Maybe Tomorrow (True Detective)

In a dream sequence, Velcoro (Colin Farrell) talks with his father, Eddie (Fred Ward), a retired police officer, at Felicia's (Yara Martinez) bar. A man dressed as Conway Twitty sings "The Rose" on stage. Eddie reprimands his son for failing to show his "grit." When Velcoro asks where they are, Eddie tells him he does not know, and that Velcoro was there first.

In real life, Velcoro wakes up in Caspere's house with no major wounds from the bullets, as the shotgun was loaded with rubber-pelleted riot control police rounds. As he is tended to by medics, Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams) arrives and reprimands him for entering the scene without her. In the house, a webcam and a hard drive are reported to have been stolen.

Meanwhile, Semyon (Vince Vaughn) begins suffering erectile dysfunction during an IVF clinic visit, with his mind occupied by thoughts surrounding Caspere's death and the land deal. He later meets with Velcoro at Felicia's bar; Velcoro demands to know if anyone knew about what was going to happen at Caspere's house, implying that Semyon set up Velcoro's attack, but Semyon claims no knowledge. Semyon then tells Velcoro that he worked with Caspere for the past few years, but does not mention the land deal.

Bezzerides and Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) attempt to find a connection between Caspere and Mayor Chessani (Ritchie Coster), so they visit his Bel Air mansion. They meet his Slavic trophy wife, Veronica (Agnes Albright), who spends her days intoxicated. They also meet her moody stepdaughter, Betty (Emily Rios), and problematic stepson, Tony (Vinicius Zorin-Machado), a specialty event organizer. Nothing in the house provides Bezzerides and Woodrugh with any help. Chessani is angry about the encounter and threatens to remove them from the case.

Later, Bezzerides and Woodrugh find Caspere's safe deposit box, which includes articles of incorporation for several LLCs as well as blue diamonds. Back in Ventura County, Bezzerides' fling, Steve Mercer (Riley Smith), arrives at the station. Bezzerides breaks up with him and he angrily storms out.

Velcoro visits a doctor, who chastises him for his drug use and bad health habits, then asks if he truly wants to be alive. Later, Velcoro visits Eddie to give him marijuana, which helps him sleep. During their talk, Eddie mentions throwing his police badge in the garbage and talks about his encounters with Holloway (Afemo Omilami) and Burris (James Frain), lamenting the way the justice system has changed since his retirement. Velcoro salvages his father's badge from the trash and studies it.

Semyon visits Bart Sallis (Chet Grissom), a former associate and construction manager in Vinci, and forces Sallis to renege 25% of a former deal back to him every month. Later, Semyon is informed by Osip (Timothy V. Murphy) that he is leaving for Las Vegas amid the land deal crisis, angering him. After he leaves, he wonders if Osip had a role in Caspere's death. He is later informed that Stan, one of his associates, has been found dead. Upon inspecting the body, Semyon sees that Stan's eyes have been burned out.

Meanwhile, Woodrugh reconnects with an old friend from the private security firm Black Mountain, Miguel Gilb (Gabriel Luna), and they go to a Motocross race. As they exit, Glib begins to talk about their time in the war and implies a sexual relationship they had while serving. Woodrugh punches Glib, knocking him to the ground and leaving him. Unbeknownst to either of them, Dixon (W. Earl Brown) takes pictures of the encounter from the upper level of the stadium.

Tracing the Cadillac that possibly drove Caspere to the rest stop, Velcoro and Bezzerides visit a movie set, where a similar car was reported missing one week before Caspere's death. Velcoro and Bezzerides learn that because Caspere allowed the crew to film in Vinci, he received an associate producer credit and thus frequented the set. A set photographer recognizes a photo of Caspere and claims that Caspere and the film's director, Ashley Daison (Philip Moon), would frequently attend parties together. While on set, Velcoro and Bezzerides run into Caspere's assistant.

That night, Bezzerides and Velcoro drink at his house when Gena (Abigail Spencer) shows up. She says the police questioned her about Velcoro's actions and possible corruption, including the death of her assailant years prior. She offers to give him $10,000 to drop the custody battle and leave town, which he refuses.

Woodrugh goes through downtown Los Angeles and asks various prostitutes if they recognize Caspere, to no avail. He briefly sees a young man in an angel costume giving oral sex to an unseen individual. Later, a male prostitute recognizes the picture of Caspere and takes him to a strip club Caspere frequented named Lux Infinitum. In the strip club, another male prostitute suggests that Caspere was a voyeur, and that Caspere asked him to have sex in front of him with a European prostitute named Tascha. While in the club, Woodrough inadvertently runs into Semyon. Afterward, Semyon confronts Danny Santos (Pedro Miguel Arce) for failing to support him and brutally attacks him before removing his golden teeth.

Based on a tip, Bezzerides and Velcoro question a former movie production employee from the set but realize he is innocent. While questioning him, a masked person lights on fire the Cadillac that drove Caspere to the rest stop. They chase the masked man through a homeless encampment, but the man manages to evade them. As Bezzerides nears him on the highway, she narrowly avoids getting hit by a semi-truck as Velcoro pulls her out of the way. Afterward, he asks her about the evidence of corruption the state might have against him, but Bezzerides claims not to know anything.

In the final scene, Semyon returns home to find Jordan (Kelly Reilly) awake, who wants to reconcile after Semyon's incident at the IVF clinic. Semyon drops Santos' teeth in the garbage. She asks if they can talk, to which he replies, "Maybe tomorrow."

In June 2015, the episode's title was revealed as "Maybe Tomorrow" and it was announced that series creator Nic Pizzolatto had written the episode while Janus Metz had directed it. This was Pizzolatto's eleventh writing credit, and Metz's first directing credit.^[1]