![]() ![]() The reasons against suspecting Hank are twofold: He gives off the worst energy of anyone in the premiere, making him almost too obvious of a suspect. Hank definitely gives off some anti-vaxxer, climate-change-is-a-myth vibes. As for the scientists, they were researching climate change. After all, he did raise a child in Ennis-if he understands the value of the mine to their home, maybe he’d go out of his way to protect it. He tried to stop Danvers from calling in a full-fledged search party out of fear of upsetting the families in case the missing scientists were actually out on some “geek expedition.” Hank was also adamant he didn’t have the old Annie case files at his house, yet he did, and Danvers had to ask Pete to sneak the box out of his dad’s place just to keep the work going.Ĭould Hank have hated Annie for protesting the mine? As I mentioned earlier, cops were after her because of her active demonstrations. He was quick to call out that the ham on the sandwich was fresh, but he didn’t notice the runny mayo. He also was of no help when Danvers and his son hunted down clues at the Tsalal research center. So let’s start connecting some of the dots. That “something else” feels important, as do other scattered moments throughout the episode-Danvers’s interactions with a 15-year-old girl who lives with her but isn’t her child the flashbacks Danvers has when stepping on the icy road while arresting our drunk-tanker the dead guy without shoes whom Rose Aguineau (Fiona Shaw) is following without question and, oh yeah, the one-eyed polar bear. Her brother, Ryan, recalls telling her, “If you kill the mine, you kill Ennis.” We also know Tsalal was funded by a non-governmental organization and, well, something else-Pete is trying to explain when he and Danvers are interrupted by a drunk lady screaming in the station’s jail. ![]() We know the town and even Ennis cops were out to get Annie. What does all of that tell us? A lot, actually. There’s a lot of TV out there. We want to help: Every week, we’ll tell you the best and most urgent shows to stream so you can stay on top of the ever-expanding heap of Peak TV. ![]() The connection to Danvers’s case at the research lab? Danvers knows the eight missing scientists from the Tsalal facility are all men because Pete read each of their names off of one of the facility computers like he was announcing the starting five of an NBA team at the arena. Navarro found her brutally murdered with 32 stab wounds and her tongue removed, but Navarro was “bounced off the case” and is now (very classically) a former detective turned state trooper with a haunted past. The cold case involves a Native woman, Annie Masu Kowtok, who had a lot of enemies because she protested the local mine-a massive economy driver in small-town Ennis. It all signals that the station has been empty for at least two days.ĭanvers quickly registers that the tongue might be related to an older, unsolved case from years back, on which Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) still has a deep fixation. Danvers also calls out the odor of the wet clothes in the washer she knows the syrupy mayo on a leftover sandwich-not the cold cuts themselves-is a key piece of evidence. She’s also the only one able to tell that the tongue on the floor is at least two days old and that it belongs to a Native woman, recognizable by the marks left by a fishing wire. Danvers is the only one of the three who can manage to shut off an on-loop DVD of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Hank’s son and Danvers’s protégé, Pete (Finn Bennett), is also there, already in the midst of compiling research. She and Hank Prior (John Hawkes) arrive at the empty Tsalal Arctic Research Station to assess the scene after a delivery driver notifies the police in Ennis, Alaska, about a severed tongue on the floor. What we do know is that Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) is already deep in her bag. So, yeah, I hate to be anticlimactic, but this won’t be an easy case to solve. Well, let’s just take a general stock of what’s going on here: Caribou are jumping off cliffs to their deaths a woman is hanging out with barefoot dead people in the freezing snow a polar bear with one eye is roaming the streets a rogue severed tongue is connecting cases past and present and scientists are frozen solid with their mouths still wide open from screaming. We’re in Night Country now, and we’ll be following along each week to try to piece together, with the help of police chief Liz Danvers and detective Evangeline Navarro, who perpetrated those gruesome crimes in Ennis, Alaska. After four years away, True Detective returns for a new season with a sinistrous subtitle. ![]()
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