Episode 5 of True Detective.
It's Nietzsche's eternal return of the same or, as Reggie Ledoux puts it to Cohle, "Time is a flat circle."
But of course if there is an eternal succession of repetitions of the same sequence of events time is as linear as you please while events form a circle.
Cohle says we have no recollection of past lives, so it is a secret.
Drama queen that he is, like all pessimists, absurdists, and existentialists, he says bitterly that we are trapped.
Others seem to feel that way about logical determinism, a doctrine Nietzsche ties to the eternal return of the same, revaluing both with his vaunted, "life-affirming" amor fati.
Cohle is not Nietzsche.
And Cohle is not the killer of Dora Lange.
In 2002, the drugstore killer convinces him the true killer of Dora Lange - if it is only one - is still out there and he goes to check out the ruined school he and Hart got distracted from by the hunt for Ledoux in 95.
In 2002, he is trying to finish that unfinished business.
And maybe he still is in 2012, when others think he is that killer.
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