True Detective - Season 3

Country	USA
Language	English
Channel	HBO
Genre	Crime Drama Mystery
Broadcast	2019
No. of Episodes	8

Main Cast
Character	Actor

Det. Wayne Hays	Mahershala Ali
Det. Roland West	Stephen Dorff
Amelia Reardon	Carmen Ejogo
Brett Woodward	Michael Greyeyes
Alan Jones	Jon Tenney
Tom Purcell	Scoot McNairy
Special Agent John Bowen	Michael Broderick

Season 3 of True Detective features Mahershala Ali as Wayne Hays and Stephen Dorff as his partner Roland West, two state police detectives from Arkansas investigating a macabre crime involving two missing children across three time periods (1980,1990 and 2015). Nic Pizzolato, who wrote all eight episodes of Season 1, scripted all eight episodes of Season 3, with David Milch and Graham Gordy assisting him in scripting two, and several episodes were directed by Jeremy Saulnier as well as by Pizzolato. Season 3 premiered on HBO on January 13, 2019.

The following weapons were used in Season 3 of the television series True Detective:

WARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS SPOILERS!

Pistols

Glock 17

Detective Henry Hays (Ray Fisher) is seen carrying a Glock 17 as his sidearm with the Arkansas State Police in 2015.

3rd Generation Glock 17 - 9x19mm.

Detective Henry Hays (Ray Fisher) is seen carrying a Glock 17 as his sidearm with the Arkansas State Police in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

Revolvers

Colt Python

Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) and other members of the Arkansas State Police are seen carrying a Colt Python as their sidearms in 1980.

Colt Python with 4" Barrel and factory wood grips - .357 Magnum

The revolver on the table in in "The Big Never" (S3E03).

At the left, Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) draws his revolver in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04).

The revolver on the table in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04).

Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) holds his Colt Python in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

The Colt Python is drawn by Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

At the right, the Colt Python is held by Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) in 2015 in Season 3's finale "Now Am Found" (S3E08).

Colt 1862 Navy

In "Hunters in the Dark" (S3E06), what appear to be two decorated Colt 1862 Navys are seen displayed on the desk of Harris James (Scott Shepherd).

Colt 1862 Navy - .36 caliber.

In "Hunters in the Dark" (S3E06), what appears to be a Colt 1862 Navy is displayed on a desk.

In "Hunters in the Dark" (S3E06), the Colt 1862 Navy is seen.

Smith & Wesson Model 10 M&P (Nickel)

What appears to be a Smith & Wesson Military & Police nickel revolver is pulled on Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes) in "The Big Never" (S3E03).

Smith & Wesson Model 10 "Military and Police" revolver - .38 Special

A Smith & Wesson M&P nickel revolver is pulled on Woodard in "The Big Never" (S3E03).

Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes) is threatened with a Smith & Wesson M&P nickel revolver in "The Big Never" (S3E03).

Smith & Wesson Model 13

Tom Purcell (Scoot McNairy) appears to use a Smith & Wesson Model 13 to threaten Dan O'Brien (Michael Graziadei) in "Hunters in the Dark" (S3E06).

Smith & Wesson Model 13 with 3" barrel - .357 Magnum

In "Hunters in the Dark" (S3E06), Tom Purcell (Scoot McNairy) holds the Smith & Wesson Model 13 on O'Brien.

In "Hunters in the Dark" (S3E06), Tom Purcell (Scoot McNairy) enters a room in the Hoyt residence armed with his Smith & Wesson Model 13.

Smith & Wesson Model 19 Snub

Detective Roland West (Stephen Dorff) of the Arkansas State Police carries a Smith & Wesson Model 19 as his sidearm in 1980.

Smith & Wesson Model 19 Snub Nose, Nickel - .357 Magnum

Detective Roland West (Stephen Dorff) aims the revolver at a fox in "The Great War and Modern Memory" (S3E01).

At the right, Detective Roland West (Stephen Dorff) draws his revolver in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04).

West draws his nickel snub Smith & Wesson Model 19 in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

At the left, the nickel snub Smith & Wesson Model 19 is held by Roland West (Stephen Dorff) in 2015 in Season 3's finale "Now Am Found" (S3E08).

Smith & Wesson Model 19

Special Agent John Bowen (Michael Broderick) of the FBI carries a 4" Smith & Wesson Model 19 as his sidearm in 1980 and uses it in the shootout in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

Smith & Wesson Model 19 Combat Magnum - .357 Magnum

Special Agent John Bowen fires his 4" Smith & Wesson Model 19 in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

Special Agent John Bowen goes down while holding his 4" Smith & Wesson Model 19 in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

Smith & Wesson Model 15

An ASP officer in 1980 is briefly seen armed with a Smith & Wesson Model 15 in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05). In "The Final Country" (S03E07), Detective Wayne Hays (Mahershala Ali) is seen using a Model 15 instead of his Colt Python in a continuity error.

Smith & Wesson Model 15 with factory target grips - .38 Special

An ASP officer in 1980 is briefly seen armed with a Smith & Wesson Model 15 in "If You Have Ghosts" (S3E05).

The Mode 15 aimed at Harris in "The Final Country" (S3E07).

Assault Rifles

M16

In "The Great War and Modern Memory", Hays and West inspect a photo of US soldiers in Vietnam with their M16 SP1 rifles. In "Now Am Found" (S3E08), it's seen with Hays while he remembers his time as a LRRP soldier in the Vietnam War.

M16 aka SP1 (flat "slab side receiver") with an A1 "birdcage" Flash hider, used to resemble the M16A1 in many Vietnam era movies. This version has a 20 round magazine - 5.56x45mm

Hays examines the photo in "The Great War and Modern Memory" (S3E01).

While in Vietnam, the M16 is slung across the back of Hays in Season 3's finale "Now Am Found" (S3E08).

AKM

In Hays' hallucination, NVA and VC soldiers are armed with AKM rifles in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04). In the same episode, Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes) pulls out an AKM when confronting some men in his home. (Note: if the battle in S3E04 happens in 1980, then the AKM must be some rare bring-back firearm that Woodard acquired as a Vietnam Veteran. No civilian models of the AKM were available to the American public until 1983. All other communist based firearms were individual bring backs until the importation restrictions on Combloc weapons was lifted for a few nations with special trade status in 1983 - most notably China and Yugoslavia. In 1983, Maadi of Egypt were able to import their own domestic versions of the AKM).

AKM - 7.62x39mm

In Hays' hallucination, NVA and VC soldiers are armed with AKM rifles in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04).

At the right, an NVA soldier holds an AKM rifle in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04).

Woodard pulls out an AKM rifle from his bag of weapons in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04).

Ruger Mini-14

Brett Woodard (Michael Greyeyes) pulls out a scoped Ruger Mini-14 from a bag of weapons in "The Hour and the Day" (S3E04). This is historically correct since the Mini-14 was introduced in 1973.