True Detective (TV Series)

Seeing Things (2014)

Michael Potts: Detective Maynard Gilbough

Quotes 

• Detective Rust Cohle : Came close another time... Lorry. Maggie introduced us. It broke off. It was for the best, you know, I gave her cause. I can be hard to live with. I don't mean to, but I can be... critical.

  [sigh] 

  Detective Rust Cohle : Sometimes I think I'm just not good for people, that it's not good for them to be around me. I wear 'em down. They... they get unhappy.

  Detective Maynard Gilbough : Hmm... yeah I think the job does that to a lot of guys. Changes ya. Some guys just notice that's all.

  Detective Rust Cohle : Well, I can't say the job made me this way. More like bein' this way made me right for the job. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age, you know who you are. Now, I live in a little room out in the country behind a bar... work four nights a week... in between I drink. And there ain't nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a... victory in that.

• Detective Maynard Gilbough : Now what do you mean exactly... these visions you mentioned.

  Detective Rust Cohle : Oh shit, I thought you knew. I told Marty about 'em... you know... down the line. uh... chemical... flashbacks... neural damage... from my time in the HIDTA... as in High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. I spent 4 years under cover.

  [laughs] 

  Detective Rust Cohle : You know what that means? That's where they got them Fed rumors I first come in. What you two don't know 'bout them? Those files are still sealed huh? Shiiiiit, just what have you two heard about me?