'Girls walk this Earth all the time screwing for free. She asks Marty to think about why heвЂ™s really upset. ThereвЂ™s a fantastic exchange between her and Marty, in which she defends her right to employ a teenage girl-who, like Dora, used the brothel to escape from a hellish family. In contrast the cramped nightmare that was DoraвЂ™s motherвЂ™s house, the bunny ranch seems like a haven. There are couches under a shade canopy, cheerful women doing laundry, a fluffy house cat on a throw pillow. ItвЂ™s a trailer park sheltered by tall trees. Using his newly obtained information, Rust directs Martin to the brothel where they believe Dora Lange was working. Hart stays in the car: more willful denial. In the next scene, Cohle reverses an unsuccessful interrogation by bashing one man in the head with a metal toolbox, then initiating the wrist-snapping maneuver on another. Rust calmly declares he can break off MartyвЂ™s hands, and while it seems like he may be bluffing, his partner is rattled enough to back down. Marty is furious and pins Rust against a wall. The next day, Rust calls Marty out on his affair, which he has deduced from his _Rain Man-_level skills of observation. Was Rust about to do something terrible to Lucy? Or is this just more nihilist rambling from a guy who believes that his daughterвЂ™s death absolved him from the 'sin of being a father?'

I can do terrible things to people, with impunity.' ThereвЂ™s an abrupt cut, and itвЂ™s chilling. 'Of course IвЂ™m dangerous,' he replies, approaching the bed. After Rust refuses LucyвЂ™s advances, she remarks that he seems 'kinda strange,' almost dangerous. She tells him about 'the ranch,' a brothel south of Spanish Lake where some of her co-workers have gone.

SheвЂ™s Lucy, the one he asked for Quaaludes in Episode 1 heвЂ™s there to pick up the drugs, and to press her for leads about the Lange case. Then thereвЂ™s a parallel scene, of Cohle visiting a prostitute in her seedy motel room. (And presumably post-divorce, since-as you may have noticed-heвЂ™s not wearing a wedding ring.) Unlike Hart, Cohle isnвЂ™t holding onto his delusions from the past. He so thoroughly convinced himself that the affair was a good idea that he still defends it, seventeen years later. For a smart detective, he has zero insight into himself (as Maggie observes later in the episode). Post-coitally, he spills confidential details about the Dora Lange case. 'I thought I was gonna put these on you, ' he tells Lisa, not realizing that she has every ounce of power in this relationship. He brings handcuffs as a half-joke she recites his Miranda rights while shackling him to a shelf. Hart stumbles out of the bar and into the very nice apartment of Lisa (Alexandra Daddario), the sexy court stenographer who dropped by his office in Episode 1. But thatвЂ™s not what he means by decompressing. In 2012, Hart tells the detectives that itвЂ™s important to 'decompress' after a grueling day at work, 'for the good of the family.' We see him drinking with friends. ItвЂ™s hard to fathom what kind of 'victory' that might be, but the following scenes suggest that he may have been comparing himself to Martin. They never figured out where it came from, he says, but 'to me, it was like someone having a conversation.' WasnвЂ™t it strange that Cohle found an identical stick sculpture, sitting untouched in an abandoned playhouse, while investigating a different girlвЂ™s disappearance? We see the Cohle of 1995, staring intently at the sculpture on his desk. Instead, heвЂ™s like a man possessed, and every attempt to drink away the demons just brings more of them to the surface.Дetectives Papania and Gilbough bring him back to the subject of the stick sculptures, which surrounded the body of murder victim Dora Lange. He doesnвЂ™t overplay the drunkenness or the craziness, as many actors would surely be tempted to do. Matthew McConaughey is just breathtaking in these 2012 scenes. Working on his third Lone Star at the police station, the former detective is staring off into space, delivering a mesmerizing, nonsensical monologue about women and fate. Two beers have gone by since we last saw Rust Cohle.

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