All the characters are trying to find their way out with black maps as we’re seeing the end of DaVinci’s beginning. Bez and Velcoro accept the circle, Frank tries to undo it, and Woodrugh attempts to outrun it.

New evidence emerges from the stolen documents that link Catalyst and McCandless to Osip. Velcoro directs the link to Davis, but he finds her in a cold motionless revelation marked by blood, the predictable fate of everything and all that tries to be an anthesis to what will always be. DaVinci is a derelict child, like Velcoro (Collin Farell), Bez (Rachel McAdams), and Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch). But can they, will they, turn something bad into good?

Bez finally has Vera and after her detox urges her to be a witness against the conspiracy. But Vera is irreparable drugged out of any independent thought and self-awareness as she believes she was gifted the good life. As Bez lectures her about life being more than prostitution, Vera says, “Everything is fucking.” Thus, as Velcoro is pinned for Davis’s murder and Bez targeted for slicing up the security guard and Vera utterly oblivious to being unfucked, Bez and Velcoro await the inevitable stranded in a motel room. But when Bez opens up to Velcoro and says he’s not a bad man, Velcoro declares, “Yes, I am.”

Frank beats the truth out of Blake as he spits out that Frank is being sidelined by Catalyst and Osip and that Tony will be inserted as a puppet mayor usurping his father. Also, to keep his word to Velcoro, he tries to squeeze out who raped Velcoro’s wife to no avail. Frank lays his cards out on the table to Jordan as he devises a getaway plan with his Middle Eastern business contingent. Osip faces Frank in person with utilitarian motives offering Frank a salaried position to run the clubs. Frank feigns humility but as he faces Osip’s back, he bags his cash holdings and sets decades of his life in flames including the casino and the new-ventured club.

Caspere is discovered to have been a former cop and with all the evidence culled together the task force pieces together a modus operandi: that Holloway, Burris, Dixon, and Caspere, all cops, used the diamonds and bought their way into DaVinci’s manifold political divinity. And

Laura, the orphaned child during the ‘92 riots, trailed Caspere and found the ultimate justice in his death.

 But Black Maps and Motel Rooms belongs to Woodrugh this time. He receives text messages with revealing pictures of his homosexual affair and follows the bait into a sabotage operation designed with his former black ops outfit that now works security for Catalyst. Collared in, he’s now met by Holloway demanding compliance, but Woodrugh finagles his way out. Woodrugh’s escape is the best sequence of scenes as he winds around subterranean corridors and interconnecting tracks with a will that seems so facile under DaVinci’s black eye. Droning and haunting synthesizer music fills the restricted concrete walls with an infinite pause awaiting Woodrugh, one that he never breaks free from. In the motel room, his wife Emily watches a classic movie with a mother holding a baby as Woodrugh’s mother lies asleep.

The singular providence of each character aligns like a Venn diagram. Their concentric flat circles will continue spin into the next and final episode when we’ll discover if good can come from the womb of bad.

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For prior Silver Screen Riot True Detective coverage, find archive reviews below:

TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 1 Review “The Western Book of the Dead”
TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 2 Review “Night Finds You”
TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 3 Review “Maybe Tomorrow”
TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 4 Review “Down Will Come”
TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 5 Review “Other Lives”
TRUE DETECTIVE Season 2 Episode 6 Review “Church in Ruins”

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