True Detective 1.05

The Secret Fate of All Life

Cohle uses Ginger to get a meeting with Reggie Ledoux in a bar. Ledoux isn't interested in doing business with Cohle. Ledoux leaves but Hart tails him. They find Ledoux's hideout. They try to take him but when Marty finds two kids, one dead and one alive, he kills Ledoux's accomplice. Ledoux accidentally kills himself while trying to escape by running into one of his own booby traps. Marty and Rust modify the facts for the official story. Only they know what really happened.

Life goes back to normal. The story flashes forward from 1995 to 2002. Marty has cleaned up and reconciled with his wife. His relationship with Audrey, his older daughter has gone downhill. She's caught in a car having sex with two guys who are about 20 years old. She is in her mid-teens.

Rust starts dating another of Maggie's coworkers. Everything goes well for a while but eventually that relationship deteriorates.

Rust is interrogating a suspect in a double murder case when he gets a surprise. The suspect claims that he knows something about the case he and Marty worked back in 1995. He says that they got the wrong guy. Rust salms the suspect against the wall and has to be pulled off the murder suspect by other detectives. The next day the suspect kills himself after getting a phone call. The call is traced to a pay phone out in the middle of nowhere. Supposedly it was the suspect's lawyer calling him.

Things break down in the interrogation of Rust in 2012. He walks out. The detectives questioning him don't have enough to book him and make it stick. He refuses to answer some questions and won't give them access to his storage unit. The two detectives tell Marty about some of their suspicions.

The episode ends in 2002. Rust goes back to the tree where Dora Lange was found. He also visits the school that he and Marty checked out in 1995, a couple episodes back. The school is run down. He finds devil traps and things drawn on the walls.

Thoughts

There are more details that I could have mentioned. Rust has a view of the world that people see as a sphere but as he claims it is actually a flat circle. I think that might mean that things are considerably less complicated than they seem. The two detectives interviewing Rust and Marty seem to think that Rust might have been behind the murder of Dora Lange and others.

This season in finally starting to grow on me. I like the way that the show is playing with the truth. I like the fact that this episode seems to add a new layer to Rust and Marty's relationship. I don't think that its quite as simple as Cohle being the the killer. Maybe he is but there is more to it than that. I have to wonder if by the end of the next episode or maybe somewhere in the one after that the story won't have shifted to make it look like Marty also has something to hide.