True Detective (TV Series)

The Long Bright Dark (2014)

Woody Harrelson: Detective Marty Hart

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• Detective Rust Cohle : This place is like somebody's memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It's like there was never anything here but jungle.

  Detective Marty Hart : Stop saying shit like that. It's unprofessional.

• Detective Marty Hart : So... what's the point of getting outta bed in the morning?

  Detective Rust Cohle : I tell myself I bear witness. But the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.

• Detective Marty Hart : You know I've seen all the different types. We all fit a certain category. The bully... The charmer... The... uh... surrogate dad... the man possessed by ungovernable rage... the brain... and any of those types can be a good detective and any of those types can be an incompetent shitheel.

  Detective Maynard Gilbough : Which type were you?

  Detective Marty Hart : Oh, just a regular type dude... with a big ass dick.

• Detective Marty Hart : Let's make the car a place of silent reflection from now on.

• Detective Rust Cohle : People out here, it's like they don't even know the outside world exists. Might as well be living on the fucking moon.

  Detective Marty Hart : There's all kinds of ghettos in the world.

  Detective Rust Cohle : It's all one ghetto, man. Giant gutter in outer space.

• Detective Marty Hart : Can I ask you something? You're a Christian, yeah?

  Detective Rust Cohle : No.

  Detective Marty Hart : Well, what d'ya got the cross for, in your apartment?

  Detective Rust Cohle : It's a form of meditation.

  Detective Marty Hart : How's that?

  Detective Rust Cohle : I contemplate the moment in the garden; the idea of allowing your own crucifixion.

• Detective Rust Cohle : Look, I'd consider myself a realist, all right? But in philosophical terms I'm what's called a pessimist.

  Detective Marty Hart : Uh, okay, what's 'at mean?

  Detective Rust Cohle : Means I'm bad at parties.

  Detective Marty Hart : Heh. Lemme tell ya, you ain't great outside-a parties, either.

• Detective Marty Hart : [to Cohle]  Listen, when you're at my house, I want you to chill the fuck out.

• Detective Rust Cohle : I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist, by natural law.

  Detective Marty Hart : Hmm. That sounds God-fucking-awful, Rust.

• Detective Marty Hart : Strange, uh...

  [laughs] 

  Detective Marty Hart : yeah. Rust? Pick a fight with the sky, didn't like its shade of blue.