

Ani finally getting to put her kinfe-fighting skills to good use, killing two guys to rescue the woman she's been looking for from an orgy, and while completely high.And a healthy dose of Shut Up, Hannibal! and Talk to the Fist. Velcoro utilizes the fact that he's ungodly angry, no longer part of the force and has been given carte blanche by the state attorney in the re-opened Caspere investigation to pay the good doctor Pitlor a visit - with a club.Woodrugh's Big Damn Heroes moment, saving an unarmed Ani from an AK-wielding gang member.Woodrugh's calm and collected reaction after it.Episode 4's brutal and gritty shootout.Velcoro not only keeping up with Ani during a foot chase despite his broken ribs, but having enough strength afterwards to pull her out of the way of a truck.Chessani is a piece of shit with no redeeming qualities, but he gets points for taking absolutely none of Frank's muscling.Semyon throwing down with Santos, dodging most of his punches before finishing him off with a headbutt and ripping his grille out.So any man who fights her will "bleed out in a minute". Ani justifying her packing several knives on her body: she couldn't do her job knowing that any criminal she encounters could overpower her.Then when Errol is about to finish off Hart with a hatchet, Cohle picks his gun back up and blows a chunk of Errol's head off. First, he headbutts Errol Childress four times while being held off the ground, impaled on the end of Errol's knife. Cohle proves once again his badass credentials in the final fight.Cohle's hallucination of a cosmic void at the altar of Carcosa, the strongest hint the show has given of a Lovecraftian mythos.Cohle and Hart effortlessly intimidate their old sheriff colleague, by first threatening to send a tape of a child murder to news outlets and stating they found it in his possession, then by having Cohle's employer fire a few rounds into his car with a sniper rifle.As expected of a finale, there were several awesome moments in episode 8.

Rust is able to break into all of the Tuttle houses to get evidence.If you get the opportunity, you should kill yourself. And prison is very, very hard on people who hurt kids. Made even better by Rust's response: initial shock followed by this exchange after he sees the torture cellar:Ĭohle: The newspapers are going to be tough on you. Hart's execution of Ledoux following the discovery of his Torture Cellar.It's so impressive, you might not have even noticed it. His disappointment at the results does not diminish his manipulativeness in the slightest. The revelation in Episode 5 that Cohle's entire purpose for being interviewed in 2012 was to see what the detectives had on the case.The filming involved rigorous practice and coordination, as well as using a crane to lift the cameraman over a fence so he could smoothly film Cohle. This accomplishment has been compared to the similar achievement of Children of Men. It's also a Moment of Awesome for the director, actors, cameramen and the rest of the crew, for making an incredibly tense action sequence with a small army of extras all in a single continuous take of 6 minutes.“Oh goddamn it, I am so done talking to you like a man.”.And he did all this while coked out of his mind. Despite the entire situation going south, Cohle manages to navigate through a neighborhood riot, goes ninja on a couple of attackers, and still gets the guy out alive, having perfectly timed Hart's arrival in a getaway car. In episode 4, Cohle goes undercover with a previous contact from a biker gang in order to ferret out the location of Lange's potential murderer.Then Cohle calls to Hart, sweeps some overgrowth aside, and reveals crude artwork of a naked woman with a pair of antlers on the church wall. At the end of Episode 2, Hart and Cohle find themselves in a partially burnt-down church in the middle of nowhere, their trail seemingly gone cold.When Hart gets physical with him in the locker room, Cohle very casually wraps his hands around Hart's, just as casually suggests he could break them, then starts to squeeze.He smashes one in the face with a toolbox and gets the other in a chokehold in the span of a couple of seconds. In Episode 2, Cohle casually beating up two recalcitrant mechanics to get some information out of them.He concludes, "Start asking the right fucking questions," and then takes an enigmatic draw on his cigarette as the smoky riffs of The Black Angels "Young Men Dead" swell. The final moment of Episode 1: Cohle taunts his interrogators by wondering how the killer is still at large if he killed him back in the 1990s.
