start of the episode it also ties back into the allseen eye imagery the eye being on the forehead is alluding to the third eye which is meant to be able to see beyond that of your own Physical Realm another goal the Spyro cult members hope to achieve through their ascendency to carcosa in the camper we also saw hanging dolls like the dolls from season 3 dolls are used as signifers in the human trafficking underground like this blue spiral it's code for pedophiles and Bones like in season 1 and on the ceiling of course we get this giant spiral symbol depicting the realm of carcosa and paralleling this shot from season one when rust looks up at the spiraling portal and in this shot we see a dead crow hanging upside down now crows can represent death as can any dead bird being hung upside down in our research we found out that it can be meant to ward off evil spirits and represent a connection to the underworld which could be paralleling the evil lying beneath the ice and down in the mind but in Native cultures it can represent the transition from the Physical Realm to the spirit realm but in other tribes it's been known to represent guidance and warnings from the spirit world aign to pay attention to your surroundings and clues within nature which is perfect for a murder mystery speaking of Clues I think this could all be leading up to the return of rust Cole to Alaska to assist Danvers and Navaro helping to provide the missing pieces they need to finally bring down the spal cult so guys there's everything that we caught in True Detective season 4 episode 2 I'm really enjoying this season so far and it's returned to season one's Roots big shout out to Colton Ogburn the writer of this video you can find his Social Links below and guys if there's anything you thought we missed or if you have any theories about what the hell is going on here please let us know when our socials are down in the comments and if it's your first time here welcome to the Channel Please Subscribe and smash that Bell for alerts for screen Crush I'm Ryan [Music] ery a

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Published: Mon Jan 22 2024