True Detective

Frank, Ray and Ani weigh their options as Caspere's killer and the scope of corruption is revealed.

I've been thinking about him.

They got the real guy.

I know about the clubs. I saw Blake.

No, they weren't.

Fucking teamster. A nail gun.

We should meet. Let's talk this over.

I'm pretty sure

I don't know.

And Len, your brother?

- You said would have. - We didn't have the password.

I was just thinking about you.

♪ lately I'm not feeling like myself ♪

That was Caspere's. Sick fuck.

there'll be this lady there in two weeks

you want to stay alive, you and yours,

You?

_

I, uh-- I'm gonna be late.

Please. All right? Just for a second.

- We kill him? - What for?

Where's the woman?

_

Testify.

Ray, Ani and Paul take precautionary measures to elude detection and untangle a dark mystery. Frank deals with the fallout of his betrayal.

And when I ran out of the woods and they found me...

Oh, it's the drugs. It's the drugs.

There'll be some new people operating at the clubs

Don't answer the door or the phone if it isn't me.

Papers said his name was...

Ray...

Oh, shit, man.

Said they were special like.

Oh, thank God.

Hey, look, boss, I don't know--

get noticed.

They're taking it all, Frank.

I remembered his face finally.

No, I fucked up there.

Here we are.

It'll be between five and six million.

I've got them both booked out of Portland in five days.

I got another half mil for you.

The diamonds and whatever they got for them

they thought we should take you out.

- Velcoro. - What's up, man?

Vera said this girl's name was Laura.

and vacate the premises.

We set up a meeting.

Desperate to locate a missing woman with intel on Caspere, Frank meets with Mexican drug dealers. Ani infiltrates an exclusive inner circle, with Ray and Paul keeping close tabs.

You bang down my door for a staring contest?

I didn't know about it.

This thing, your wife--

You ain't had the nerve for this for a while.

On the ropes ain't the same thing as bleeding out.

No, can't say we have. It's private property and not state forest.

They're saying I did a lot of things.

removed with a cheese grater starting with your prick.

Fires starting everywhere.

Tactical, like.

They could barely talk.

And you've got to dress like you're worth $2,000 a night.

I was thinking about a woman drowning on dry land.

He never wanted anything, but it was for his family.

Yeah.

You're drunk again.

Please? Please. Just-- just say yes.

They got a place, El Monte.

- You can catch up now. - Copy that.

But we need to meet

That's how they got your man Ledo.

We take Thursday, Friday, Saturday night at the clubs.

Fuck. Shit.

A nation's strength is determined by two things--

Ray and Frank contemplate new life choices. Ani and Paul follow a lead up the coast.

You ain't that fast.

♪ and the strong ♪

What the fuck, man?

Now, are you gonna tell me what Caspere was doing with you

He was here when we moved out of the city.

Veronica Chessani.

1:00, 2:00 AM.

Bodine on his way down. I called him.

that lets you buy into this gravy train,

Articles of incorporation for a couple LLCs.

A murder scene in an apartment in West Hollywood.

I can see working a promotion for you.

And I ain't ever exactly been Columbo.

There's not much there?

You leaving? Bon fucking voyage.

But if you're asking me is he that kind of guy,

not denying it...

I think, like, that was like the--

I am drunk. I'm sorry.

we were in prep, helped out with PD, zoning.

- That's your job? - Yeah, set photographer.

So it makes my recollection unreliable.

♪ with all their killer plans ♪

Big with all sorts.

Then I just started doing them without him.

you all run between clubs.

Yeah, you're tall, but you're really little,

Son of a bitch.

The detail works a pawn-shop lead to close in on a suspect in the Caspere case. Frank revisits his past to pay for his present. Velcoro, Bezzerides and Woodrugh struggle to keep the case straight in the face of corruption.

Paul works the prostitute angle, while Frank receives the first casualty in a secret war, and steps back into a world he’d left behind.

Men are chasing you.

♪ and you think ♪

Pissed myself.

All right. Well, get cleared by a doctor.

I take a shit, there's a gun to my head

Bungalow was a business lease through the Catalast Group.

That's some luck on you. Fuck.

You racist woman. Mm-mm.

Well, this,

Frank, what I pulled together to take your shares back,

You like the schools in Tarzana?

You think he could have staged that?

You know, his fetish shit.

I want her hick sheriff boss's badge.

You're on it, Ray, period.

Holloway the chief?

This is too big to walk away from.

but prefiguring Caspere?

in every detail

We ain't soldiers anymore, man.

Hey, hey, hey. You see that?

Cut. Fuck it.

Lots of suits, potential investors.

All right.

No?

We just-- we just want to do what's best for Chad.

Expensive, private, rich men.

Any john you rob,

Ah! Ah!

Hey!

Ben Caspar's autopsy reveals the gruesome details of his demise, and Ray and Ani wonder if it has anything to do with his fondness for prostitutes. Meanwhile, Frank looks into what might have happened to his missing fortune.

Something's telling me to wake up.

In Vinci, so everybody can keep their little corners to themselves,

about obfuscation on the part of Vinci PD.

Geldof's been after us since we won the last EPA suit.

I really do.

- You pull my string? Is that how this works? - Jesus, Frank.

Want to stay tonight?

Damn. I so hate making a mess.

Since Caspere's remaining interests have been voided,

Celebrated breaking ground on the Red Line extension

A community of 95 residents.

Found his lawyer, too. Had to hump all over LA for this shit.

You fucking prick.

I had a right.

God damn it, look, he's... he's all I...

Son of...

Maybe you ought to take more care.

This is quite a shock.

He frequented escorts, although it ignited in him

Your ID said Antigone Bezzerides.

of Vinci in LA County.

I kept this place tight as a drum six years.

- How's that? - The holding company is empty.

I want to see you make it through this.

I just needed better pay.

No, I'd still wear them if I wasn't on the job.

I told you, I don't talk about the desert.

It's a good thing, E

This isn't me doing this.

This guy, he do anything scary?

NAUGHTY CALI ANGELS WHEREVER, WHENEVER

How's it going down there?

things shake out like I expect,

- I'm tired. - Then get some sleep.

Maybe I could show it to you sometime.

The disappearance of a city manager disrupts a lucrative land scheme and ignites an investigation involving three police officers and a career criminal who is moving into legitimate business.

Now be proud.

And I just need you to come up with something, all right?

We know this guy.

matched your wife's account.

You don't need to fake anything.

The fuck? An eight-part series?

Okay. I just didn't think that most women--

Sheriff's Department!

I ran this op because I heard a rumor.

- Fix on his phone? - Shut off.

License and registration, please, ma'am.

want me to convey our full support.

- Nice to see you. - Good to see you, too.

I mean, about a month ago,

but I suppose I can approximate the information.

Told me she was working, like, some club circuit.

Web camera performances, she said.

she might have gone on to great things.

Do you even like what you do?

Is that-- is that blood on your sleeve?

me and you.

Vinci tapped fed money from the subway line,

But, Osip, it's a buy-in.

Maybe I just want to ask him about some stolen property.

I'll come back and butt-fuck your father

♪ this is my least favorite you ♪

Need to get back on that horse, my friend.

Lucia.