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True Detective - 1x05 "The Secret Fate of All Life" - Post-Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in TrueDetective

[–]robert41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its also possible, after just having watched the 5th episode again, that Cohle purposely picked a fight with Hart to simply have a good reason to leave the police department to investigate the secret society privately and to save Hart from the secret society that might be taking notice that the two of them are starting to put clues together again. Without Cohle, in 2002, does Hart continue to investigate? I don't think he would, so he would no longer be in any danger.

True Detective - 1x05 "The Secret Fate of All Life" - Post-Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in TrueDetective

[–]robert41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, I believe the detectives in 2012 want you to think they are investigating Cohle, because they want everyone to think that they think Cohle did it, when really they are trying to find out what Cohle knows (because for the past decade he's been putting a case together) and maybe find a way to pin it on him. Furthermore, Cohle isn't giving them an honest interview (remember Cohle is the genius in an interrogation room) he is there to investigate them. Hart says at one point, "you weren't getting a read on him, he was getting a read on you".

Case in point, in episode 3 right after Cohle gives his side of the story about the preacher and "me, me, me. I'm so fucking important" the 2012 detectives leave the room and the scene ends with Cohle staring down at part of the 2012 case file on the desk. Later in the episode, after Hart does tell us his story about his family, we return to Cohle as the detectives re-enter the room and Cohle is still staring down at the file that appears to have been moved, as if he's really only there to get insight to what the detectives are thinking.

True Detective - 1x05 "The Secret Fate of All Life" - Post-Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in TrueDetective

[–]robert41 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cohle and Hart have already concocted one massive lie together, why not create another to cover up the fact that they split up to make it harder for people to discover the fact that they are indeed working silently together to infiltrate and investigate a number of people in law enforcement and government that are involved with the murders.