True Detective
“The truth lies in the dark.”
An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
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In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.
1.The Long Bright Dark
8.512-01-201457mFormer Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange, 17 years earlier....
2.Seeing Things
8.319-01-201456mUnder pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a new task force. The pair lobbies for extra...
3.The Locked Room
8.626-01-201456mA hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought i...
4.Who Goes There?
9.009-02-201455mHart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal lif...
5.The Secret Fate of All Life
8.916-02-201455mA violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his...
6.Haunted Houses
8.523-02-201456mMaggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.
7.After You've Gone
8.502-03-201451mHart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.
8.Form and Void
9.009-03-201453mAn overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.
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