re: True Detective Episode 7 speculation thread

You do see three. But if you watch carefully, the person on the far right materializes out of thin air.

This leads me to believe that it's actually just Rust, and the camera is doing a kind of montage shot which is triple-exposed--a common trick if you are trying to create the impression of a long period of time elapsing over a short film interval. They show it in the preview with three to throw viewers off.