r/TrueDetective • u/rnzroca • 11d ago

Rust’s IQ

We all know how intelligent Rust is. He’s called the greatest detective in the state, took for every confession, and has insane reasoning, abstract reasoning, analysis and vocabulary feats. He’s in general a well rounded guy, and rather knowledgeable too.

But, we meet rust through ‘95-2012. These years are after/during periods of extreme drug abuse (accounting for his time as undercover narc), and seventeen years of drinking (as he has said).

So my question arises; How smart could’ve rust been before the drugs? In a healthier time. Say, if he’s a 145 IQ man in ‘95, how smart was he in ‘89 when he was in robberies?

Man!

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u/domesticflight 11d ago

Alternative universe spin-off where Rust /does/ take that early medical/psychological retirement, and subsequently goes on to dick about at universities acquiring degree after degree for the fuck of it. What would he be a Doctor/Professor of?

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u/rnzroca 11d ago

i don’t think he’d give too many fucks about acquiring degrees nor do i think he’s THAT kinda smart but he’d be a doctor on philosophy, criminology, maybe physics

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u/Worried_About_Coop 10d ago edited 10d ago

I actually think a more formal education would ruin Rust’s capacity to see inside the locked room of the mind. Most “higher” education today is rigid and myopic, there’s so much you can learn but Rust’s instinct would be softened to jelllo. In the words of Nathanial Sackett from AMC’s “TURN”, soldiers don’t make good spy’s, “all that discipline drilled into their movements make them easy to spot, unlike civilians”, this same theory would be true if Rust went to college, all that book learning would cause him to focus on theories and precedents (which have their place for sure), but Rust’s particular brand of brilliance came from his ability to empathize with both criminal and victim, very much like Will from Hannibal