![]() This prepares him to see the ability to join with his lost daughter as the final words of the sermon promise.īe in him and of him and then know peace. Cohle talks about descending into the darkness of death as losing my definitions. By using the term yet, Theriot indicates that the veil can be lifted, that we can know ourselves as Cohle realizes at the end of the final episode.Ĭohle’s insights shared with Marty mark both his enlightenment and his willingness to join the world through a real relationship with his partner. The shape of our face … not yet known to us is the essence of the message. This world is a veil and we are not ourselves. Theriot challenges everyone there, including Cohle, to remember this truth. The story of Cohle’s life after the loss of his daughter is the story of sorrow and grief becoming such a burden that Cohle forgot himself and the world. The shape of our face is not yet known to us. This world is a veil and the face you wear is not your own. If ever your sorrow becomes such a burden that you forget yourself, forget this world, I want you to remember this truth… He was so hardened to the world, so profoundly skeptical and alienated, it broke Cohle from his body separated him from the embrace and protection of the peace surrounding him at the time of his greatest need. Because I ask you, how could a father forget his children?Ĭohle became a stranger to himself as a result of hardness and anger due to the death of his daughter. And, when your hard heart made you like unto the stone and broke you from his body – which is the stars and the wind between the stars – he knew you. You are a stranger to yourself and yet he knows you. ![]() … We bandaged our soft selves in hardness and anger. They divide you from what your heart knows. ![]() (In the final airing of this episode, he says to Marty: What do you think the average IQ of this crew is? I see a propensity for obesity, poverty and fairy tales.) It represents contempt from the Cohle we know up to this point. Cohle’s nonchalant attitude, leaning against the tent post is more than disinterest. Cohle and partner Marty Hart are seen at the back of the tent watching Theriot preach. But we don’t hear the name Jesus until four minutes into the six-minute sermon. Everything in the scene tells us that he is Jesus. Theriot has a forceful answer to the question Are you there? He is and he is with us every moment. Every beat of every heart, every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of every day is an answer. ![]() Would that we had ears to hear, because every moment, every now is an answer. For years, Cohle has been the only person listening to his thoughts. Since the death of his daughter, Cohle has suffered unrelenting guilt for failing to protect her. Theriot’s sermon is in italics along with my comments. There are no strictures, admonitions, or rules just the presentation of a higher wisdom and path to inner peace available to everyone with ears to hear. He both delivers the sermon to and experiences it with the congregation as indicated by their frequent, fervent interaction. Of note, preacher Theriot is of the evangelical school of Christianity. The sermon represent a narrative map for the broader story told throughout the series, which reaches a climax at the end of the season finale. The entire sequence is available on YouTube and is well worth watching (several times). Episode 3 shows only a portion of the sermon. The seemingly less than sophisticated preacher and an audience of those at the margins of life in rural Louisiana hide the profound message delivered for those willing to listen. The most elegant and revealing statement of Cohle’s struggle and revelation is, in my opinion, the sermon delivered by Joel Theriot in episode 3, The Locked Room. Rust Cohle’s moment of enlightenment in episode 8 came after years of searching and suffering. In a very real sense, that theory proved correct but it was a different type of death.Īs it turns out, True Detective is the story of a seeker of truth. Many suspected that this forecast death for Cohle in the final episode. In episode 7, Cohle laments his long journey through violence and depravity then says I’m ready to tie it off. Tent preacher Joel Theriot’s full sermon from episode three of True Detective provides a preview and explanation of detective Rust Cohle’s conversion from a laconic nihilist extraordinaire who can barely live with himself to an enlightened soul with some prospect for peace.
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