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Originally Posted by rmw10
And my final thought - Wayne played up his dementia in the scene at Mike and Julie's place. I think he had a bout of dementia, but came back to earth and realized what he was doing. He saw Julie was living in peace and decided to leave her be.
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I agree with your assessment pretty much completely, but I think the bolded above was true at first, and then he actually
did forget. If he hadn't, he would've torn up the paper with the address so as to ensure the mystery would be preserved. Instead, he forgot about it, and his son found it, and tellingly, did not himself throw it away, which I took that to mean he might very well provide that information to the woman he'd been having an affair with, exposing the whole thing after all.
Roland's bar fight has indeed been done before, but his digs at the biker's girlfriend provided the episode with a bit of much needed levity. Bravo, Stephen Dorff. He was fantastic in this role that, much like Ali's, required him to deliver three very different versions of the same man.
I liked finding out the reason Purple finally did let it go in 1990 was for the protection of his own family. I can think of nothing else that would've made up give up the fight to learn the truth.
Finally, I think the device that the detectives were essentially barking up the wrong tree, and while crimes were committed, nothing so monstrous as it appeared to be turned out to be effective. Sometimes, we see things that aren't there in effort to make up for all the things that were there that we didn't see. This was used in a 1991 film by David Mamet called "Homicide" starring Joe Mantegna. In it, a detective finds a clue, that for personal reasons sets him on a relentless quest to solve a crime that turns out to be not at all what he thought it was.
I just saw "Destroyer" starring Nicole Kidman as a detective haunted by an event from her past that also traversed a couple of different timelines. Expanded from its 2 hour length, I think that would've made for a very satisfying season of "True Detective". I recommend it for those underwhelmed by the lack of a big "surprise" at the end of this season of "True Detective", as the movie "Destroyer" does have a somewhat unexpected resolution (and Kidman has never been better).