1 00:02:16,970 --> 00:02:20,042 What'd you think, you paired up with him? 2 00:02:21,708 --> 00:02:22,812 What I think? 3 00:02:25,846 --> 00:02:30,056 Well, you don't pick your parents, and you don't pick your partner. 4 00:02:31,385 --> 00:02:35,197 You know, they used to call him "The Tax Man" for a while? 5 00:02:36,957 --> 00:02:39,904 He come out of Texas, so nobody knew him. 6 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:45,066 Seemed a bit raw-boned to me. Edgy. 7 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:50,246 Took three months till we got him over to the house for dinner. 8 00:02:50,904 --> 00:02:52,679 Around our big 419. 9 00:02:52,773 --> 00:02:55,185 That's what y'all want to hear about, right? 10 00:02:55,242 --> 00:02:57,950 Dora Lange. The kids in the woods. 11 00:02:58,045 --> 00:02:59,353 Yeah, sure. 12 00:02:59,446 --> 00:03:03,155 But, uh, talk about Cohle. We heard some stories. 13 00:03:03,250 --> 00:03:05,321 Kind of a strange guy, huh? 14 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,757 "Strange." Uh... 15 00:03:10,624 --> 00:03:11,762 Yeah. 16 00:03:13,093 --> 00:03:18,372 Rust would pick a fight with the sky, he didn't like its shade of blue. 17 00:03:21,201 --> 00:03:24,182 But when we finally got him over to the house, 18 00:03:24,237 --> 00:03:26,308 this is when that case was hot, 19 00:03:26,406 --> 00:03:30,320 poor bastard looked like he was on his way to the firing squad. 20 00:03:31,712 --> 00:03:33,658 Dora Lange. 21 00:03:34,047 --> 00:03:36,994 The "Occult Ritual Murder." 22 00:03:38,285 --> 00:03:40,697 You can thank The Advertiser for that. 23 00:03:41,321 --> 00:03:42,766 Could you hold off on that? 24 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:44,233 Yeah, you can't do that here no more. 25 00:03:44,324 --> 00:03:45,735 - Huh? Uh-uh. 26 00:03:47,928 --> 00:03:51,034 Don't be assholes. You want to hear this or not? 27 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:14,966 Vermilion Sheriff requested assistance with a 419, cane fields outside of Erath. 28 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:18,763 I'd been on the job about three months till then. 29 00:04:18,825 --> 00:04:21,499 Two previous cases were open and shut. 30 00:04:24,431 --> 00:04:28,675 On January the 3rd, 1995, my daughter's birthday, 31 00:04:30,036 --> 00:04:31,413 I remember. 32 00:04:56,129 --> 00:04:58,405 Hart and Cohle, State CID. 33 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:01,441 Who found her? 34 00:05:01,535 --> 00:05:03,071 A farmer and his son. 35 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:05,377 This spread wasn't scheduled for a burn. 36 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:08,612 Let's keep them here, and let's tape off this road, 37 00:05:08,675 --> 00:05:10,746 and give me your log. 38 00:05:34,401 --> 00:05:35,846 Go ahead. 39 00:05:59,426 --> 00:06:01,707 - You ever see something like this? - No, Sheriff. 40 00:06:02,596 --> 00:06:04,542 Eight years, CID. 41 00:06:05,565 --> 00:06:08,409 Them symbols, it's Satanic. 42 00:06:09,069 --> 00:06:11,845 They had a 20/20 on it a few years back. 43 00:06:12,906 --> 00:06:15,113 - ID? - No, sir. 44 00:06:17,244 --> 00:06:20,453 We're gonna need more men for a grid search. 45 00:06:21,681 --> 00:06:25,128 Set up a perimeter wide as possible on those three roads. 46 00:06:25,185 --> 00:06:28,598 Post up, take license plates of anything that passes. 47 00:06:29,956 --> 00:06:30,957 I-23. 48 00:06:31,024 --> 00:06:33,004 Go ahead, I-23. 49 00:06:33,793 --> 00:06:38,071 We're gonna need investigator assist on that 419, 50 00:06:38,164 --> 00:06:39,837 all you can spare for a canvass. 51 00:06:39,966 --> 00:06:41,343 Roger that, Detective. 52 00:06:42,269 --> 00:06:45,045 Okay. Tell me what you see. 53 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,483 Ligature marks on her wrists, ankles and knees. 54 00:06:51,678 --> 00:06:54,921 Multiple shallow stab wounds to the abdomen. 55 00:06:55,015 --> 00:06:56,858 Hemorrhaging around throat. 56 00:06:56,917 --> 00:06:59,989 Lividity at the shoulders, thighs' and torso. 57 00:07:01,688 --> 00:07:03,998 She'd been on her back awhile 58 00:07:05,425 --> 00:07:07,336 before he moved her. 59 00:07:14,834 --> 00:07:17,781 That's why they called him "The Tax Man." 60 00:07:17,837 --> 00:07:21,216 The rest of us had these little note pads or something. 61 00:07:21,274 --> 00:07:23,777 He had this big ledger. 62 00:07:23,877 --> 00:07:28,053 Looked funny walking door to door with it like the tax man, 63 00:07:28,748 --> 00:07:31,695 which ain't bad, as far as nicknames go. 64 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,563 Yeah. Of course, I've always taken a lot of notes. 65 00:07:36,990 --> 00:07:40,699 I mean, you never know what the thing's gonna be, do you? 66 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,140 That little detail, somewhere way down the line, makes you say, "Oh!" 67 00:07:46,399 --> 00:07:48,003 Breaks the case. 68 00:07:48,969 --> 00:07:51,279 You know, I've seen all the different types. 69 00:07:51,371 --> 00:07:53,715 We all fit a certain category. 70 00:07:54,774 --> 00:07:56,447 The bully. 71 00:07:57,410 --> 00:07:58,821 The charmer. 72 00:07:58,878 --> 00:08:02,223 The, uh, surrogate dad. 73 00:08:02,282 --> 00:08:06,196 The man possessed by ungovernable rage. 74 00:08:06,286 --> 00:08:08,061 The brain. 75 00:08:08,121 --> 00:08:13,799 And any of those types could be a good detective, 76 00:08:13,893 --> 00:08:17,397 and any of those types could be an incompetent shit-heel. 77 00:08:18,665 --> 00:08:20,440 Which type were you? 78 00:08:21,434 --> 00:08:23,072 Oh, I was just 79 00:08:24,237 --> 00:08:26,274 a regular-type dude 80 00:08:26,406 --> 00:08:28,181 with a big-ass dick. 81 00:08:31,311 --> 00:08:34,292 A lot of it had to do with how they manage authority. 82 00:08:36,549 --> 00:08:41,498 There can be a burden in authority, in vigilance. 83 00:08:42,455 --> 00:08:45,595 Like a father's burden. 84 00:08:46,326 --> 00:08:48,567 It's too much for some men. 85 00:08:49,129 --> 00:08:52,042 A smart guy who's steady is hard to find. 86 00:08:53,166 --> 00:08:55,874 I was all right. Better than some. 87 00:08:55,969 --> 00:09:00,884 But I knew how to talk to people, and I was steady. 88 00:09:03,043 --> 00:09:04,545 Rust, 89 00:09:04,644 --> 00:09:09,218 now his Texas files were classified, or redacted. 90 00:09:09,282 --> 00:09:14,254 And he wasn't big on talking except when you wanted him to shut up. 91 00:09:15,789 --> 00:09:17,496 But he was smart. 92 00:09:22,429 --> 00:09:27,037 Yeah. Second week we were together, I saw where he was living. 93 00:09:28,735 --> 00:09:30,612 Kind of made me feel for the guy. 94 00:09:43,983 --> 00:09:46,156 I'd offer you a seat' but, uh... 95 00:09:47,921 --> 00:09:50,834 Don't mention it. I, uh... I cant stay. 96 00:09:56,129 --> 00:09:58,131 Yeah, I'll tell you guys, and believe me, 97 00:09:58,231 --> 00:10:03,180 past a certain age, a man without a family can be a bad thing. 98 00:10:32,165 --> 00:10:34,805 We'd encountered a meta-psychotic. 99 00:10:37,904 --> 00:10:42,216 Which I had to explain to Marty what meta-psychotic was. 100 00:10:47,747 --> 00:10:50,227 This is gonna happen again. 101 00:10:50,283 --> 00:10:52,263 Or it's happened before. 102 00:10:53,453 --> 00:10:54,591 Both. 103 00:10:56,256 --> 00:10:57,394 Go on. 104 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:02,564 It's fantasy enactment. Ritual. 105 00:11:03,596 --> 00:11:05,940 Fetishization, iconography. 106 00:11:06,799 --> 00:11:10,645 This is his vision. Her body is a paraphilic love map. 107 00:11:12,438 --> 00:11:14,008 How's that? 108 00:11:14,073 --> 00:11:19,284 An attachment of physical lust to fantasies and practices forbidden by society. 109 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:24,851 You get that from one of your books? 110 00:11:24,918 --> 00:11:26,295 I did. 111 00:11:28,588 --> 00:11:31,967 Her knees are abraded, rug burns on her back. 112 00:11:32,492 --> 00:11:35,029 Cold sores, gum line recession, bad teeth. 113 00:11:35,128 --> 00:11:37,802 There's decent odds she was a prost. 114 00:11:38,264 --> 00:11:39,834 He might not have known her, 115 00:11:41,935 --> 00:11:44,575 but this idea goes way back with him. 116 00:11:47,707 --> 00:11:52,349 You got a chapter in one of those books on jumping to conclusions? 117 00:11:53,713 --> 00:11:56,523 You attach an assumption to a piece of evidence, 118 00:11:56,616 --> 00:12:00,325 you start to bend the narrative to support it. 119 00:12:01,287 --> 00:12:02,960 Prejudice yourself. 120 00:12:06,693 --> 00:12:08,639 Wait and see on the ID. 121 00:12:12,332 --> 00:12:13,367 All right. 122 00:12:13,433 --> 00:12:16,471 This kind of thing does not happen in a vacuum. 123 00:12:18,871 --> 00:12:21,283 I guarantee this wasn't his first. 124 00:12:22,308 --> 00:12:24,015 It's too specific. 125 00:12:31,985 --> 00:12:33,089 Uh... 126 00:12:37,390 --> 00:12:40,200 Listen, uh... Ahem, this is 127 00:12:42,362 --> 00:12:46,333 a stupid time to mention this, 128 00:12:48,635 --> 00:12:50,842 but you got to come to dinner. 129 00:12:51,571 --> 00:12:55,610 Can't put Maggie off anymore, so you just got to. 130 00:13:03,216 --> 00:13:04,661 All right. 131 00:13:11,891 --> 00:13:14,371 - Gordon, thanks for coming. - Marty. 132 00:13:17,730 --> 00:13:19,937 Anyway, that evening, it wasn't even sundown, 133 00:13:19,999 --> 00:13:23,469 he decided it was a good time to invite me over for dinner, 134 00:13:23,569 --> 00:13:25,480 which I got a problem with. 135 00:13:25,571 --> 00:13:28,518 All right, 'cause I'm thinking about Marty's wife and his two kids 136 00:13:28,608 --> 00:13:31,612 and how it's my daughter's birthday, 137 00:13:31,678 --> 00:13:33,157 and I know... 138 00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:37,726 There's nothing I can do about it. 139 00:13:37,784 --> 00:13:40,560 Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, 140 00:13:42,488 --> 00:13:44,399 but I'm gonna have a drink. 141 00:13:46,092 --> 00:13:48,003 - Let me get up! - Daddy! 142 00:13:48,728 --> 00:13:51,766 You're gonna meet him. I got to get the door. 143 00:13:54,767 --> 00:13:56,075 Hey. 144 00:14:12,952 --> 00:14:18,493 People out here, it's like they don't even know the outside world exists. 145 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,707 Might as well be living on the fucking moon. 146 00:14:25,565 --> 00:14:28,045 There's all kinds of ghettos in the world. 147 00:14:28,935 --> 00:14:31,472 It's all one ghetto, man. 148 00:14:32,038 --> 00:14:34,314 A giant gutter in outer space. 149 00:14:39,645 --> 00:14:41,647 Today, that scene, 150 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:46,663 that is the most fucked up thing I ever caught. 151 00:14:49,322 --> 00:14:50,995 Ask you something? 152 00:14:51,491 --> 00:14:53,493 You're a Christian, yeah? 153 00:14:55,361 --> 00:14:56,431 No. 154 00:14:57,997 --> 00:15:01,638 Well, then what do you got the cross for in your apartment? 155 00:15:02,468 --> 00:15:04,641 That's a form of meditation. 156 00:15:06,172 --> 00:15:07,207 How's that? 157 00:15:11,010 --> 00:15:13,718 I contemplate the moment in the garden, 158 00:15:14,947 --> 00:15:18,861 the idea of allowing your own crucifixion. 159 00:15:24,190 --> 00:15:27,034 But you're not a Christian. So what do you believe? 160 00:15:27,985 --> 00:15:30,706 I believe that people shouldn't talk about this type of shit at work. 161 00:15:30,730 --> 00:15:32,368 Hold on, hold on. 162 00:15:34,734 --> 00:15:38,272 Three months we been together, I get nothing from you. 163 00:15:38,371 --> 00:15:41,682 Today, what we're into now. 164 00:15:42,642 --> 00:15:45,748 Do me a courtesy, okay? I'm not trying to convert you. 165 00:15:45,878 --> 00:15:48,051 Look, I'd consider myself a realist, all right, 166 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:51,789 but in philosophical terms, I'm what's called a pessimist. 167 00:15:52,351 --> 00:15:54,388 Um, okay. What's that mean? 168 00:15:54,487 --> 00:15:56,592 It means I'm bad at parties. 169 00:15:58,191 --> 00:16:01,900 Let me tell you, you ain't great outside of parties either. 170 00:16:08,734 --> 00:16:13,080 I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. 171 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:15,676 We became too self-aware. 172 00:16:16,175 --> 00:16:19,748 Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. 173 00:16:19,846 --> 00:16:23,453 We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. 174 00:16:24,150 --> 00:16:26,960 Huh. That sounds god-fucking-awful, Rust. 175 00:16:27,053 --> 00:16:31,502 We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, 176 00:16:31,557 --> 00:16:35,562 this accretion of sensory experience and feeling, 177 00:16:36,529 --> 00:16:40,807 programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody 178 00:16:41,801 --> 00:16:43,872 when, in fact, everybody's nobody. 179 00:16:43,970 --> 00:16:46,314 I wouldn't go around spouting that shit if I was you. 180 00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:50,182 People around here don't think that way. I don't think that way. 181 00:16:50,243 --> 00:16:52,883 I think the honorable thing for our species to do 182 00:16:52,945 --> 00:16:54,947 is deny our programming. 183 00:16:56,516 --> 00:16:57,722 Stop reproducing. 184 00:16:58,551 --> 00:17:01,395 Walk hand in hand into extinction. 185 00:17:01,487 --> 00:17:02,761 One last midnight. 186 00:17:02,855 --> 00:17:05,597 Brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. 187 00:17:09,295 --> 00:17:12,401 So what's the point in getting out of bed in the morning? 188 00:17:12,465 --> 00:17:14,445 I tell myself I bear witness, 189 00:17:14,534 --> 00:17:18,641 but the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. 190 00:17:19,472 --> 00:17:21,975 And I lack the constitution for suicide. 191 00:17:22,808 --> 00:17:26,654 My luck, I picked today to get to know you. 192 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:29,685 Three months I don't hear a word from you, and... 193 00:17:29,749 --> 00:17:30,887 - You asked. - Yeah. 194 00:17:30,950 --> 00:17:33,692 And now I'm begging you to shut the fuck up. 195 00:17:42,194 --> 00:17:44,936 I get a bad taste in my mouth out here. 196 00:17:45,831 --> 00:17:48,004 Aluminum, ash. 197 00:17:49,468 --> 00:17:52,278 Like you can smell the psychosphere. 198 00:17:52,371 --> 00:17:53,645 I got an idea. 199 00:17:53,773 --> 00:17:58,552 Let's make the car a place of silent reflection from now on. 200 00:17:59,712 --> 00:18:00,816 Okay? 201 00:18:10,556 --> 00:18:12,832 What should I bring for dinner? 202 00:18:16,829 --> 00:18:19,571 A bottle of wine would be nice, I guess. 203 00:18:21,634 --> 00:18:22,738 I don't drink. 204 00:18:24,403 --> 00:18:27,009 Oh, no, of course not, Rust. 205 00:18:27,073 --> 00:18:30,452 Listen. When you're at my house, I want you to chill the fuck out. 206 00:18:30,509 --> 00:18:33,456 Don't even mention any of that bullshit you just said to me. 207 00:18:33,512 --> 00:18:34,957 Of course not, Marty. 208 00:18:35,047 --> 00:18:37,527 I'm not some kind of maniac, all right? 209 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,528 I mean, for fuck's sake. 210 00:18:57,403 --> 00:18:59,280 - DEMMA; What did you hear? - Ask Cohle. 211 00:18:59,372 --> 00:19:00,874 You mean The Tax Man? 212 00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:02,714 You know he's IA. 213 00:19:03,409 --> 00:19:06,356 This is State CID Homicide Detective Geraci. 214 00:19:08,147 --> 00:19:11,253 Yes, ma'am. I'm calling to ask about that night... 215 00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:15,598 I mean, you never heard any shit like this before. 216 00:19:15,688 --> 00:19:17,065 She had 217 00:19:17,790 --> 00:19:18,894 antlers. 218 00:19:19,392 --> 00:19:20,427 Um... 219 00:19:20,526 --> 00:19:22,506 - Fuck. - This is... 220 00:19:22,561 --> 00:19:26,941 This is a real thing. It's some Halloween shit. 221 00:19:30,936 --> 00:19:34,042 Well, we're gonna have to do a press conference. 222 00:19:35,107 --> 00:19:37,610 What about him? What do you think? 223 00:19:43,149 --> 00:19:44,457 Smart. 224 00:19:45,751 --> 00:19:46,957 Aloof. 225 00:19:47,186 --> 00:19:49,723 Doesn't care about making friends, 226 00:19:49,789 --> 00:19:52,497 but he's already running with it. 227 00:19:52,558 --> 00:19:55,437 He's got a real mind for it. 228 00:19:57,163 --> 00:19:58,369 Yeah. 229 00:19:58,431 --> 00:20:00,468 So you'd keep him on it? 230 00:20:05,971 --> 00:20:08,212 Both of us, yeah' I would. 231 00:20:08,274 --> 00:20:10,811 All right. You're still lead. 232 00:20:11,277 --> 00:20:13,814 The incident room is yours. 233 00:20:13,913 --> 00:20:17,224 - And, uh, you do the briefing tomorrow. - Yes, sir. 234 00:20:17,316 --> 00:20:18,659 Thank you. 235 00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:25,501 Hello, sir. 236 00:20:30,563 --> 00:20:32,042 Fuck that prick. 237 00:20:32,131 --> 00:20:33,735 All I'm saying is it doesn't make any sense 238 00:20:33,799 --> 00:20:36,000 - for her to be dumped in a cane field. - Hello? 239 00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:37,742 Apparently, she had all kinds of weird markings. 240 00:20:37,837 --> 00:20:38,872 Yeah. No. I couldn't hear you there. 241 00:20:38,971 --> 00:20:40,882 Antlers, and shit there was burned out. 242 00:20:40,973 --> 00:20:42,816 That's my point. They wanted you to see her. 243 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:44,183 Yeah. You don't mark up a body like that... 244 00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,917 She had antlers? What does that mean? 245 00:20:47,012 --> 00:20:48,616 It was a crown. 246 00:20:50,683 --> 00:20:53,755 We'll do the briefing tomorrow, guys. Early. 247 00:20:53,853 --> 00:20:56,527 My guy does the AP Wire asked about Satanism. 248 00:20:56,589 --> 00:20:59,934 It got Speece here. You're gonna have his nose up your ass. 249 00:20:59,992 --> 00:21:02,563 Major was saying something about a press conference. 250 00:21:02,628 --> 00:21:05,370 Well, guess I can count my blessings, fellas. 251 00:21:05,431 --> 00:21:07,001 Thanks for that. 252 00:21:20,045 --> 00:21:22,082 Hey, you mind if I skate? Ahem. 253 00:21:23,215 --> 00:21:26,560 I got some names from Vice, prost farms. 254 00:21:27,186 --> 00:21:29,097 Check around on our DB. 255 00:21:30,790 --> 00:21:32,133 You want me to go with you? 256 00:21:32,191 --> 00:21:34,501 Nah. Just something to do. 257 00:21:36,629 --> 00:21:40,372 Yeah. You go ahead. I'll take care of the paperwork. 258 00:21:44,837 --> 00:21:49,047 Like I said, I'm feeling a lot of stuff hit me at this time. 259 00:21:49,175 --> 00:21:53,624 My daughter's birthday, this dead woman, and, um, 260 00:21:56,248 --> 00:22:01,527 figured I'd work the case, you know, till DiCillo called or we got an ID. 261 00:22:04,456 --> 00:22:07,027 State Vice gave me some addresses to follow up on. 262 00:22:07,126 --> 00:22:10,938 So far, nobody had talked to me. 263 00:22:35,688 --> 00:22:36,860 Come on! 264 00:22:45,965 --> 00:22:47,069 Evening, ladies. 265 00:22:48,567 --> 00:22:50,877 I was hoping to ask y'all a few questions. 266 00:22:52,838 --> 00:22:54,715 Oh, come on, man. 267 00:22:54,807 --> 00:22:56,377 I'll get the next round. 268 00:22:56,442 --> 00:22:58,149 You making trouble for us, sir? 269 00:22:58,944 --> 00:23:02,482 No. I'm just looking to get some information on a woman. 270 00:23:02,548 --> 00:23:03,720 Might be you know her. 271 00:23:03,816 --> 00:23:05,659 - Who's that? - Hold on. 272 00:23:07,653 --> 00:23:08,654 Mmm. 273 00:23:08,721 --> 00:23:12,100 We'll lake two large Long Island Iced Teas, please. 274 00:23:14,627 --> 00:23:15,901 Ma'am. 275 00:23:54,667 --> 00:23:56,772 I'm Rust, by the way. 276 00:23:56,835 --> 00:23:59,179 I'm Anette. She's Lucy. 277 00:24:01,373 --> 00:24:05,253 Either one of you know a woman about your age? 278 00:24:05,311 --> 00:24:06,847 Works the same place. 279 00:24:07,046 --> 00:24:11,085 About 5'5". Blond, like you. 280 00:24:11,717 --> 00:24:13,526 What kind of tits she have? 281 00:24:16,722 --> 00:24:21,398 Medium, a little larger than yours, proportion to the body, natural. 282 00:24:21,527 --> 00:24:22,733 Hmm. 283 00:24:22,795 --> 00:24:26,436 Gee. I don't know. We see a lot of girls like that around. 284 00:24:27,232 --> 00:24:30,805 Any girls like that you haven't seen around lately? 285 00:24:30,869 --> 00:24:32,473 Missing, like? 286 00:24:32,571 --> 00:24:34,312 People come and go. 287 00:24:35,975 --> 00:24:37,886 What do you want them for? 288 00:24:39,611 --> 00:24:44,026 I wouldn't bust somebody for hooking or drugs. 289 00:24:47,853 --> 00:24:50,094 I'm murder police. 290 00:24:50,155 --> 00:24:51,964 Somebody got killed. 291 00:24:53,325 --> 00:24:55,805 There's a girl named Liza, another called Destiny, 292 00:24:55,894 --> 00:24:58,841 but I seen Destiny yesterday at McDonald's. 293 00:24:58,931 --> 00:25:00,672 - What about Liza? - She's here. 294 00:25:12,211 --> 00:25:16,216 Anette, go get a couple more drinks from the bar, will you, please? 295 00:25:18,784 --> 00:25:20,127 All right. 296 00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:28,562 You get pills pretty easy? 297 00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,435 Relax. I want some. 298 00:25:37,036 --> 00:25:38,071 Speed? 299 00:25:38,170 --> 00:25:41,708 No, Quaaludes. Anything barbital. 300 00:25:41,807 --> 00:25:44,913 Uppers are easier to get, and they last longer, too. 301 00:25:45,010 --> 00:25:47,456 Yeah, but it's not like that. 302 00:25:47,513 --> 00:25:49,049 What's ii like? 303 00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:51,585 I don't sleep. 304 00:26:25,851 --> 00:26:27,296 Hey. 305 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:28,921 Oh. 306 00:26:28,987 --> 00:26:30,762 Hey, Lone Ranger. 307 00:26:30,856 --> 00:26:31,960 Hey. 308 00:26:32,891 --> 00:26:33,892 Ugh. 309 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:35,800 Dreaming. 310 00:26:35,894 --> 00:26:37,134 Why you out here, huh? 311 00:26:38,630 --> 00:26:40,667 Why didn't you come to bed? 312 00:26:40,999 --> 00:26:42,171 Um... 313 00:26:47,072 --> 00:26:50,986 Caught a bad one yesterday. 314 00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:53,954 Just couldn't sleep. 315 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,824 You got that woman from Erath? 316 00:26:56,882 --> 00:26:58,293 - Yeah. - Yeah? 317 00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,159 Saw it on the news. 318 00:27:04,056 --> 00:27:05,899 Girls will be up soon. 319 00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:09,800 Missed you the last couple days. 320 00:27:10,562 --> 00:27:13,736 Oh, shit. I got to shower. 321 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,039 Got a debriefing today and maybe a press conference later. 322 00:27:25,544 --> 00:27:28,718 And if Speece calls, tell him I'm debriefing the squad all morning. 323 00:27:28,814 --> 00:27:30,020 Well, Marty said he was doing that. 324 00:27:30,082 --> 00:27:31,082 He is. 325 00:27:31,116 --> 00:27:32,595 Hey, beautiful. 326 00:27:33,352 --> 00:27:34,888 Morning, baby. 327 00:27:34,953 --> 00:27:36,557 Marty, how you want your coffee, doll'? 328 00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:39,095 Strong and black, just like you. 329 00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:42,364 Prints came back. Dora Kelly Lange. 330 00:27:42,427 --> 00:27:47,740 Priors for shoplifting, possession and solicitation. 331 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:49,403 Address outside of St. Maninville. 332 00:27:49,535 --> 00:27:52,175 Landlord says she hasn't lived there in almost a year. 333 00:27:52,237 --> 00:27:53,307 She's got an ex, Charlie Lange, 334 00:27:53,438 --> 00:27:55,850 who's doing eight in Avoyelles for bad checks. 335 00:27:55,908 --> 00:27:59,481 Mom's outside of Breaux Bridge. DMV license expired. 336 00:27:59,545 --> 00:28:01,286 And DiCillo called. 337 00:28:04,716 --> 00:28:07,788 She was washed clean, not a print on her. 338 00:28:07,886 --> 00:28:11,197 We got ligature marks on the wrists and ankles. 339 00:28:11,290 --> 00:28:14,931 She was bound by a half-inch rope, maybe 10, 20 hours. 340 00:28:14,993 --> 00:28:17,564 Evidence of vaginal intercourse. 341 00:28:17,930 --> 00:28:21,878 Bound upright. Hadn't eaten in a day, maybe more. 342 00:28:22,234 --> 00:28:25,875 Toxicology hit for lysergic acid and methamphetamine. 343 00:28:25,971 --> 00:28:28,212 Crystal and LSD. 344 00:28:29,107 --> 00:28:31,053 How much LSD? 345 00:28:31,109 --> 00:28:33,919 Hard to say. Got to wait for a mass spec. 346 00:28:35,214 --> 00:28:38,093 So she was drugged, bound, 347 00:28:39,384 --> 00:28:42,888 tortured with a knife, strangled, 348 00:28:44,122 --> 00:28:45,396 posed out there. 349 00:28:46,325 --> 00:28:47,599 Yeah. 350 00:28:50,963 --> 00:28:52,169 What about this stuff? 351 00:28:52,231 --> 00:28:55,075 Well, the crown, for lack of a better word, 352 00:28:56,001 --> 00:29:00,074 rose thorns, early cane, switchgrass 353 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,046 Wrapped around a bent branch. 354 00:29:04,009 --> 00:29:07,422 And the horns are deer antlers. 355 00:29:07,479 --> 00:29:09,720 Again, no prints on anything. 356 00:29:09,815 --> 00:29:12,659 The symbols are painted with acrylic, basic blue, 357 00:29:12,718 --> 00:29:14,163 using a thick glove finger. 358 00:29:14,453 --> 00:29:16,455 Ideas what any of this means? 359 00:29:16,521 --> 00:29:18,000 I don't know. 360 00:29:18,957 --> 00:29:22,029 And it's all primitive. It's like cave paintings. 361 00:29:22,127 --> 00:29:24,368 Maybe you ought to talk to an anthropologist. 362 00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:41,648 All the trouble this guy went to. 363 00:29:41,713 --> 00:29:43,522 Seems real personal. 364 00:29:44,549 --> 00:29:46,256 I don't think so. 365 00:29:46,885 --> 00:29:49,195 It was iconic, planned. 366 00:29:50,522 --> 00:29:52,695 And in some ways, it was impersonal. 367 00:29:52,758 --> 00:29:54,601 Think of the blindfold. 368 00:29:59,031 --> 00:30:03,639 This place is like somebody's memory of the town, and the memory's fading. 369 00:30:04,736 --> 00:30:06,841 It's like there was never anything here but jungle. 370 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,946 Stop saying shit like that. It's unprofessional. 371 00:30:12,344 --> 00:30:14,722 Is that what I'm going for here? 372 00:30:15,747 --> 00:30:19,923 I just want you to stop saying odd shit, like you smell a psycho's fear, 373 00:30:19,985 --> 00:30:22,261 or you're in someone's faded memory of a town. 374 00:30:22,321 --> 00:30:23,527 Just stop. 375 00:30:23,588 --> 00:30:26,899 Well, given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, 376 00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:29,768 I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account, Marty. 377 00:30:42,007 --> 00:30:43,077 Ahem. 378 00:30:46,545 --> 00:30:49,116 You get any sleep last night? 379 00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:51,056 I don't sleep. 380 00:30:51,149 --> 00:30:52,651 I just dream. 381 00:30:54,886 --> 00:30:55,921 "Occult." 382 00:30:57,155 --> 00:30:59,761 Now, I don't know if this shit is anything but crazy, 383 00:30:59,825 --> 00:31:03,204 but Speece and the Superintendent, they're paying attention. 384 00:31:03,295 --> 00:31:05,172 The newspapers are making hay. 385 00:31:06,131 --> 00:31:07,667 Church groups. 386 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:09,812 Detective? 387 00:31:09,868 --> 00:31:11,211 Ahem. 388 00:31:11,269 --> 00:31:13,374 All right, here's what we got so far. 389 00:31:13,438 --> 00:31:16,908 Deceased's name is Dora Kelly Lange, 28. 390 00:31:17,008 --> 00:31:19,284 You stay busy now, the business? 391 00:31:19,745 --> 00:31:24,091 Well, yeah, I got the security firm, PI stuff. Routine. 392 00:31:24,950 --> 00:31:28,989 A lot of guys that leave their job, cemetery within 10. 393 00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:31,932 No family, idle hands. 394 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:36,805 Some advice. You make it out, you stay busy. 395 00:31:37,629 --> 00:31:41,008 Hit the corners. Ask about anybody she was seeing. 396 00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:46,015 Regular customers, meth dealers, rough johns, anything. 397 00:31:47,506 --> 00:31:49,611 Any questions? 398 00:32:15,834 --> 00:32:17,780 You believe in ghosts? 399 00:32:21,373 --> 00:32:24,513 What'd we say about silent reflection? 400 00:32:34,670 --> 00:32:36,831 You happen to hear anything out of the ordinary 401 00:32:36,855 --> 00:32:39,961 between 10:00 and 1:00 a.m. out back? 402 00:32:41,193 --> 00:32:45,573 No, no, but, uh, sometimes they dove hunt out there. 403 00:32:46,364 --> 00:32:47,741 They found a woman? 404 00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:51,045 Is it the Fontenot girl? 405 00:32:51,736 --> 00:32:54,216 - Who? - And why would you ask that? 406 00:32:54,272 --> 00:32:55,410 I don't know. 407 00:32:55,807 --> 00:32:58,185 Went missing around here years back. 408 00:32:58,243 --> 00:32:59,916 Last time something happened. 409 00:33:00,345 --> 00:33:02,416 Just thought maybe it's her. 410 00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:04,085 How old was she, this girl? 411 00:33:04,149 --> 00:33:05,594 I don't know. Little. 412 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:09,996 You know where the family lives? 413 00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:23,203 They had a place a couple of streets down. 414 00:33:25,136 --> 00:33:26,877 They moved after. 415 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,560 Do you know the Fontenot girl, the one went missing? 416 00:33:30,575 --> 00:33:31,883 Her? 417 00:33:33,311 --> 00:33:37,555 Her family come to our service once or twice, five or six years back. 418 00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:40,496 Is that the girl? Oh, Lord. 419 00:33:40,919 --> 00:33:42,694 No, sir, it's not. 420 00:33:44,322 --> 00:33:45,596 Excuse me. 421 00:33:46,801 --> 00:33:48,402 I want to ask y'all something. 422 00:33:48,426 --> 00:33:50,633 Y'all think maybe this have something to do with those cats? 423 00:33:50,729 --> 00:33:53,209 - What cats? - Two of them. 424 00:33:53,265 --> 00:33:55,745 One, and a couple of weeks later another. 425 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,040 Somebody cut them up, 426 00:33:57,669 --> 00:34:00,707 turned the insides out, then nailed them to the front door, twice. 427 00:34:01,106 --> 00:34:03,382 Now, I called and told the police, 428 00:34:03,441 --> 00:34:06,217 but we're predominantly an African American congregation. 429 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:08,956 I asked for it to be investigated. 430 00:34:10,048 --> 00:34:12,585 We aren't those type of police' sir. 431 00:34:13,985 --> 00:34:15,328 Well, who is, then? 432 00:34:20,158 --> 00:34:22,331 Can I ask you something? 433 00:34:25,864 --> 00:34:28,811 Any of these look familiar to you? Seen them anywhere? 434 00:34:28,934 --> 00:34:30,675 No. No, they 435 00:34:30,769 --> 00:34:33,807 look like something that might be carved into a tree or something. 436 00:34:33,872 --> 00:34:35,852 Mmm-hmm. How about these? 437 00:34:36,975 --> 00:34:40,889 Now, that look like something my old auntie taught us how to make when I was a tyke. 438 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,091 What are they? 439 00:34:43,148 --> 00:34:45,890 Some folks call them bird traps. 440 00:34:45,951 --> 00:34:48,591 Old auntie told us that they were devil nets. 441 00:34:48,687 --> 00:34:51,725 You put them around the bed, catch the devil before he get too close. 442 00:34:52,123 --> 00:34:53,898 - That's interesting. - Hmm. 443 00:34:53,959 --> 00:34:55,996 She was a wonderful woman. 444 00:34:57,429 --> 00:34:59,204 Loved her some Jesus, 445 00:34:59,264 --> 00:35:02,370 but had a bit of that Santeria in her, you know. 446 00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:05,676 I always just thought it was something for children to do. 447 00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:07,113 Keep them busy. 448 00:35:07,205 --> 00:35:10,186 Tell them stories why they're tying sticks together. 449 00:35:11,276 --> 00:35:14,314 Then that's all we got on the Fontenot girl. 450 00:35:14,412 --> 00:35:15,773 There was nothing in there. 451 00:35:15,814 --> 00:35:18,226 Says, "Possible report made in error." 452 00:35:18,283 --> 00:35:19,591 Now, that was five years ago. 453 00:35:19,718 --> 00:35:21,891 Ted Childress was sheriff back then. 454 00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:24,365 He's setup in, uh, Gulf Shores now, I think. 455 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:27,096 10-year-old girl goes missing, that doesn't go statewide? 456 00:35:27,158 --> 00:35:30,731 Now, hold on now. My understanding, the little girl went off with her birth daddy. 457 00:35:30,829 --> 00:35:35,039 Now, did you check her mom's record? Possession, solicitation. 458 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:37,340 I believe Ted knew the family, 459 00:35:37,402 --> 00:35:40,002 and the feeling was the little girl was better off with her daddy. 460 00:35:40,005 --> 00:35:41,985 Mom seemed to agree. 461 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,486 She filed a complaint, then never bothered with it again. 462 00:35:44,576 --> 00:35:45,816 Took off with her boyfriend. 463 00:35:46,711 --> 00:35:50,682 R&I said you had a complaint these parts around December. 464 00:35:50,749 --> 00:35:53,093 Little girl getting chased through the woods. 465 00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:55,654 Oh, yeah, I pulled that one for you, too. 466 00:36:04,429 --> 00:36:05,999 What the hell is this? 467 00:36:06,064 --> 00:36:09,671 Little girl said a green-eared spaghetti monster chased her through some woods. 468 00:36:11,236 --> 00:36:13,614 Now, we had her work with a sketch artist, 469 00:36:13,672 --> 00:36:15,674 and she told us that looked exactly right. 470 00:36:15,774 --> 00:36:19,415 Now, you want to call in an APB on that, you go right ahead. 471 00:36:21,346 --> 00:36:24,225 Listen, boys. I'm gonna have to call a little timeout, make a beer run. 472 00:36:24,282 --> 00:36:26,785 Well, why don't you hold off on that for a while? 473 00:36:29,487 --> 00:36:31,865 All right, well, why don't you get it, then? 474 00:36:32,557 --> 00:36:34,696 We really don't want to do that. 475 00:36:34,759 --> 00:36:37,933 Well, is this supposed to be admissible? Huh? 476 00:36:38,797 --> 00:36:41,277 You wanna pick my brain? 477 00:36:41,433 --> 00:36:45,643 You work a room, you buy a man a cheeseburger and a Coke, don't you? 478 00:36:47,605 --> 00:36:51,246 I'll take a sixer. Old Milwaukee or Lone Star, nothing snooty. 479 00:36:51,309 --> 00:36:53,880 Why is this so important to you all of a sudden? 480 00:36:53,945 --> 00:36:56,892 'Cause it's Thursday and it's past noon. 481 00:36:57,816 --> 00:37:00,319 Thursday is one of my days off. 482 00:37:00,385 --> 00:37:03,264 On my off days, I start drinking at noon. 483 00:37:04,122 --> 00:37:06,602 You don't get to interrupt that. 484 00:37:21,372 --> 00:37:22,476 Ahem. 485 00:37:24,409 --> 00:37:26,821 - I'd appreciate a little hustle up on that. - 486 00:37:29,114 --> 00:37:32,095 Yesterday, at approximately 6 a.m... 487 00:37:32,650 --> 00:37:38,566 civilians came across the body of a female in a sugar cane field outside of Erath. 488 00:37:40,024 --> 00:37:42,630 Now, this person, we believe, was murdered, 489 00:37:42,727 --> 00:37:44,604 and we are not yet in a position to 490 00:37:44,696 --> 00:37:49,577 Release the identity of the victim or to offer details of the crime. 491 00:37:49,634 --> 00:37:52,843 Our investigators 492 00:37:53,171 --> 00:37:58,211 have several leads, and hopefully will have a suspect for you in custody soon. 493 00:37:59,477 --> 00:38:05,223 Now, this perpetrator will be apprehended, and he will know swift Louisiana justice. 494 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,456 - Any Satanic signs? - How old was she? 495 00:38:07,519 --> 00:38:09,157 - Charlie? - Mmm-hmm? 496 00:38:09,254 --> 00:38:11,200 Let's talk about your ex, Dora Lange. 497 00:38:11,890 --> 00:38:13,528 You want to talk Dori? 498 00:38:14,159 --> 00:38:16,298 What's she said I've done now? 499 00:38:16,895 --> 00:38:19,967 Nothing. We're just curious if you knew what she's been up to, 500 00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:21,271 maybe where she's living? 501 00:38:21,399 --> 00:38:22,400 Nope. 502 00:38:23,434 --> 00:38:27,109 Got the divorce papers pushed through after I'd been here about a year. 503 00:38:27,238 --> 00:38:28,979 I don't blame the bitch. 504 00:38:29,607 --> 00:38:31,382 She got a habit? 505 00:38:31,442 --> 00:38:33,854 Yeah, a few. 506 00:38:34,412 --> 00:38:37,950 Weed, meth, juice. Name it. 507 00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:41,290 Charlie, how'd y'all meet? 508 00:38:41,352 --> 00:38:43,923 Growed up together, dropped out the same time. 509 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:45,899 Hitched up way too quick. 510 00:38:47,091 --> 00:38:49,935 You know how it is, you want a wife, but only half the time. 511 00:38:50,628 --> 00:38:51,698 Hmm. 512 00:38:51,763 --> 00:38:54,744 Why are you saying you hadn't heard from her? 513 00:38:54,799 --> 00:38:57,143 She called up here for you not too long ago. 514 00:38:57,936 --> 00:39:01,110 She couldn't help me anyway, man. She sounded fucked up. 515 00:39:01,206 --> 00:39:03,015 You see, that's exactly the kind of thing 516 00:39:03,074 --> 00:39:05,281 that we do want to know about though, Charlie. 517 00:39:05,376 --> 00:39:06,753 Oh. All right. 518 00:39:07,912 --> 00:39:09,914 Uh... I needed some scratch for my store, 519 00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:13,120 and Dori owes me money, she ain't got no fucking phone, 520 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:16,495 so got a number to her friend Carla, got her to call me back, 521 00:39:16,554 --> 00:39:18,591 and she ain't made no fucking sense. 522 00:39:18,890 --> 00:39:21,996 Ahem. Carla's full name and phone number. 523 00:39:22,961 --> 00:39:24,998 What you mean, she didn't make sense? 524 00:39:25,964 --> 00:39:28,137 Like she could duck hunt with a rake. 525 00:39:29,234 --> 00:39:30,611 High, yeah. 526 00:39:31,569 --> 00:39:34,209 Talking about she's gonna become a nun. 527 00:39:35,006 --> 00:39:37,384 - Why a nun? - I don't know, man. She was high. 528 00:39:37,442 --> 00:39:39,012 Fucked up. 529 00:39:39,143 --> 00:39:42,750 Uh, talking about she met a king. 530 00:39:43,481 --> 00:39:44,892 Yeah. 531 00:39:44,949 --> 00:39:49,125 Anyway, I don't need no snitch jacket up in here. 532 00:39:49,254 --> 00:39:51,791 Give me a break. 533 00:39:52,590 --> 00:39:56,367 This is Avoyelles. It's a goddamn day camp. 534 00:39:56,961 --> 00:39:59,066 Spend sometime in Angola. 535 00:39:59,831 --> 00:40:02,209 Surprised you even got Aryan Nation here. 536 00:40:05,003 --> 00:40:06,380 What'd Dori do? 537 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:11,845 Dori's dead. 538 00:40:13,745 --> 00:40:17,249 Thank you, boys. We almost had a moment there. 539 00:40:29,761 --> 00:40:30,762 Mmm. 540 00:40:32,363 --> 00:40:35,139 So, you want to talk the whole case through or just the end? 541 00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:38,146 No. The whole story from your end, if you don't mind. 542 00:40:38,202 --> 00:40:41,843 You know, like he said, files got ruined. Hurricane Rita. 543 00:40:44,842 --> 00:40:48,483 What he didn't say is that this is about something else. 544 00:40:49,948 --> 00:40:52,986 Something new. That one in Lake Charles, maybe? 545 00:40:53,952 --> 00:40:55,727 Now, why you say that? 546 00:40:55,787 --> 00:40:58,563 Kept the details out of the paper. 547 00:40:58,656 --> 00:41:01,569 Yeah, we did. You know anything about that? 548 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,571 About Lake Charles? 549 00:41:04,796 --> 00:41:08,369 You ought to let me see what you got, jog my memory. 550 00:41:08,433 --> 00:41:11,676 Let's hear your story first. See how it fits with what we got. 551 00:41:14,706 --> 00:41:16,686 Well, your dime, boss. 552 00:41:17,575 --> 00:41:21,216 Talking Cohle, what about that dinner you mentioned, 553 00:41:21,279 --> 00:41:22,758 he turned up drunk? 554 00:41:22,847 --> 00:41:29,162 Oh. Yeah. Well, ahem, that dinner, that was a bit later. 555 00:41:30,855 --> 00:41:34,132 He was kind of funny. The flowers, you know. 556 00:41:34,192 --> 00:41:37,503 Like he read somewhere that if you get invited to dinner, 557 00:41:37,562 --> 00:41:39,769 you're supposed to bring flowers. 558 00:41:40,865 --> 00:41:41,935 What the hell? 559 00:41:42,266 --> 00:41:44,268 You can barely stand up. 560 00:41:45,903 --> 00:41:48,907 What, you don't drink with me or the boys, 561 00:41:49,407 --> 00:41:52,684 and you got to get a load on before you visit my family? 562 00:41:52,744 --> 00:41:54,655 No, Marty, it's not like that. 563 00:41:56,647 --> 00:41:59,127 I didn't mean to, all right? 564 00:42:01,753 --> 00:42:04,529 I don't drink 'cause I've had trouble with it before. 565 00:42:04,589 --> 00:42:06,227 I didn't mean to. 566 00:42:10,294 --> 00:42:14,071 I was checking out a CI and ended up hanging around a bar. 567 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:20,906 I was sitting there, and I couldn't think of a good reason not to. 568 00:42:23,074 --> 00:42:24,815 Usually I can. 569 00:42:30,915 --> 00:42:32,895 Don't worry about it. 570 00:42:33,684 --> 00:42:38,099 Have some more coffee and just try to make 10 minutes of conversation. 571 00:42:38,189 --> 00:42:39,634 You got it. 572 00:42:40,625 --> 00:42:44,402 I'll call Chris or somebody, get you out of here. 573 00:42:47,165 --> 00:42:48,405 Marty. 574 00:42:51,436 --> 00:42:53,040 I'm sorry, man. 575 00:42:54,272 --> 00:42:55,842 Forget it. 576 00:42:56,641 --> 00:42:58,985 We'll try this some other time. 577 00:43:10,154 --> 00:43:13,692 Well, uh, Rust, it is so nice to finally meet you. 578 00:43:14,492 --> 00:43:16,733 Sorry it took so long. 579 00:43:16,794 --> 00:43:19,775 Well, I tried to tell her you aren't big on socializing. 580 00:43:19,831 --> 00:43:23,404 I said that your life's in this man's hands, right? 581 00:43:23,468 --> 00:43:25,277 Of course you should meet the family. 582 00:43:26,604 --> 00:43:29,585 Well, not quite as dramatic as that, hon. 583 00:43:30,374 --> 00:43:31,853 I've never fired my gun. 584 00:43:32,210 --> 00:43:33,883 Have you fired your gun? 585 00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:35,117 Audrey. 586 00:43:39,484 --> 00:43:40,519 Yes. 587 00:43:41,319 --> 00:43:42,320 You shot people? 588 00:43:42,386 --> 00:43:43,729 Macie. 589 00:43:46,157 --> 00:43:47,727 Dad's never shot anybody. 590 00:43:48,726 --> 00:43:50,364 Well, that's good. 591 00:43:51,496 --> 00:43:52,736 You don't want to shoot people. 592 00:43:53,164 --> 00:43:54,438 But you have. 593 00:43:56,334 --> 00:43:58,541 Marty says you're from Texas. 594 00:43:59,604 --> 00:44:01,083 Yes, south Texas. 595 00:44:01,806 --> 00:44:04,650 I grew up in Alaska. 596 00:44:04,709 --> 00:44:07,349 Just been working here the last 10, 12 years. 597 00:44:07,445 --> 00:44:09,152 What kind of work? 598 00:44:10,414 --> 00:44:12,155 Narcotics, mostly. 599 00:44:12,416 --> 00:44:13,416 Um... 600 00:44:14,552 --> 00:44:17,726 I was on the robbery squad in Houston until '89. 601 00:44:17,855 --> 00:44:19,357 Ahem. Oh. 602 00:44:19,423 --> 00:44:21,096 Be right back. 603 00:44:21,592 --> 00:44:23,299 Y'all keep eating. 604 00:44:28,633 --> 00:44:30,408 Do you like your job? 605 00:44:34,071 --> 00:44:35,709 Not exactly. 606 00:44:36,207 --> 00:44:38,187 It's worthwhile. 607 00:44:38,242 --> 00:44:39,880 I'm good at it. 608 00:44:40,745 --> 00:44:42,554 You're not married? 609 00:44:44,315 --> 00:44:45,851 Once. 610 00:44:45,917 --> 00:44:47,760 - Uh, not anymore. - Mmm-hmm. 611 00:44:48,586 --> 00:44:50,930 Did you do this while you were married? 612 00:44:51,455 --> 00:44:53,093 Hey, Chris. 613 00:44:53,791 --> 00:44:55,793 Hey, thanks for the page. 614 00:44:56,894 --> 00:44:59,238 Yeah, well, he'll appreciate it. 615 00:45:00,665 --> 00:45:03,441 Well, all right, then I appreciate it. 616 00:45:11,676 --> 00:45:13,019 - Children? 617 00:45:13,811 --> 00:45:15,017 One. 618 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:18,153 She passed. 619 00:45:19,350 --> 00:45:21,956 Marriage didn't last long after that. 620 00:45:24,322 --> 00:45:25,494 Sorry. 621 00:45:28,426 --> 00:45:30,267 Ahem. Chris Demma's on the phone for you. 622 00:45:30,328 --> 00:45:33,366 Something about a Cl or... 623 00:45:33,664 --> 00:45:35,610 Back there to the left. 624 00:45:36,334 --> 00:45:37,642 - Excuse me. - Of course. 625 00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:43,177 Ahem. 626 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,826 What was that? 627 00:45:51,882 --> 00:45:53,987 What were y'all talking about? 628 00:45:54,085 --> 00:45:55,587 Your job. 629 00:45:56,554 --> 00:45:58,158 What do you know about him' Marty? 630 00:46:01,158 --> 00:46:02,398 Um... 631 00:46:02,493 --> 00:46:03,938 Not a lot. 632 00:46:03,995 --> 00:46:06,601 He could be a good detective. 633 00:46:06,664 --> 00:46:09,201 He's running on this thing, but, uh... 634 00:46:10,134 --> 00:46:11,169 Uppity. 635 00:46:14,305 --> 00:46:15,477 What? 636 00:46:16,774 --> 00:46:18,447 Have you ever asked him about himself? 637 00:46:20,411 --> 00:46:24,860 Baby, trust me, you do not want to pick this man's brain. 638 00:46:29,987 --> 00:46:31,261 What was that? 639 00:46:31,322 --> 00:46:34,098 Oh, some details on the CI. Ahem. 640 00:46:39,030 --> 00:46:42,034 Thank you for dinner, Maggie. This looks great. 641 00:46:42,133 --> 00:46:43,441 My pleasure. 642 00:46:43,534 --> 00:46:46,811 - I don't like that broccoli. - Mind your manners. 643 00:46:46,871 --> 00:46:49,818 So you need to go or what? 644 00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:54,319 No, it's nothing can't wait till tomorrow. 645 00:46:56,013 --> 00:46:59,790 Rust, uh, what you were saying before? 646 00:47:03,287 --> 00:47:06,063 Oh, we can find something nicer to talk about. 647 00:47:07,024 --> 00:47:09,504 Marty, I saw your table in there. 648 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,335 You fly fish? 649 00:47:12,229 --> 00:47:13,731 Little bit. 650 00:47:15,599 --> 00:47:18,944 So, you and Cohle went bad in '02, huh? 651 00:47:19,904 --> 00:47:21,315 Heard about that. 652 00:47:21,439 --> 00:47:22,918 Yeah, well, 653 00:47:23,274 --> 00:47:28,087 what happened between me and him don't have nothing to do with Dora Lange. 654 00:47:30,081 --> 00:47:32,925 I worked with Rust Cohle for seven years. 655 00:47:33,784 --> 00:47:36,731 People change, relationships change. 656 00:47:38,656 --> 00:47:40,135 You stay in touch? 657 00:47:41,926 --> 00:47:43,530 No. 658 00:47:43,594 --> 00:47:46,040 No, I haven't talked to Rust in 659 00:47:47,965 --> 00:47:49,410 10 years. 660 00:47:50,735 --> 00:47:51,805 Yeah. 661 00:47:55,106 --> 00:47:57,108 Look, however we... 662 00:47:57,208 --> 00:47:59,484 He was a good detective. 663 00:48:00,478 --> 00:48:03,550 And it don't matter how we ended it. I mean... 664 00:48:04,915 --> 00:48:07,521 I can say that because it's the truth. 665 00:48:08,285 --> 00:48:11,391 And I don't hold grudges. 666 00:48:11,956 --> 00:48:15,199 I believe that's the shit that leads to cancer. 667 00:48:20,264 --> 00:48:23,370 But why am I talking about dinner? 668 00:48:23,434 --> 00:48:27,177 Y'all want to walk through the Lange case, fine. 669 00:48:30,074 --> 00:48:33,214 This other stuff... What's going on? 670 00:48:33,611 --> 00:48:36,091 Sorry. We just heard some stories. 671 00:48:36,847 --> 00:48:40,351 Well, personally, I heard he was an ace case man, right? 672 00:48:40,451 --> 00:48:42,453 I'd like to understand his process. 673 00:48:47,024 --> 00:48:49,163 Process. Sure. 674 00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:55,343 The other landlord says she trashed the place, so she lost her deposit. 675 00:48:55,399 --> 00:48:57,538 And her neighbors check out. 676 00:48:57,601 --> 00:49:02,778 Those that remember her said that she, uh, used to come in early in the morning, 677 00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,286 If she came home at all. 678 00:49:08,245 --> 00:49:10,316 You guys canvass the bars pretty good today? 679 00:49:13,851 --> 00:49:15,455 Up your ass, Cohle. 680 00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:19,126 Why don't you do your own fucking leg work, you rat fuck? 681 00:49:24,028 --> 00:49:25,837 Say it again, rummy. 682 00:49:25,930 --> 00:49:27,204 Hey. 683 00:49:31,435 --> 00:49:33,506 You know what, man? 684 00:49:33,604 --> 00:49:35,481 Fuck you, 685 00:49:35,573 --> 00:49:37,018 Tax Man. 686 00:49:42,079 --> 00:49:43,114 What the fuck? 687 00:49:43,447 --> 00:49:44,482 Ahem. 688 00:49:44,548 --> 00:49:45,856 Back to point. 689 00:49:45,950 --> 00:49:47,987 Got three hits on working girls. 690 00:49:48,085 --> 00:49:50,929 No one close to her, naturally. 691 00:49:50,988 --> 00:49:53,764 A few names recognized her as occasional. 692 00:49:53,824 --> 00:49:55,497 Like she tricked now and then, 693 00:49:55,559 --> 00:49:58,631 show up at a couple of truck stops when she needed cash. 694 00:49:59,363 --> 00:50:00,865 You got some names. Which ones? 695 00:50:00,965 --> 00:50:04,572 I heard from my AP guy, Marie Fontenot. 696 00:50:04,635 --> 00:50:08,173 Said her uncle's Danny Fontenot. Pitcher, LSU. 697 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,516 Yeah, I watched him play. Great player. 698 00:50:11,609 --> 00:50:13,714 - Well, he lives close by. - Ahem. 699 00:50:13,811 --> 00:50:15,347 Well, thanks, guys. 700 00:50:16,447 --> 00:50:18,620 What about you two? Did you get anything today? 701 00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:20,252 Not much, sir. 702 00:50:20,317 --> 00:50:24,265 Well, you might know the Reverend Tuttle. 703 00:50:24,321 --> 00:50:26,494 He runs our statewide charity drive. 704 00:50:26,557 --> 00:50:28,503 This is Detective Hart, Detective Cohle. 705 00:50:28,559 --> 00:50:30,004 - Very good to meet you, Officers. - Pleasure, sir. 706 00:50:30,094 --> 00:50:31,334 Rustin Cohle. 707 00:50:31,395 --> 00:50:37,141 Your case has a lot of people taking care, doors locking where they used to not. 708 00:50:37,601 --> 00:50:41,105 Eddie's been speaking to me about it. Concerned, very concerned. 709 00:50:41,405 --> 00:50:43,885 We've been discussing the viability of a task force 710 00:50:43,974 --> 00:50:46,648 to investigate crimes with an anti-Christian connotation. 711 00:50:46,710 --> 00:50:49,088 You what? Really? 712 00:50:51,949 --> 00:50:52,950 Yes. 713 00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,533 I don't mean to tell men of your positions, 714 00:50:59,590 --> 00:51:03,003 but there is a war happening behind things. 715 00:51:05,896 --> 00:51:07,204 Thank you for doing your part. 716 00:51:07,264 --> 00:51:09,244 - Thank you, sir. - Yeah. 717 00:51:10,634 --> 00:51:12,238 Well, 718 00:51:13,470 --> 00:51:18,180 Eddie's going to be very, very pleased to have such good men working on this. 719 00:51:23,047 --> 00:51:26,119 - Are you kidding me? - Un-fucking-believable. 720 00:51:27,151 --> 00:51:29,995 "Anti-Christian." Fucks. 721 00:51:30,754 --> 00:51:32,199 And who the fuck's Eddie? 722 00:51:32,523 --> 00:51:33,524 Huh? 723 00:51:34,992 --> 00:51:36,198 Is he serious? 724 00:51:36,327 --> 00:51:38,432 Well, he, uh, doesn't have a television. 725 00:51:38,529 --> 00:51:40,338 - Who's Eddie? - And he's from Texas. 726 00:51:40,397 --> 00:51:44,277 - He's the fucking governor. Edwin Tuttle. - Ah. 727 00:51:44,368 --> 00:51:46,075 They're first cousins. 728 00:51:46,837 --> 00:51:47,907 Well, that makes sense. 729 00:51:48,038 --> 00:51:50,575 Yeah, that's the sound of the big machine, Cohle. 730 00:51:50,641 --> 00:51:52,917 It's gearing up to pound your ass. 731 00:51:53,477 --> 00:51:55,957 It's the sound of a gaggle of hens. 732 00:51:56,046 --> 00:51:59,721 Yeah, you better watch your mouth or they're gonna peck your eyes out. 733 00:52:02,286 --> 00:52:03,287 - Hi. - Hi. 734 00:52:03,354 --> 00:52:07,234 I'm looking for Detective Hart. I have a stack of depositions for him. 735 00:52:07,324 --> 00:52:11,602 Judge Sutpen told me to make sure and give them to Detective Hart and no one else, so... 736 00:52:11,695 --> 00:52:14,039 - Is that the, um... - The depositions. 737 00:52:14,131 --> 00:52:16,372 I thought I should walk you through them. 738 00:52:16,433 --> 00:52:19,346 Oh. Great, great. Let's just find a place to talk. 739 00:52:19,403 --> 00:52:20,575 Thanks, Cathleen. 740 00:52:20,638 --> 00:52:22,278 - Thank you. - You're welcome. 741 00:52:22,306 --> 00:52:24,013 Right through here. 742 00:52:51,935 --> 00:52:53,415 Your victim was Dora Lange, 743 00:52:54,605 --> 00:52:57,085 but you all checked on Marie Fontenot. Why? 744 00:52:58,442 --> 00:53:01,150 Missing girl, five years gone, report made in error. 745 00:53:01,278 --> 00:53:04,282 She had an uncle who lived nearby. 746 00:53:05,749 --> 00:53:07,695 And call it intuition. 747 00:53:10,554 --> 00:53:12,898 Sometimes he's more responsive. 748 00:53:12,990 --> 00:53:14,401 I'd like to help. 749 00:53:21,065 --> 00:53:23,045 Mr. Fontenot. No way. 750 00:53:26,670 --> 00:53:28,115 Uh, ahem. 751 00:53:29,473 --> 00:53:33,649 We met' uh, maybe seven years ago. 752 00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:38,216 I was visiting Skip Hays. I'd played for USL. 753 00:53:38,916 --> 00:53:41,920 A thing of beauty, sir, watching you throw. 754 00:53:41,985 --> 00:53:42,986 Hmm. 755 00:53:43,654 --> 00:53:47,727 Danny, this man's a detective' with the police. 756 00:53:47,791 --> 00:53:51,170 He's talking to me like I'm a child. 757 00:53:52,796 --> 00:53:54,002 Uh... 758 00:53:55,532 --> 00:53:58,069 I'm actually... Ahem-Sorry, uh... 759 00:53:58,736 --> 00:54:01,512 We wanted to ask you about your niece, Marie. 760 00:54:01,839 --> 00:54:03,216 Hmm. 761 00:54:03,273 --> 00:54:06,311 "How much could you put on one family?" I ask the Lord. 762 00:54:07,111 --> 00:54:08,886 We try to get by. 763 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,860 Did you know Marie's birth father'? 764 00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:13,553 Len? 765 00:54:13,650 --> 00:54:15,391 Len Stroghes was her daddy. 766 00:54:15,519 --> 00:54:16,520 Hmm. 767 00:54:17,154 --> 00:54:18,394 Okay. 768 00:54:18,489 --> 00:54:20,799 We're asking because, uh, 769 00:54:20,891 --> 00:54:24,737 we had heard that Marie ran off with him and they... 770 00:54:25,329 --> 00:54:26,501 She wasn't really missing. 771 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,546 That's what Debbie said. 772 00:54:32,202 --> 00:54:36,116 Oh. Well, uh, anybody heard from Len? 773 00:54:36,206 --> 00:54:39,016 Anybody maybe knows where he's at? 774 00:54:43,647 --> 00:54:46,321 Uh, sorry. The last thing. 775 00:54:46,416 --> 00:54:47,952 Do you know where Debbie is now? 776 00:54:48,051 --> 00:54:52,363 She married another man, not the one she was with when Marie... 777 00:54:53,891 --> 00:54:56,030 She was in Vegas, last we heard. 778 00:55:19,550 --> 00:55:22,326 - Marie must have loved it here. - Yeah. 779 00:55:23,153 --> 00:55:26,396 - All this for her'? - Danny loved her so much. 780 00:55:27,524 --> 00:55:31,165 We weren't her legal guardians, but she played here all the time. 781 00:55:31,228 --> 00:55:32,571 More than her mama's. 782 00:55:33,230 --> 00:55:34,766 I can see why. 783 00:55:36,066 --> 00:55:39,946 What is it Dan has, if you don't mind my asking? 784 00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:43,007 All they ever told us was a cerebral event. 785 00:55:43,841 --> 00:55:45,843 A series of strokes, like. 786 00:55:54,117 --> 00:55:55,494 Marty? 787 00:55:58,121 --> 00:56:00,294 Excuse me one sec. 788 00:56:11,134 --> 00:56:13,637 Inside, on the floor, on the right. 789 00:56:33,290 --> 00:56:34,769 I don't know what that is. 790 00:56:34,825 --> 00:56:38,170 I haven't looked in there since the police first came. 791 00:56:45,936 --> 00:56:48,246 I bet you want to hear the hero shot, huh? 792 00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,821 The place we carried the kids out? 793 00:56:53,277 --> 00:56:55,154 Eventually, sure. 794 00:56:57,881 --> 00:56:59,952 So, what did she look like? 795 00:57:00,918 --> 00:57:02,864 That one in Lake Charles? 796 00:57:27,878 --> 00:57:31,655 Can you, uh, tell us anything about that, Mr. Cohle? 797 00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,763 That looks a lot like the one from '95, 798 00:57:40,590 --> 00:57:42,160 but, well' you knew that already. 799 00:57:42,225 --> 00:57:46,298 Yeah, there are specifics consistent 10 the '95 case, 800 00:57:46,396 --> 00:57:48,876 details that weren't public knowledge. 801 00:57:50,567 --> 00:57:53,480 You were off the grid for eight years, right? 802 00:57:53,570 --> 00:57:55,982 - Show back up here 2010. - My question is... 803 00:57:56,039 --> 00:57:58,315 How could it be him 804 00:58:00,844 --> 00:58:03,324 if we already caught him in '95? 805 00:58:06,350 --> 00:58:08,261 How indeed, Detectives? 806 00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,200 I figured you'd be the one to know. 807 00:58:20,797 --> 00:58:23,869 Then start asking the right fucking questions.