True Detective (TV Series)
Form and Void (2014)
Matthew McConaughey: Detective Rust Cohle
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Quotes
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Detective Rust Cohle : Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning.
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Detective Rust Cohle : What are you doing here?
Detective Marty Hart : Nothing. Nurse said I could come in.
Detective Rust Cohle : Are you watching me sleep?
Detective Marty Hart : You know what, I just got here. I was gonna leave, but then you woke up. Jesus, what's your fucking problem?
Detective Rust Cohle : Nothing much of a problem.
Detective Marty Hart : Not a care in the world.
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Detective Rust Cohle : Look, as sentient meat, however illusory our identities are, we craft those identities by making value judgments: everybody judges, all the time. Now, you got a problem with that... You're livin' wrong.
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Detective Rust Cohle : We didn't get 'em all.
Detective Marty Hart : Yea and we ain't gonna get 'em all. That ain't what kind of world it is, but we got ours.
Detective Rust Cohle : I'm not supposed to be here.
Detective Marty Hart : Yeah... Well, I'll come back by tomorrow, buddy.
Detective Rust Cohle : Why?
Detective Marty Hart : Don't ever change, man.
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Rust Cohle : There was a moment... I know when I was under in the dark that something... whatever I'd been reduced to, you know, not even consciousness. It was a vague awareness in the dark, and I could... I could feel my definitions fading... And beneath that... darkness, there was another kind. It was - it was deeper, warm, you know, like a substance. I could feel, man, and I knew, I knew my daughter waited for me there... So clear. I could feel her.
[Voice trembling]
Rust Cohle : I could feel... I could feel a piece of my - my pop, too. It was like I was a part of everything that I ever loved, and we were all... the 3 of us, just - just fadin' out. And all I had to do was let go... and I did. I said, "Darkness, yeah, yeah." And I disappeared. But I could - I could still feel her love there, even more than before. Nothing... There was nothing but that love.
[Sobbing]
Rust Cohle : Then I woke up.
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Detective Rust Cohle : Do I strike you as a talker or a doer, Steve?
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Detective Marty Hart : Rust...
Detective Rust Cohle : Agh. Ah, fuck. Ah, he got me pretty good, Marty.
Detective Marty Hart : No, Rust. It ain't bad. It ain't bad.
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Rust Cohle : That taste...
Marty Hart : What?
Rust Cohle : Aluminum. Ash. I've tasted it before.
Marty Hart : Still see things ever?
Rust Cohle : Never stops. Not really. What happened in my head is not something that gets better.
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Marty Hart : Oh, hey. I brought you something.
Rust Cohle : Are we gettin' engaged?
Marty Hart : If we were gettin' engaged, I'd'a got a nicer ribbon.
Rust Cohle : You remembered.
Marty Hart : Yeah.
Rust Cohle : Ah. Let's get out from under this roof huh.
Marty Hart : Good idea.
Rust Cohle : Yeah, I can push two god damn wheels on my own.
Marty Hart : Yea, I oughta let you. You'll rip out your fucking stitches. Stop it.
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Marty Hart : You know, when she told me, she said not to blame you, that it wasn't your choice... You, uh, were drunk and... she made it happen.
Rust Cohle : Everybody's got a choice, Marty... Shit, I sure blamed you.
Marty Hart : Blamed me? For what?
Rust Cohle : [Swallows] For pushing a good woman to the point where she had to use me, use our partnership to get rid of you. For just being a lying sack of shit.
Marty Hart : You know, she couldn't have used you, if you didn't want some.
Rust Cohle : There you go... Everybody's got a choice.
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Detective Rust Cohle : Marty. This is the place.
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Detective Rust Cohle : Me or Marty, we see cuffs or coffins, you're gonna end up in the dirt.