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COHLE: You're gonna lose a kneecap if I got to ask you again.
Take it out of the bag and put it in the machine.
COHLE: Don't look at me.
Look at the TV.
GERACI: Oh, Jesus Christ.
Why are you showing me this?!
[Geraci screams]
[Exhales sharply]
That little girl is the one you said went to see her daddy.
Marie Fontenot, circa 1990.
I took a m-missing juvenile report.
[Gulps]
And when I went back to follow up on it,
the file said, "Report made in error."
I never wrote that.
So I marched it right in to the sheriff, Ted Childress.
He's dead now.
He did it.
What'd the sheriff say?
He said he'd changed it,
that he knew the mother and the father,
the aunt and the uncle.
It was a niece once removed from him or somethin'.
It was the chain of command.
No reason to change it.
I just follow what the big man says.
It's
how this all works.
I I tried to get back with the mother.
I tried to get back with her.
She was gone! She split!
The file was gone!
Nobody said a word!
Later that year, I was in State CID, on Ted's recommendation!
Nobody ever gave me a reason to second-guess it!
It's chain of command!
Right?
What do you think?
I don't think he's lying
as far as he knows.
As far as I know?
What the *** is with you, man?!
Might be a whole lot safer
if we staged something, Marty
sent the Maserati over the guardrail.
[Whistling same tune]