On the boat, Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) forces Geraci (Michael Harney) to watch the videotape depicting Marie Fontenot's rape and murder. Disturbed by the content, Geraci confesses that Sheriff Ted Childress was in charge of the investigation and then dropped the case. Cohle and Hart (Woody Harrelson) exit the boat and leave Geraci, telling him that they have incriminating evidence against him if anything happens to them. They also inform him that they have hired a hitman to kill him if they are arrested or murdered, and prove their point by having an unseen sniper shoot at Geraci's car. The sniper turns out to be Robert Doumain, owner of the bar where Cohle works whose son went missing in 1985. Afterwards, Cohle and Hart leave him and drive off.
