True Detective Season 1

Synopsis

In 2012, Louisiana State Police Detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart are brought in to revisit a homicide case they worked in 1995. As the inquiry unfolds in present day through separate interrogations, the two former detectives narrate the story of their investigation, reopening unhealed wounds, and drawing into question their supposed solving of a bizarre ritualistic murder in 1995. The timelines braid and converge in 2012 as each man is pulled back into a world they believed they'd left behind. In learning about each other and their killer, it becomes clear that darkness lives on both sides of the law.

Main Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Rust Cohle

Age : 54 | Popularity : 39%

Woody Harrelson

Martin Hart

Age : 62 | Popularity : 66%

Michelle Monaghan

Maggie Hart

Age : 48 | Popularity : 35%

Michael Potts

Maynard Gilbough

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Tory Kittles

Thomas Papania

Age : 48 | Popularity : 11%

Episodes

Episode 1

12 January 2014 - The Long Bright Dark

Former 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.

Episode 2

19 January 2014 - Seeing Things

Under 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.

Episode 3

26 January 2014 - The Locked Room

A hidden 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.

Episode 4

09 February 2014 - Who Goes There?

Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting an East-Texas biker gang known to deal with their primary suspect.

Episode 5

16 February 2014 - The Secret Fate of All Life

A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his family, and Cohle starts a relationship while gaining a reputation as a closer in interrogations. As time passes and his daughters grow older, Hart faces new tensions and temptations, and Cohle learns from a double-murder suspect that there could be much more to an old case than he'd once thought. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting new intelligence that threatens Cohle and causes Hart to reassess everything he thought he knew about his former partner.

Episode 6

23 February 2014 - Haunted Houses

Maggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.

Episode 7

02 March 2014 - After You've Gone

Hart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.

Episode 8

09 March 2014 - Form and Void

An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Casting	Alexa L. Fogel Christine Kromer
	Associate Producer	Mick Aniceto
	Producer	Carol Cuddy
	Co-Producer	Jessica Levin Lee Caplin
	Executive Producer	Scott Stephens Steve Golin Richard Brown Woody Harrelson Matthew McConaughey Cary Joji Fukunaga Nic Pizzolatto
Directing	Script Supervisor	Diane H. Newman
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Jenny Eagan
Art	Set Decoration	Cynthia Anne Slagter
	Art Direction	Mara LePere-Schloop Tim Beach
	Art Department Coordinator	Carl Counts
	Production Design	Alex DiGerlando
Sound	Supervising Sound Editor	Eliza Paley
	Music Supervisor	Jim Black
	Music Editor	Shari Johanson
	Sound mixer	Geoffrey Patterson
	Original Music Composer	T Bone Burnett
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