True Detective | Season 2, Episode 4 Recap

In case you need something to listen to on an ill-fated bus ride, The TRUE DETECTIVE podcast is back for this season’s fourth episode, “Down Will Come.”

We’ve had cryptic transmissions from Josh Wigler(@roundhoward) in upstate California, so he is away this week, but Antonio Mazzaro (@acmazzaro) and Jeremiah Panhorst (@jpanhorst) are here putting out some fires and starting new ones. A and J are investigating this case from all angles, and just like A and Ray they are wondering where their third detective is, and if he’s on another tear-laden, paparazzi-infused guilt bender. This is the halfway mark of the season, so Antonio and Jeremiah reset the major storylines (train, murder, bird) and try to sift out which of the clues are gold, and which are just Nick Pizzolatto’s Id run amok. Honestly does the man just have a dead bird instead of a heart? WHAT IS GOING ON?