- 8.9/10127 votes
#1 - Who Goes There?
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/2014
Hart and Cohle hunt for their newly identified suspect, Reggie Ledoux, a meth cooker who shared a cell with Dora Lange's husband and recently skipped parole. As Hart's personal life collapses around him, Cohle immerses himself in an old criminal identity from his narco days, contacting an East-Texas biker gang known to deal with their primary suspect.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.8/10125 votes
#2 - Form and Void
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/9/2014
An overlooked detail provides Hart and Cohle with an important new lead in their 17-year-old case.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.7/10117 votes
#3 - The Secret Fate of All Life
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/2014
A violent denouement in the forest clears the Dora Lange case and turns Cohle and Hart into local heroes. Each man settles into a healthier rhythm of living as Hart returns to his family, and Cohle starts a relationship while gaining a reputation as a closer in interrogations. As time passes and his daughters grow older, Hart faces new tensions and temptations, and Cohle learns from a double-murder suspect that there could be much more to an old case than he'd once thought. In 2012, Gilbough and Papania put their cards on the table, presenting new intelligence that threatens Cohle and causes Hart to reassess everything he thought he knew about his former partner.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.4/10119 votes
#4 - The Locked Room
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/2014
A hidden image at the burned-out church leads Cohle and Hart to Joel Theriot, a tent-revival minister whose parishioners finger a scarred “tall man” seen with Dora Lange. Brought in for interrogation, a sex offender matching the description is quickly dismissed by Cohle, despite offering a confession. Hart gets sidetracked after Maggie sets Cohle up with a friend at a C&W bar. Looking to establish a pattern of murder, Cohle pores over old case files, finding a connection with a woman assumed to have drowned years earlier.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.3/10137 votes
#5 - The Long Bright Dark
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/2014
Former Louisiana State CID partners Martin Hart and Rustin Cohle give separate statements to a pair of investigators about the murder of a prostitute, Dora Lange, 17 years earlier. As they look back, details of the crime, replete with occult overtones, are accompanied by insights into the detectives’ volatile partnership and personal lives.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.2/10114 votes
#6 - After You've Gone
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/2/2014
Hart and Cohle call a truce to investigate a series of disappearances that may be related to the Dora Lange murder and the Tuttle family.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.2/10114 votes
#7 - Haunted Houses
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2014
Maggie reveals Cohle's activities in 2002, when his relationship with Hart fractured and he quit the force.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.1/10126 votes
#8 - Seeing Things
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2014
Under pressure to land a suspect in the Lange murder, Quesada warns Hart and Cohle that they might be replaced by three detectives from a new task force. The pair lobbies for extra time to follow up on a lead that takes them from a rural cathouse to an incinerated church. With his marriage to Maggie already strained by work, Hart finds respite away from home.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto
- 8.1/1030 votes
#9 - Utangatta
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/21/2018
Owen and Annie meet again as a disgraced Icelandic spy and a CIA operative who helps him. Greta implores James to shut down the trial.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
- 7.8/1029 votes
#10 - Furs by Sebastian
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/21/2018
After taking the B pill, Annie and Owen find themselves on 1980s Long Island entangled in a strange caper involving a lemur.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
- 7.8/1031 votes
#11 - Option C
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/21/2018
After the subjects are discharged, James and Azumi face Neberdine's CEO. Owen and Annie part ways -- until a startling headline sparks a reunion.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
- 7.7/1029 votes
#12 - The Lake of the Clouds
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/21/2018
Annia and Ellia continue their quest, and Owen's mafioso father pressures him to protect the family. Greta counsels a bereaved Gertie.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Mauricio Katz
- 7.6/1013 votes
#13 - Part Three
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/2024
The group participates in its largest mission to date—the bombing of vital aircraft manufacturing plants deep within Germany.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1034 votes
#14 - Windmills
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2018
When her pilfered stash of pills runs out, troubled Annie tries to quit -- but ends up blackmailing her way into the Neberdine study.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
- 7.4/1029 votes
#15 - Exactly Like You
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/21/2018
Annie and Owen are Arlie and Ollie, grifters attending a séance at the mysterious Neberdine mansion in the 1940s.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Mauricio Katz
- 7.4/1028 votes
#16 - Larger Structural Issues
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/2018
Azumi tells James the whole truth about the study's snags and urges him to call his estranged mother, an esteemed therapist.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
- 7.4/1017 votes
#17 - Part Two
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/25/2024
The 100th bombs German U-boat pens in Norway. With the help of Lt. Crosby's navigating, a damaged B-17 struggles to get back to Britain.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: John Orloff
- 7.4/1022 votes
#18 - Part One
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/2024
Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force's campaign against Nazi Germany.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1031 votes
#19 - Having a Day
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2018
Muramoto notices irregularities in Annie and Owen's data. He questions Owen, who recalls the worst night of his life: his brother's engagement party.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville
- 7.2/1015 votes
#20 - Part Four
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2024
Lt. Rosenthal joins the 100th just as one of its crews reaches a milestone. The U-boat pens at Bremen become a target for the second time.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: John Orloff
- 7.0/1028 votes
#21 - Ceci N'est Pas Une Drill
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/2018
Owen and Annie take the C pill. No longer connected, he belongs to a Mafia family, and she's a medieval guide hired by an ailing elf princess.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Amelia Gray
- 6.9/1041 votes
#22 - The Chosen One!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/2018
Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Owen is the black sheep of the wealthy Milgrim clan. After losing his job, he enrolls in an experimental drug trial.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Patrick Somerville