Frank Semyon

Frank Semyon was a career criminal and "entrepreneur." He is a main character in the second season of True Detective. Frank has a team of closest associates which consists - Blake, Nails, Stan and Ivar.

Semyon is a criminal and "entrepreneur" in danger of losing his life's work, while his wife and closest ally struggles with his choices and her own. A bizarre murder brings Semyon together with three law-enforcement officers. Each of them must navigate a web of conspiracy and betrayal in the scorched landscapes of California.
It is known that Frank spent his childhood in Chicago. His father used to lock Frank in the basement while he went on a bender. It usually lasted one night and he thought that his father was doing this to keep him safe. One time, when he was barely six, he was locked in the basement for five days because his father got arrested. On the third day, the bulb popped out and he was left in pitch-black darkness, then rats came out and started chewing his fingers. A severly frightened Frank grabbed a rat and started smashing it till nothing but a bloody mess was left out of it. After that he spent two more days in darkness till his father let him out of basement.
Since that incident, Frank always wonders what if he's still in that basement and what if he really died there and everything around him is only a dream.