True Detective S1E5
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WARNING: This review contains spoilers.
As Pink Floyd once said, "Hey Reggie, leave those kids alone!"
This episode of True Detective offers us some character development on Mr. Reginald LeDoux. And then, LeDoux is LeDone. Offed by an irate Marty Hart after finding two children in the shed, one of whom is dead. Reggie LeDoux and his partner DeWall are two twisted individuals, and Cohle's snatch of Ginger last episode yields a meet-decline-follow meeting with DeWall, who obviously is the business manager for the chemical genius that is LeDoux. Hart and Cohle follow DeWall back to the meth lab and take down LeDoux and DeWall. And that story that Hart and Cohle have been feeding the 2012 cops (Papania and Gilbough, they finally have names) about the epic shootout at the 1995 meth lab? Well, that's all bullshit to cover up for an enraged Hart's murder of LeDoux after seeing what sick stuff LeDoux was up to with the kids. And DeWall decides to run away and ends up blowing himself up on one of the perimeter booby traps. So a little cover story later, and Hart and Cohle are celebrated as heroes.
And everything would have been fine. If only Guy Leonard Francis had decided not to rob a drug store in 2002. A time shift from 1995 to 2002, and Hart has been promoted and Cohle is the most sought-after interrogator in the state. So Cohle gets called in to interrogate Francis about a PCP-influenced drug store robbery/murder, and Francis confesses. Except he mentions at the end that he knows who Cohle is, mentions the Yellow King, and tells Cohle that the 1995 killer is still out there. Cohle tries to beat more information out of Francis, but is stopped by the cops.
Meanwhile, the older 2002 version of Marty's eldest daughter is caught playing FingerCuffs with a couple of boys in a car. Hart does not handle the situation well, and he ends up striking his daughter in the face. There is some dark secret that will unfold concerning his daughter, who has been acting out since her first introduction, but Hart has yet to put the puzzle pieces together. But he keeps telling the 2012 detectives, "It was right under my nose and I didn't see it."
Cohle revisits the abandoned school after his visit with Francis, and he finds another of those wicker devil's trap constructions. And a revisit to the original Dora Lange murder scene yields a circular wicker wreath. Not sure what the significance of these wicker things are.
Back in 2012, Papania and Gilbrough finally show their hand, and as expected, they suspect Cohle of being the killer. They even have Hart beginning to doubt his old partner. But that is too cliche. We will have to wait to find out the "who" in whodunnit, but I suspect that Cohle is still pursuing this case and using these detectives to gain additional information.
This show is the best thing I have witnessed on television. I want to rewatch it immediately following an episode, and I find myself thinking about it for hours afterward. A show that can stimulate that kind of interest is rare. Looking forward to our upcoming last three hours with Hart and Cohle.
Random Thoughts:
- Hart and Maggie are back together, but the 2012 interviews suggest not for long.
- Speaking of 2002, its about time we found out why Hart and Cohle went splitsville.
- Lawnmower Man at the abandoned school is due to show up again soon.
- Something bad is going to happen to Hart's oldest daughter.
- My money is on Maggie's father as a ringleader in the Satanic cult. It would explain the doll-gangbang scenario we saw earlier in the season with Hart's daughter (plus the pee pee drawings).
What did you think?
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