It turned out to be just one of many symbols employed by the Tuttle family and their Carcosa-frequenting followers. It reappeared every so often, once as a bird formation, another time on a drawing in Marty's house, leading the victims, and us, toward the conclusion. The spiral symbol (referred to cheekily/accurately by some as the Time Warner symbol) was one of the first examples of iconography to appear in the show, as a tattoo on the back of murder victim Dora Lange.
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While discussions of the show's finale and its larger meaning rage on, let's take a brief tour, memory lane-style, through all the clues and hints the show creators dropped along the way, and see if we can make sense of how the show's creators pulled off one of the greatest TV mysteries of all time.
But now all the speculation has come to an end: The season finale of TDĀ aired last night, leaving its fans with just as many questions as answers. The guessing game inspired by the show's scattered red herrings, obscure literary references and vague philosophical subtexts has led to as many serious, fascinating discussions as it has to laughable hypotheses. Not since LostĀ has a TV show been the subject of as much close scrutiny, heated discussion and perpetual theorization as HBO's True Detective.