"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 that’s not what he means by decompressing. In 2012, Hart tells the detectives that it’s important to "decompress" after a grueling day at work, "for the good of the family." We see him drinking with friends. It’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." Wasn’t it strange that Cohle found an identical stick sculpture, sitting untouched in an abandoned playhouse, while investigating a different girl’s disappearance? We see the Cohle of 1995, staring intently at the sculpture on his desk. Instead, he’s like a man possessed, and every attempt to drink away the demons just brings more of them to the surface.ĭetectives Papania and Gilbough bring him back to the subject of the stick sculptures, which surrounded the body of murder victim Dora Lange. He doesn’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.