Who Goes There

"Who Goes There"
Season	1
Episode	4
Air date	February 9, 2014
Written by	Nic Pizzolatto
Directed by	Cary Joji Fukunaga
Episode guide
Previous	"The Locked Room"
Next	"The Secret Fate of All Life"

Who Goes There is the fourth episode in season 1 of True Detective. It first aired February 9, 2014 on HBO.

Summary

In 1995, Hart and Cohle interrogate Charlie Lange for information about Ledoux, his former cellmate. Lange informs them that he showed pictures of Dora to Ledoux and identifies a known associate, Tyrone Weem, as a lead. Lange also tells the detectives that Ledoux told him about a group of rich men who would get together for sacrifices of women and children for devil worship. Hart tracks down Weem at a warehouse rave and forces him to name the East Texas biker gang Ledoux is now cooking meth for, the Iron Crusaders. Cohle, who previously worked with the gang while undercover, takes "sick leave" to infiltrate the gang, giving the excuse that he needs to visit his dying father. Meanwhile, Lisa spitefully tells Maggie everything about her affair with Hart, who returns home to find his family gone and his bags packed. He tries to talk to Maggie at her workplace and is confronted by security officers before Cohle arrives to take him away. Cohle hits the Iron Crusaders hangout masquerading as former security for a Mexican cartel breaking away on his own, using high-grade cocaine taken from the police evidence room to back up his claim. He negotiates with his contact Ginger that if given a commitment to back a deal with the gang's meth producer, Cohle will help Ginger rob a stash house in the projects. Disguised as police, they rob the stash house, shooting one of the residents, and stir up the neighborhood's inhabitants in the process, resulting in an outbreak of gunfire and chaos. With the actual police on their way, Cohle holds Ginger at gunpoint as they escape the house and make their way through the projects. Cohle contacts Hart who collects them from the scene as the police arrive.

In the present day, the detectives interviewing Cohle and Hart can't quite understand why, having found a major lead in the case, Cohle would suddenly take two weeks leave, doubts in the investigation start to come forth as Papania and Gilbough question Cohle's sick leave, claiming that there are no hospital records of his father. Cohle tells the detectives about his father while Hart feigns ignorance.

Quotes

• Every time I think you've hit a ceiling, you, you keep raising the bar. You're like the Michael Jordan of being a son of a bitch. -Martin Hart
• So, enough with the self-improvement-penance-hand-wringing shit. Let's go to work. -Rust Cohle

Cast

Starring

• Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle
• Woody Harrelson as Martin Hart

External links

True Detective Season 1 (2014)
101. "The Long Bright Dark" 102. "Seeing Things" 103. "The Locked Room" 104. "Who Goes There"	105. "The Secret Fate of All Life" 106. "Haunted Houses" 107. "After You've Gone" 108. "Form and Void"
DVD • Blu-ray
See also: S1 • S2 • S3 • Night Country