There’s a moment in Episode 1 where, during a long car ride with Marty, Rust goes on a lengthy rant about the sorry state of humanity, and how the only noble thing for us to do is kill ourselves. When young Audrey is questioned by her parents about how she came up with the images, she cries, but remains mum there’s a spiral drawing (echoing the spiral tattoo on Dora’s back) hanging in the Hart kitchen in 1995 a picture of Audrey next to a painting of hers in 2012 depicting a character sporting black stars, similar to the tattoos on the aforementioned prostitute in Episode 2 there are identical flower paintings on the wall of the psychiatric ward Rust visits in 2002, and a framed painting in Marty’s bedroom and Audrey sported a crown with tassles in 1995 that’s very similar to the ceremonial crown seen on the gang rape victim in the disturbing video that Rust shows Marty in the shed. In one of the drawings, a masked man is depicted, while in others, the women appear to be wearing some sort of animal mask. Here’s what we know: the picture in Dora Lange’s house of a young blond girl surrounded by the “Five Horsemen” looks an awful lot like young Audrey when Audrey was a child in ’95, she was punished in school for scribbling drawings of people having sex in her notebook. There’s a great deal of evidence suggesting that Audrey (Erin Moriarty), Marty’s eldest daughter, will meet a grave end in the True Detective finale.
In the same episode, it’s revealed that the “Five Horsemen” may all be members of the same “rich” family-presumably the Tuttle’s.
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My colleague, Andrew Romano, expounded on this in his epic essay on how the series will (probably) wrap up, and indeed, there’s a wealth of evidence: the five men on horses dressed in black Cajun Mardi Gras capuchins engulfing Dora Lange in a photograph at her mother’s house five male dolls surrounding one naked female doll in a gang rape scenario on the floor of Audrey's and Maisie’s (Marty’s daughter’s) bedroom five Lone Star beer can men crafted by Rust on the interrogation room table that the black stars, a symbol of the possible cult that was found by Rust at the abandoned school, tattooed on the neck of the prostitute in Episode 2 who told Rust and Marty about Dora Lange’s involvement in a weird church, etc., each have five points and there are five masked figures involved in the gang rape video Rust uncovered and showed to Marty in the penultimate episode. The most logical theory, it seems, is the Five Horsemen theory-that there were five men involved in the ritualistic killings on True Detective.