Then watch the show. It is great entertainment.

We are talking about a screenplay for a TV show, not a thesis. Rust's character was relating ideas that he read in those books he kept in his apartment. What did you expect? Footnotes running along the bottom of your screen?

I've never read Thomas Ligotti's work, but how do the accusers know that Ligotti's work was totally original? Nothing is really new any more.
Besides, the dialog between the detectives was merely a device to create tension between their characters. It really didn't have anything to do with breaking the case. What…