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The episode is steeped in a dark, atmospheric setting of rural Louisiana.

Detectives Rustin "Rust" Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Martin "Marty" Hart (Woody Harrelson) are called to a macabre crime scene in a Louisiana cane field. They find the body of Dora Lange , a young woman posed in a prayer-like position, wearing a crown of deer antlers and marked with a mysterious spiral symbol. [S1E1] The Long Bright Dark

is the pilot episode of the first season of the HBO anthology crime drama series True Detective . It first aired on January 12, 2014, and is approximately 60 minutes long. Plot Overview The episode is steeped in a dark, atmospheric

Now separated and aged, Rust and Marty are interviewed individually by detectives Thomas Papania and Maynard Gilbough. The detectives are revisiting the 1995 case because a new murder has occurred with striking similarities, suggesting the original killer may still be at large. Key Character Dynamics is the pilot episode of the first season