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True Detective
Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. True Detective centers on troubled cops and the investigations that drive them to the edge. Each season features a new cast and a new case. True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto.
Metadata: TVmaze · CC BY-SAEvery chapter of the story.
60m1. The Long Bright Dark
60 minFormer 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. As they look back, details of the crime, replete with occult overtones, are accompanied by insights into the detectives' volatile partnership and personal lives.
60m2. Seeing Things
60 minUnder 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 time to follow up on a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church. With his marriage to Maggie already strained by work, Hart finds respite away from home.
60m3. The Locked Room
60 minHidden 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 in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.
60m4. Who Goes There
60 minHart and Cohl follow a series of dangerous leads in an effort to locate prime suspect Reggie Ledoux.
60m5. The Secret Fate of All Life
60 minHart and Cohle share the spoils of a solved case; Papania and Gilbough confront the detectives with troubling new intelligence.
60m6. Haunted Houses
60 minMaggie sheds light on Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.
60m7. After You've Gone
60 minHart and Cohle forge a truce to probe a murky string of disappearances that tie to the symbology of the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.
60m8. Form and Void
60 minAn overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.
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About True Detective.
- Format
- TV series
- First aired
- Episode length
- 63 minutes
- Genres
- Drama · Crime · Thriller
- Catalogue rating
- 8.1 / 10
- IMDb ID
- tt2356777
- TVmaze ID
- 5
Catalogue: TVmaze · CC BY-SA. The catalogue score is supplied by the metadata source.
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Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. True Detective centers on troubled cops and the investigations that drive them to the edge. Each season features a new cast and a new case. True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto.
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