The Western Book of the Dead

True Detective 2×1

Leonard Cohen — Nevermind

♪ the war was lost ♪
♪ the treaty signed ♪
♪ I was not caught ♪
♪ I crossed the line ♪

& Chad: How much longer do I have to go to school?
    Detective Velcoro: A while longer, sorry to say.

& Harris: ...And they never caught the man who did it, correct?
    Detective Velcoro: No. They never caught the guy.

& Harris: Anything there gonna hurt you?
    Detective Velcoro: No. I welcome judgment.

& Semyon: Don’t want to look hungry. Never do anything out of hunger, not even eating.

& Detective Dixon: You know, I got instructions. Anything happens to me, you burn all my shit quick.

& Eliot: Today’s exercise is to recognize the world as meaningless and to understand that God did not create a meaningless world. Hold both thoughts as irrefutable and equal, because this is how we must live now in the final age of man.

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& Eliot: You should spend less time in a state of resistance making up problems for yourself.
    Ani: What does that mean?
    Eliot: A failed marriage, a few relationships, you’re angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values. Meant, I’m sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?
    Ani: Talk to your daughter, prick. Help her.
    Eliot: I just did.

& Detective Velcoro: Aspen? That’s a boy’s name?

& Detective Velcoro: I used— I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don’t even go to the moon anymore.

& Detective Velcoro: You like to bully kids, Ass-pen?

& Detective Velcoro: If you ever bully or hurt anybody again, I’ll come back and butt-fuck your father with your mom’s headless corpse on this goddamn lawn. 12 years old, my ass. Fuck. You.

♪ this is my least favorite life ♪
♪ the one where I’m out of my mind ♪
♪ the one where you’re just out of reach ♪
♪ the one where I stay ♪
♪ and you fly ♪
Lera Lynn — The Only Thing Worth Fighting For

& Detective Velcoro: Velcoro, Vinci PD. This man’s a missing person with us.
    Ani: Ilinca, Bezzerides, Ventura Sheriff CID.
    Paul: Paul Woodrugh, CHP.

& Elvis: The fuck is Vinci?
    Detective Velcoro: A city. Supposedly.
    Elvis: ... That’s bullshit.

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Σ As expected.