--- title: True Detective Season 2 Plot Summary: What We Know Now description: New details about the highly anticipated second season, returning June 21 canonical: https://time.com/3915904/true-detective-season-2-plot-summary/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-10T14:57:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:04:59.269Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Extended Plot Summary for the New 'True Detective' Season og:description: New details about the hit show, which returns June 21. og:url: https://time.com/3915904/true-detective-season-2-plot-summary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b9cd7c8d5525486/69885174f887dc021de909ae/true-detective2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: true-detective2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Extended Plot Summary for the New 'True Detective' Season twitter:description: New details about the hit show, which returns June 21. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b9cd7c8d5525486/69885174f887dc021de909ae/true-detective2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's an Extended Plot Summary for the New _True Detective_ Season  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 10, 2015 2:57 PM UTC  Taylor Kitsch stars in season 2 of True Detective Taylor Kitsch stars in season 2 of True DetectiveHBO  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 10, 2015 2:57 PM UTC Details about the new season of HBO’s _True Detective_ have been trickling in ever so slowly, with one cryptic teaser after another giving the show a reputation for secrecy. Now with the release of a more detailed plot summary and some episode titles, fans have a slightly better idea of what to expect when the show returns for an eight-episode season on June 21\. We already know that the central mystery concerns a California city manager who’s brutally murdered in what looks like an Occult ritual during negotiations for a game-changing transportation deal. But here’s more info on the _living_ characters: --- > “” --- If that doesn’t sound dark, just look at the episode titles — the season opener is called “The Western Book of the Dead” and the second is “Night Finds You.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3915904/true-detective-season-2-plot-summary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3915904/true-detective-season-2-plot-summary/"},"headline":"Here's an Extended Plot Summary for the New True Detective Season","datePublished":"2015-06-10T14:57:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:04:59.269Z","description":"New details about the highly anticipated second season, returning June 21","url":"https://time.com/3915904/true-detective-season-2-plot-summary/","keywords":["Television","HBO","True Detective"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b9cd7c8d5525486/69885174f887dc021de909ae/true-detective2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b9cd7c8d5525486/69885174f887dc021de909ae/true-detective2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"true-detective2","caption":"Taylor Kitsch stars in season 2 of True Detective","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3915904/true-detective-season-2-plot-summary/","name":"Here's an Extended Plot Summary for the New True Detective Season"}}]}] ```