An obscure little television show called True Detective will play its last haunting theme song of the season on Sunday. The 60 minutes ahead will have to tie up quite a few loose ends dangling over what has so far been a meticulously crafted series, and the Webverse is rife with nitpicking theories and zoomed-in screen grabs that purport to crack the case of the Yellow King. And since we've all been sucked into the search for the monster at the end of the dream, we've rounded up a few possible conclusions of our own—feel free to leave yours in the comments, and note that there are *SPOILERS* GALORE SO MANY *SPOILERS* below.

THE MARTYR THEORY: There's been a lot of speculation that either Marty, Rust or both Marty and Rust will bite the dust by the end of the series. Some of that was fueled by Rust's suicidal line in Episode 7, when he tells Marty, "My life’s been a circle of violence and degradation as long as I can remember. I’m ready to tie it off." Particularly virulent theorists/former English minors/people in desperate need of hobbies (myself included) have noted that MARTY HART sounds like "Martyr Heart," which opens a whole new conspiracy can of worms. But it wouldn't be too shocking if at least one of our apparent heroes ended up six feet under at the end of the hour.

THE RUST IS THE YELLOW KING/MARTY IS THE YELLOW KING THEORY: Early on the season, people started suspecting that the real Big Bad was either Marty or Rust. But despite the show poster Easter egg clues, suspicious Rust monologues and the Fight Club-esque suggestion that Marty and Rust might be two distinct personalities battling it out in one body, it seems like the two boys getting the band back together in Episode 7 put the kibosh on this one. UNLESS IT'S ALL A TRICK (it's probably not a trick; writer Nic Pizzolatto hates tricks.)

THE MAGGIE THEORY: I've brought this one up before, but it's worth revisiting. There's a good chance that Marty's ex-wife plays a bigger role in this whole situation than we're initially led to believe, and while she's probably not a Satanic being risen up from the depths of Hell to lead men into a depraved existence full of raping and murdering, something seems amiss. Her father, a kids-and-sex-hating rich man who lives on the shores of a lake (like the King in Yellow!) could be a member of the Five Horsemen who are suspected of involvement in a horrifying pedophilia cult. And considering the troubling behavior of daughter Audrey, it wouldn't be shocking if Maggie were at least implicated in the cult, either on the side of good or evil. If Maggie is at all involved, Gothamist's own Ben Yakas has pledged to eat his shoe.

THE ERROL IS THE YELLOW KING THEORY: Yeah, probably.

THE YELLOW KING IS NOT A PERSON THEORY: It's been suggested that the Yellow King is not a person, but perhaps a drug (remember that Reggie Ledoux was a "cook" in the Breaking Bad sense of the word), a place, or, as one Redditor speculated, a boat. Though considering Dora Lange told her former husband that she "met a king" right before she died, that theory may be out. Plus, the Yellow King is probably just a yellow dude wearing a crown.

THE LITERARY MOTIF THEORY: Ne'er forget that Pizzolatto is a novelist, and it's been suggested that a lot of the so-called patterns that keep showing up this season—crowns, references to kings, the color yellow, spirals, black stars and twig latticework—aren't actual clues. Instead, they are literary motifs meant to hammer in the whole theme that this show is about the damage men to do women and children, and the show doesn't really tie anything major up at the end. This theory is sensible, and boring.

THE "YOU'RE OVERTHINKING IT, YOU PSYCHOS" THEORY: There's a good chance we, the Collective Internet, have destroyed True Detective for ourselves, and absolutely nothing can happen Sunday night that will shock anyone who's recreated Rust's storage locker in his or her office conference room. Five creepy rich men (Errol, the Tuttles, maybe Maggie's dad, maybe the sheriff) rape and murder children because they're in some horrible sex cult that worships the Yellow King (maybe Errol), or whatever. Rust and Marty break the case, save the town and drive off in their Shared Car of Silent Reflection, knowing that those evils still lurk somewhere else. A song carefully chosen by T. Bone Burnett twangs in the background, and the TD subreddit implodes. This is the end, my only friend, the end, and all that's left for us now is Game of Thrones.