and thank god
because i was NOT rewataching a bit of any of it to get clear the title is on point its pretty excruciatingly details and really shows how the writer sucks


http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/08/03/true_detective_season_two_a_guide_to_the_plot_of_this_confusing_season.html

What Exactly Is Going On in True Detective Season 2? An Excruciatingly Clear Plot Breakdown.

Why are we here?

Detectives Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell), Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) and Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) have been tasked with discovering who killed Ben Caspare, a city manager in Vinci, California, who was found with his genitalia blown off and his eyes eaten out by acid. Caspare was murdered by someone wearing a crow mask—or at least, his body was transported by someone who had a crow mask on the passenger seat. He was a business partner of Frank Seymon (Vince Vaughn), a patient of Dr Irving Pitlor (Rick Springfield, yes, of “Jesse’s Girl” fame), and into freaky sex stuff. For some reason, his name is pronounced “Caspar” despite the “e” at its end.

Why are so many officers working this case?

Woodrugh, a California Highway Patrol officer, found the body. Bezzerides, a sheriff for Ventura County, has been assigned the case to uncover corruption in Vinci. Velcoro, a Vinci detective, is working the case because Caspare was a Vinci employee— and also to keep other law enforcement agencies from uncovering corruption in Vinci.

What was the nature of Caspare’s business relationship with Frank?

Frank had given Caspare $5 million, that, together with a $5 million investment from the Russian-Israeli gangster Osip Argonov (Timothy V. Murphy), was supposed to secure them a parcel of land from the Catalyst Group.

What was so special about this land?

The short version: it could be bought cheap and sold high. The longer version: Frank’s waste management company, Acheron Waste Management, colluding with Vinci Mayor Austin Chessani (Ritchie Coster) and the Catalyst Corporation, dumped Vinci toxic waste in this land, which was located “up north,” to drive down its price by making it unsuitable for agriculture. But Catalyst, Chessani, Caspare and Frank, among others, knew the federal government had plans to build a high-speed rail through this land “corridor” and would be willing to buy it at a much higher price.

So this plan went off without a hitch?

Please. Frank did sell his waste management company and gave the resulting $5 million dollars to Caspare. But Caspare was murdered before he turned the money over to Catalyst. With Caspare’s death, Frank’s money evaporated and so did his deal with Osip, leaving Frank broke and desperate and willing to pull (literal) teeth to get back into all of the illegal businesses he had recently forsaken.

But it turns out Frank would have gotten fleeced even if Caspare had lived. Caspare was in cahoots with Osip, and had been since Frank and Caspare had taken a trip to Europe to see Osip six months before the murder. Since that meeting, Osip has steadily been smuggling Eastern European women into California and buying up the liens on Frank’s two clubs, Vinci Gardens Casino and Lux Infinitum. (This is why Frank burned down his clubs in last night’s episode: Osip owns them now and Osip is his enemy.) When Caspare died, his shares of Catalyst were sneakily reabsorbed by the company, and redistributed to Osip and Tony Chessani (Vinicius Machado), the Mayor’s son. Osip’s deal will be finalized, presumably in next week’s episode, when he tries to hand off $12 million in cash to the Catalyst Group and Frank tries to steal that $12 million using a repeating shopping list.

How do we know all this?

Some of it has been scattered through the previous episodes, but in last night’s episode, Frank’s associate Blake Churchman (Christopher James Baker)—the one he smashed in the face with a glass in slow motion—kindly explained everything before Frank killed him.

Who is Blake?

Blake is an associate of Frank’s who has been working behind Frank’s back. In addition to confirming that Osip and Caspare had been double dealing Frank, he is also the person who told Frank—wrongly—who Velcoro’s wife’s rapist was.

Remind me about what is going on there?

Velcoro’s wife Gena was brutally raped. Velcoro heard that Frank might know who had raped her. Frank gave him a name. Velcoro killed that guy, ruining his own life, his marriage, and making him a lackey cop of Frank’s. But, recently, the man who actually raped Gena, according to DNA tests, was found and arrested. (The rapist is the guy behind the counter in this beer commercial.) Ray went to Frank’s house and held a gun on him at the breakfast table to find out if Frank had knowingly given him the wrong name, the name of a man who was not the rapist. Frank had not. Rather, Frank had gotten the name from Blake, who was looking to move up in Frank’s organization, saw an opportunity to get himself noticed, and had a meth-head bothering him.

Anything else we need to know about Blake?

Blake has, or had, red hair.

Why does it matter that Blake had red hair?

So does Velcoro’s son Chad, who Velcoro fears is actually the biological son of the man who raped Gena. But, you never know, he could be someone else’s biological son altogether. (Though, probably, he will just turn out to be Velcoro’s son.)

Is it possible for two brunettes to have a redhead?

Yes.

So Blake’s red hair could be a red herring?

Stop it, you have no idea how much more we have to get through— even just about Blake!

Okay, what else is there about Blake?

He confirmed that he killed Stan. Stan was another one of Frank’s associates, who showed up dead, with his eyes burned out like Caspare’s.

If Stan died the way Caspare did, did Blake kill Caspare?

No, Blake was very adamant about this: no one has any idea who killed Caspare.

Sorry to backtrack— but should I know who Stan is?

No. Stan. But before he showed up dead, he had appeared fleetingly, in the background, of two scenes. Since he died, Frank has talked about him a bunch and even visited his widow’s house. Blake killed him because Stan found out what Blake was up to and tried to blackmail him.

And Stan was going to blackmail Blake because he found out he was working with Osip and Caspare to swindle Frank?

Not just that. He is also involved with the sex parties.

Oh! The sex parties! What is the deal with the sex parties?

While investigating the death of Caspare, Velcoro, Bezzerides, and Woodrugh discovered that he was deeply involved with orchestrating regular high-end sex parties, in which rich and powerful men wearing tuxedos do business and fornicate with drugged women. Blake was one of the organizers of these parties.

Who else was involved in organizing these parties?

One of the guys involved is Dr. Pitlor/Rick Springfield. He does plastic surgery on the women who attend to turn them from “8 to 10s.” Pitlor was also Caspare’s shrink and, it turns out, the therapist of Austin Chesani’s first wife, who killed herself because, in Pitlor’s words, she struggled with “some of the traditions of the Chessani patriarchy.” Additionally, in the ‘70s, Pitlor used to hang around with Austin Chessani and also Bezzerides’ dad, Eliot (David Morse) who, at the time, was running a commune called The Good People.

More important to the parties, however, is Tony Chessani, the mayor’s son. We first met Tony when Bezzerides and Woodrugh went to Mayor Chessani’s mansion and Tony explained that he puts on “parties” for a living. In passing in an early episode, Austin Chessani said Tony had serious psychological problems. In last night’s episode we learned that Tony isn’t wild about his father either: He’s been plotting to take over for him in Vinci.

Caspare and Tony Chessani, in particular, used the parties as a way to acquire blackmail material—photos, video—on all of their powerful guests.

Where is all that blackmail material?

Presumably it is on Caspare’s missing hard drive. In episode two, when Ray, on a tip from Frank, checked out Caspare’s second, secret apartment, he saw a video camera hooked up to a hard drive. A moment after spotting it, a person in a crow mask shot him with riot shells. When Ray woke up, the hard drive was gone.

Who has it?

Well, that’s the big question. When Blake denies that he, or anyone he works with, killed Caspare, he is also saying that neither he, Osip, Tony Chessani or Pitlor have the hard drive. Another person who doesn’t have the hard drive is Jacob McCandless (Jon Lindstrom) the president of Catalyst. After repeatedly ignoring Frank’s attempts to procure another parcel of land, McCandless told him he would give him five, if Frank found the hard drive.

So McCandless is presumably on that hard drive?

And he’s not the only one. At the party where Bezzerides murdered someone, she saw not only McCandless, but Osip, Attorney General Geldof (C.S. Lee) and Vinci Police Chief Holloway (Afemo Omilami). It even looked like the party was taking place at McCandless’s house because he seemed to have an office there.

I’m sorry, can you show me some pictures of these people?


(just click the link from here in because yes those picture really do help)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/08/03/true_detective_season_two_a_guide_to_the_plot_of_this_confusing_season.html


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