True Detective - Season 1

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

8 Episodes

The Long Bright Dark

Season 1 - Episode 1

Former Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a p...

Seeing Things

Season 1 - Episode 2

Under pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a ne...

The Locked Room

Season 1 - Episode 3

A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “t...

Who Goes There?

Season 1 - Episode 4

Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recentl...

The Secret Fate of All Life

Season 1 - Episode 5

A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier ...

Haunted Houses

Season 1 - Episode 6

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

After You've Gone

Season 1 - Episode 7

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

Form and Void

Season 1 - Episode 8

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