True Detective 1.02

Seeing Things

The two other detectives continue to interview Cohle and Hart in 2012. Rust and Marty, in 1995, continue to work the case. They interview people the victim knew. They learn from a friend of the victim that she might have moved south, to Spanish Lake. She might have gotten involved with a church down there.

Hart goes to see his girlfriend. Coehle goes and buys some drugs off a prostitute. He learns from her about a place called the Ranch, down near Spanish Lake. Marty and Rust head down that way the next day. They eventually find the place and talk to a couple of the women there. Marty doesn't like it at all. he thinks one of the women is under age. The woman who runs the place tells them that the local sheriff has a stake in the Ranch.

Coehle tells the two detective, in 2012, a little about his past. He tells them about how he moved from the robbery beat to narcotics (after his daughter was killed in a car accident) and then moved to homicide, in Louisiana. 

Coehle does some investigating on his own, talks to prostitutes and looks for men who might have met Doris, the victim. Hart spends that time with his wife and daughters. They go to see his in-laws. Hart and his wife get into an argument. Marty catches his daughters roleplaying with dolls in disturbing ways.

Some other state police officers, part of a task force, come around wanting to see what Coehle and Hart have amassed. Coehle gets chewed out by Major Quesada, their boss after he makes with the smart comments to the state police task force officers. Quesada is thinking about turning the case over to the taskforce detectives. Hart asks for a few more weeks to work the case.

Hart and Coehle look around the Spanish Lake area and find something that looks like the church.

Thoughts

The episode title seems to be a reference to something that Coehle says to the two other detectives in 2012.

It looks like my guess was right about Hart cheating on his wife. 

This is still good but I'm still not ready to call it great or top notch. It is very low key. I haven't decided if it is too low key or not.