S1 E3
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Season 1  "The Locked Room"  1x3

Aired 10 years ago - Jan 26, 2014

A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.

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Recap of True Detective Season 1 Episode 3 (S01E03) - 2
Not everybody wants to sit alone in an empty room
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The echoes of my life could never contain a single truth about you!
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A gene-deep certainty that things will be different.
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I can! be sure. We get around since then.
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Something happen to this girl you're looking for'?
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(HORN BLOWING)
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See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion.
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Compassion is ethics, Detective.
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Not me, brother.
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- You really think so? - Uh, trust me.
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Just what do you think I'd be doing over here when you're not around, Marty?
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The girls dared me to do it.
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There's a weight, and it's got its fish hooks in your heart and your soul.
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Oh, I never really found it that hard.
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(BEEPING)
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Like, from two different ways?
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Look at the posterior.
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Everybody think they're gonna be something they're not.
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Did he ask himself?
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Afternoon. - (MOWER STOPS)
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I thought for a minute you just liked looking at pictures of dead people.
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that ain't gonna do you any good now.
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