‘True Detective’ Finale Spoilers:Shocking Theories About The Killer's Identity Surface ! How Is Marty Involved? Who is 'The Yellow King?'

The smash hit series from HBO "True Detective" is down to its eighth and final episode. Everyone anticipates the big reveal. But before the actual airing, there will be theories!

In a brutal and mysterious case like Dora Lange's that stretched through two timelines to solve, there are no limits to the imagination. Here are two of the most plausible:

Marty is the killer. Yahoo TV insinuated that the show's poster itself was a clue. But it would not hold water unless it's supported. The Daily Beast expounds: "Why did Marty go crazy and shoot Reggie LeDoux in the head? Was it because he was so disgusted by the vision of LeDoux's child victims, or to shut someone up who could finger him as the killer? Also, there have been numerous references throughout the show to "The Yellow King," a reference to Robert W. Chambers' collection of short stories, The King in Yellow, being at the heart of the killings. The promotional poster for HBO's True Detective has an odd split-design, cutting off Marty's blond hair at the top, and leaving us with a blond-headed crown at the bottom. Furthermore, the show is called True Detective-not True Detectives, plural-so perhaps only one of the men (Rust?) is the "true" detective, and Marty is the killer."

However there is another explanation for the identity of "The Yellow King." The idea was from a reddit forum. The user name of 'simplyravishing' hypothesized that The Yelloe King (reposted in The Daily Beast) 'who's presumably at the heart of the ritualistic killings in True Detective, is none other than "the owner of the Vietnamese restaurant from Episode 3.' His/her evidence for this theory is that Rust and Marty 'somehow not only found, but ate at a Vietnamese restaurant in the backwoods of Louisiana,' and that most of the people linked to the cult have been 'white guys with white power ideals' like LeDoux and Lange, who would probably refer to a Vietnamese person as 'yellow.' Furthermore, there's the scene where Rust describes LeDoux's 'little shop of horrors as being reminiscent of the way his father described Vietnam,' so we can assume that some nasty stuff went down there."

Between the two, the Marty angle has more shock value and more relevant to the case. If we follow the second theory that it was just a tale of revenge, then all the crimes will be rendered superficial.

All the theories just build up the excitement for the finale on Sunday night. Whatever happens, "True Detective" is a classic!