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In 1995, Cohle and Hart continue to investigate the murder of Dora Lange, and learn she was attending church prior to her disappearance. Cohle deduces that Hart is cheating on his wife, Maggie (Michelle Monaghan), with Lisa Tragnetti (Alexandra Daddario), creating friction between the two. Cohle also begins experiencing hallucinatory side effects to his drug consumption and objects to Reverend Billy Lee Tuttle's (Jay O. Sanders) decision to create a special unit for anti-Christian crimes to assist in the investigation. The two eventually find Lange's diary and learn the location of the church, which was destroyed in a fire. While searching through the wreckage, they find on a wall a nightmarish painting of a woman with deer antlers.

Seventeen years later, Cohle and Hart continue being interrogated by Papania and Gilbough. Hart is divorced, and Cohle confides that his daughter died after being run over, leading to the collapse of his marriage and the beginning of his addiction. Upon learning of it, Cohle's superiors transferred him to Narcotics as an informant for four years, and he was later committed to a psychiatric institution for four months after shooting three cartel members. After being released, Cohle requested to be transferred to another precinct as a Homicides detective and ended up in Louisiana, where he was partnered with Hart.