True Detective · SEASON 1

The Locked Room

Episode 3 · 2014-01-26

★ 8.7
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Season 1Episode 3★ 8.7/10
  • Drama
  • Mystery

Episode overview

A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.

56 minutes

Season 1 episodes