![]() ![]() On paper, plonking Maggie in the interview room might seem like a good idea, allowing Pizzolatto to maintain the show's time-skipping structure despite Rust and Marty having cut short their respective interviews, but in reality it adds little, both in terms of plot and in expanding on Maggie's character. Nevertheless, Haunted Houses does the heavy lifting for us, juxtaposing the events leading up to the fight – Maggie's realisation that Hart is again having an affair, Maggie's revenge sex with Cohle – against Maggie's testimony to Gilbough and Pappania in 2012. Given that we already knew that Hart and Maggie were divorced by 2012, and that Hart and Cohle had also gone their separate ways, it doesn't seem too much of a leap to infer that one might have influenced the other. And for all the "smoke-and-mirrors" techniques utilised by the show's creator Nic Pizzolatto – obscure literary references, unreliable narrators and the like – the dissolution of Cohle and Hart's partnership is as uncomplicated as it gets: two men beating the hell out of each other in a car park after one found out that the other had slept with his wife. But, as is the way of this teasing puzzle box of a series, it has taken us half a dozen episodes to finally piece together exactly how things fell apart. This is hardly breaking news: from the very first episode of True Detective we've known that the relationship between Rust and Marty went south at some point in 2002. ![]() ![]() Louisiana's finest homicide partnership is no more. ![]()
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