True Detective: Season 1

8 EPISODES | TV-MA

Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. HBO presents Season 1 of this searing drama series about two detectives in Louisiana--played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson--and their mutual obsession to solve their most notorious case: the macabre 1995 murder of a prostitute by a possible serial killer with disturbing occult leanings.

1.The Long Bright Dark

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

2.Seeing Things

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

3.The Locked Room

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

4.Who Goes There

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

5.The Secret Fate of All Life

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

6.Haunted Houses

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

7.After You've Gone

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.

8.Form and Void

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