Now Am Found

True Detective 3×8

Amelia: "What will become of you and me...
    besides the photo and the memory?
    This is the school in which we learn.
    That time is the fire in which we burn.
    What is the self amidst this blaze?
    What am I now that I was then,
    which I shall suffer and act again?
    The children shouting are bright as they run.
    This is the school in which they learn.
    What am I now that I was then?
    May memory restore again and again...
    the smallest color of the smallest day.
    Time is the school in which we learn.
    Time is the fire in which we burn."

Edward Hoyt: Family. That's what it's... We only had the one.

Hays: Suppose somebody catches us?
West: We're old and confused.

Hays: It's always too late... whatever we do.

West: You don't wanna live with it... fuckin' don't.

West: Do you feel like any kinda closure?
Hays: I don't.
West: Me neither.

Amelia: What if there's another story? What if something went unbroken? All this life, all this loss, what if it was really one long story that just kept going and going until it healed itself? Wouldn't that be a story worth telling? Wouldn't that be a story worth hearing?...

Wayne: I'm sorry for what I said to you. I-I haven't been myself.

Amelia: Let's get you home. You can think about how you're gonna propose. I can think about if I'm gonna accept.

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The Final Country

True Detective 3×7

Elisa: It's like 1980, isn't it? A sudden act of violence, a dead man, and the case is closed.

Roland: What do you aim to do?
Tom Purcell: Whatever it takes to stop feelin'. I mean, there's no point. Ain't nobody left to feel anything for.

Wayne: Fuck 'em. They don't wanna do it right, it's not a job worth havin'.

Amelia: Thought you were just gonna do your half...
Wayne: Me and my goddamn work ethic.

Elisa: In 2012, two former Louisiana state police stopped a serial killer associated with some kind of pedophile ring. Despite evidence of accomplices, the case never went wider.

Hays: Bein' police... there's no certainty. Lot of the time, there's no clarity at all. You just do your best, and... learn to live with ambiguity.

Hays: Watts. Don't forget, 'cause I will.

Lieutenant West: No. We can't.

Roland: You manipulative, egotistical, uppity fuckin'...
Wayne: What? Huh? What you gonna say?
Roland: Guess what word's runnin' through my mind right now.
Wayne: Say it, then. Say it, motherfucker.
Roland: No. I just want you to know I'm thinkin' it.

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Hunters in the Dark

True Detective 3×6

Wayne: Helluva day when a gunfight's the second most excitin' thing that happens to you.

Wayne: One thing I learned, the war? Life happens now. Then later's now, y'know? It's never behind you.

Wayne: I'm not avoidin' the question, just... really don't spend time rememberin' stuff.
Amelia: That's like a superpower to me. I can't even understand that. How do you do it?
Wayne: Hmm. Just lucky, I guess.

Hays: You know... it's terrible what this work makes you ponder. Don't you think?

Hays: I wouldn't know, Miss. But what you just did is called speculation. That leads to projection, we call it. Twists what you see, obfuscates truth.

Elisa: Doesn't the simple body count point toward something bigger...

Hays: Nothin' stays like it used to be.

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If You Have Ghosts

True Detective 3×5

Detective Hays: Believe that guy? Actin' like I ruined his life?... Please explain to me all the hardships and tribulations of bein' a white man in this country... I'm gonna tell you, when I was his age, age he was in the room with us, I was in the fuckin' jungle... I made the kid skip college?... I think that whole generation's a bunch of pussies.

Elisa: A lot people around this thing are dead. A lot of people gone.
Hays: People do that, miss. Most people I ever knew are gone.

Amelia: Stop pretending that you're too dumb to know that you're full of shit.

Rebecca: Mom? Dad? What do "we do not"?
— ... We do not say goodnight without "I love you's." I love you.

Detective Hays: Oh, come on, man. It's too big for that political bullshit.
Lieutenant West: It ain't bullshit to the Man. You ever learned that, you wouldn't've been on a desk last ten years.

West: Them eggs are fierce, huh? You show a woman you got good kitchen skills... they know you ain't lookin' for a cook.

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West: Well... you don't talk to somebody for 24 years, you're gonna miss some shit.

West: How you gonna talk to these people... we done what we done? You don't know what you might say. Or might remember.
Hays: If I remember what we done, I'll remember not to say.

Hays: Roland. I don't remember. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but I just can't remember. I don't... I... I, uh, I can't... Can't remember my life, man. I can't remember my wife... I-I don't know. If you tell me I... I did something wrong, well, okay. I'm sorry.

Hays: She still be out there. ..... And before I'm a... droolin' fuckin' squash plant, and with whatever brains I got left, I'm gonna finish this.

Hays: Come on. Stir some shit up with me.

West: How is it your son don't have you locked up?
Hays: He don't know how fucked up I am.

Hays: Seventy-year-old black man... goin' batshit crazy, runnin' around with a badge and gun. You shouldn't miss that.
West: Well, I could use a laugh...

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The Hour and the Day

True Detective 3×6

Detective West: I don't like him. Man signs up to go without fuckin' for life... Either he don't know himself for a liar, or he's some tight, limited edition psycho, you know?

Detective Hays: My feeling... it was all about the girl.

Detective Hays: Nothing 'bout his face besides the eye? Handsome, ugly?..
Patty Faber: Well, like I say, uh, he was black.

Wayne: You got some major cognitive dissonance.

Heather: I don't think bad of you. What I was saying... I didn't mean that.
Wayne: Me neither.

Detective West: And no, I could give a fuck what color he was.
Detective Hays: Sure about that?
Detective West: Fact these were black folks probably gave me more pause. Mob of white people surrounds me, smashes up my ride... be a lot less hesitation what I'd do.

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Detective Hays: Can we say this was anonymous vandals?
Detective West: We're not goin' with "irate Negros"?

Hays: I'm not talkin' about the show. It's me. It's my life. Tell myself the story, I tell the case in steps, and I'm rememberin'. Rememberin' my life.

Detective West: God is love, brother... God is love.

Lieutenant West: He's not wrong. May not be right, but he's not wrong.

Elisa: Are you trying to work this?
Hays: I wanna know the whole story.

Elisa: Are you sure you're not trying to investigate this again?
Hays: That'd be a job for somebody who knows where he is most of the time...

Detective West: That prison rape's a real go-to for you lately, huh? Somethin' you want to tell me?

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The Big Never

True Detective 3×3

Detective West: Would you folks be alright if we started going back through some of their things? We're afraid now... we might've overlooked something.
Lucy Purcell: What?
Detective West: We just don't know, ma'am.

Hays: Where the hell's the charcoal?.. Stores aren't supposed to be this big...

Heather: You tracked men in the war?
Hays: I did... Did you march?
Heather: I did.
Hays: Funny how the protests stopped once the draft ended...

Hays: He says you call the story "Time", but you can't say its name. Why's that?
Heather: I guess because... we're in time, and of time, but to name... You separate yourself from something when you name it. And I think he means, we can't be separated from time.

Heather: Oh, sweetheart... Did you think you could just go on, and never once have to look back?

Hays: How much do I have to lose?
Heather: Everything. The same as everybody else.

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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

True Detective 3×2

Alan Jones: Alan: You questioned people during this time. Right?
Detective Hays: Do you know another way to do it?

Detective Hays: I ain't judgin', man. Look, I punch in and out. I put on a suit in the mornin'. And bein' honest... I don't have much of a life.
Brett Woodard: So why? Why punch in? Why the suit? Why...
Detective Hays: I don't ask myself questions like that... Could be I'm too chickenshit, Mr. Woodard.

Brett Woodard: I miss when "Don't get killed" was the only thing on my to-do list.
Detective Hays: It's hard to unplug from that.

Detective West: You like kids, generally?
Brett Woodard: Do... What the fuck's the right answer to that?

Hays: I spent two years in the jungle, a lot of it I was alone. I hunt a lot now. Alone.
Amelia: I'm a vegetarian.
Hays: That's a real shame. If you're a Democrat, don't tell me.

Detective Hays: You wanna go get him? I wanna go get him.

Hays: The answer is... I never stopped coming up with theories about that case.

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The Great War and Modern Memory

True Detective 3×1

Detective Hays: Ten years is nothin'. I remember everything.
Jim Dobkins: Well, we can't know. I mean, what you don't remember, you don't know you don't remember.

Jim Dobkins: Let's get through this first. Could you tell us about November 7th, 1980? Your timeline of events.
Detective Hays: Sure.

Detective West: It's more honest than most relationships. You never bought no Saigon trim while you was over there?
Detective Hays: Guess I'm a romantic...
Detective West: I'm a feminist. They want to sell me a piece of ass, they got the right... Shit. You're gonna pay for it one way or another.

Jim Dobkins: Never occurred to you he might be lyin'?
Detective Hays: 'Course it did. General rule is, everybody's lyin'. Period.

Hays: I used to think back then... it was before 'Nam and after 'Nam. But more it's... before the Purcell case and after. And it keeps comin' back...

Amelia: I hear something now and then... They're all poor around here. That's the main thing.

Detective West: Think they're lyin'? I mean, they're lyin', but... think it's just regular teenage lyin', or somethin' else?

Detective West: He's got his own thing... Man was a LRRP in 'Nam. You know what that is? Long range reconnaissance. Drop 'em in the jungle alone, come out two or three weeks later with scalps... He's like a pathfinder. Tracks wild boar for fun.

Detective Hays: We have to find her.
Detective West: It's too dark, man.
Detective Hays: I don't care.

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Omega Station

True Detective 2×8

Leonard Cohen — Nevermind

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

& Frank: Oh, I’m long gone, cue ball. But we’ll settle up later.
    Osip: We certainly will.
    Frank: Good luck with that, you KGB kike motherfucker. I’ll only need the one bullet. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but, Osip, when the lights go out... that’s me.

& Felicia: What is going on?
    Frank: Everything’s ending. Time to wake up.

& Velcoro: You want revenge? Drag their shit out into the light.
    Lenny: They won’t get punished. I am the blade and the bullet.

& Holloway: Honestly, Ray, nobody had an idea you were this competent.

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& Frank: You’re a cop, right? Lady cop.
    Bezzerides: What gave me away? The tits?
    Frank: I meant you’re a lady. You have dignity.

& Velcoro: Trust me. I can lose these assholes with a tricycle.

& Frank: You want my suit?.. All right. I didn’t even wear a suit till I was 38.

& Jordan: What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?
    Frank: Just making my way, baby.

& Frank: I told you I’d make it.
    Jordan: You did. You made it. You can rest now.
    Frank: No rest. Never stop moving.

& Bezzerides: It’s your story now. I told it.

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Black Maps and Motel Rooms

True Detective 2×7

& Det. Woodrugh: I’m just trying to be a good man.

& Frank: Holy cow. You must be what they call a natural-born pimp. Me, I always saw a difference between a whore and a pimp. A whore can still have integrity.

& Velcoro: Have I got a fucking story for you.

& Frank: Look me in the eyes. I want to watch your lights go out.

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& Eliot: Oh, God. God damn everything.
    Bezzerides: That’s what I say.

& Frank: Delegate nothing.

& Frank: Here we are. Under the bright lights.

& Bezzerides: You’re not a bad man.
    Velcoro: Yes... I am.

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Church in Ruins

True Detective 2×6

& Velcoro: I would have been different...
    Frank: Of all the lies people tell themselves, I bet that’s the most common.

& Velcoro: You sure you got time?
    Frank: On the ropes ain’t the same thing as bleeding out. You know that.

& Frank: Where you going now?
    Velcoro: To see about killing a man.

& Frank: You might be one of the last friends I got...
    Velcoro: Wouldn’t that be fucked up?

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& Velcoro: If they don’t give you life, I will have every inch of your flesh removed with a cheese grater starting with your prick. I’ll cut off your nose and your lips. Your nuts, too. And I’ll make sure you live. Hell, they give you life, I might do it anyway. Like I said.

& Frank: Sometimes— sometimes a thing happens, splits your life. There’s a before and after. I got like five of them at this point. And this is your first... But if you use it right— the bad thing— you use it right and... it makes you better. Stronger. It gives you something most people don’t have. Bad as this is, wrong as it is... this hurt... it can make you a better man. That’s what pain does. It shows you what was on the inside.

& Bezzerides: I can’t bring a phone in or anything else.
    Det. Woodrugh: Transponder.
    Velcoro: You stick that somewhere.
    Bezzerides: ???
    Velcoro: Like in your shoe.

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Other Lives

True Detective 2×5

& Velcoro: Better to walk before they make you run.

& Frank: Ship seems a little loose today...
    Mayor Chessani: Micro naps, Frank. Michelangelo took ’em.

& Mayor Chessani: You deal with pimps, you get pimpish results, Frank.

& Velcoro: Loyalty’s important and usually painful. One day you might find cause to ask yourself what the limit is to some pain you’re experiencing and... you’ll find out there is no limit at all. Pain is inexhaustible. It’s only people that get exhausted.

& Bezzerides: ...nobody fucking cares.
    Velcoro: Well, I’m not a cop anymore. And you’re not a detective last I heard.
    Bezzerides: Nope, you do security for some comeback mobster and I log evidence.
    Velcoro: I do consultation. And you should get out. You’re too good for ’em.

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& Velcoro: I have this new program, see. Because my powers of influence are so meager in this sublunar world of ours, I try to limit the people I can disappoint. And I make sure to know the difference between my obligations and somebody else’s.

& Velcoro: I guess my million-dollar question is why me?
    Davis: You’re out of the system. You know Vinci PD. Properly motivated, you’re a good bet to get the dirt.

& Bezzerides: Think it over, Velcoro. Never too late to start all over again.

& Det. Woodrugh: Now we’re following birds.
    Bezzerides: Carrion birds.

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Down Will Come

True Detective 2×4

& Jordan: The baby. Maybe we should talk alternatives.
    Frank: Like what, another dog?

& Jordan: Adoption.
    Frank: No, you don’t do somebody else’s time. My own kid, I see. Yeah, it’s my responsibility. But you don’t take on somebody else’s grief.
    Jordan: A child’s not grief.
    Frank: I mean they all come in with their own... At least with your kid, it’s your sins.

& Det. Velcoro: I’m gonna take a wild guess that you and Woodrugh ain’t the most popular folks at your squads. Expendable, one might say.

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& Frank: I need coke, crystal, and whatever the fuck they call MDMA now.

& Woodrugh: Reporters mobbed me. Cameras and shit. My picture’s gonna be everywhere, man.
    Det. Velcoro: Fuck ’em. They lie without blinking. You know what one of those dog fuckers said to me once? I’d rather be wrong and first than right and second. That tells you all you need to know.

& Woodrugh: Been listening to them for so fucking long that... I don’t even know who the fuck I am.

& Eliot: Excuse me. You have one of the largest auras I’ve ever seen. Green and black. It’s been taking up this whole room... You must have had hundreds of lives.
    Det. Velcoro: I don’t think I can handle another one.

& Frank: Sometimes your worst self is your best self. You know what I’m saying?

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Maybe Tomorrow

True Detective 2×3

& Det. Bezzerides: You call me you got something.
    Det. Velcoro: Well, I got shot. That’s something. I found our murder scene. That’s something else.
    Det. Bezzerides: You don’t enter a scene without your partner— me.

& Det. Velcoro: So I’ll go ahead and take the day, Xena?

& Felicia: Is Ray hurt? What happened?
    Semyon: Somebody murdered him.

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& Doctor: Can I ask how much you drink in an average week?
    Det. Velcoro: All I can.

& Det. Velcoro: You want the truth? Maybe this is a good excuse to take me off... I mean, she don’t trust me. And I ain’t ever exactly been Columbo.

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Night Finds You

True Detective 2×2

♪ I live the life I left behind ♪
♪ there’s truth that lives ♪
♪ and truth that dies ♪
♪ I don’t know which, so never mind ♪

& Semyon: I don’t like being on a ledge.
    Jordan: Nobody gets rich on their own money.
    Semyon: I never really knew what to do with it. Money.

& Semyon: ...The third day, the lightbulb burned out. Pitch-black in there. That’s when the rats started coming out...

& Semyon: Ever since, I wondered ... What if I’m... still in that basement in the dark? What if I died there?

& Semyon: Something’s trying to tell me that it’s all papier-mâché. Something’s telling me to wake up. Like... like I’m not real.

& Davis: We’ll have a full state probe up inside a week. Caspere’s death is a window into everything.
    Det. Bezzerides: And what is everything exactly?

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& Lt. Burris: That clear to you, Detective?
    Det. Velcoro: 10-4, Lieutenant.
    & Det. Velcoro: Just one question. Am I supposed to solve this or not?

& Det. Velcoro: You pull off that e-cig. Not a lot of people do... I tried one once. It felt like it was smoking me. A real cigarette wouldn’t make you feel like that. Maybe it was just a little too close to sucking a robot’s dick. I don’t know.

& Det. Velcoro: I don’t know anything about that, but sometimes a good beating provokes personal growth.

& Det. Velcoro: You know that expression about flies and honey?
    Det. Bezzerides: Mmm. The fuck do I want with a bunch of flies?
    Det. Velcoro: Well, you don’t have flies, you can’t fly-fish.

& Det. Bezzerides: You don’t have a problem with that?
    Det. Velcoro: No, my strong suspicion is we get the world we deserve.

& Det. Velcoro: Bad habits. Never lost one yet.

& Det. Velcoro: What’s with all the knives?
    Det. Bezzerides: Could you do this job if everyone you encountered could physically overpower you? I mean, forget police work. No man could walk around like that without going nuts.
    Det. Velcoro: So they’re equalizers. Makes sense.
    Det. Bezzerides: No, I’d still wear them if I wasn’t on the job. Fundamental difference between the sexes is that one of them can kill the other with their bare hands. Man of any size lays hands on me, he’s gonna bleed out in under a minute.
    Det. Velcoro: Well, just so you know, I support feminism. Mostly by having body image issues.

& Det. Bezzerides: You want honest?.. Tell me, how compromised are you?

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Σ What? What TF was that? Bye-bye, Det. Velcoro, or what?

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.

Form and Void

True Detective 1×8

& Rust: L’chaim, fatass.

& Rust: There you go. Everybody’s got a choice.

& Rust: I never told you how to live your life, Marty...
    Marty: No, no, no, you just sat in judgment.
    Rust: Look, as sentient meat, however illusory our identities are, we craft those identities by making value judgments. Everybody judges, all the time. Now, you got a problem with that, you’re living wrong.
    Marty: .... What’s “scented meat”?

& Det. Papania: You sound like Cohle.

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& Marty: Everybody has a phone. Where’s yours?

& Marty: I’ll come back by tomorrow, buddy.
    Rust: Why?
    Marty: Don’t ever change, man.

& Rust: Ah, I shouldn’t even fuckin’ be here, Marty.
    Marty: I believe “no shit” is the proper response to that observation.

& Rust: It’s just one story. The oldest.
    Marty: What’s that?
    Rust: Light versus dark.

& Rust: You know, you’re looking at it wrong, the... sky thing.
    Marty: How is that?
    Rust: Well, once, there was only dark. If you ask me, the light’s winning.

Young Men Dead by The Black Angels

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Σ T'was darn good.

After You've Gone

True Detective 1×7

& Rust: You look like you’re doing all right.
    Marty: Father Time has his way with us all. Looks like you must have pissed him off.

& Rust: Most of the last decade I spent stone-drunk. Functional, but hammered.

& Maggie: How is he?
    Marty: Different, same.

& Rust: Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing.
    Marty: If that long.
    Rust: Yeah, so be careful what you get good at.

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& Marty: What do you call a black man who flies a plane?
    Bobby: I don’t know.
    Marty: Pilot, you racist bastard.

& Rust: I don’t like this place. Nothing grows in the right direction.

& Rust: Sure hope that old lady was wrong.
    Marty: About what?
    Rust: About death not being the end of it.

& Marty: He ain’t gonna talk with you.
    Rust: I got a car battery and two jumper cables argue different.

& Maggie: Rust... It’s good to see you.
    Rust: Bullshit.

& Errol Ledoux: I know the whole coast. My family...
    Det. Papania: Thanks.
    Errol Ledoux: ...My family’s been here a long, long time.


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Σ On the eve of the last episode...

Haunted Houses

True Detective 1×6

& Marty: Man’s game charges a man’s price. Take that away from this if nothing else.

& Joel Theriot: All my life, I wanted to be nearer to God. But the only nearness... silence.

& Rust: You should sign that... The newspapers are gonna be tough on you... and prison is very... very hard on people who hurt kids. If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself.

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& Rust: I am working. I have things to do. So type the report, man. That’s how we do. I get people to talk, you write the stats. It’s worked out well for you so far.
    Marty: I’m the only one ever took up for you! Ever! You know what it’s likebeing your partner, huh? Fuck you.
    Rust: No, buddy, without me... there is no you. So type the fuckin’ report, man.

& Maggie: You can’t live like this.
    Rust: You know, people that give me advice, I reckon they’re talking to themselves.

& Rust: Buy you a beer?
    Marty: Sure. I’ll follow you.
    Rust: .... Actually, why don’t you buy me a beer?


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The Secret Fate of All Life

True Detective 1×5

& Dewall: I ain’t go no use for it or your money.
    Rust: What, money don’t spend?
    Dewall: I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes. It’s corrosive, like acid. You got a demon, little man, and I don’t like your face. It makes me want to do things to it.

& Rust: Look. You want my help? Just show me the rest of the file.
    Det. Papania: Why are you so hot to see the new discovery file, man?
    Rust: Well, why are y’all... so hot to not give it to me? It’s supposed to be like a consultation, right?

& Ledoux: The black stars rise...

& Ledoux: I saw you in my dream. You’re in Carcosa now with me. He sees you. You’ll do this again. Time is a flat circle.
    Rust: Listen, Nietzsche. Shut the fuck up.

& Rust: I can say that I walked away from the experience with a greater respect for the sanctity of human life.

& Rust: Why should I live in history, huh? Fuck, I don’t want to know anything anymore. This is a world where nothing is solved. Someone once told me, “Time is a flat circle.” Everything we’ve ever done or will do we’re gonna do over and over and over again... and that little boy and that little girl, they’re gonna be in that room again... and again... and again... forever.

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& Rust: Look. Everybody knows there’s something wrong with them. They just don’t know what it is. Everybody wants confession. Everybody wants some cathartic narrative for it, the guilty especially... Oh, but everybody is guilty.

& Marty: You know the good years when you’re in them, or you just wait for them until you get ass cancer and realize that the good years came and went? Because there’s a feeling— you might notice it sometimes— this feeling like life has slipped through your fingers... like the future is behind you, like it’s always been behind you.

& Marty: Solution to my whole life was right under my nose— that woman, those kids— and I was watching everything else. See, infidelity is one kind of sin, but my true failure was inattention.

& Det. Gilbough: Tell us what you know about his girl... You know what happened there between them?
    Marty: What always happens between men and women? Reality.

& Marty: ...in states of undress, you know... like fucking.

& Rust: You ever heard of something called the M-brane theory, detectives?.. It’s like in this universe, we process time linearly forward... but outside of our spacetime, from what would be a fourth-dimensional perspective, time wouldn’t exist, and from that vantage, could we attain it... we’d see... our spacetime would look flattened, like a single sculpture with matter in a superposition of every place it ever occupied, our sentience just cycling through our lives like carts on a track. See, everything outside our dimension... that’s eternity, eternity looking down on us. Now, to us, it’s a sphere, but to them... it’s a circle.

& Rust: In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill... and you are reborn but into the same life that you’ve always been born into.
    I mean, how many times have we had this conversation, detectives? Well, who knows? When you can’t remember your lives, you can’t change your lives, and that is the terrible and the secret fate of all life.
    You’re trapped... by that nightmare you keep waking up into.


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