True Detective Episode Guide Episodes 001–024 Last episode aired Sunday February 24, 2019 www.hbo.com c c 2019 www.tv.com c 2019 www.hbo.com c 2019 www.tvrage.com c 2019 celebdirtylaundry.com c 2019 www.refinery29.com The summaries and recaps of all the True Detective episodes were downloaded from http://www.tv.com and http:// www.hbo.com and http://www.tvrage.com and http://celebdirtylaundry.com and http://www.refinery29.com and processed through a perl program to transform them in a LATEX file, for pretty printing. So, do not blame me for errors in the text ! This booklet was LATEXed on February 26, 2019 by footstep11 with create_eps_guide v0.61 Contents Season 1 1 1 The Long Bright Dark . .3 2 Seeing Things . .7 3 The Locked Room . 11 4 Who Goes There . 15 5 The Secret Fate of All Life . 19 6 Haunted Houses . 23 7 After You’ve Gone . 27 8 Form and Void . 31 Season 2 35 1 The Western Book of the Dead . 37 2 Night Finds You . 41 3 Maybe Tomorrow . 43 4 Down Will Come . 47 5 Other Lives . 51 6 Church in Ruins . 53 7 Black Maps and Motel Rooms . 55 8 Omega Station . 59 Season 3 63 1 The Great War and Modern Memory . 65 2 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye . 67 3 The Big Never . 69 4 The Hour and the Day . 71 5 If You Have Ghosts . 75 6 Hunters in the Dark . 77 7 The Final Country . 79 8 Now Am Found . 81 Actor Appearances 85 True Detective Episode Guide II Season One True Detective Episode Guide The Long Bright Dark Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1 Originally aired: Sunday January 12, 2014 Writer: Nic Pizzolatto Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga Show Stars: Woody Harrelson (Martin Hart), Matthew McConaughey (Rustin Cohle), Michelle Monaghan (Maggie Hart), Michael Potts (Det. Maynard Gilbough), Tory Kittles (Det. Thomas Papania) Recurring Role: Kevin Dunn (Major Ken Quesada) Guest Stars: Alexandra Daddario (Lisa Tragnetti), Clarke Peters (Minister), Jay O. Sanders (Rev. Billy Lee Tuttle), Christopher Berry (Danny Fontenot), Brad Carter (Charlie Lange), Joe Chrest (Det. Demma), Jennifer Daw- son (Erath Woman), J. D. Evermore (Det. Lutz), Dana Gourrier (Cath- leen), Charleigh Harmon (Anette), Michael Harney (Steve Geraci), Davi Jay (Gordon DiCillo), Jason Kirkpatrick (Deputy), Tony Molina Jr. (De- tective), Alyshia Ochse (Lucy), Dane Rhodes (Det. Favre), Ron Clinton Smith (Sheriff Tate), Charley Vance (Erath Man), Wanetah Walmsley (Janet Fontenot), Madison Wolfe (Audrey Hart), Meghan Wolfe (Macie Hart), Don Yesso (Commader Speece) Summary: Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle, former CID partners in Louisiana pro- vide separate statements about the murder case they investigated of a teenage prostitute to two detectives. The case goes back 17 years when the first clues into Dora Lange’s murder was the presence of a cult ceremony. We also see how volatile the relationship between Hart and Cohle was in the beginning. In the night, a fire is lit in a farm field. A long line of fire illuminates the night. A recorded video of Detective Martin Hart’s statement plays. In it he starts to talk about the Dora Lange case but the interviewers ask him to talk about his partner, Detective Rustin Cohle. In Rust’s statement he is told he’s not allowed to smoke but the interviewers change their minds when he asks if they want to hear his story or not. He takes them back to the Nora Lange case. Rust and Hart arrive at the crime scene where a sheriff explains there was no scheduled burn. They see a dead woman bound to a tree stump with antlers attached to her head. Rust puts on a pair of gloves and approaches the body. There is a spiral symbol on the woman’s back. Hart explains to the sheriff that he’s never seen anything like this in his eight years in the CID, Criminal Investigations Division. The sheriff thinks the murder was satanic and Hart asks for more men to set up a wider perimeter. Rust calls Hart over and points out the various wounds the woman has. He thinks she was on her back awhile before she was moved to this location. Rust takes out his notebook and starts writing notes. In his video statement, Hart explains that Rust was nicknamed the tax man because he wrote notes in such a large ledger book. He took notes because he never knew when a little detail would 3 True Detective Episode Guide later help to solve a case. Hart explains different types of detectives and says he knew how to talk to people and he was steady. Rust didn’t talk much but he was smart. The second week that they were partners, Hart saw where he was living and felt bad. At the scene, Rust explains to Hart that this crime will happen again or has already happened. Rust believes it was a prostitute and this fantasy goes way back with their killer. Hart isn’t so sure but Rust tells him to wait and see. It’s too specific to be the murderer’s first victim. Hart knows it’s a bad time but insists Rust come to dinner because his wife Maggie has been asking him. In his statement, Rust felt bad about the dinner invitation because it was his daughter’s birthday. He didn’t think he could handle being with Hart’s family and knew it was only a matter of time until he had a drink. Rust arrives at Hart’s for dinner but he is obviously intoxicated. While driving away from the crime scene, Hart asks Rust if he’s Christian since he saw a cross in his home. Rust isn’t and would rather not discuss that at work. He agrees to talk and says he’s more of a pessimist. Rust talks philosophy and the idea that human evolution went wrong by becoming conscious. Hart suggests he not speak that way around people because they don’t feel the same way. He asks Rust why he gets up in the morning but Rust only says he doesn’t have the constitution to kill himself. They haven’t talked together much but now Hart regrets getting to know him. Back at the CID, Hart explains what he saw at the scene to Major Ken Quesado. Hart explains that while Rust is aloof he’s smart and has a good mind for it. Hart wants to stay lead on the case and will do the briefing tomorrow. Hart and Rust work late into the night. Rust leaves and says he has some things to do and will question some people. Rust arrives at a truck stop and follows a prostitute inside. He wants to ask a few of them some questions. They agree if he buys them some drinks. He describes the murdered woman and asks if they’ve seen her. Rust promises he wouldn’t bust anyone for hooking or drugs and wonders if there are any prostitutes they haven’t seen in awhile. They name a few woman but they have both been seen too recently. Rust asks one of the women about buying drugs because he has trouble sleeping. Hart looks in on his daughters from the door of their bedroom. The next morning, Maggie finds him asleep in the lazyboy. He didn’t come to bed because he couldn’t sleep after the case he saw.Hart leaves in a rush because he has to do a debriefing and maybe a press conference. At the station, Rust tells Hart about the returned prints. Their victim is Dora Lange and she has priors for shoplifting, possession and solicitation. In the morgue, the coroner explains to Hart and Rust that Dora was drugged, bound and tortured before being posed in the field. There are no prints on anything and nothing on the crown of antlers she was wearing. The examiner says it’s all primitive and suggests they talk to an anthropologist. Hart thinks the attack was personal but Rust thinks it’s the opposite. Hart wants Rust to stop saying strange things because it’s unprofessional. Neither of them got much sleep last night. At the station, Ken starts the debriefing by showing the recent news headline about the killing being occult in nature. He hands the meeting over to Hart who covers the rest of the details. The police are to question drug dealers, prostitutes and rough johns. Anything that can lead them to a suspect. Hart drives with Rust to go question some locals that live near where the body was found. One man suggests Marie Fontenot, the girl that went missing years ago, but they don’t receive much information other than that. At the nearby church, the pastor asks if the killing had anything to do with cats that were cut open and nailed to the church door. Rust asks if he recognizes symbols that he has in his notebook. He recognizes the little constructions that hung from the tree around the girl. When he was little they were used to put around the bed to catch devils that got too close. Sheriff Tate gives Hart the file on the Fontenot girl. There isn’t much information because everyone believes the birth father had her. The mother had multiple drug charges and thought the little girl was better off with him. Tate shows them another report of a little girl being chased through the woods. She worked with a sketch artist and they came up with a green spaghetti man that she thought looked like her chaser.