Prior To The True Detective Finale

This has been an awesome ride. I feel good enough to venture two predictions:

1. Nothing that happens in this episode can diminish my admiration and appreciation of this show.

2. Rev. Rust, in the Library, with The LoneStar Beercan-Man
-- but really

• Carcosa is the promise of life after death, or defying death. It's an idea, not the formal name of a physical location or object. LMM may refer to his den as Carcosa, but I think it's a much bigger idea than that.
• Yellow King is not a person. An idea. A religious idea.
• Audrey Hart saw, at least, a video tape of one of the cult's pedophilic rituals.
• Audrey Hart was exposed to this media via her maternal Grandfather. He had something on hand that she saw. Don't feel like's he's a cult member, but I don't have much else to theorize about it. Unless he's a lawyer.
• There will be no final justice. There will be no great public scandal. Rust and Marty will set in motion the wheels that expose more people, but those involved are too powerful and nobody wants the bad PR. So some people might have some real early retirements and maybe some "other" minor convictions. But the evil at the root of these crimes will not be wholly eradicated.
• Rust will die. Marty will die.
• Rust will live. Marty will live. 
• Both. Time is a flat circle.
• And Maggie is not part of the goddamn cult, ffs. 

See you guys on the other side of Carcosa.