LOS ANGELES — Eighteen Dead in Vinci Bloodbath would be the approximate headline. And as grim as that sounds, it's laughable.  Sunday night's True Detective ended in a shootout that killed off something like seven cops, at least as many civilian bystanders and four gang members (with possibly more victims in a random fiery explosion).  But, SPOILER ALERT, exactly zero True Detectives were killed in this raid gone haywire.  SEE ALSO: 'True Detective' Episode 3: We have another boogeyman  It was a coincidence too far, just the latest in a sophomore season for the HBO cop anthology full of connections and concurrences that are starting to come apart at the seams. Frankly, I don't even know what got us here — this episode completely lost me about midway through, well before they told us who the Task Force's merry raiders were even going after and why, so by the time the raid started, I was already lost.  All I know is, as the group of 10 cops rolled up on the building in this nightmare of warehouses and factories they call Vinci, this guy opened fire with an AK-47 from a third-story window:  Then a bunch of chaotic things happened:  Two nameless cops go down immediately; everyone else takes cover.  Velcoro, Bezzerides and Woodrugh start returning fire.  For no apparent reason, there is a huge, fiery explosion on the top floor.  The shooter has a neverending supply of bullets, apparently, because he has fired something like 100 rounds.  Teague Dixon, the unofficial fifth True Detective, gets his head splashed. He's the third dead cop.  Velcoro runs for the building while Woodrugh covers him.  Woodrugh hits the gunman in the head!  Bezzerides runs through the building, where people are still milling around despite that THERE IS A MASSIVE GUNFIGHT GOING ON OUTSIDE.  Bezzerides is now chasing an SUV on foot, and somehow is keeping up while a fresh set of thugs is shooting at her. She's as fast as a car!  The SUV comes upon a protest, plowing through one civilian, then into a city bus.  Three thugs with automatic weapons pile out of the SUV and start shooting at both the cops and the protesters. At least three civilians are killed.  Velcoro and Woodrugh are now on the scene, and everyone's just shooting wildly.  Velcoro hits the thug with the do-rag.  One of the nameless cops actually shoots a civilian. Oops!  One of the thugs unloads two Uzi clips on the bus; people inside are killed.  The bus driver gets it in the crossfire. Another innocent, killed.  Bezzerides' partner (and former love interest, we just learned) gets a bullet in the face, she sees the whole thing.  Bezzerides is out of bullets and is prepared to use her knife as one of the thugs approaches.  Woodrugh hits the machine-gunning thug, saving Bezzerides. That's two kills for the state trooper!  The last remaining thug takes a hostage off the bus, gun pointed at his head, as Velcoro and Woodrugh draw on him.  Final Thug is yelling — and then shoots the hostage! Velcoro and Woodrugh fill him with bullets, and it's over.  The only people left alive are Velcoro, Woodrugh and Bezzerides. Literally every other person involved in this — and several who were not — are dead.  There are bodies, like, everywhere.  Velcoro, Woodrugh and Bezzerides stand there and look at each other for what feels like an eternity.  Speaking of an eternity, the shootout lasted just over eight minutes — and backup cops are now arriving. That is a poor response time, fellas, do better next time. Fade to black.  Some other stuff happened in this episode, too, but it's barely tracking for me anymore. And that ending, which was clearly meant as a major dramatic action set-piece, was ridiculous, too chaotic to follow, and ended all too conveniently.  This season of True Detective in a nutshell.  Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.
"True Detective" Season 2 is starting to go off the rails -- and the Episode 4 ending was one coincidence too far.