Dana Gourrier

Former Louisiana State CID partners, Rustin Cohle and Martin Hart, give statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute that took place 17 years earlier.

Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they may be replaced by an occult-crimes task force. The pair follows a lead to a rural cathouse and an incinerated church. And Hart finds respite away from home.

Parishioners identify a scarred man seen with Dora Lange; a sex offender is brought in for interrogation; Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend; Cohle looks over old case files.

Hart and Cohle celebrate a solved case, Papania and Gilbough confront the detectives with new intelligence.

Hart and Cohle follow a series of leads in an effort to track down their prime suspect.

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