True Detective Season 2 Episode 5 Trailer and Synopsis

Ani even asks Ray in next week’s preview: “Do you really think we cleared the Caspere case?”

This is the first episode of the season that I had to watch twice, because everything hits so fast and so suddenly, it’s all missed even if you blink. That landed her on departmental leave, but she could still work on the case. It might tie also to the eye-socket-shaped watermarks that Caspere’s partner Frank (Vince Vaughn) is seeing everywhere, this time on a coffee table.

The fourth episode of “True Detective” season 2 airs on Sunday night, and if there is anything that the cast wants you to know going into this event, it is that everyone is committed in their own way to making sure that this story is a success.

Ani and Ray are in the evidence hangar looking at the auto that was bombed. Do I sound like a mad conspiracy theorist if I suggest that Ray might be working a long con, playing against Frank behind the scenes all along?

Remember that scene in The Wolf of Wall Street where the effects of the old quaaludes hit Jordan Belfort all at once and he immediately collapses into the fetal position, only able to drool and crawl his way to his vehicle because he has no control over anything else going on at the moment?

Where is Frank going to intersect with everyone?

So Officer Woodrugh wakes up in another man’s bed, which is step one in having a bad day if you’re a closeted, self-loathing, PTSD-stricken cop. First they speak to his daughter (Emily Rios). People play differently in Vinci.

Ray picks up Paul to get him away from the reporters. Ray tries to comfort him with a bottle of Smirnoff, but Paul’s inconsolable: “I just don’t know how to be”, he admits. For someone so jaded, Ani is naive enough to believe that the bad guys always end up in jail. Ani thinks these relationships can’t be coincidental, although her father argues that many spiritual movements of the time cross-pollinated in northern California.

Bezzerides goes to visit her sister and chat about her own mother, who carved driftwood statues. She says she’s saving up to go to Cal Arts.

We weren’t keeping count, but Ani must’ve said the F-word a hundred times in this episode. He thinks they should get married. What’s going to be the thing to spark him pulling in line with Ani and Paul also? It feels like an obvious red herring for the investigation of Benjamin Caspere’s murder – but the question is whether the characters are being duped more by this narrative detour, or the viewers. Was this all just a huge frame up to get them off the case? The mayor is in the photo, too. Ani blurts out: “Jesus, that’s some f-king coincidence”. It’s the best thing for his career and image, but he’s learned nothing from Ray (or Frank): A child isn’t meant to be the piece of driftwood that keeps a floundering marriage or man afloat. Don’t they look happy, guys?

Mercer, the guy with whom Ani had a brief fling, has filed a sexual assault charge. She’s been suspended and can’t enter the department until the investigation is completed. Vinci has survived and thrived in spite of similar investigations, and none of Chessani’s forefathers ever did any time.

Ani returns to the office to report to her superiors, but she gets some bad news. She leaves. Of course, she’s pissed.

Ray and Frank meet at their usual spot and Frank, impressed with Ray’s newfound sobriety, offers him a permanent job now that he is getting back into his less legal affairs.

But did we really need yet another week of bland, grim, inexplicably meandering storytelling before True Detective got to the fireworks factory? Ray says that he’s not anybody’s muscle. Velcoro is also seen giving his father’s badge to his son. The guy reassures him it’s fine: “Be what you want”. He might have answers. It’s people railing against who they truly are, be it Frank re-entering the organized crime game or Paul denying himself Miguel’s affection. Should they continues fighting for more. Oh, we have no idea – but we wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to implicate Caspere’s real killer.

Citizens are protesting public transit. The episode laid some groundwork for the Chessani family’s long and deep history of shady doings (and interactions with Ani’s dad), and it’s not above the realm of possibility that Chessani could have tipped the suspects to the cops’ approach. The gunman is firing from a window and, soon, after more shots are fired, the top level of the building explodes. Velcoro tells Frank about Rulfo and Amarilla, but Frank can’t make the connection between the suspects and what happened to Stan. The SUV crashes into a bus. Countless civilians are shot. One features a man relishing the lurid terms of doing business on the black market; in the other, he might as well be reciting USA tax code.