True Detective | Season 1 | Episode 1

The Long Bright Dark

TV-MA | 1 HR 0 MIN

Series Premiere. The lead investigators in a macabre 1995 murder relive the case in the wake of new info.

Series Premiere. The lead investigators in a macabre 1995 murder relive the case in the wake of new info.

Under pressure to land a suspect, Cohle and Hart follow a lead to a cathouse and an incinerated church.

Cohle and Hart visit a tent revival in search of leads. Hart gets sidetracked at a bar.

Hart and Cohle follow a series of dangerous leads in an effort to locate prime suspect Reggie Ledoux.

Hart and Cohle share the spoils of a solved case. Papania and Gilbough confront the detectives with troubling new intelligence.

Maggie sheds light on Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and Cohle quit the force.

Hart and Cohle forge a truce to probe a string of disappearances that tie to the symbology of the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.

Season One Finale. An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.