True Detective

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Back then, I'd sleep and

I'd lay awake thinking about women.

My daughter... my wife.

I mean, it's like... something's just got your name on it,

like a bullet

or a nail in the road.

Shit.

Sorry. I drift...

sometimes when I've had a few. That's...

That's why I like to drink alone.

One reason, anyway.

About that sculpture thing. Hmm.

Kind of strange it turns up like that

years later.

Yeah, nobody knew why that thing was in the playhouse.

I mean, the aunt reckoned maybe it was something

she made in school, you know?

COHLE, VOICE-OVER: To me, it was like someone was

having a conversation, you know?

Girl's... school shut down in '92.

It closed down after Andrew.

That mean anything to you?

Oh, we notified the deceased's mother.

HART, VOICE-OVER: Do you remember the last time

you saw your daughter Dora?

WOMAN, VOICE-OVER: It was a horrible, horrible thing.

We saw it on TV,

what we're in the clutches of,

and I prayed and prayed for that woman's family.

And it's me.

It's me.

Mrs. Kelly. Hmm?

What about her father?

Did they have a relationship?

Why? What have you heard?

I heard he passed. Is that correct?

Why wouldn't a father bathe his own child?

Ahem.

We, uh, we were just wondering

how they got on, ma'am.

He died on the road.

He drove a Peterbilt,

and he took an exit too fast.

Rolled over near Rowan, Oklahoma.

May 11, 1984.

When was the last time you talked to her?

You know, she's always been in some kind of trouble.

I thought things were getting better.

Got away from Charlie.

She came by not too long ago, maybe a month.

She didn't talk about her daddy none.

Said she'd been going to church.

Do you, um,

do you remember where that church was?

Oh... Mrs. Kelly?

No.

Ow.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Hail Mary, full of grace.

Mrs. Kelly...

I... I get these headaches.

It's like storms. Oh.

I worked in dry-cleaning for 20 years.

The chemicals.

That's what's wrong with my nails.

Piece of work, huh?

My mother... Donna Reed type.

Packed lunches,

bedtime stories.

Your mom still alive?

Maybe.

PAPANIA, VOICE-OVER: Cohle ever talk about his parents?

HART, VOICE-OVER: No. Little bit about his dad.

Alaska, 'Nam.

You know, my dad, I had about 6 inches on him,

and even in the end,

I still think he could have taken me.

Yeah, Marines, Korea.

Never talked about it.

You know, there was a time that

men didn't air their bullshit to the world.

You know, it just wasn't a part of their job.

Well...

family.

Well, I mean, I...

I think a part of Rust's problem was

there was things he needed that he couldn't admit to.

Afternoon, men.

HART, VOICE-OVER: So we talked to the victim's friend next, I believe.

Miss Carla?

CARLA, VOICE-OVER: I guess she always had her mom's place,

but, uh, I thought maybe she'd gotten into somethin',

you know, like, uh, like gamin' again.

Havin' a rough time.

What all did y'all talk about? How was she?

Thin, loopy,

like high,

usually on somethin'.

She says she found a church, but, uh... heh!...

Her eyes.

Somethin' wrong with 'em.

Now, do you remember where this church was?

No.

You know where she might have been staying?

Her landlord said she'd moved out last summer.

That's when I stopped seein' her so much.

She mentioned someplace down south,

like around Spanish Lake, a...

shelter, girls used to stay there,

something, all she said.

Hmm.

COHLE, VOICE-OVER: She sounds sad, Marty,

like a torn-up person on her last legs.

She was just an easy target for him.

What do we know about him?

Hits prosts, artistic,

religious in some kind of way.

Every person within a thousand miles of here

is religious in some kind of way, except you.

How many DBs have antlers,

blindfolds,

painted symbols on their back, hmm?

Yeah, you know what tweakers get up to.

Shit, man, this dude in New Orleans

cut up his girl, felt remorse,

tried to piece her back together with Krazy Glue.

That's just drug insanity.

Ah, that's not this. This has scope.

Now, she articulated a person with vision.

Vision is meaning. Meaning is historical.

Look, she was just chum in the water, man.

COHLE, VOICE-OVER: Days of nothing.

That's what it's like, you work cases.

Days like lost dogs.

HART, VOICE-OVER: Goes on like that.

You know the job.

HART, VOICE-OVER: You're looking for narrative,

interrogate witnesses.

Wake up, Daddy.

Parcel evidence,

establish a timeline,

and build a story day after day.

No! No!

Hey, the other night,

when you were over for dinner,

why didn't you leave when I had Chris call?

Mmm, I don't know.

I guess I had sobered up a little.

Besides, it wasn't as bad as I thought.

And being around your family,

I liked talking to them.

"Bad"? Why'd you think that?

I was married, Marty, for 3 years.

We had a... baby girl.

She died.

Car accident. She was two years old.

Marriage couldn't handle it.

Your kid died?

Oh, I...

I'm sorry, man. I am so sorry. I didn't...

No, I mean, it wasn't you guys. It was just me.

I was worried...

you know, being around that kind of thing.

GILBOUGH, VOICE-OVER: Hey, you were married the once, just the once?

COHLE, VOICE-OVER: Uh-huh. Came close another time.

Laurie.

Maggie introduced us,

and it... it broke off.

It was for the best, you know. I gave her cause.

I can be hard to live with. You know, I...

I don't mean to, but I can be... critical.

And sometimes I think I'm just not good for people,

you know, that it's not good for them to be around me.

You know, I... I wear 'em down,

you know, they...

they get unhappy. Hmm.

Yeah, I think the job does that to a lot of guys.

Changes you. Some guys just notice, that's all.

Well I can't say the job made me this way.

More like me being this way made me right for the job.

And I used to...

think about it more, but...

you know, you reach a certain age, you know who you are.

Now I live in a little room

out in the country, behind a bar.

Work 4 nights a week; in between, I drink,

and there ain't nobody there to stop me.

I know who I am.

After all these years, there's a...

there's a victory in that.

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Third day on the job,

stopped this cutie for speeding.

52 minutes later, back in her dorm room.

I got my...

uniform around my knees.

Ha! I'm occupied,

so I don't hear anything.

I don't know that her roommate has come home