In program #5, it becomes apparent for the first time why the two detectives are being interviewed separately over a decade following their investigation of the Dora Lange satanic murder: they both lied to their superiors about their work on the case. By the end of the program, it is clear that Cohle is a suspect in the Satanic murders.
Cohle waxes philosophical during his interrogation, drawing on Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence, or in the words of Cohle: "time is a circle." But an important detail is that it was Reggie Ledoux, not Cohle, who first described that image before his execution by Hart. The two detectives may have done "true" detective work by killing Ledoux and his assistant, then covering up the truth before the board. But is there more that Cohle has been hiding after having a falling out with his partner and leaving the force in 2002?
One of the keys to the mystery may lie in Cohle's technique in extracting confessions. For Cohle, everyone has an inherent sense of guilt about something and wants to confess. Cohle extracts such a confession from the man who murdered two victims in a pharmacy. But before his death apparently by suicide, the man reveals to Cohle that the true killer of Dora Lange has not yet apprehended. The name of Billy Lee Tuttle may hold the key.
In describing the m-brane theory, Cohle tells his interrogators that while we live in a world of linear time, outside of the fourth dimension, time is circular or eternal. Is Cohle's thinking that of a brilliant detective-investigator? Or is it the thinking of a madman and murderer?
Cohle waxes philosophical during his interrogation, drawing on Nietzsche's idea of eternal recurrence, or in the words of Cohle: "time is a circle." But an important detail is that it was Reggie Ledoux, not Cohle, who first described that image before his execution by Hart. The two detectives may have done "true" detective work by killing Ledoux and his assistant, then covering up the truth before the board. But is there more that Cohle has been hiding after having a falling out with his partner and leaving the force in 2002?
One of the keys to the mystery may lie in Cohle's technique in extracting confessions. For Cohle, everyone has an inherent sense of guilt about something and wants to confess. Cohle extracts such a confession from the man who murdered two victims in a pharmacy. But before his death apparently by suicide, the man reveals to Cohle that the true killer of Dora Lange has not yet apprehended. The name of Billy Lee Tuttle may hold the key.
In describing the m-brane theory, Cohle tells his interrogators that while we live in a world of linear time, outside of the fourth dimension, time is circular or eternal. Is Cohle's thinking that of a brilliant detective-investigator? Or is it the thinking of a madman and murderer?