True Detective 1.03

The Locked Room

Rust and Marty track down the preacher who used to lead services in the church near Spanish Lake. They find him with a congregation under a tent. They listen to him for a while and argue about stuff while he is preaching. They talk to him and some of the congregants after the service. A couple women remember the dead woman. They remember seeing her with a tall man with a scarred face.

Marty and Rust argue about stuff. One day Marty comes home and finds Rust there talking to Maggie. Rust returned the lawn mower he borrowed and then mowed the lawn when he saw it needed mowing. Marty gets angry at him for mowing his lawn.

Marty and Maggie pull their older daughter aside, after Rust has left. They talk to her about some stuff she did in school. Marty and Maggie argue after that in their bedroom. They wind up having sex.

All through this episode Rust and Marty are still talking to the other two detectives, in 2012.

Rust and Marty start to look for the tall man. Rust spends a lot of time at night, when he can't sleep, looking at case files hoping to find one that seems similar to the case they are working on.

Maggie sets Rust up with Jennifer, one of her friends. Marty, Maggie, Rust, and Jen go out for drinking and dancing. Marty spots Lisa, the court reporter he's been seeing on the side. She's on a date with a guy who's much younger than Marty. He gets angry and later goes over to her home, breaks in when she won't let him in, and attacks the guy she brought home with her.

Rust finds something that looks promising in one of the old case files. A woman who was drowned but whose body had some markings that remind him of their case. They track down the woman's grandfather, ask him some questions, and get some of her personal belongings that he still has. He gives them a name, Reggie Ledoux, one of his granddaughter's boyfriends. They do some digging and discover that Ledoux skipped bail months ago and has yet to be found.

Thoughts

One thing that comes up on two separate occasions during this episode is the Reverent Tuttle. He was in the first episode and is a relative of the governor. Does this mean that there is some connection between him and the dead women? I'm not sure.

I'm starting to have my doubts about this show. I think it may be a little too out there for me. It seems to be well produced but quite often I'm not sure what they are going on about. It might all make sense in the end but it also feels like they are spouting a lot of nonsense. I usually look for something to hold on to in a show. I'm not sure what to hold on to here. It all seems to slippery and insubstantial.