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" Season 1, Episode 6: &amp;quot;Haunted Houses&amp;quot; Leading up to True Detective&amp;#039;s latest episode, we were treated to two straight episodes that brought the goods and blew our minds. &amp;quot;Who Goes There&amp;quot; delivered the action we had been craving after three weeks of fruitlessly traversing the bayou (and Rust Cohle&amp;#039;s mind). Then, &amp;quot;The Secret Fate of All Life&amp;quot; kicked in the door of what we&amp;#039;d been conditioned to expect from crime procedurals, opening up all kinds of possibilities of what to expect from the rest of the season. For better or worse, it spawned a week&amp;#039;s worth of fans poring over every shred of available evidence and hashing it out online, ad nauseum. We were trapped on a wheel of infinite speculation. The Internet is a flat circle.  &amp;quot;Haunted Houses,&amp;quot; however, was not a particularly mind-blowing installment, instead serving primarily to tie up loose ends \u2014 what caused Cohle and Hart&amp;#039;s falling out, the collapse of Hart&amp;#039;s marriage, Cohle&amp;#039;s off-the-grid ponytail phase, etc. \u2014 and bridge the gap to the show&amp;#039;s two-episode final act. It all unfolded pretty predictably given the relative mindfk that was &amp;quot;The Secret Fate of All Life,&amp;quot; and we didn&amp;#039;t hear a peep about the Yellow King, Carcosa, or many of the other bases for the conspiracy theories we&amp;#039;d been mercilessly beaten over the head with. It was kind of refreshing. Some of what we did hear:  Looking to blow off some more steam after kicking the crap out of one of the guys caught in the car with his daugher, Hart decides to have sex with the bunny ranch hand he advised to pursue a new line of work in the second episode. Her name is Beth, she now works at T-Mobile, and with Cohle no longer dissecting beer cans she&amp;#039;s the unlikely source of this week&amp;#039;s philosophizing. Her starry-eyed worldview sounds more like something gleaned from a daily horoscope than years spent under deep cover in a drug-fueled biker gang, but it&amp;#039;s exactly what Hart&amp;#039;s reeling ego needed to hear. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re a good man,&amp;quot; she says sweetly. &amp;quot;Anybody can see that.&amp;quot; Later in the episode she asks him for ass sex.  Maggie doesn&amp;#039;t exactly share Beth&amp;#039;s opinion about the virtues of her ex-husband, and 10 years later she&amp;#039;s adopted Cohle&amp;#039;s grim view of forgiveness while vacantly responding to Gilbough and Papinia&amp;#039;s questions. Understandably so. As she mentioned earlier, devoid of emotion: &amp;quot;I used to exhaust myself navigating crude men who thought they were clever.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s been a rough season for Maggie Hart.  ...Speaking of emotional detachment.  Cohle has no patience or sympathy for the mother who deliberately killed her unwanted child by unplugging his sleep apnea monitor, and now that he&amp;#039;s gone rogue in pursuit of the Yellow King, he no longer has patience or sympathy for Hart and his tumultuous home life, either. Their personalities weren&amp;#039;t exactly predisposed to coexist in the first place, and without a common goal there&amp;#039;s no use keeping up appearances. After Cohle orders Hart to type up the plug-puller&amp;#039;s 40-page confession, Hart takes offense, causing Cohle to remind him that his esteemed reputation is the result of Cohle&amp;#039;s detective work. Hart was only along for the ride.  Yeah, I don&amp;#039;t think anyone&amp;#039;s getting invited back over for dinner any time soon.  Cohle certainly suspects Reverend Tuttle is the Yellow King or at least that he plays a significant role in covering up or participating in the murders. When he visits Tuttle for &amp;quot;a friendly conversation,&amp;quot; Cohle probes closer and closer to the crux of the matter, and the reverend grows visibly uncomfortable. This is practically a confession to a human lie detector like Cohle, and when Tuttle asks for details about the investigation, Cohle is cavalier in his response, knowing that he&amp;#039;s struck the nerve he was aiming for in the man with a neon cross at his side.  I guess a Cohle vs. Hart brawl was probably inevitable. Going back to the station after you&amp;#039;ve just had sex with your partner&amp;#039;s wife against your kitchen counter, especially considering you had to have known she was going to tell him, might not have been the best idea, though.* The parking lot throwdown can be scored a draw as both men&amp;#039;s faces were thoroughly bloodied, but the aftermath sees Cohle hanging up his cuffs for good and paying Hart a snide, but also oddly sincere, compliment on his way out. *An interesting film-world parallel to True Detective&amp;#039;s dysfunctional love triangle can be found in The Departed, with Hart playing the role of Matt Damon&amp;#039;s Colin Sullivan, the all-American detective who&amp;#039;s a coward at heart; Maggie playing the role of Sullivan&amp;#039;s unsatisfied girlfriend Madolyn; and Cohle playing the role of Leo DiCaprio&amp;#039;s edgy, troubled, pill-popping Billy Costigan, who sleeps with Madolyn in a single act of exploited vulnerability. We don&amp;#039;t yet know the fate of Cohle and Hart, but Sullivan and Costigan both wound up getting shot in the head, so, uhh, yeah...  Despite an episode that lacked the fireworks of the two that preceded it, we&amp;#039;ve been left with the season&amp;#039;s most tantalizing cliffhanger since Reggie Ledoux and his swinging gas mask closed &amp;quot;The Locked Room.&amp;quot; Until this point, the 2012 portion of True Detective had transpired exclusively under the skeptical sidelong glances and eyebrow raises of Gilbough and Papinia. Now, over beers that you can damn well bet will be bought by Hart, we&amp;#039;ll presumably find out what exactly Cohle has been up to for the past 10 years, and the roots for the story&amp;#039;s conclusion, finally the real 2012 portion, will be laid. Get excited. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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