The third season of True Detective will directly link back to the first in the very next episode.
Keen-eyed fans have noticed that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson’s characters, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, will crop up in the next episode – on a laptop screen.
In episode two of the new season, viewers saw documentary producer Elisa Montgomery (Sarah Gadon) interview the 70-year-old Wayne Hays (Ali) about the case he worked on 35 years before.
The stuff in season one was based on the same sort of paedophilia stories that are mentioned by the documentary crew.