Recap / True Detective S 1 E 08 Form And Void

In 2012, the "man with the scars" (Glenn Fleshler) is shown living in a large house in squalor with a female relative (Ann Dowd) with whom he has an incestuous relationship. Later, he goes to work painting a school and watches children on the playground. Marty and Rust extract details from Geraci by showing him the Fontenot tape. Marty thinks the "green-eared spaghetti monster" may have been the scarred man covered in green paint after painting a house in Dora Lange's neighborhood in 1995. They trace the paint job to a small business owned by William Childress that employed a man with facial scars. They visit William Childress's home and Rust pursues the scarred man, Errol Childress, through a labyrinth of trees and tunnels that Errol identifies as Carcosa. Rust briefly sees a hallucination of a sort of spiraling vortex before he is attacked by Errol. Marty runs to Rust's aid and they both fight Errol. They are all severely wounded, but Rust manages to kill Errol via a gunshot to the head. While Marty and Rust recover in hospital, Papania and Gilbough connect Errol to dozens of missing-person cases and murders, including Dora Lange's, finding several bodies buried in the yard. The Tuttles escape prosecution, but are publicly disgraced. Marty breaks down in tears when Maggie and their daughters visit him. Afterward, the two detectives reflect on the ongoing universal battle between light and dark.