" 'True Detective' Ratings Surge in Finale, But Down 22% From Last Year". ^ " True Detective: Season One Ratings".In 2015, a retired Hays is asked by a true crime documentary producer to look back at the unsolved case. In 1990, Hays and West are subpoenaed after a major break in the case. In 1980, partner detectives Wayne Hays ( Mahershala Ali) and Roland West ( Stephen Dorff) investigate a macabre crime involving two missing children. The story takes place in the Ozarks over three separate time periods.
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The three detectives, plus Semyon, quickly realize a larger conspiracy at play involving the victim's ties to the city of Vinci's deepening corrupt proliferations. The crime soon involves Frank Semyon ( Vince Vaughn), a career criminal who was involved in the land deal and whose life savings were stolen when the murder took place. Given the ambiguous jurisdictional nature of the crime scene, two other officers, Vinci Police Department Detective Raymond Velcoro ( Colin Farrell) and Ventura County Sheriff's Office CID Antigone "Ani" Bezzerides ( Rachel McAdams), along with Woodrugh are assigned to investigate the murder. With many of the old files destroyed in Hurricane Rita, the two men are asked to recount the history of their working relationship, personal lives, and the Dora Lange murder investigation, as well as a series of other related individual cases as new evidence suggests that the perpetrator remains at large.Ĭalifornia Highway Patrol officer Paul Woodrugh ( Taylor Kitsch) discovers the dead body of a city manager who was involved in a major land deal. In 2012, two former homicide investigators with the Louisiana State Police's Criminal Investigations Division, Rustin "Rust" Cohle ( Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart ( Woody Harrelson), are summoned for questioning by detectives Maynard Gilbough ( Michael Potts) and Thomas Papania ( Tory Kittles), about the Dora Lange murder investigation of 1995 they have not seen nor spoken to each other since an altercation concerning Martin's wife Maggie Hart ( Michelle Monaghan) over a decade prior.