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True Detective

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True Detective	label	True Detective
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True Detective	comment	True Detective is an American drama series created by Nic Pizzolatto for HBO and shaped like an anthology, with each season focusing on a different case with a different set of detectives.The first season stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as detectives Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart respectively. Largely using an interview in 2012 as a Framing Device, the story explores the pair's investigations dating back to 1995 into a string of ritualistic murders with occult overtones in rural Louisiana. The first season premiered on January 12, 2014, and was directed by Cary Fukunaga.The second season follows a larger central cast including Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch and Rachel McAdams as law enforcement officers from various departments and Vince Vaughn as a crooked businessman who all become tangled in a web of corruption, depravity and murder in a Southern California industrial town. It premiered on June 21, 2015.The third season stars Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff and Ray Fisher in a story line about missing children throughout the state of Arkansas. It premiered on January 13, 2019.The fourth season, titled True Detective: Night Country, is set in Alaska and it stars Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, and Christopher Eccleston. It is the first season not to be written by original series creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto. The series premiered on January 14, 2024.
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True Detective / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
True Detective / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: While directing a child to seek shelter in a bathtub during a gun battle, Cohle gestures with his gun and points the barrel right at the kid's head. In his very slight defense, he had been forced to snort a significant number of drugs not long prior.
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True Detective / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
True Detective / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: The Big Bad used a gardener job to get close to potential victims.
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True Detective / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
True Detective / int_11e0d645	comment	Spirals are an Arc Symbol once again.
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True Detective / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
True Detective / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Nic Pizzolatto plays a bartender in "Who Goes There".
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True Detective / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
True Detective / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Velcoro's wife was beaten and raped prior the events of the story.
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True Detective / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
True Detective / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: The disappearance and death of Vinci's City Manager Ben Caspere kickstarts the season.
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True Detective / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
True Detective / int_1439161f	comment	Velcoro murders the man he thinks raped his wife, only for the true rapist to be caught years later. He has a near total Heroic BSoD when he realizes he sold his soul for nothing.
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True Detective / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
True Detective / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: At the end of the second episode Ray is shot twice, and then the episode ends. The tension is undercut somewhat, given that Velcoro is shown in the premiere trailer for season 2, participating in several scenes that had yet to occur by the time episode two rolled around.
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True Detective / int_16b734e7	type	Hippie Parents
True Detective / int_16b734e7	comment	Hippie Parents: Bezzerides' father is a long-haired, high-ranking member of the Panticapaeum Institute; a new age spiritual commune in California.
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True Detective / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
True Detective / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: Downplayed. While both the first and second seasons are detective dramas, the first season examined rural Louisiana and flirted heavily with elements of the Cosmic Horror Story, while the second season is more of an urban Californian neo-noir. The third season then returns to the rural South, but has very few Southern Gothic elements and is much more grounded about poverty.
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True Detective / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
True Detective / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Nic Pizzolatto stated in an interview that the reason Serial Killer Errol lapses into a random British accent is because after he was burned as child, he taught himself to speak again through watching old video tapes.
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True Detective / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
True Detective / int_1869b4b1	comment	Danvers describes a raid she performed with Navarro on a suspect's house years ago, but the her description does not match what we see happen, which is one of them executing the suspect they find there. This same scenario plays out with Harte and Cohle in season 1.
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True Detective / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
True Detective / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: At the end of Part 4, Otis Heiss says that Clark, and everyone in Ennis, is in the Night Country.
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True Detective / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
True Detective / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Frank is genuinely angered and saddened when Stan, one of his men, is killed in a manner similar to Caspere. He and his wife later visit Stan's family to personally console his wife and son.
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True Detective / int_19ebddab	type	Guilty Pleasures
True Detective / int_19ebddab	comment	Guilty Pleasures: Caspere's was spending exorbitant amounts of money on young prostitutes. However, his guilt over indulging in such actions led him into a depressive state for which he had to seek therapy.
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True Detective / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
True Detective / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: During the final confrontation, Marty screams Rust's name a lot. Then, he whispers it even more dramatically when the fight is over, and they both are badly wounded and waiting for help.
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True Detective / int_1bbb76bc	type	Abandoned Area
True Detective / int_1bbb76bc	comment	Abandoned Area: The Church at the end of episode 2 ("Seeing Things") with the painting of a naked woman with antlers on the wall. The even creepier abandoned school. The abandoned Civil War fort that Errol has turned into his shrine.
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True Detective / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
True Detective / int_1cd602ef	comment	Calling Card: The twig sculptures show up everywhere, from crime scenes to an Abandoned School.
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True Detective / int_1e159001	type	Diagonal Billing
True Detective / int_1e159001	comment	Diagonal Billing: For McConaughey and Harrelson in the opening credits.
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True Detective / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
True Detective / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Cohle explaining to Marty how the Mexican cartel deals with their victims.
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True Detective / int_1e763245	type	Vice City
True Detective / int_1e763245	comment	Vice City: A Los Angeles Times article refers to Vinci as this in episode one.
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True Detective / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
True Detective / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Rust never sleeps. "I don't sleep; I dream."
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True Detective / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
True Detective / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: A tape of the cultists' ritual sacrifice. We see only a brief glimpse of a blindfolded girl and the viewers' horrified reactions.
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True Detective / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
True Detective / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: Season 1 takes place in Louisiana.
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True Detective / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
True Detective / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: When Frank is challenged by a mob leader with a grill of gold teeth, Frank pummels him into submission and removes his gold teeth with pliers.
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True Detective / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
True Detective / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Ritual sacrifice, kidnapping, and child rape appear as near constants, with murderers going free also being baked into the formula.
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True Detective / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
True Detective / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The credits reveal that Travis, the ghost that leads Rose out onto the ice to discover the bodies in Part 1, has the surname "Cohle", implying a connection to Rust from Season 1, but this is never brought up in the series.
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True Detective / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
True Detective / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: More prominent than in the last season, particularly due to Velcoro.
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True Detective / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
True Detective / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: The big shootout in episode four is revealed to have been this. The cops were given false intel and Amarilla's men were warned about the raid by Burris. The primary target was Dixon and any of the other characters getting killed would have been a bonus.
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True Detective / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
True Detective / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: While infiltrating an orgy, Bezzerides snags a cheese knife from a food tray in case things go bad. Sure enough, she soon uses it to carve up a goon who attacks her.
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True Detective / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
True Detective / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Several years ago, Navarro and Danvers worked together on the Annie Kowtok murder case. Kowtok was an Indigenous activist and Navarro, who is Indigenous herself, points out that had she been White, the case would have been solved quickly.
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True Detective / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
True Detective / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Rust feels this way when he is suspended and told he will need to attend counselling sessions to get reinstated.
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True Detective / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
True Detective / int_2493b31d	comment	"Form and Void", the first season finale. The final showdown of the season happens when Cohle and Hart finally track down and kill Errol Childress, the Spaghetti Monster and one of the group's foremost acolytes. While chasing him into a horrific compound near his house ('this is Carcosa'), Childress sneaks up on Cohle and brutally stabs him, and buries an axe in Hart's chest. Nonetheless, Cohle manages to kill Childress, and both men survive the ordeal to become Fire-Forged Friends.
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True Detective / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
True Detective / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Velcoro puts one on the father of his son's bully using brass knuckles as a means of intimidating the bully. Frank is challenged to a fist fight by Danny Santos, and despite being 'really little' and 'old' compared to the obese club owner, proceeds to savagely beat him and remove his grill. Velcoro delivers another to Dr. Pitlor on behalf of Frank, after discovering that he is working with one of Frank's lieutenants secretly. Velcoro, once again, brutally beats a man guarding the sex party Bezzerides infiltrates in episode six. Frank smashes a whiskey glass into the side of Blake's head, pushes the shards into his skull by standing on his head, and strangles him. He then shoots him in the stomach and lets him bleed out, slowly.
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True Detective / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
True Detective / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: The first we see of Ledoux is a long shot of him striding through a field wearing nothing but underpants and a gas mask, giving him a freakish and bestial appearance. It later becomes clear that he's dressed this way because he's a meth cook.
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True Detective / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
True Detective / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Miguel Glib, Paul's friend and former lover from his Black Mountain days. He is introduced as seemingly wanting to rekindle his friendship with Paul, and convince him to be accepting of his homosexuality. He is later revealed to be a Honey Trap working security for Catalast Group, and blackmails Paul into attending a meet which ends up getting him killed.
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True Detective / int_27a036db	type	Covered with Scars
True Detective / int_27a036db	comment	Covered with Scars: One side of Woodrugh's body is covered in burn marks. He claims to his girlfriend that they have nothing to do with his military service, but later points to them saying that he "bled" for the money he brought back from the war. A waitress in the bar Velcoro and Frank frequent also has multiple scars covering her face.
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True Detective / int_27f10418	type	Impersonating an Officer
True Detective / int_27f10418	comment	Impersonating an Officer: The Iron Crusaders wear police uniforms whilst robbing the stash house in Texas. It is not very convincing, since they do nothing to hide their long, stereotypical biker beards. And Rust going with them is an officer impersonating a biker Impersonating an Officer.
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True Detective / int_280658ca	type	Happiness Realized Too Late
True Detective / int_280658ca	comment	Happiness Realized Too Late: Marty acknowledges this as a fact of life when he looks back on his time investigating the crime in the 1990s, in between the present day (where he and Maggie have split up due to his infidelity), and his daughter Audrey is a miserable Emo Teen rather than the cute kid she once was. However, it's also the Running Theme of the entire show, such as when Wayne looks back on his marriage to Amelia after her death and realizes how much he loved (and neglected) her.
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True Detective / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
True Detective / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: The three main cop characters are the only survivors of a massive shootout at the end of episode four, ending up surrounded by the corpses of cops, crooks and civilians.
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True Detective / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
True Detective / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Both Miguel and Paul Woodrugh are dead by the end of episode seven.
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True Detective / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
True Detective / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: Burt shits himself when questioned by Cohle.
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True Detective / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
True Detective / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Mayor Chessani uses Yiddish words on a noticeable number of occasions, but we get no confirmation on his actual religious background.
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True Detective / int_2dc96e6c	type	Police Code for Everything
True Detective / int_2dc96e6c	comment	Police Code for Everything: Cryptically police codes are thrown around alot.
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True Detective / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
True Detective / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: The central case involves the disappearance of two children. Much focus is given to the agonized reaction of the Purcells to their children's disappearance.
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True Detective / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
True Detective / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: The disappearance of the children is one for Wayne and Roland.
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True Detective / int_30adeff3	type	Defective Detective
True Detective / int_30adeff3	comment	Defective Detective: Ray Velcoro has a substance abuse problem, anger issues and is in the pocket of a career criminal. On top of all that, he is separated from his wife and estranged from his son, (who is likely not biologically his). Ani Bezzerides has a toxic relationship with both her father and sister, her mother committed suicide, has one failed marriage under her belt, and is implied to have gambling and alcohol problems. In episode six, it's implied that she was sexually assaulted as a child. Paul Woodrugh is a military veteran with a dark past and battle scars (it's implied he was a mercenary at some point), suspended from duty due to false accusations and is implied to struggle sexually. He also seems to either be an adrenaline junkie or have some sort of death wish, as he races his motorcycle at a hundred miles an hour down the highway, without a helmet, at night, and with his headlight off.
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True Detective / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
True Detective / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Vinci's mayor, Austin Chessani, is the embodiment of this trope. He openly gropes his trophy wife's ass during a formal fundraiser, grossly misuses city funds for his own personal gain and drinks in the morning whilst meeting with police detectives. Most of the men who attend the sex parties organised by Chessani's son, Blake and Pitlor, including the State Attorney General and various congressmen.
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True Detective / int_3107a493	type	Open Heart Dentistry
True Detective / int_3107a493	comment	Open Heart Dentistry: Peter recruits a veterinarian to look over the frozen bodies and give his opinion on the cause of death. Although he's just a vet, the man knows that mammals don't freeze to death with anguished poses and expressions.
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True Detective / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
True Detective / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Several of the pimps and gangsters who observe Frank beat up Danny Santos are visibly shocked and disturbed when he proceeds to remove Santos' grill with pliers. Despite his anger that she can no longer be of use to him dead, Frank is also disgusted that the Mexican cartel members slit Irina's throat before she could meet with him.
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True Detective / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
True Detective / int_32ec6393	comment	Shotgun Wedding: When Paul's estranged girlfriend announces she is pregnant and keeping the child, the first thing he does is propose to her in an attempt to further repress his homosexuality.
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True Detective / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
True Detective / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: The Alaska Police Force, the organization that Navarro is a part of as a state trooper, doesn't exist.
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True Detective / int_345a4c75	type	Interrogation Flashback
True Detective / int_345a4c75	comment	Interrogation Flashback: The story is framed by the two detectives interviewing Hart, Cohle and Maggie separately 17 years after the case was investigated.
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True Detective / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
True Detective / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Semyon uses just about every ethnic slur there is over the course of the season to remind you that he's an Anti-Hero, not a hero.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_34dcfc96
True Detective / int_34e7d601	type	Sleuth Dates Cop
True Detective / int_34e7d601	comment	Sleuth Dates Cop: Amelia is a journalist and aspiring writer who dates - then marries - Wayne.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_34e7d601
True Detective / int_3529edef	type	Satanic Panic
True Detective / int_3529edef	comment	Satanic Panic:A Running Theme: Season 1 is about an occult conspiracy of ritual murder and child abuse, but the bad guys use the Satanic Panic as a cover. It also gets several references in Season 3, including the famous belief that Dungeons & Dragons was Satanic. Which is in fact a Red Herring to underline how different the mystery of Season 3 is than Season 1.
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True Detective / int_353d6ca3	type	Microwave the Dog
True Detective / int_353d6ca3	comment	Microwave the Dog: Hart quit his job after witnessing the aftermath of such an experiment done on a baby.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_353d6ca3
True Detective / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
True Detective / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: The nuns fake Julie's death from AIDS so that she can escape her traumatic past.
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True Detective / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
True Detective / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Paul is introduced being offered Sex for Services by an actress after he catches her driving while intoxicated. After he refuses, she turns the story around and claims that he was the one who propositioned her. Since Paul happens to be Armored Closet Gay and could easily refute the accusations if he just admitted the truth, this ends up demonstrating what a Fatal Flaw his sexuality is for him.
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True Detective / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
True Detective / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: When Cohle is brought beer, and starts drinking it, the name is visible. The beer is called Lone Star, a popular beer in Texas. Matthew McConaughey appeared in Lone Star (1996).
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True Detective / int_3b040167	type	Crown of Horns
True Detective / int_3b040167	comment	Crown of Horns: The ritualistic murder that opens the series has a woman posed nude wearing a crown of deer antlers.
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True Detective / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
True Detective / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: As revealed at the end of the first episode, Cohle and Hart did not manage to stop the killings in 1995, so the mystery will remain unsolved after the case is officially closed. Watching carefully enough at Hart's hands during the 2012 sequences shows that he doesn't wear any wedding ring. Throughout his flashbacks, you'll know that his wife will eventually leave him for good.
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True Detective / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
True Detective / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: During the neighborhood riot, Cohle lays out a handful of whips on Ginger and a couple of attackers.
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True Detective / int_3c4140d	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
True Detective / int_3c4140d	comment	No Kill Like Over Kill: After shooting and killing Osip in the head, Frank unloads the rest of his clip into the corpse. He had some anger issues to work out.
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True Detective / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
True Detective / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Velcoro is admonished by Bezzerides for investigating on his own.
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True Detective / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
True Detective / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Leah is in a relationship with a 16-year-old girl who is supportive of her attempts to connect with her heritage, unlike Danvers. The idealistic pair volunteer to attend a protest, but rather than bring them closer, the protest turns into a violent riot. Leah is attacked by a burly policeman, and when she calls out for help from her petite girlfriend, the terrified 16-year-old runs away.
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True Detective / int_3fdac1c6	type	Literally Shattered Lives
True Detective / int_3fdac1c6	comment	Literally Shattered Lives: The police accidentally snap the arm off of one of the frozen scientists. He screams, revealing that he was not actually dead yet.
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True Detective / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
True Detective / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Cohle and Hart insist that Cohle took personal time in 1995 to visit his ailing father, to cover for his brief trip to Texas and their involvement in the Beaumont shootout.
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True Detective / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
True Detective / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Hays figures out that Julie Purcell is still alive and happily married with a child, however his dementia strikes just as he's pulling up to her house to confront her. Even so, everything else in his life (besides the aforementioned dementia) is good, he has rekindled his friendship with Roland and his children are both doing well. Henry also seems to be aware that the address is significant.
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True Detective / int_41a49201	type	Red Skies Crossover
True Detective / int_41a49201	comment	Red Skies Crossover: In Season 3, the woman who is interviewing Wayne Hays brings up of what Rust Cohle and Martin Hart did during Season 1, and suggests that the Purcell case has some connections to it. Wayne shoots the idea down however.
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True Detective / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
True Detective / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: Several happen after the murder of Caspere. Velcoro is tasked to retrieve whatever was taken from his secondary residence by the VPD and by Frank, which includes a hard drive that contains "incriminating" data. Bezzerides and Ilinca work on a missing person's case that concern an ex-maid who went missing and was last seen staying at her father's "spiritual" commune. Woodrugh goes to investigate the cache of diamonds that Detective Dixon previously investigated and learned that they were among several diamonds that went missing in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots.
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True Detective / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
True Detective / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Woodrugh for the first four episodes has been a seething ball of anger, but when the bullets start flying in episode four, he's the most collected of any of the characters. He's back in his element.
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True Detective / int_4506c7cc	type	Reel Torture
True Detective / int_4506c7cc	comment	Reel Torture: A non-humorous version. After restarting their investigation into the Yellow King murders, Cohle and Hart find a former colleague who helped the cult cover up more killings. When he refuses to help them, they show him a videotape of what his work led to: the ritual sacrifice of a young girl. The audience isn't shown the footage, but him screaming in horror is heard.
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True Detective / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
True Detective / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: A recurring problem in the season. Austin Chessani, the mayor of Vinci. He is in cahoots with pretty much all of the criminal enterprises in the city, and uses misappropriated funds to live a lavish life in Bel Air. Richard Geldof, the California Attorney General, is also implied to be in collusion with the Vinci underworld. After the massive shootout in episode 4 he suddenly declares the Caspere case closed, and decides to make a run for governor. In episode six, he is a guest at the sex party orchestrated by Tony Chessani, Blake and Pitlor. Tony Chessani, Austin's son, has 'political ambition' and would likely wind up just as corrupt (or worse) than his father. In the season finale this becomes reality, as he is shown being sworn in as the new Mayor of Vinci.
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True Detective / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
True Detective / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: Ani has Ray's child in Venezuela.
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True Detective / int_46ec76fb	type	Working the Same Case
True Detective / int_46ec76fb	comment	Working the Same Case: The reason the present-day detectives claim to be interviewing Hart and Cohle. However, they eventually reveal that Cohle is the suspect they're after. Also, in the first episode, the detectives suspect a missing girl, Marie Fontenot, may be a victim of the same killer.
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True Detective / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
True Detective / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Ray Velcoro. The only reason he descended into corruption was to avenge his wife after she was raped, and only remains in Frank's pocket so he is able to provide for his son. Despite his violent and sometimes erratic tendencies, he is shown to care deeply about others; warning a group of children not to play near toxic waste tackling Bezzerides out of the way of a moving truck whilst they pursues a suspect, whilst having multiple cracked ribs, and acting almost fatherly towards Paul in offering hangover cures and encouragement in regards to the paparazzi that chase him everywhere. Frank as well. He can be petty, use slurs when mad, and lets his pride get the better of him, but he deeply cares for his wife, his subordinates, and even Ray. One of Frank's subordinates, Stan (whose biggest scene was roughing up a guy with Ivar) is described as having a "heart of gold" by Frank.
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True Detective / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
True Detective / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Frank Semyon lives in a glassy, modern mansion in the Hollywood Hills. He reveals in episode two that it's been double-mortgaged. In episode five, it is revealed that he and Jordan were forced to sell, and downgrade to a suburban home in Glendale. Vinci mayor Austin Chessani lives in one as well. His is in Bel Air, and it seems to be in a state of constant party with his son, his Russian bride, and his daughter. The mansion in episode six, where the sex party attended by various powerful men, and an undercover Bezzerides, is held.
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True Detective / int_48c8fcbc	type	Kosher Nostra
True Detective / int_48c8fcbc	comment	Kosher Nostra: Osip is a Jewish mob boss of Russian-Israeli extraction. Frank makes a deal with a crooked diamond merchant who is an Orthodox Jew and has his own Orthodox Jewish enforcers.
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True Detective / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
True Detective / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: The first time we see Reggie Ledoux, he's carrying a machete, in his underwear, wearing a gas mask.
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True Detective / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
True Detective / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The series loves to show wide, sprawling landscape shots of rural Louisiana, especially the juxtaposition of the dank marshlands with industrial landscapes. Certain episodes make use of abandoned buildings such as schools and churches. Other charming locales include backwards bayous, meth shacks, and housing projects rife with crime. Not exactly the French Quarter during Mardi Gras...
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True Detective / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
True Detective / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Mostly averted, but when Marty looks at the tape of a girl surrounded by men in animal masks closing in on her, we only see (and hear) his reaction. In the flashback in the same episode, Marty sees a recently microwaved baby; the audience only sees Marty's face.
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True Detective / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
True Detective / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Velcoro does this a few times in the first episode: When looking through a newspaper article, he says, "This is the first of an eight-part series?" And later in regards to the (fictitious) City of Vinci. Following the cliffhanger episode, when Velcoro is being cleared for duty, the doctor asks if he wants to live, at which point Velcoro stares directly into the camera, at the viewers before the scene switches to an X-ray image hanging on the far wall. Seymon's wife is not convinced by Frank/Vince Vaughn's Break Her Heart to Save Her stunt: "You can't act for shit."
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True Detective / int_4cacfcc3	type	Honey Trap
True Detective / int_4cacfcc3	comment	Honey Trap: One of Bezzerides's superiors suggests she get Ray to reveal his corruption by making him think she'll sleep with him. She treats this suggestion with contempt. Miguel was revealed to be this for Paul which eventually led to his demise.
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True Detective / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
True Detective / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Paul is killed by Burris after barely escaping with his life. Velcoro gets killed after a tracker is placed on his car when he visited his biological son one last time. Frank's deal with the Mexicans catches up to him and he dies slowly from stab wounds. Burris, Geldof, and Tony Chessiani get away with their crimes, Tony even becoming Mayor with the Mexicans as his henchmen and Geldof being elected Governor. Bezzerides managed to escape the US, have Ray's child and deliver the evidence to a reporter with a history of crusading against Vinci corruption, but she, Jordan, and Nails are most likely going to have to remain on the run for the rest of their lives. Even if the truth comes out, everyone's lives have been completely screwed over.
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True Detective / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
True Detective / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Uttered by a hallucination of Jordan as an injured Frank vows that he will "never stop moving".
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True Detective / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
True Detective / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Seems to be one to close each episode. Episode 1: The last shot of the first episode we see the frozen head of two of the missing scientist's head sticking out from the ice. Episode 2: Two: the first scene where it's revealed that Anders Lund is (barely) still alive, and the shot of the thawing ice clump melting enough for the police to realise that one of the scientists is missing. Episode 3: In the last scene Navarro and Danvers see the last video from Annie Kowtok before she got murdered. Annie reveals she found something under the ice, and is petrified. She tries to say something but is dragged away by something not seen. Episode 4: Danvers finds Navarro in the basement of the dredging platform, bleeding from her ears after a vision of her dead sister, Julia.
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True Detective / int_4eb2ce94	type	Sensitivity Training
True Detective / int_4eb2ce94	comment	Sensitivity Training: Bezzerides is forced to attend sexual misconduct seminars after a harassment complaint is lodged against her by the deputy she had sex with in the first episode.
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True Detective / int_4f8b159a	type	Passed-Over Promotion
True Detective / int_4f8b159a	comment	Passed-Over Promotion: Paul is told by the California Attorney General that if he succeeds in managing the Caspere case he will be promoted to detective. However, he is less than enthused, requesting simply to 'go back to the bike' and traffic duty once the case is solved. Frank tells Ray that if he keeps working for him, he could get him promoted to Vinci Chief of Police in a few years. The only catch is that Ray hates the idea of having that much responsibility, even if it pays $300,000 a year.
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True Detective / int_4fc6385e	type	Unreliable Voiceover
True Detective / int_4fc6385e	comment	Unreliable Voiceover: We're occasionally shown things that contradict the narration of the two detectives. It's where the "True" part of True Detective comes from. In episode 3, Marty's big talk about the importance of family and boundaries frames a flashback of him bursting into his mistress' apartment to beat up her date. Cohle and Hart state that they took some time off while Cohle tended to his sick father, when in reality Cohle went undercover in a biker gang and participated in a robbery. The interviewing detectives realize that the cover story is fake. That gunfight with Reggie Ledoux that Hart and Cohle have been referencing for a few episodes? It never happened. Hart shot a handcuffed Ledoux when he found the kids he had locked up, and he and Cohle managed to spin it into a promotion for both of them. Maggie denies knowing why Cohle quit his job while we see scenes of the aftermath of the fight between him and Hart over Maggie's infidelity.
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True Detective / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
True Detective / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Also delivered by Frank before he decides to strangle Blake to death. Frank gets another one in the finale, following up on his earlier Badass Boast to Osip. He then fires a single bullet to the head.
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True Detective / int_5094d45e	type	Tabloid Melodrama
True Detective / int_5094d45e	comment	Tabloid Melodrama: The actress Paul pulls over later goes to TMZ with her false accusations about him soliciting her, which they publish in addition to looking into his military past.
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True Detective / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
True Detective / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Woodards's house is riddled with mines, booby traps, and hidden guns in the event that the racist townspeople come after him.
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True Detective / int_5158df81	type	The Casino
True Detective / int_5158df81	comment	The Casino: Frank owns the Vinci Gardens Casino to use as a legitimate front to his illegal activities. At the end of episode one, an intoxicated Bezzerides is seen being escorted from there by security.
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True Detective / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
True Detective / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: One of the criticisms leveled at Seasons 1 and 2 is that this shows up with alarming frequency in the background of every single major female character, except Maggie. In Season 1, Beth, Dora Lange, and obviously all the victims of the cult are rape victims. In Season 2, Ani was kidnapped and raped by a member of her father's commune and Ray's wife was raped by a meth addict. Season 3 averts this, as rape actually isn't the motive for Julie's disappearance.
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True Detective / int_5535272c	type	Coolest Club Ever
True Detective / int_5535272c	comment	Coolest Club Ever: Various criminal meetings are held at a very glitzy club called Lux Infinitum, filled with colored lights, wild music and dancing.
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True Detective / int_556b5b65	type	DeadManSwitch
True Detective / int_556b5b65	comment	Dead Man Switch: Cohle warns Sheriff Geraci that if anything happened to him or Hart, they would forward evidence about Geraci's involvement in the case to media outlets.
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True Detective / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
True Detective / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Austin Chessani repeatedly called Bezzerides a 'cunt' after discovering she and Woodrugh searched his house and talked to his family.
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True Detective / int_56ff2e35	type	Bat Deduction
True Detective / int_56ff2e35	comment	Bat Deduction: Ray putting together who the kids in the picture grew up to be based on seeing them as adults, and that they were behind Caspere's murder.
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True Detective / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
True Detective / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: A few months after the gunfight in episode four, Bezzerides, the leader of the Caspere investigation, has been demoted to sergeant working in evidence storage. Velcoro, the second in command, quits Vinci PD and begins working as security for Frank. Also a case of Surprisingly Realistic Outcome, as the shootout was incredibly dangerous to both police and public (many officers and civilians were killed), and resulted in the case being closed unsatisfactorily due to the prime suspect being killed. The unspoken implication is that the higher ups scapegoated Bezzerides and Velcoro.
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True Detective / int_591a2fc5	type	The Grovel
True Detective / int_591a2fc5	comment	The Grovel: After his first cheating incident, Hart tries to make good with his wife at the Ice rink, promising to change himself and getting away from the bottle. She tells him that he has a long way to go.
True Detective / int_591a2fc5	featureApplicability	1.0
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True Detective / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
True Detective / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Evangeline Navarro, an officer from the Alaska State Troopers, has this opinion of Ennis's police force. After the murder of Annie Kowtok, an Alaskan Native activist protesting against the mining operations in Ennis, Navarro claims that if Annie was a white woman, the police would have solved the case in a matter of months.
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True Detective / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
True Detective / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Baked into the premise. The killers escape from justice for a great number of years in all seasons, but are eventually caught. The only subversion so far is Isabel Hoyt in Season 3 as she is already dead, but it still goes for Junius, at least in the sense that he gets his karma by learning that Roland and Wayne can't give him the punishment he deserves rather than going to prison.
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True Detective / int_59e5940e	type	AnimalMotif
True Detective / int_59e5940e	comment	Animal Motif: Polar bears. Both Danvers and Navarro encounter a one-eyed polar bear, nearly getting into accidents. The former keeps a plush polar bear (missing one eye) that used to belong to her son. At least until she pitches it out her door in "Part 4".
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True Detective / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
True Detective / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: The cartel torture method Cohle describes; it involves a mirror being propped up in front of you while you're castrated and worse.
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True Detective / int_5b4573b1	type	Near-Death Experience
True Detective / int_5b4573b1	comment	Near-Death Experience: Velcoro is shot twice with anti-riot shotgun rounds and has a vision of his father sitting with him at his local watering hole. Their conversation teases that Velcoro is in the afterlife, but Velcoro wakes up and only has cracked ribs for his trouble. Bezzerides is drugged and lifted off her feet in a chokehold by a bouncer whilst undercover at a sex party. Thankfully, her knife skills come in handy and she escapes alive, unlike the bouncer.
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True Detective / int_5b8c285b	type	The Conspiracy
True Detective / int_5b8c285b	comment	The Conspiracy: It's a group of killers, some of whom are connected to politics and the police.
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True Detective / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
True Detective / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Emasculation: Woodrugh is an Armoured Closet Gay who has great difficulty engaging in sex with his girlfriend and is deeply ashamed of a previous sexual experience. He's accused of soliciting a movie star for a blow job, an embarrassing charge that he denies. Semyon has to go through IVF to have a child with his wife, and has difficulty getting an erection to provide a sperm sample, which his wife criticizes. Velcoro fears his son is the product of rape. In spite of his efforts to be a father, his wife's new husband is replacing him. Velcoro's insecurity over his fatherhood causes him to beat up the father of his son's bully in front of the bully. Bezzideres emasculates a sexual partner, first by making him uncomfortable in the bedroom, then casually blowing him off when he tries to set up another date. When he gets upset, she threatens to beat him up. When he walks away, her partner makes fun of him. The murder victim's cause of death was having his pelvis blown off. Parental failure: Velcoro's dad is a racist drunk, who Ray has become disillusioned with. His own fatherhood is a serious point of contention for him. Bezzerides blames her cult-leader father for her messed-up childhood, and for ruining the lives of her siblings. Woodrugh's mother is a diseased prostitute who is a little bit too touchy with him. Semyon desperately wants to be a father, but is so far incapable of doing so. His own father was extremely negligent and abusive, and Semyon is still haunted by his childhood. Caspere is revealed in the finale to be the illegitimate father of both Len and Laura, the "orphans" of the 1992 Jewelry store robbery. Len only learns this well after murdering him and Laura never learns it, even though she slept with him while infiltrating his sex parties. The futility of corruption Velcoro murders the man he thinks raped his wife, only for the true rapist to be caught years later. He has a near total Heroic BSoD when he realizes he sold his soul for nothing. Woodrugh brings home a bag of cash from working as a Private Military Contractor in Iraq. It's unclear what he did to earn or steal it, but reporters accuse his unit of war crimes. Then his mother finds the money and blows it all anyway. Bezzerides sleeps with a subordinate, then blows him off when he tries to make a relationship of it. He then accuses her of sexual harassment, and after the Time Skip it's shown that it's severely damaged her career. Semyon has a huge deal fall through due to Caspere's murder, and is forced to burn every bridge he's built to dig himself out of the hole it left. When Velcoro comes, gun in hand, to Semyon's house to confront him, Semyon basically admits that Velcoro is the closest thing to a friend he has left. The Mayor of Vinci is a pathetic day drunk with no real responsibilities with a ridiculous family and a trashed house. It is later implied that despite all the power he holds in Vinci, he had no idea his son was in cahoots with the Russians to try and take his place.
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True Detective / int_5d4be8ab	type	Soulless Bedroom
True Detective / int_5d4be8ab	comment	Soulless Bedroom: Rust Cohle, befitting his reputation as a cold, calculating detective, sleeps in a bedroom that consists only of his mattress on the floor, a few meager possessions piled in one corner, and a crucifix over his bed (in spite of being an outspoken atheist). His only other decoration is a tiny round mirror on one wall that Rust stares into as a form of meditation.
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True Detective / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
True Detective / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Before his wife was raped and he descended into corruption, the long haired and moustached Velcoro was a clean-cut sheriffs deputy (seen in a flashback). He gets this again after the mid-season the Time Skip, shaving his moustache.
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True Detective / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
True Detective / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Caspere was sleeping with Laura and Leonard's mother, fathering at least Laura. She then unknowingly seduced him in disguise to find out about the men who killed their parents.
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True Detective / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
True Detective / int_61313315	comment	Off the Wagon: Cohle, who identifies himself as a recovering alcoholic, shows up to dinner with Hart's family drunk. By 2012, he's fully relapsed.
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True Detective / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
True Detective / int_619985d7	comment	"Down Will Come." Velcoro, Bezzerides and Woodrugh lead a raid against Ledo Amarilla, a local pimp and suspect in the Caspere case. Amarilla's gang proves to be prepared for the detectives' arrival and initiate an extended and bloody firefight that results in the deaths of the gang members, several civilians, Teague Dixon and the rest of the raid team save for the three main leads. In addition, Mayor Chessani, Caspere and Caspere's psychiatrist Dr. Pitlor are revealed to have been in business together for decades, Bezzerides is suspended from her precinct due to a sexual harassment complaint and Woodrugh's girlfriend reveals that she is pregnant.
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True Detective / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
True Detective / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Of a sort.
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True Detective / int_6209a3ec	type	Scatterbrained Senior
True Detective / int_6209a3ec	comment	Scatter Brained Senior: Wayne becomes one in the present day, for ambiguous reasons. We are to presume he's suffering from dementia, but given the show's ambiguity when it comes to the supernatural, it's possibly of a more otherworldly nature.
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True Detective / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
True Detective / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the end of the season finale, you can see the Mexican cartel members present at Tony Chessani's inauguration as Mayor of Vinci, showing that they are indeed affiliated with him.
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True Detective / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
True Detective / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: The older Roland's dogs clearly become this for his relationships with Wayne and Tom, as he meets his first stray dog after being beaten up following his devastation over Tom's suicide and Wayne's demotion. Julie turns out to be a victim of this at the hands of Isabel Hoyt after the death of her own daughter, Mary.
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True Detective / int_65d658f	type	Putting the Band Back Together
True Detective / int_65d658f	comment	Putting the Band Back Together: Rust and Marty get back together in 2012 when they finally realize that the Dora Lange case isn't solved yet.
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True Detective / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
True Detective / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: But not for the author of the series. Rust's nihilistic philosophy is straight out of Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. (Ligotti's Lovecraftian fiction is an acknowledged influence on this series.) Rust's childhood in rural Alaska is probably a nod to another modern weird fiction writer, Laird Barron, with whom he shares this background.
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True Detective / int_66e48100	type	The Kindnapper
True Detective / int_66e48100	comment	The Kindnapper: Deconstructed. Isabel thinks she's doing this to Julie, and so does Junius, but only because he isn't aware that Isabel is drugging Julie to make her seem happy. When he figures it out, it helps her to escape.
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True Detective / int_6838a3ec	type	EliteMook
True Detective / int_6838a3ec	comment	Elite Mook: Catalast Group attempt to silence the protagonists by hiring a company called Ares Security, who are actually highly trained mercenaries who previously worked for Black Mountain. They were able to kill Velcoro in the forest.
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True Detective / int_686cac9f	type	Flies Equals Evil
True Detective / int_686cac9f	comment	Flies Equals Evil: During the climax, before Hart finds the corpse of Billy Childress in the shed, the reveal is heralded by the sound of flies.
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True Detective / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
True Detective / int_688afa6a	comment	Beth, Dora Lange's friend, has a similar situation with her Evil Uncle.
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True Detective / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
True Detective / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Cohle's house is nearly devoid of furniture, and he does nothing there all day but drink and stare at an increasingly disturbing assortment of crime scene photos and relics associated with the murders. The only thing missing is the writing on the walls. He later graduates to a storage container with the writing on the walls. Carcosa, Errol's massive structure of bone, bodies, and wooden structures, is an entire infrastructure of crazy.
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True Detective / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
True Detective / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: Although the show is Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane, Cohle's nihilistic attitude and deeply cynical philosophy match the cosmic futility found in this genre. The show certainly is inspired by the works of Thomas Ligotti, Robert W. Chambers and David Benatar. Additionally, there are unexplained references to some seriously eerie mythology. Ultimately subverted by the ending, in which Rust manages to find some measure of peace and the overall mood is one of cautious hope rather than inevitable despair.
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True Detective / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
True Detective / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Ani's full name is Antigone, which means 'in place of ones parents'. Fitting, considering she acts like more of a parent to her sister, and is considerably more concerned about her foray into porn than her father is. Nails, one of Franks henchmen, extracts information from someone using a nail gun. In the final episode, it's revealed that his Undying Loyalty is because Frank saved his life after being attacked with a nailgun.
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True Detective / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
True Detective / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Julia, Evangeline's sister, kills herself in Episode 4 by walking out onto the frozen sea until she falls through. Navarro claims it's a family curse that drove her to do it.
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True Detective / int_6fc192ef	type	Jerkass Woobie
True Detective / int_6fc192ef	comment	Although she is also a Jerkass Woobie, a lot of sympathy is lost for Lucy Purcell when flashbacks reveal that she knowingly sold her daughter to an insane heiress and, although she was devastated upon learning that Will had accidentally died in the "exchange", she kept quiet about it in exchange for more money.
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True Detective / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
True Detective / int_6feaf27b	comment	Wayne is one. A Scarily Competent Tracker who operated deep inside enemy lines for long periods, alone and outstandingly.
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True Detective / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
True Detective / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: in the 1990's scenes, at least. Gilbough and Papania both try and stop Cohle from smoking during his interview, but that goes as well as you'd think it would.
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True Detective / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
True Detective / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Leroy Salter suspends Rust, briefly before he quits for good, following the latter's Cowboy Cop antics and reopening of old cases.
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True Detective / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
True Detective / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: A rather elaborate example. The killer, who is at first presented as the main threat of the season, but is really just another consequence of the Colliding Criminal Conspiracies plot, and turns out to be easily the most sympathetic antagonist. The local Vinci government is introduced as being blatantly corrupt, and we are almost immediately told that they prosper by exploiting workers and bullying naysayers. Their cops openly discuss their criminal interests among themselves while the Mayor overlooks. The Catalast Group poisons farming land in an effort to drive down real estate prices so they can make a huge fortune building a massive railway. Frank and his crew are all career criminals, while his ally Osip Agranov is very clearly The Mafiya. The local Mexican gangs are a major presence in Vinci. The victim is another corrupt politician. The real twist is that all of these groups are connected. The Catalast Group, the corrupt police, Osip, Frank's men, and even the victim were working together to exploit the above land deal. The District Attorney, and later gubernatorial candidate, joins the group later on. The implied Big Bad is the Mayor's ambitious son, who has been blackmailing everyone in a bid to solidify his own power base in Vinci. Several Vinci police officers and the victim were involved in a much older plot, in which they committed a double homicide-robbery that left them quite wealthy and a pair of children as orphans. This subplot is revealed to be the killer's motive, and the cause of much grief for the Catalast Group as they attempt to recover missing blackmail material.
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True Detective / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
True Detective / int_7301ae04	comment	"Carcosa" is occasionally mentioned. In the book it's the land ruled by the King in Yellow. It's unclear what it means to the cult, although the season finale implies it is the derelict complex located on the property of the Serial Killer.
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True Detective / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
True Detective / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "She is awake."
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True Detective / int_74b85afd	type	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!
True Detective / int_74b85afd	comment	If You're So Evil, Eat This Kitten!: Ginger tests Cohle's legitimacy by making him take a snort of cocaine and then rob a drug stash house with him.
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True Detective / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
True Detective / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: The tension in the season climax is heightened by the fact that the heroes cannot call for backup because there is no reception at the evil lair.
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True Detective / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
True Detective / int_75538142	comment	Woodard. He is a Friend to All Children who is wrongly suspected of being a pedophile as he is homeless due to his Vietnam-triggered PTSD. After he's attacked by corrupt hicks who believe that he's the killer, he turns the tables on them, killing several of them in a shootout and bombing.
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True Detective / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
True Detective / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Well, half-sister, anyway. Errol's, specifically.
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True Detective / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
True Detective / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Peter is always in trouble with his girlfriend because he's always away from home doing Danvers' bidding, lacking the spine to say no to her even on Christmas Eve. He never tries to defend himself by noting that he's only been putting in extra hours for several days to investigate a septuple homicide, which suggests that he's been kept away on much more trivial matters before.
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True Detective / int_7788b373	type	Set the World on Fire
True Detective / int_7788b373	comment	Set the World on Fire: After Osip and his men betray Frank and buy out his casino, club and men, Frank retorts by setting both buildings on fire, rupturing the gas lines and getting the hell out of dodge.
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True Detective / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
True Detective / int_7870735b	comment	If you thought the detectives were at a low point in "Other Lives", things get worse in "Black Maps and Motel Rooms". Velcoro and Bezzerides are fugitives after Velcoro is framed for the Davis' murder and the body of the security guard Bezzerides killed is discovered. Woodrugh receives blackmail photos of his homosexual relationship. Meanwhile, Semyon is forced to burn down all of his business to avoid having to hand them over to the Catalast Group. As Velcoro and Bezzerides have sex, Woodrugh goes to confront his blackmailers, finding out that his old PMC is also in league with Catalast, and is killed while attempting to escape.
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True Detective / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
True Detective / int_7a143509	comment	After slaying the entire lynch mob and a couple of police officers responding to the scene, Woodard invites Wayne to put him down, which he does with great reluctance. It had already been established that Woodard was severely troubled by the war and his inability to readjust to civilian life, so him feeling suicidally depressed isn't surprising. It's clear he felt the only thing he was good for was being a soldier, so he wanted to go out fighting. It also explains why he had more respect for Wayne, a fellow veteran, and thus wanted him to take the shot.
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True Detective / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
True Detective / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Blake Churchman, one of Frank's men, is secretly working for Tony Chessani and Osip trafficking girls for parties in his spare time. In episode seven he informs Frank that Ivar has also been bought by the Russians.
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True Detective / int_7b80226d	type	GoodCounterpart
True Detective / int_7b80226d	comment	Good Counterpart: The church in Season 3 is this to Season 1's Yellow King cult. The nuns faked Julie's death for her so she could live a happy life with Mike, free from the trauma she'd previously suffered, in contrast to the Yellow King, where the rape, torture, and murder of children was one of their central activities. Tom in Season 3 and, to a lesser extent, Ray in Season 2 is the good counterpart to the sheer amount of awful fathers on the show (with even Hart from the first season slapping his daughter and growing far apart from her). Although Chad may not have been Ray's son, and he did give some truly awful advice at times, Ray was desperate to take care of him and tried to be better than his own father. Tom was suspected of being a rapist father in line with the other fathers on the show, such as Errol Childress's and Dora Lange's, but he actually adored his children and is completely broken by their disappearance.
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True Detective / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
True Detective / int_7dbd52b8	comment	Light Is Good: In the end, Cohle states that the stars represent "light versus dark" as a metaphor for good versus evil. Hart says that dark has a lot more territory; Cohle agrees, then says Marty's looking at it wrong: once, there was only dark, but light is winning.
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True Detective / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
True Detective / int_7eb73553	comment	The rednecks who keep harassing Woodard all get blown to shreds and gunned down by him after they surround his house with the intention of murdering him.
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True Detective / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
True Detective / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: One of the season's recurring themes given how many examples there are. Lucy sold her own daughter, which led to her son's accidental death. She's devastated, but not devastated enough to tell anyone, which ultimately results in everything bad happening, especially her husband's murder and frame job. But she's so broken down, miserable, and seemingly aware of her faults that it's possible to feel some sympathy with her. Junius. He helped Isabella to kidnap Julie after Isabella accidentally killed Will, but he's motivated solely out of love for Isabella and a hope that she'll recover following the death of her husband and daughter, as he'd raised her basically like his own child. Woodard. He is a Friend to All Children who is wrongly suspected of being a pedophile as he is homeless due to his Vietnam-triggered PTSD. After he's attacked by corrupt hicks who believe that he's the killer, he turns the tables on them, killing several of them in a shootout and bombing. Isabella. While she was a fanatical kidnapper and (admittedly accidental) murderer who imprisoned a young girl after killing her brother, and drugged her with lithium, she was also completely emotionally and mentally broken, even slipping into a vegetative state, following the deaths of her husband and daughter in a car accident. After that, she only showed happiness when she was with Julie and, after Julie escaped, Isabella committed suicide.
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True Detective / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
True Detective / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Mayor Austin Chessani is introduced two-fisting champagne at a reception and drinks throughout his office meetings, even in the morning. Velcoro has become a drunken mess since he made a deal with Semyon, who complains that Velcoro is "getting a load on" during their meetings. When Velcoro cleans up and goes sober, Semyon says its nice to speak to him when his head isn't nodding. It doesn't last, however. Dixon drinks from a hip flask and is said to smell like liquor.
True Detective / int_7eebe99c	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_7eebe99c	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_7eebe99c
True Detective / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
True Detective / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Before his wife was raped and he descended into corruption, the long haired and moustached Velcoro was a clean-cut sheriffs deputy (seen in a flashback). He gets this again after the mid-season the Time Skip, shaving his moustache. Before leaving the US for Venezuela, Bezzerides dyes her hair black and cuts it short.
True Detective / int_7efd2e30	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_7efd2e30	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_7efd2e30
True Detective / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
True Detective / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: Semi-realistic example, since Ennis is in the Arctic Circle, it has about two months of total darkness, where the sun doesn't rise, in midwinter.
True Detective / int_7f67e11	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_7f67e11	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_7f67e11
True Detective / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
True Detective / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Roland and Wayne's aggressive interrogation of Harris, although he did assist in child abduction resulted in his death, which gave the Hoyts the material they needed to blackmail Wayne into dropping the case and ultimately ruined Roland and Wayne's friendship.
True Detective / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_7fbb2a3	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_7fbb2a3
True Detective / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
True Detective / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Cohle's reaction to Gilbough and Papania trying to get him to not smoke, all within the first five minutes of episode one.
True Detective / int_7febc23b	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_7febc23b	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_7febc23b
True Detective / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
True Detective / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The two detectives narrate the story leading up to the present. At around the end of episode 6 and moving into episode 7, the story catches up with the present, after which the story is told more or less in a linear progression (with the exception of the odd flashback). Season 2 and 3 changes back more and more often, but it also has multiple elements of How We Got Here due to being set over multiple timelines.
True Detective / int_80251be3	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_80251be3	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_80251be3
True Detective / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
True Detective / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Paul. However this is helped by the fact he actively goes to great lengths to hide and conceal his homosexuality.
True Detective / int_83b44e80	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_83b44e80	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_83b44e80
True Detective / int_83f01efb	type	Mexican Standoff
True Detective / int_83f01efb	comment	Mexican Stand Off: One took place between Woodard, the vigilantes accusing him of being a pedophile and responding Arkansas State Police after the vigilantes tried to breach his house, which was rigged with a Claymore.
True Detective / int_83f01efb	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_83f01efb	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_83f01efb
True Detective / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
True Detective / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Two take place in episode six. The first is between Ray and Frank, after Ray discovers the info Frank gave him on his wife's rapist, which caused his initial descent into corruption, was false. Frank insists he thought it was legit, and they eventually part, alive, on neutral terms. When Frank and his men search a house used by Amarilla's associate who pawned Caspere's things, they are confronted by the Mexican gang who want to do business with Frank's club (previously owned by Danny Santos).
True Detective / int_83f0971b	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_83f0971b	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_83f0971b
True Detective / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
True Detective / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: In Season 1, Martin Hart is the red oni, an impulsive, down-to-earth womanizer with rage issues, and Rustin Cohle is the blue oni, an aloof, stoic, and stiff nihilist. Their differences are most striking in 1995; in the present, they've both moved closer to the center, showing how much the case has changed them. Season 3 has Roland and Wayne. Wayne starts off the timeline as the extremely chill, stiff-upper-lipped stoic, while Roland is a blustering hothead. This changes when Roland gets promoted later on, and changes even more dramatically after Wayne's memory loss.
True Detective / int_8411ab92	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8411ab92	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8411ab92
True Detective / int_85c1004b	type	Incredibly Obvious Bug
True Detective / int_85c1004b	comment	Incredibly Obvious Bug: Velcoro spots the location tracker under his car from the reflection of its bright red LED.
True Detective / int_85c1004b	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_85c1004b	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_85c1004b
True Detective / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
True Detective / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Ani for Ray.
True Detective / int_85ca9dab	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_85ca9dab	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_85ca9dab
True Detective / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
True Detective / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's not stated what happened to Elisa or her documentary.
True Detective / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_863fa679
True Detective / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
True Detective / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Ray's father is a racist, drug-abusing drunk, which saddens Ray, who used to see his father as a great police officer.
True Detective / int_868409c	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_868409c	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_868409c
True Detective / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
True Detective / int_86b21114	comment	Frank gets another one in the finale, following up on his earlier Badass Boast to Osip. He then fires a single bullet to the head.
True Detective / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_86b21114
True Detective / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
True Detective / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: Several real-life media agencies appear in the series. TMZ reports on the scandal between Woodrugh and Lacey Lindel, and FOX broadcasts show both Geldof declaring his candidacy for governor and Ray's fugitive status and later death. A CBS news crew is also seen covering the Vinci workers protests in episode 4.
True Detective / int_86bbf6b5	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_86bbf6b5	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_86bbf6b5
True Detective / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
True Detective / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: The fictional city of Vinci is strongly based on the real life city of Vernon, California. Vinci, like Vernon, is an industrial city on the outskirts of L.A. plagued with corruption and crime. Both cities employ thousands of people but only contain a tiny number of actual residents. The "City of Vinci" water tower seen frequently on the show is actually Vernon's own landmark with the name replaced.
True Detective / int_87629455	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_87629455	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_87629455
True Detective / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
True Detective / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: In Season 1, Hart and Cohle are both very flawed men who do morally questionable things throughout the first season, but they are well-intended protagonists who try to stop an unambiguously evil cult with no redeeming qualities, who rape children and commit murders. In Season 3, Wayne and Roland killed their chief suspect after kidnapping and beating him, but they were genuinely trying to find out what happened to Julie and to avenge Tom.
True Detective / int_8767b1f3	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8767b1f3	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8767b1f3
True Detective / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
True Detective / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The "she" referenced by several characters. All we know is that she's apparently worshipped by the local Native Americans, said to have terrifying eyes, and transcends time.
True Detective / int_8774fb47	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8774fb47	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8774fb47
True Detective / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
True Detective / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Hank is obviously getting the classic catfishing treatment from his supposed Russian bride-to-be, so we know what to expect when he arrives to pick her up from the airport. The plane empties out with no Russian bride in sight, leaving Hank expectedly heartbroken... but what's this? A beautiful Slavic-looking woman emerges from the cabin, and she promptly shuts the cabin door, revealing that she's a stewardess.
True Detective / int_8797239c	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8797239c	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8797239c
True Detective / int_8a0e5cdb	type	Commune
True Detective / int_8a0e5cdb	comment	Commune: The Panticapaeum Institute, home of the spiritual group known as 'The Good People'.
True Detective / int_8a0e5cdb	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8a0e5cdb	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8a0e5cdb
True Detective / int_8ae7eb89	type	Real Song Theme Tune
True Detective / int_8ae7eb89	comment	Real Song Theme Tune: "Nevermind", by Leonard Cohen, although edited to remove the Arabic singing from the background.
True Detective / int_8ae7eb89	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8ae7eb89	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8ae7eb89
True Detective / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
True Detective / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of true crime stories and conspiracy theories. While Elisa suspects the death of Will Purcell and disappearance of Julie Purcell are tied to a child trafficking ring, the former was a genuine accident and the latter a non-malicious (but still illegal and harmful) kidnapping by a mentally ill woman from a rich family. Hoyt, the local business tycoon supposedly at the heart of the conspiracy, is actually a despondent alcoholic who mainly wants to protect his family and company's reputations, and the lone surviving kidnapping conspirator is guilt-ridden and quickly confesses when Wayne and Roland confront him years later. The district attorney/attorney general who wanted the case closed is implied to have done so out of convenience and political ambition rather than to cover up a vast conspiracy. In the end, while the original murder and kidnapping were still tragic, the Hoyt family's attempts to cover it up ruined even more lives.
True Detective / int_8ae880f7	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8ae880f7	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8ae880f7
True Detective / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
True Detective / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Much like the first season, it jumps back and forth in time between 1980, 1993, and 2015.
True Detective / int_8b6e8d7	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8b6e8d7	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8b6e8d7
True Detective / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
True Detective / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: The white dolls leading to Will Purcell's body.
True Detective / int_8bff32a8	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8bff32a8	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8bff32a8
True Detective / int_8d83bed9	type	The Vietnam Vet
True Detective / int_8d83bed9	comment	The Vietnam Vet: Wayne is one. A Scarily Competent Tracker who operated deep inside enemy lines for long periods, alone and outstandingly. Woodard is a darker example, suffering from PTSD-related anger issues, depression, and public suspicion of his quirks.
True Detective / int_8d83bed9	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8d83bed9	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8d83bed9
True Detective / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
True Detective / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The 5th episode has a recording of a Arkansas State Police 911 operator talking to someone who claims to be Julie. She says that she doesn't want to go back and see her father.
True Detective / int_8e20979	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8e20979
True Detective / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
True Detective / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The rednecks who keep harassing Woodard all get blown to shreds and gunned down by him after they surround his house with the intention of murdering him. Although she is also a Jerkass Woobie, a lot of sympathy is lost for Lucy Purcell when flashbacks reveal that she knowingly sold her daughter to an insane heiress and, although she was devastated upon learning that Will had accidentally died in the "exchange", she kept quiet about it in exchange for more money.
True Detective / int_8ed5c6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8ed5c6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8ed5c6e4
True Detective / int_8f34a32e	type	Softer and Slower Cover
True Detective / int_8f34a32e	comment	Softer and Slower Cover: The soundtrack features a number of these, covering some pretty unlikely songs, like Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Save Tonight" and The Beatles' "Twist and Shout."
True Detective / int_8f34a32e	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_8f34a32e	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_8f34a32e
True Detective / int_9058da25	type	Nuclear Family
True Detective / int_9058da25	comment	Nuclear Family: The Hayes: Wayne and Amelia have two children, Rebecca and Henry. The Purcells: Tom and Lucy with Julie and Will. Although they're a far more dysfunctional version. Lucy only has one brother, too, which implies she falls into this trope. Wayne's two grandkids are a boy and a girl, implying that Henry and Heather also form this.
True Detective / int_9058da25	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9058da25	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9058da25
True Detective / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
True Detective / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: Five, which is heavily associated with the Cult of the Yellow King. Examples include: The way Audrey Hart staged her dolls, five standing around a sixth on the ground. The picture of Dora Lange (at her mother's house), surrounded by five horsemen dressed for Courir de Mardi Gras. The tin-men that Rust slowly sets up during his interview with the police. in the videotape, there are five men, all dressed in a twisted version of Courir de Mardi Gras, that torture and kill Marie Fontenot.
True Detective / int_9203bf6	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9203bf6	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9203bf6
True Detective / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
True Detective / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Maggie gets revenge on her husband by having sex with his partner.
True Detective / int_92f674e5	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_92f674e5	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_92f674e5
True Detective / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
True Detective / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: The ending of Part 5 sees Peter kill his father, Hank, as he's about to shoot Danvers.
True Detective / int_93399c3c	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_93399c3c	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_93399c3c
True Detective / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
True Detective / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: The circumstances that lead to Rust and Maggie having sex is purposely unclear whether it was consensual on Rust's part. While he does give in to her advances, he at first resists and only reciprocates when Maggie forcefully kisses him. It's also made clear that he's drunk at the time, while Maggie is sober. She's also aware that what she did to Rust was wrong, tearfully apologizing, but it's never acknowledged as rape. Later, Marty points out in the final episode that Maggie told him it wasn't Rust's choice, implying that Maggie knows it wasn't consensual. Rust, on the other hand, disregards this and claims he did have a choice, and that he blames Marty more than anyone.
True Detective / int_9400b3b5	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9400b3b5	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9400b3b5
True Detective / int_955aba87	type	Mook Chivalry
True Detective / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: The guy in the tracking shot has Rust on the floor at his mercy, only to tell him to get up. Rust handily dispatches him.
True Detective / int_955aba87	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_955aba87	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_955aba87
True Detective / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
True Detective / int_970c790a	comment	The real twist is that all of these groups are connected. The Catalast Group, the corrupt police, Osip, Frank's men, and even the victim were working together to exploit the above land deal. The District Attorney, and later gubernatorial candidate, joins the group later on. The implied Big Bad is the Mayor's ambitious son, who has been blackmailing everyone in a bid to solidify his own power base in Vinci.
True Detective / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_970c790a
True Detective / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
True Detective / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: All the male main characters are killed, while the female one survives.
True Detective / int_974b47a7	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_974b47a7	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_974b47a7
True Detective / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
True Detective / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Danvers has a stuffed polar bear missing one eye that belonged to her son, Holden, who died under unknown circumstances prior to the start of the series. Its resemblance to an actual polar bear that's been seen by both Danvers and Navarro has yet to be explained. She pitches it out into the snow on Christmas day when Navarro questions why she keeps it around, despite not believing in an afterlife.
True Detective / int_97d54bb0	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_97d54bb0	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_97d54bb0
True Detective / int_9823c800	type	PrivateMilitaryContractor
True Detective / int_9823c800	comment	Private Military Contractor: Woodrugh, a military veteran, worked for "Black Mountain" before he joined the police, an obvious stand-in for Blackwater. He's very defensive and secretive about his actions during the war, hinting at the accusations of war crimes that Blackwater drew during the same war. Black Mountain later re-brands itself as "Ares Security", and begin servicing only one client: Catalast Group.
True Detective / int_9823c800	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9823c800	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9823c800
True Detective / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
True Detective / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Marty comments on Charlie Lange's description of Reggie Ledoux, "Had to be tough, living with somebody spouting insane shit in your ear all day long," pointedly looking at Rust.
True Detective / int_984ef9ef	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_984ef9ef	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_984ef9ef
True Detective / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
True Detective / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: The Velcoro family drama essentially centers on it. The mother was raped 9 months before she gave birth, the son looks nothing like her husband, but doesn't look like the rapist either. It eventually unfolds that it wasn't even the real rapist, and the false tip was supplied by a man who does look like the son, but the real rapist eventually turns out not to look like the son either. The ultimate conclusion comes in the surprising paternity test: Ray Velcoro, the husband, is actually the father, and his next child also has bright red hair like his first.
True Detective / int_98d3f973	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_98d3f973	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_98d3f973
True Detective / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
True Detective / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: Although a grittier version, the church helps the deeply traumatized Mary/Julie to fake her own death in an attempt to help her recover from her abduction.
True Detective / int_99390db0	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_99390db0	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_99390db0
True Detective / int_995bbf9c	type	Conveniently Timed Distraction
True Detective / int_995bbf9c	comment	Conveniently Timed Distraction: The California state government sees Caspere's murder as this. They place Paul on the detail investigating his murder so he can also find concrete evidence of corruption in Vinci, which the state can use to prevent further government funds being misused by the likes of Chessani and Frank.
True Detective / int_995bbf9c	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_995bbf9c	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_995bbf9c
True Detective / int_999b267b	type	Phlebotinum Analogy
True Detective / int_999b267b	comment	Phlebotinum Analogy: During the interrogation, Cohle uses a flattened beer can to explain how fourth-dimensional beings would look upon us in the third dimension.
True Detective / int_999b267b	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_999b267b	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_999b267b
True Detective / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
True Detective / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Reggie Ledoux to Bret Woodard. Both function very similarly in the story, with the act of violence at the midpoint of the season that changed all the characters. However, Reggie Ledoux was a child rapist and a kidnapper, while Bret Woodard never harmed a child and is actually completely innocent of all crimes.
True Detective / int_9b54d536	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9b54d536	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9b54d536
True Detective / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
True Detective / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Childress' labyrinthine temple may be a downplayed example.
True Detective / int_9bee1a7f	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9bee1a7f	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9bee1a7f
True Detective / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
True Detective / int_9c4003a1	comment	One True Love: Amelia for Wayne and vice versa. Surprisingly, Julie for Mike. He's also able to recognize her when nobody else is.
True Detective / int_9c4003a1	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9c4003a1	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9c4003a1
True Detective / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
True Detective / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Bezzerides is introduced wanting to do something so kinky in the bedroom that the guy she is sleeping with freaks out and refuses. However, she is very critical of porn and the adult entertainment industry, and is viewed by her sister as an anti-sex prude.
True Detective / int_9d0cfdb9	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9d0cfdb9	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9d0cfdb9
True Detective / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
True Detective / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When the police investigate Tsalal, someone notes that their mission is impossible because genetic material deteriorates when it thaws. In the end, it's revealed that the scientists started using pollution to make their mission possible. The hidden compartment containing the DVD player at Tsalal foreshadows the hidden passage to the ice bunker.
True Detective / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9d12bbc1
True Detective / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
True Detective / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Lisa screams at Hart to leave her apartment when the latter is all over the guy she brought home with her. As Rust realizes that Maggie had sex with him as a way of getting back at Marty, he yells for her to "Get the fuck out!" of his apartment.
True Detective / int_9f62723d	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9f62723d	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9f62723d
True Detective / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
True Detective / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: This season is the first to focus on two female detectives, and most of the drama centers on feminist themes of female bonding, motherhood, and sisterhood. In the end, it's revealed that the killers are a bunch of female janitors, perhaps aided by a supernatural, unnamed "she" who transcends time. Meanwhile, all the men in the story are either villainous or henpecked.
True Detective / int_9f74002a	featureApplicability	1.0
True Detective / int_9f74002a	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_9f74002a
True Detective / int_a0671da	type	Tragic Stillbirth
True Detective / int_a0671da	comment	Tragic Stillbirth: In "Part 3", the leader of a meeting to protest the mining operation announces that a couple in the community just suffered one and asks for a Moment of Silence. In "Part 5" Danvers's stepdaughter tells her that there have been nine stillbirths in the villages in the last three months. It is implied that they are associated to the pollution caused by the mine.
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True Detective / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
True Detective / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: The final dialogue between Cohle and Hart in episode 8, about the stars reflecting the struggle between light and dark, is pretty much the same as the dialogue between two dying aliens in issue #8 of Alan Moore's Top 10. Nic Pizzolatto has said that he's a fan of Moore's comics, so the reference is almost certainly intentional. The first season includes a number of references to The King in Yellow. A figure in the evil cult is called the Yellow King. When Cohle reaches Carcosa, he comes across a room with an altar resembling a throne upon which a macabre collection of bones is on display, draped in tattered yellow robes. "Black stars" figure into both the book and the cult's mythology. "Carcosa" is occasionally mentioned. In the book it's the land ruled by the King in Yellow. It's unclear what it means to the cult, although the season finale implies it is the derelict complex located on the property of the Serial Killer.
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True Detective / int_a280f130	type	Take This Job and Shove It
True Detective / int_a280f130	comment	Take This Job and Shove It: After a fistfight with Hart in the parking lot of headquarters, while Cohle was on suspension, Rust decides he's had enough of it and quits. Though it turns out later that it was at least partially because he wanted to investigate the case without oversight telling him not to.
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True Detective / int_a3cdf764	type	Drinking on Duty
True Detective / int_a3cdf764	comment	Drinking on Duty: Velcoro is seen drinking throughout the working day, and goes through half a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue before responding to the Caspere murder scene. His colleague, Teague Dixon, is also seen drinking from a hip flask in the early morning. Played with with Bezzerides. She is shown being ejected from a casino for being too drunk (presumably off-duty), but then needs to go back on the clock to accompany her partner to the Caspere crime scene.
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True Detective / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
True Detective / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: The set photographer, actually.
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True Detective / int_a4b3fe1c	type	Twisted Echo Cut
True Detective / int_a4b3fe1c	comment	Twisted Echo Cut: In the pilot, Cohle mentions to the prostitute at the bar that he doesn't sleep. Cut to Maggie in her bed sleeping.
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True Detective / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
True Detective / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: It is revealed that season 3's story is in the same continuity as season 1, when Rust and Marty's exploits in 2012 are brought up as being similar in nature to Hays and Roland's case. Specifically little children being kidnapped, which is being covered up by people in power, possibly in connection to pedophile ring. The twist being here, that the case Hays and Roland are pursuing is ultimately revealed to be a result of very mudane (and not quite as sinister as original persumed) causes, rather than the machinations of some complex and nebulous conspiracy that Rust and Marty were up against.
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True Detective / int_a5c78451	type	Graceful in Their Element
True Detective / int_a5c78451	comment	Graceful in Their Element: Paul during the gunfight in episode four. He is the most adept shooter during the battle and when Velcoro and Bezzerides begin to break down afterwards, he does nothing more than calmly holster his weapon as backup arrives. This contrasts considerably to his behavior earlier in the episode, where he is hungover, on edge and lamenting to Velcoro about being unable to function in the real world.
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True Detective / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
True Detective / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Will Purcell's body is arranged in an attempt at twisted kindness, posed in a similar way to his first Communion photo and sheltered by a cave.
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True Detective / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
True Detective / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: Frank Semyon's plot is largely lifted from The Long Good Friday: A happily married mob boss is on the verge of going legitimate by making a huge land development deal in partnership with a foreign crime organization, but finds himself under attack by unknown agents. Struggling first to keep the deal together and then just to stay alive, he uncovers that his number two has betrayed him, so he kills him personally. Ultimately, he assassinates an enemy leader, but gets murdered anyway, leaving his wife a widow.
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True Detective / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
True Detective / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The culprits who killed the Tsalal Scientists— a group of women from Ennis seeking vengance for Annie Kowtok— are never tried or prosecuted.
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True Detective / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
True Detective / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In episode 7, Papania and Gilbough get directions from a man they meet on the road. The audience is then treated to the close-up of his face: his cheeks are covered in scars, fitting the murderer's description that Rust and Marty got from the surviving victims and didn't share with Papania and Gilbough.
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True Detective / int_ac12cde1	type	Bully Hunter
True Detective / int_ac12cde1	comment	Bully Hunter: Velcoro uses police dispatch to find his sons bully's address, then beats the boy's father in front of him as a warning.
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True Detective / int_ac92aad1	type	White-Collar Crime
True Detective / int_ac92aad1	comment	White-Collar Crime: Frank is attempting to move up from the blue collar crime of running clubs and pushing drugs to investing money in illicit land deals involving big businesses and the government. It later falls through after McCandless, Osip and Caspere screw him over, and he is forced to go back to his blue collar crime roots just to keep money coming in. He later admits he isn't cut out for that sort of work, and also reveals in the season finale that he never wore a suit until he was 38.
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True Detective / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
True Detective / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: How Velcoro elects to deal with his son's bully; brutally beating the boys father in front of him and threatening to harm his family if he continues bullying other kids.
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True Detective / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
True Detective / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: At the beginning of episode six, Bezzerides is seen practising knife fighting moves on a target in her apartment. Later in the episode, she uses the same moves, whilst drugged, to take down a bouncer who tries to kill her when she is undercover at a party.
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True Detective / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
True Detective / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: A theme in the season. Paul Woodrugh has to take a Viagra and wait for a half hour before being able to have sex with his very keen girlfriend. Frank is unable to rise to the occasion to give a sperm sample, in spite of his wife's best efforts. He complains that he's under too much stress.
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True Detective / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
True Detective / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: During the final confrontation, Cohle shoots Errol in the head from behind Just in Time before the latter can finish off Hart.
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True Detective / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
True Detective / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Bezzerides, upon first meeting Frank Semyon in the season finale.
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True Detective / int_aef85c54	type	Eerie Arctic Research Station
True Detective / int_aef85c54	comment	Eerie Arctic Research Station: Tsalal Research Station was completely abandoned by its crew on the first day of night, and when a delivery of food comes in four days later, all that's found is a tongue, sans body.
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True Detective / int_b035720c	type	Toxic, Inc.
True Detective / int_b035720c	comment	Toxic, Inc.: Silver Sky Mining, which runs the mine that employs half of the population of Ennis, is polluting the area and affecting the Native population disproportionately, as they can't afford the overpriced food in the town's stores, and can't drink the poisoned water. Part 5 reveals that both Silver Sky and Tsalal are both funded by Tuttle Ltd., and Danvers makes the connection that Tsalal fabricated pollution numbers to make it seem like Silver Sky is less harmful than it actually is. Clark elaborates further in episode 6 that the pollution actually helped the scientists get through the permafrost faster in search of microorganisms, to the point where they were quietly encouraging the mine to pollute even more.
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True Detective / int_b0852187	type	No Warrant? No Problem!
True Detective / int_b0852187	comment	No Warrant? No Problem!: Velcoro and Dixon simply pick the lock of a house they need to search.
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True Detective / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
True Detective / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: Our two sympathetic male characters are characterized by their extreme passivity toward the female cast. Peter is such a push-over that he can never say no to orders from Danvers, even when she drunk-dials him on Christmas Eve night. He doesn't respond to frequent abuse from Leah, and his own girlfriend affectionately calls him an idiot. Qavvik is almost superhumanly easy-going, even around the volatile Navarro. He lets her come and go at odd hours, insult him, and steal his toothbrush, offering only weak objections at worst and emotional support at best.
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True Detective / int_b0e81c37	type	A Simple Plan
True Detective / int_b0e81c37	comment	A Simple Plan: Episode 4 has Ani, Ray, and Paul tracking down a possible suspect, who happens to be a gang leader. When the gang's hideout is found, they are informed that the nearest SWAT will take some time to arrive, possibly giving the leader time to slip away from them, so Ani decides to stage an impromptu raid using the officers from the task force, believing it to be an dangerous but not insurmountable mission. The result is downright carnage, as the gang discovers them, and pins them down with automatic fire while attempting to escape by driving through a nearby demonstration. This attempt fails as their car crashes into a bus, so the gang instead tries to shoot their way out. All of the gang, most of the taskforce and a number of civilians are caught in the crossfire.
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True Detective / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
True Detective / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: A running theme. Strongly implied with Dora Lange's father in Season 1. Beth, Dora Lange's friend, has a similar situation with her Evil Uncle. Also in Season 1, this is the partial source of the Yellow King killer's insanity, as he was sexually abused and tortured by his father along with countless other children as part of the cult's rituals, which is what drives him to do the same to countless other children and young women. In Season 2, Frank laments how his father would lock him in the basement during his drunken benders, and once forgot he was there for an entire week. He was left starving, in the pitch dark, with only hungry rats for company. It is implied that Ani's childhood, growing up in a spiritual commune, may have also been abusive. She tells Dr. Pitlor it was a 'fucked up' environment for kids, given that out of the five living in her house, she was the only one who didn't commit suicide or go to jail. It is later revealed she was kidnapped and repeatedly molested/raped for a week as a child by a member of her father's commune. In Season 3, after kidnapping Julie, Isabel Hoyt basically became this to her, especially as she drugged and brainwashed Julie into believing they were mother and daughter. Also, Julie's birth mother, Lucy, is responsible for her being sold, too.
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True Detective / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
True Detective / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Navarro gets knocked out by a trash can to the head, but wakes up a minute later to beat up her attacker. Other than holding some frozen vegetables to her head at one point, she seems none the worse for wear.
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True Detective / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
True Detective / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: Dr. Pitlor smugly tries to talk down Ray by analysing him during their second meeting. Ray will have none of it.
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True Detective / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
True Detective / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: The drug dealers in episode four spray automatic fire through a lengthy shootout. We never see them reload, and they seem to have unlimited ammo. The police officers, by contrast, are seen reloading and have a limited supply of ammo.
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True Detective / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
True Detective / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: Marty has a case of this with regards to his infidelity, flying into a violent rage when he discovers that Lisa, the woman he's cheating on his wife with, is cheating on him. He later experiences it again when he freaks out and beats up Rust because Maggie cheated on him with him, ignoring the fact that he's also cheating on her with Beth.
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True Detective / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
True Detective / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Despite both being extremely cynical and flawed anti-heroes, Hart and Cohle are both utterly horrified and enraged by the ritualistic rape, torture, and murder of children that they uncover that has been (and continues to be) perpetrated by the cult, and by the end of the series are utterly fixated on bringing them down even at the cost of their own lives.
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True Detective / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
True Detective / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Ginger's ill-conceived heist. He and his biker goons immediately make themselves conspicuous in the ghetto by dressing as cops while not doing anything to conceal their long hair and beards. They break into a rival drug dealer's house while leaving their getaway car unattended, take the dealer and his friends hostage, and quickly draw the attention of all the other dealers in the neighborhood. The bikers find themselves surrounded and then dead after they foolishly shoot one of the hostages and instigate a bloody firefight.
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True Detective / int_b6c6e9ed	type	Violence Is Disturbing
True Detective / int_b6c6e9ed	comment	Violence Is Disturbing: After the heated gunfight in episode 4, both Velcoro and Bezzerides begin to break down after the adrenaline wears off and they observe the bloody carnage caused. Bezzerides is a bit of a mess after she kills a bouncer whilst undercover at a sex party in episode six. The fact she was drugged probably doesn't help either.
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True Detective / int_b88eda46	type	Conspicuous Gloves
True Detective / int_b88eda46	comment	Conspicuous Gloves: You know something's up when Hart puts on his black gloves at the holding cell with the two adolescents who messed around with Hart's daughter.
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True Detective / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
True Detective / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For both Hart and Cohle, it's hurting children. Prior to the timeframe of the series, when Cohle was an undercover narcotics cop in Texas, he shot a tweaker for injecting a baby with crystal meth. Later on, Hart executes a handcuffed Ledoux when he finds two chained, tortured children, one dead, in his garage. Hart also eventually quits the force after a particularly upsetting and gruesome crime involving a dead baby. And both Cohle and Hart are compelled to see the case through after watching the Marie Fontenot video.
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True Detective / int_bcb2cfe1	type	Beam Me Up, Scotty!
True Detective / int_bcb2cfe1	comment	Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Despite it's popularity with fans, Frank never actually says "Caspere knew this."
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True Detective / int_bdbc35e7	type	Blade Enthusiast
True Detective / int_bdbc35e7	comment	Blade Enthusiast : Detective Ani Bezzerides. Her apartment features books on knives and knife fighting, a wall covered in blades, and a knife fighting practice dummy. She carries three knives while on duty. In episode four, it's revealed that one of her knives is her mother's. In episode two, she explains that as a female officer, she needs to level the playing field in a fight with a man.
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True Detective / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
True Detective / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Lacey Lindel, the actress Paul pulls over in episode 1 who later makes false accusations towards him.
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True Detective / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
True Detective / int_bf1c906	comment	Vinci's mayor, Austin Chessani, is the embodiment of this trope. He openly gropes his trophy wife's ass during a formal fundraiser, grossly misuses city funds for his own personal gain and drinks in the morning whilst meeting with police detectives.
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True Detective / int_bf75c797	type	Binge Montage
True Detective / int_bf75c797	comment	Binge Montage: After Ray realises he is going to lose the custody battle for Chad, and also find out for definite that he isn't the boy's biological father, he goes on a binge of cocaine, whiskey and beer, and trashes his house.
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True Detective / int_c1d1d6ad	type	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
True Detective / int_c1d1d6ad	comment	Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Invoked by Ray when he finds out the kid bullying his son is called "Aspen." Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides and her sister, Athena. Her father is a hippy cult leader.
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True Detective / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
True Detective / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Between state, county and local law enforcement. Woodrugh (California Highway Patrol), Bezzerides (Ventura County Sheriffs Office) and Velcoro (Vinci Police Dept) must work together in the Caspere murder case. They eye each other suspiciously when they all meet at the crime scene, and their respective superiors are later seen arguing over who has jurisdiction over the investigation. The body was found in Ventura County so the Sheriffs Office has primary jurisdiction. However, Vinci PD already has an investigation open into Caspere's disapearance/kidnapping and they have possession of the evidence from his house and office. With the unspoken threat that Vinci PD will refuse to cooperate with a Ventura County Sheriffs investigation, a compromise is reached with Bezzerides being the primary investigator on the case and Velcoro as her partner and second-in-command. The Highway Patrol's claim to jurisdiction is the weakest but they have the backing of the state attorney so Woodrugh is allowed to join the investigation as a junior investigator. The real reasons for this jurisdictional fight are political. The state and county governments are fighting Vinci's government over tax revenue and they want to use the investigation to obtain leverage that will let them eliminate Vinci City as a political power in California. The Vinci City officials want to avoid this at all cost and Velcoro is tasked with tanking the investigation if necessary.
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True Detective / int_c30b3981	type	Mistaken for Prostitute
True Detective / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: Bezzerides and her colleagues raid an isolated house on a tip an illegal prostitution ring involving trafficked girls is being run out of it. However, it turns out to be a legal webcam porn company employing American women. They even have a business license.
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True Detective / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
True Detective / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Several in the episode 4 shootout.
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True Detective / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
True Detective / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Cohle and Hart don't particularly care for each other right from the start but have to work together because they're partners. Even after a violent falling out, however, they reunite and pursue the main case out of shared revulsion for the crimes.
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True Detective / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
True Detective / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After evading Holloway and his thugs, Paul is on the verge of escaping when he is shot in the back by Burris and killed.
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True Detective / int_c452da2f	type	Southern Gothic
True Detective / int_c452da2f	comment	Southern Gothic: Set in Louisiana, oppressive heat, lots of death, dark secrets, inbred hillbillies in a decaying farmhouse, all tied up with family, religion, and Voodoo... yeah, it's Southern Gothic.
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True Detective / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
True Detective / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The lyrics to Leonard Cohen's "Nevermind" are re-cut for each episode's opening.
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True Detective / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
True Detective / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The sex scene between Maggie and Rust. It's brutal (yet consensual) and animalistic but is deliberately intended to not be titilating. In the final episode of season 1, Errol Childress and his half-sister have sex. Both are very dirty, very unattractive people.
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True Detective / int_c660bc15	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_c660bc15
True Detective / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
True Detective / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: The second episode ends with a guy wearing a bird headdress gunning down Velcoro with a shotgun. The victim then squirms on the floor before the birdman makes a point blank gut-shot of uncertain fatality. The next episode reveals Velcoro was not killed but shot with rubber bullets.
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True Detective / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
True Detective / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Has its own page.
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True Detective / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_c75df49a
True Detective / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
True Detective / int_c868a42a	comment	Also in Season 1, this is the partial source of the Yellow King killer's insanity, as he was sexually abused and tortured by his father along with countless other children as part of the cult's rituals, which is what drives him to do the same to countless other children and young women.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_c868a42a
True Detective / int_c86b7046	type	It's Not Porn, It's Art
True Detective / int_c86b7046	comment	It's Not Porn, It's Art: How Ani's sister, Athena, views her career as an online cam girl.
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True Detective / int_c86b7046	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_c86b7046
True Detective / int_c9a71d47	type	Innocence Lost
True Detective / int_c9a71d47	comment	Innocence Lost: A recurring theme throughout the season, both in the dead children and in the general sense that society is getting Darker and Edgier.
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True Detective / int_c9a71d47	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_c9a71d47
True Detective / int_c9ebcaae	type	Never Lend to a Friend
True Detective / int_c9ebcaae	comment	Never Lend to a Friend: Frank trusted Caspere to invest his money in land around the site of a proposed high speed railway, so when it increased in value he could sell it back to the government for a higher price and make a profit. Unfortunately for Frank, Caspere was killed before he completed the purchases from the current landowners, leaving Frank short of around $10 million. It's also later revealed he was trying to screw Frank over, claiming the land cost $10 million whereas the landowners later tell Frank they only wanted $7 million.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_c9ebcaae
True Detective / int_ca967579	type	Torture Cellar
True Detective / int_ca967579	comment	"The Secret Fate of All Life". Hart and Cohle track down Reggie Ledoux, and Hart snaps and executes him after discovering two children in a Torture Cellar, provoking the two of them into a cover-up. Papania and Gilbough accuse Cohle of the 2012 murder and a few others. And then there's the school...
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True Detective / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
True Detective / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Some seemingly magical events are resolved as conventional, but others remain unexplained: The caribou herd in the opening scene gets collectively spooked by something happening under the ice they are standing on, and they run away in such a fear that they all jump down what looks like a suicide height cliff. Clark freaks out and announces, "She is awake!" immediately before the power gets cut off. It's never revealed how he came by the premonition. When the power goes out in the Tsalal facility, cell phones also go dead at the same time. Since the power was simply cut by a bunch of janitors, it's not explained why cell phones also went dead. The bodies of the Tsalal Crew are found by a woman who's led out on the ice by the ghost of her dead husband. There's no real mundane explanation for this other than extreme coincidence. Both Navarro and Danvers hear eerie voices telling her "She is awake"; in the case of Danvers, she hears her dead son, Holden. Navarro has a message for Danvers from he late son that references a private family memory. Did the dead really talk to her, or did she just get lucky with her message? The surviving scientist's talk with Navarro has no mundane explanation beyond a hallucination. After her sister kills herself, Navarro claims that her family is cursed to be pulled into the sea by something calling out to them. Congenital mental illness, or is there actually something out there? The oranges the keep rolling to the feet of Navarro and Danvers. Supernatural or just a coincidence? The veterinarian says that the men did not die of hypothermia, but the story given by the killers would indicate that they would have died of hypothermia unless the unspecified "she" killed them. The tongue found at the facility was not placed there by the killers, and there is no explanation for its appearance.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_cb70651c
True Detective / int_cbd0ac32	type	Environmental Symbolism
True Detective / int_cbd0ac32	comment	Environmental Symbolism: The labyrinth Cohle finds himself in during the Final Battle symbolizes the twisted mind of the antagonist.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_cbd0ac32
True Detective / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
True Detective / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Jacob McCandless, the CEO of Catalast Group in Season 2, and Hoyt of Hoyt Foods in Season 3, who allowed his daughter to kidnap a child and (accidentally) murder another, just choosing to cover it up years after the fact.
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True Detective / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
True Detective / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Corrupt Cop: Detective Ray Velcoro is in the pocket of Frank Semyon, and acts as police muscle for him until he quits Vinci PD in episode five, in addition to abusing police resources to exact personal revenge for his son. Detective Teague Dixon is revealed to have been manipulating the Caspere investigation for the Vinci PD and secretly following up on diamonds stolen from Caspere behind the taskforce's back. Vinci Police Chief Holloway, who throughout most the season is seen as neutral, is seen in cohorts with Chessani's son, McCandless and Osip at a party in episode six. In episode seven, he is shown to be in cohorts with Catalast Group, and orders their security guards to kill Paul. Lt. Kevin Burris is implied to be the 'tall, thin, white cop' that paid off Ilina to pawn Casperes possessions. In episode seven, he is shown to be in cahoots with the whole conspiracy, and murders Paul after he escapes Holloway and Catalast security. In episode seven it is revealed that whilst Burris, Dixon and Holloway were working for the LAPD in the 90s, they used the 1992 riots as cover to commit a brutal jewellery store robbery which left two children orphaned. They then used the stolen diamonds to buy into the Vinci crime syndicate, and later joined Vinci PD with six figure salaries.
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True Detective / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
True Detective / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: A Gory Discretion Shot is used to this effect twice: when Marty looks at the tape of a girl surrounded by men in animal masks closing in on her and a recently microwaved baby, we only see (and hear) his reaction. Creator Nic Pizzolatto and Director Cary Joji Fukunaga specifically stated in interviews that whatever they could show on the video would not be as bad as people's imagination, and so avoided showing it directly to make it that much worse.
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True Detective / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
True Detective / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: The season premiered in June 2015, but dates on paperwork seen in the first episode suggest it initially takes place in mid-October 2015. After the Time Skip in episode four, the rest of the season likely takes place in early 2016.
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True Detective / int_cf4fa6b9	type	Lonely Bachelor Pad
True Detective / int_cf4fa6b9	comment	Lonely Bachelor Pad: Rust Cohle's apartment contains almost no furniture except a mattress and a lawn chair. As you might expect, he's a miserable misanthrope.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_cf4fa6b9
True Detective / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
True Detective / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Tom is revealed to have committed suicide in the 1990s, apparently because he killed his son and abducted and killed his daughter. He didn't; he was framed by Harris. Lucy is believed to have accidentally OD'd after spiralling into addiction in despair. Hoyt killed her because she asks for more money. This is one of the theories floated for Harris's disappearance. Wayne and Roland killed him.
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True Detective / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
True Detective / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Marty connecting the green ears on the portrait of the "Spaghetti Monster" with the freshly-painted house.
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True Detective / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
True Detective / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: The discovery of a missing, severed tongue (without a body) alongside a mass disappearance triggers the mystery of this season.
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True Detective / int_d1522cf	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_d1522cf
True Detective / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
True Detective / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: If not the second season, the third is definitively confirmed to take place in the same world as the first one, with cameo appearances from Rust and Marty, and an explicit Call-Back to the Yellow King cult murders. Hays' interviewer in 2015 references the cult and their crooked spiral motif, though he explicitly denies such a cult was involved this time around.
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True Detective / int_d23bc73b	type	Anonymous Public Phone Call
True Detective / int_d23bc73b	comment	Anonymous Public Phone Call: In Season 1, a robber who claims to have information about The Yellow King gets a call from a remote payphone and then kills himself before he can reveal anything. The caller even wiped his fingerprints off the phone.
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True Detective / int_d23bc73b	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_d23bc73b
True Detective / int_d346d7e8	type	Mail-Order Bride
True Detective / int_d346d7e8	comment	Mail-Order Bride: Danvers teases Hank about his "mail order bride," but it's actually even more pathetic than that: He's been sending money to a catfishing swindler posing as his Russian girlfriend.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_d346d7e8
True Detective / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
True Detective / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: De Wall Ledoux gets killed by one of his own Booby Traps.
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True Detective / int_d3bb3162	type	Lethal Negligence
True Detective / int_d3bb3162	comment	Lethal Negligence: What ends up killing Julia Navarro in "Part 4". She has a mental health episode and is found wandering around while taking off her clothes in midwinter. She resists Danvers (who tries to help her) and is having hallucinations. Instead of being declared a danger to herself and others and getting committed, she is checked into the Lighthouse, a local mental health facility. Because it's a voluntary facility, it has no security to prevent patients from leaving, so she's able to slip away and commit Suicide by Sea. Evangeline accuses the front desk employee of negligence.
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True Detective / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
True Detective / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Ginger's plan to rob the stash house in the ghetto is incredibly audacious. To wit, he dresses himself and two other guys in cop uniforms (keep in mind they are still bearded, tattooted 1%er bikers), rolls into a ghetto, takes a few hostages and proceeds to rob the gang. Once the plan is in full swing, however, it becomes clear that he only thought as far as getting into the house.
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True Detective / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
True Detective / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Ani Bezzerides. She chastises her sister for living an 'unhealthy' lifestyle in the porn industry, yet she herself has drinking and gambling problems.
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True Detective / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
True Detective / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: Danvers believes in this and is skeptical of the claims that the dead walk in Ennis.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_d57f4a99
True Detective / int_d80e9526	type	Sex for Services
True Detective / int_d80e9526	comment	Sex for Services: An actress Woodrugh pulls over offers him a blowjob in exchange for getting out of a ticket. Although he refuses, she lies and says he did, resulting in him getting suspended pending an IA investigation.
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True Detective / int_d80fa9d	type	The Patient Has Left the Building
True Detective / int_d80fa9d	comment	The Patient Has Left the Building: In the final moments of the series, Cohle decides to leave the hospital on his own terms with the help of Hart.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_d80fa9d
True Detective / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
True Detective / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Rust leaves the force after being suspended and subsequently attacked by Marty.
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True Detective / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
True Detective / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Papania and Gilbough arrive with reinforcements once our two heroes have defeated the final villain.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_d9e9ad7e
True Detective / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
True Detective / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Navarro is a military veteran who beats up several people over the course of the season.
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True Detective / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
True Detective / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: Reggie Ledoux's meth-cooking partner steps on a land mine and explodes into gibs.
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True Detective / int_db33bc7e	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_db33bc7e
True Detective / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
True Detective / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Delivered by Frank when Danny Santos prepares to remove his rings before fighting him.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_db4b76d1
True Detective / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
True Detective / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: With the Stealth Sequel reveal, viewers would expect that Julie Purcell's kidnapping and her brother's death must be related to something rather sinister with many high level cover ups. It turns out Julie's kidnappers weren't a pedophile ring at all, simply a powerful family with a mentally fragile woman who thought Julie must be her daughter after her real daughter died tragically. And the Attorney General who always seems interested in shutting down the case as soon as possible isn't (presumably) in cahoots with the Hoyts, he simply is a grandstanding politician who wants to look good for the press at the cost of a case being closed prematurely.
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True Detective / int_dbd68b08	type	Half-Witted Hillbilly
True Detective / int_dbd68b08	comment	Half-Witted Hillbilly: All varieties show up consistently throughout the show, especially in rural areas.
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True Detective / int_dbd68b08	featureConfidence	1.0
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True Detective / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
True Detective / int_dc2912f	comment	Woodrugh is an Armoured Closet Gay who has great difficulty engaging in sex with his girlfriend and is deeply ashamed of a previous sexual experience. He's accused of soliciting a movie star for a blow job, an embarrassing charge that he denies.
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True Detective / int_dc2912f	featureConfidence	1.0
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True Detective / int_dc8ba6d5	type	The Scapegoat
True Detective / int_dc8ba6d5	comment	The Scapegoat: Woodard is posthumously convicted of the Purcell murders by Wayne's superiors. This is motivated by the shoot-out he'd been in, the discovery of Will Purcell's backpack at his house, and the preexisting mistrust the townsfolk had towards him for being a lowly scavenger and a non-white one at that. As the future segments quickly reveal, it wasn't him. Tom also becomes one after his apparent suicide after people finally become suspicious that Woodard wasn't actually the killer and kidnapper after all.
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True Detective / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
True Detective / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Commander Heschmeyer, Woodrugh's superior in the California Highway Patrol. Katherine Davis, a States Attorney. She reopens the Caspere case after it is improperly closed by Geldof, presumably in collusion with the Vinci government so it can be resolved properly. She even declares Bezzerides and Velcoro 'special investigators' so their identities can be kept a secret. Because of her desire to reveal the corruption surrounding the deal, she is murdered in episode seven with one of Ray's guns, framing him as well.
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True Detective / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
True Detective / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The people who killed Caspere and attempt to blackmail those involved in the conspiracy are revealed to be the orphaned Osterman children from the 1992 jewellery store robbery, AKA the kids in the photograph AKA the set photographer and Casperes assistant.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_dcbe8a6e
True Detective / int_dd234c2f	type	Hallucinations
True Detective / int_dd234c2f	comment	Hallucinations: Cohle sees a number of strange things while investigating the case. Their source is mysterious, but Cohle explains them as acid flashbacks. In episode 2, Cohle sees blurring lights on the highway, a weirdly neon-pink wave that spreads across the cloudscape and a flock of birds forming the symbols on Dora Lange's body. The hallucinations come back full swing in the season one finale, where he sees a spiraling, alien constellation while standing at the heart of 'Carcosa'.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_dd234c2f
True Detective / int_dd5faec5	type	Only Mostly Dead
True Detective / int_dd5faec5	comment	Only Mostly Dead: The Ennis Police are understandably shocked when they accidentally break a whole forearm off one of the frozen scientists... and he starts screaming in pain.
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True Detective / int_dd5faec5	featureConfidence	1.0
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True Detective / int_ddb220f5	type	GetAholdOfYourselfMan
True Detective / int_ddb220f5	comment	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Cohle to Hart after Hart's wife leaves him.
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True Detective / int_ddb220f5	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_ddb220f5
True Detective / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
True Detective / int_dde43ab	comment	Tattooed Crook: All of the criminals in the show are covered in tattoos, some with meaningful designs. Cohle also sports a tattoo on his forearm, and he spent four years undercover as a crook.
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_dde43ab
True Detective / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
True Detective / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: In the last episode, after getting stabbed, Rust pulls the knife out. This is a very bad idea because the knife sticking in the wound acts as a plug, and pulling it out leaves a gaping, bleeding wound.
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True Detective / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
True Detective / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Through the season, Peter Prior's marriage to Kayla grows more strained as he keeps prioritizing his job and the murder investigation over his family.
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True Detective / int_deecc9eb	featureConfidence	1.0
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True Detective / int_dfbb1685	type	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending
True Detective / int_dfbb1685	comment	"Pan Up to the Sky" Ending: The last episode ends with the camera panning up to the night sky.
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True Detective / int_dfbb1685	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_dfbb1685
True Detective / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
True Detective / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: Being roughly a seven hour drive away, it's pretty weird that the party Ani goes to in Monterey was getting its girls from LA.
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True Detective / int_e022585	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_e022585
True Detective / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
True Detective / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: After Navarro and Danvers find Clark, they tie him to a chair in Tsalal and force him to listen to the video of Annie's death on loop while they go off to get coffee.
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True Detective / int_e154ff08	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_e154ff08
True Detective / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
True Detective / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: After Rust accidentally ran down his young daughter, he and his wife split up due to his guilt and her anger at him.
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True Detective / int_e16cd2c8	featureConfidence	1.0
True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_e16cd2c8
True Detective / int_e1d1a06	type	Colliding Criminal Conspiracies
True Detective / int_e1d1a06	comment	Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: Caspere had his fingers in a lot of pies and multiple criminal groups are sent scrambling when he is killed since they do not know if it was a direct attack on them. Mayor Chessani and his cronies need to know if Caspere's death makes them vulnerable to a state investigation into their corrupt practices in Vinci. Frank Semyon wants to recover the millions of dollars of his money that went missing while in Caspere's possession and needs to know if the murder of Caspere was meant to sabotage Frank's attempt to make a fortune as part of the Catalast land deal. The Catalast Group is in the middle of a massive land scheme and are afraid that Caspere's death will bring to light blackmail material he had on various Catalast executives and their political supporters.
True Detective / int_e1d1a06	featureApplicability	1.0
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True Detective	hasFeature	True Detective / int_e1d1a06
True Detective / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
True Detective / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Foxes.
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True Detective / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
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True Detective / int_e390612a	type	Hollywood Satanism
True Detective / int_e390612a	comment	Hollywood Satanism: The killings are occult in nature and said to be Satanic by a number of people. Reverend Tuttle states early on that the rituals are "anti-Christian." This is apparently to throw the cops away from him. When speaking of their mythology, the murderers never use any explicitly Satanic language. Instead they refer to "Carcosa" and the "Yellow King".
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True Detective / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Some media sources have speculated that the Hosanna Church Sex abuse scandal (and the somewhat dubious story given by the main culprit as to the supposedly occult motivations for his crimes) was a direct inspiration for the disturbingly similar abuse meted out by the Tuttle schools.
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True Detective / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
True Detective / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: A really impressive 6-minute sequence shot in "Who Goes There". It features Cohle undercover in a crapsack neighborhood during a riot as he takes a suspect through numerous shootouts and obstacles, all in a true Oner. This article explains exactly what went into shooting the scene.
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True Detective / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
True Detective / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It's almost inconceivable at that the hardened, cynical veteran Cohle could be disturbed by anything, so when he very overtly stands with his back turned to the cult videotape as it plays, you know that it's some seriously twisted stuff. Cohle also always speaks in a calm and even tone. The only time he doesn't is when he realizes that Maggie only had sex with him as a way of getting back at Hart. The event causes him to utterly lose his stoic composure and he half-way yells, half-way screams at her as he demands that she "get the fuck out" of his apartment.
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True Detective / int_e851b5	type	The Plan
True Detective / int_e851b5	comment	The Plan: A complicated one was set up before the beginning of the season: Semyon conspired with Catalast Group's predecessor company to massively pollute the land that was going to be developed by the addition of a high speed rail corridor. This dropped the value of the land to pennies on the dollar so that they could buy it up, and then sell it back when the value skyrocketed due to rail development. It worked out for everyone except Semyon.
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True Detective / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The occultists' mythology includes "black stars." In the end, Cohle states that the stars represent "light versus dark" as a metaphor for good versus evil. Hart says that dark has a lot more territory; Cohle agrees, then says Marty's looking at it wrong: once, there was only dark, but light is winning.
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True Detective / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Amelia is the naive but well-intentioned superego, Roland is the ego, trying to hold back Wayne's impulses but always being tempted by them, and Wayne himself is the id, though he is also confronted by a variety of separate ids (Lucy, Woodard, Junius, all to a greater or lesser extent).
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True Detective / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: After Frank makes a deal with the Mexican cartel. He asks them to arrange a phone call with a missing Mexican girl, and then to arrange for Frank to see her. They arrange a 30 second call where Frank gets minimal information, and then let him see her ... after they murdered her. They then expect him to keep his half of the bargain.
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True Detective / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Navarro shot a man who had abused and murdered his wife in cold blood, and Danvers helped cover it up. Hank Prior is in the pocket of Silver Skies. He helped cover up the murder of Annie K for them and was promised a position as chief of police, but that fell through. He then murders Otis Heiss for the same promise.
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True Detective / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Peter manages to deduce that Danvers and Navarro covered up a murder because Navarro made it look like a suicide by shooting William Wheeler, an abuser and murderer, in the right side of the head... but Wheeler was left-handed. To obfuscate this, Danvers edited photos documenting Wheeler abusing his wife prior to her murder, but missed that she had a birthmark, and its incorrect positioning tips Peter off.
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True Detective / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
True Detective / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: In Episode 5, the camera focuses on a toy tiara that Audrey throws up into a tree, to show the passage of time. In 1995, it is new. In 2002, it is tarnished.
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True Detective / int_efa2d938	comment	Homage Shot: Towards the end of the second episode there's an extended visual homage to Cassilda's song from The King in Yellow.
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True Detective / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: The Iron Crusaders are outlaw bikers who perform drug deals and armed robberies.
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True Detective / int_eff65ef6	comment	Chained to a Bed: As part of their foreplay, Lisa uses Hart's handcuffs to tie him to metal bars above her couch.
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True Detective / int_f005bd1c	type	Friend on the Force
True Detective / int_f005bd1c	comment	Friend on the Force: Cohle contacts Hart in 2012 because he needs his connections to get hold of the old police files.
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True Detective / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Amelia is this to Wayne in the present after she dies. Julie was also this to Mike, although he was eventually able to get her back.
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True Detective / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
True Detective / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Franks bodyguard, Nails. Unlike the other hired muscle, he never leaves Frank's side once, and Blake reveals that unlike himself and Ivar, Nails was never bought. Long after Frank is dead, Nails is still keeping Jordan and Ani safe.
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True Detective / int_f2557d99	comment	Catfishing: Underscoring how pathetic he is, Hank is revealed to be getting catfished by someone claiming to be a beautiful Russian woman whose mother is sick and needs cash for her treatments. The ploy is so obvious that it's not really treated as a twist when he learns the truth.
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True Detective / int_f2e01b6e	comment	Cue the Billiard Shot: In Episode 2, a bar scene starts off with a billiard shot.
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True Detective / int_f34a4c1e	comment	Lower-Class Lout: Lucy Purcell is portrayed this way, although she has a few sympathetic moments where she expresses guilt over her trashiness and negligence. The hicks who attack Woodard are even worse.
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True Detective / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: Semyon and his wife have been unsuccessfully trying to conceive a child for some time, while Woodrugh knocks up his girlfriend, who was on the pill.
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True Detective / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: At the end of Episode 2, when all of the corpses are thawed, it's discovered that two of the researchers are missing. One was previously accounted for as the screaming corpse; the other, Raymond Clark, becomes the prime suspect. In Episode 3 we find out that the screaming man was Anders Lund and he somehow survived the ordeal and the surgery, despite being horribly scarred. He does not react well when he wakes up.
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True Detective / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Woodard, when confronted by a lynch mob, retreats to his booby trapped house and prepares to go out guns blazing. He ends up killing all of his attackers and a couple police officers responding to the scene, but is shot by Hays.
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True Detective / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Ani goes undercover as a prostitute at a sinister gathering of corrupt politicians and businessmen. On the way there, she gets dosed, and then has to get in, get what she's looking for, and get out alive while trippin' balls and flashing back to her abusive childhood.
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True Detective / int_f8a7ff7e	comment	Sudden Principled Stand: The sleazy and inept Teague Dixon takes one upon hearing Paul's homophobic comments. After voicing how tired he has become of his corrupt lifestyle, Velcoro refuses to take a wad of cash left for him by Frank at the bar.
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True Detective / int_f93f10e	comment	Can't Stop The Signal: Ani hands over her case file on the corruption in Vinci to the journalist Ray assaulted in Episode 1. Whether or not it will lead to a new investigation remains an open question.
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True Detective / int_f97ab6a5	comment	Suicidal Overconfidence: Danny Santos, the corpulent club owner, seems to think that he would be able to kick Frank's ass. Needless to say, It doesn't go too well for him.
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True Detective / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: As Ray leaves Franks house after confronting him at gunpoint about the false information he gave to him about his wife's rapist. Paul's lover, Miguel, and the rest of his Black Mountain buddies are revealed to be working security for Catalast Group, and attempt to kill him in the penultimate episode under orders from Holloway.
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True Detective / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
True Detective / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: As they leave the Bunny Ranch, Marty gives $100 to Beth, one of the Ranch's underage girls, to try and get her out of prostitution. Rust quips that Marty's putting down "a down payment" on the girl, which raises Marty's ire. Seven years later, Marty's having an affair with Beth. Rust talks in episode one about how a seemingly insignificant detail can lead to a revelation and a crack in the case, then in episode eight he's dumbfounded when Marty notices fresh green paint on a house.
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True Detective / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Navarro receives a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from four men, but by the time she meets Danvers the next day, she doesn't look much worse than disheveled.
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