![]() ![]() Even though he’s consumed by work, the case he’s building for a serial killer gets stronger and stronger. If this is Martin when he’s lost one part of his support system, how far will he go when it all comes apart?Īs for Rust, you can’t argue with the results. But this situation boils beneath the surface of Martin, and after everyone has split for the night, he races drunkenly to Lisa’s house, breaks down the door, and beats the man who is spending the night. Casually confronting Lisa, out of eye and earshot of Maggie, she simply tells him that their relationship has run its course, and moreover, he’s married, and she’s not interested in that kind of commitment anyway. And it’s not so much the man he’s concerned about, as the threat it holds to his carefully calibrated life. Out at a local country bar, where Maggie has also set up Rust with a friend of hers, Martin spots Lisa…with another man. However, Maggie just doesn’t know how fucked up he is. But as Martin and Maggie team up to talk to their daughter, his eyes can’t help but drift to the TV in the background to watch the game, even as his child cries in his arms. “I’m all fucked up,” he later admits to Maggie. In “ Seeing Things,” we caught a glimpse of their dolls posed in the tableau of a crime scene, and this time around, it’s the eldest daughter, in trouble at school for crude drawings of men and women having sex. But the distance from his wife pales compared to that with his daughters, who are again showing disturbing signs of dealing with some kind of trauma. His wife Maggie ( Michelle Monaghan) can sense Martin pulling away, perhaps not surprising given, that she’s not so much his life partner any more, as someone slotted into a box for his convenience, allowing him to keep it together. Rules describe the shape of things.”īut while Martin has people in his life who are good to him, he’s not good to them. The rest of us had families, people in our lives, good things. And again, as Martin tells the current timeline cops, having no sense of limits can leave you adrift. “If working his theories, if his job was his idea of himself, then fine. The only thing Rust knows how to do with his insomnia is keep investigating, spending nights going over old case files, looking at pictures of dead bodies, sitting in his living in a lawn chair, looking at a wall pinned with paperwork and photographs. Meanwhile, Martin accuses Rust of having myopia, an obsession for the work that’s unhealthy, and he’s not wrong. But having rules for yourself doesn’t necessarily mean that others will understand or adhere to them, as Martin quickly finds out. Indeed, for Martin himself, he’s fashioned a life that keeps everything in balance, as he explains: “I keep things even, separate.” He’s got his job, a young sexual plaything in Lisa ( Alexandra Daddario) and waiting at home, the normalcy of family providing stability. Boundaries are good,” Martin Hart ( Woody Harrelson) tells the detectives played by Michael Potts and Tory Kittles. In this week’s “ The Locked Room,” it’s those intangible values and qualities that are explored, exposing who we become when those structures are stripped away, and how fragile they can be in the first place. And in particular, writer Nic Pizzolatto is curious about what makes men tick-what allows them to survive unspeakable horror and what they require to keep a handle on this side of sanity, in a profession that continually brings them face to face with things that defy all logic and humanity. While there is a case that needs investigating in “ True Detective,” the show’s richest pleasures have been found in the characters. ![]()
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