Haunted Houses is the sixth episode of the first season of True Detective. It first aired February 23, 2014 on HBO.
Summary[]
In 2002, Cohle investigates on his own a series of old missing persons cases, linking the victims to the Tuttle schools. He seeks out Theriot, who has since quit the ministry and become a drunk, to ask about Wellspring, a defunct foundation that financed the rural schools while Theriot was a seminarian at the college Tuttle established. Theriot claims that Wellspring covered up child molestation scandals and implies that he was intimidated into silence after being questioned in 1995. Cohle tries to interview Kelly, Ledoux's surviving victim in 1995 and institutionalized with regressive catatonia, to ask her if a third man was involved with her abduction. She describes a giant man with scars, and begins screaming when Cohle asks about the man's face. Despite being ordered to stop his investigations, Cohle meets with Tuttle, ostensibly seeking the names of former Wellspring employees but actually fishing for reactions from him. Tuttle tells him that once the government enacts a new school voucher program, he is going to reintroduce the Wellspring concept. Tuttle complains to the department, misrepresenting the nature of the meeting, which Cohle cites as proof of his culpability, but is suspended from duty anyway. Hart runs into Beth, a former underage prostitute he interviewed during the Dora Lange investigation, and starts an affair with her. A suspicious Maggie checks Hart's cell and finds a picture of Beth. She goes to Cohle's apartment and seduces him; Cohle, disgusted and infuriated when Maggie tells him she had sex to get rid of Hart, kicks her out. Maggie tells Hart anyway, who attacks Cohle in the department parking lot. Cohle quits immediately after.
In 2012, Papania and Gilbough interview Maggie, now remarried. She is scornful of their motives and denies that the divorce from Hart had anything to do with Cohle. Asked to characterize Cohle, she describes him as a good man with integrity. Hart abruptly walks out on his interview when Papania and Gilbrough again suggest that Cohle may have killed Tuttle in 2010 and been responsible for all the other murders. Cohle follows Hart and initiates their first contact since the fight. Cohle asks Hart to buy him a beer, saying they should talk.
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Cast[]
Starring[]
- Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle
- Woody Harrelson as Martin Hart
- Michelle Monaghan as Maggie Hart
- Michael Potts as Maynard Gilbough
- Tory Kittles as Thomas Papania
Guest Starring[]
- Paul Ben-Victor as Leroy Salter
- Jay O. Sanders as Billy Lee Tuttle
- Lili Simmons as Beth
- Shea Whigham as Joel Theriot
- Gabe Begneaud as Drew Ledger
- Kerry Cahill as Nurse
- December Ensminger as Kelly Reider
- JD Evermore as Detective Lutz
- Henry Frost as Steve
- Dana Gourrier as Cathleen
- Rio Hackford as Bruce
- Tim Hanks as
- Louis Herthum as Terry Guidry
- Anthony Molina as Detective
- Erin Moriarty as Audrey Hart
- Tom O'Connell as Junior Detective
- Daniel Ross Owens as William Mayo
- Azure Parsons as Charmaine Boudreaux
- Brighton Sharbino as Maisie Hart
- Don Yesso as Commander Speece
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True Detective Season 1 (2014) | ||
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101. "The Long Bright Dark" |
105. "The Secret Fate of All Life" | |
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See also: S1 • S2 • S3 • Night Country |