SPOILER ALERT: This text discusses plot factors from Episode 3 of “True Detective: Night time Nation,” titled “Half 3.”

Within the second episode of “True Detective: Night time Nation,” Rose (Fiona Shaw), the Ennis resident who led the police to the corpsicle of scientists, warns Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) about getting concerned with the investigation. She says, “Possibly go away this one for another person, Missy.” Sadly, Navarro didn’t heed Rose’s recommendation. Drawn to the case and decided to attach it with a six-year-old chilly case, the dying of Indigenous midwife and activist Annie Kowtok, Navarro has thrust herself headfirst into the inquest, even teaming again up along with her arch nemesis, Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster), Ennis’ chief of police. 

On the floor, the thriller standing on the heart of “True Detective: Night time Nation” is the eight males who vanished from the native arctic analysis station within the fictional mining city of Ennis, Alaska. Annie Kowtok’s tongue was left behind on the station, one way or the other completely preserved within the six years since her homicide. In Episode 2, the viewers learns that Annie had been carrying on a secret affair with one of many scientists, Raymond Clark (Owen McDonnell), the one man who wasn’t discovered among the many pile of his frozen colleagues.

Nevertheless, Episode 3 has confirmed that now we have but to scratch the floor of this thriller. Half 3 untangles a few of the rigidity from Liz and Navarro’s pasts, whereas unveiling a religious ingredient of this case that appears immediately related to Ennis’ historical past and Navarro’s household lineage. 

Some solutions and extra questions from Episode 3:

The third chapter of “True Detective: Night time Nation” opens previously. Navarro goes to arrest Annie for trespassing within the mine. On her quest, she walks right into a birthing heart for Indigenous girls, disrupting a delivery. It’s a harrowing expertise for Navarro, primarily as a result of it takes a while for Annie to get the new child child respiratory. Nevertheless, it expands the viewer’s consciousness of Annie’s work. The mine and its situations are wreaking havoc on Ennis’ Indigenous inhabitants: Many residents have black water coming by way of their pipes, and there may be an rising variety of stillbirths among the many girls. 

Within the current, on the fifth day of evening, Capt. Hank Prior (John Hawkes), who has already displayed his violent nature, has gone rogue. He’s positioned himself in command of the police job drive trying to find Clark, the lacking scientist. Nevertheless, in typical Hank trend, he’s recruited his red-neck gun-slinging civilian buddies for a full-blown manhunt. 

In the meantime, Navarro could also be expert at hiding issues about herself, however Liz is only a liar. When Hank’s son, police officer Peter Prior (Finn Bennett), questions the strain between her and Navarro, Liz tells him in regards to the final case they labored on collectively earlier than Navarro was pressured to switch to the troopers. It was a homicide/suicide, and Liz tells Peter that each the sufferer and the perpetrator, who had a historical past of home violence, had been lifeless when she and Navarro arrived on the scene. Nevertheless, a flashback proves that’s a lie. Why is Liz dedicated to this false narrative, and what truly occurred to fracture her and Navarro’s working relationship? Later within the episode, Peter asks his father about Navarro and Liz, however Hank deflects. 

Compelled to work collectively on this case, the ragtag legislation enforcement workforce learns extra about Annie and Clark’s relationship from Susan, an area hairstylist who explains that she launched the pair. Susan explains that Annie was decided to maintain the connection a secret, however she’s not sure why. We additionally be taught that the swirl image Annie and Clark sported as tattoos, the identical one discovered on one of many frozen scientists’ foreheads, is an emblem that Annie started dreaming about as a teen. 

From her interrogation of Susan, Navarro learns two important issues. First, Hank has at all times identified about Annie and Clark’s relationship, however his misogyny and racism prevented him from reporting it. Second, another person on the science station Tsalal knew about Annie and Clark. Susan reveals that she dated the tools engineer, Oliver Tagaq, however he vanished proper earlier than Annie’s dying. (He’s additionally probably the daddy of Susan’s younger daughter.)

Throughout this episode, extra of Navarro’s previous involves gentle. Her mom, who we’ve seen beforehand in flashbacks, handled a psychological sickness just like her sister, Jules’ (Aka Niviâna). Born and raised in Ennis, Navarro’s mom moved to Boston at 15 and received caught up with Navarro’s abusive/alcoholic father. Although she ultimately escaped the connection, fleeing again to Ennis along with her ladies, she was later killed. Like Annie, the case was by no means solved. Was her mom’s homicide the rationale Navarro turned a cop? 

It’s vital to notice that there’s a lot of racial rigidity in Ennis. Hank is overtly hostile towards the Indigenous inhabitants, and Liz is livid that her stepdaughter Leah (Isabella Star LaBlanc) is honoring her tradition with a brief face tattoo. On this episode, Liz forces Leah to clean it off. It’s a puzzling overreaction, particularly coming from a white girl. Is it as a result of this is identical face tattoo that Annie had? 

One of many greatest obstacles with this case for Liz and her workforce has been that they don’t have the assets to dig deeper. Although they wished to fly in a forensic skilled, a snowstorm pressured Peter to ask his veterinarian cousin to look at the corpsicle as a substitute. The vet determines that the lads died earlier than they froze and that they probably died of cardiac arrests introduced on by sheer terror. 

Navarro and Liz ultimately observe down former tools engineer Oliver Tagaq, who lives in a nomad camp. They inform him that the entire scientists he labored with are lifeless. He’s shocked and disturbed by this information, however he additionally particularly asks about Anders Lund (Þorsteinn Bachmann), the director and founding father of the Tsalal analysis station by identify. Why?

Lund is the only surviving scientist, other than Clark. Discovered among the many corpsicle, Lund has been in a medically induced coma after coping with a number of amputations, gangrene and the lack of his eyesight. On this episode, Liz and Navarro go to him within the hospital. In between his hellish screams, he tells them. “We woke her, and now she’s on the market on the ice. She got here for us in the dead of night.”

For the reason that first episode, there have been whispers that “She is awake.” However who’s she? 

What he says subsequent is a warning particularly for Navarro.

The warning:

Although it’s not clear the way it all connects simply but, “True Detective: Night time Nation” Half 3 has proven that every one of this thriller, magic and terror is immediately associated to Navarro in a roundabout way. Initially of the episode, she tells Liz that she usually thinks of disappearing, simply going. Might this be some foreshadowing? 

When she speaks to her lover, Ennis’ bar/diner proprietor, Eddie Qavvik (Joel D. Montgrand), Navarro explains that her mom by no means gave her an Indigenous identify earlier than she vanished. This lack of connection nonetheless pains her, particularly after chatting with Oliver, who tells her she’s forgotten who she is. Along with particulars about her mom, after falling on the ice, Navarro sees a imaginative and prescient of a kid wearing pajamas and clutching a stuffed polar bear. It’s a model of the one-eyed polar bear she’s seen on the town and the identical stuffed bear Liz had tucked away in a field in her dwelling. Furthermore, throughout this episode, Navarro’s sister Jules has an outburst at work the place she begins screaming and saying, “Somebody is coming.” Who might this somebody be? Is it the identical “she” that the scientists awakened? 

All of this brings us to the ultimate scenes of the episode. When Lund tells Liz and Navarro, “We woke her up,” Navarro is visibly disturbed. She clearly is aware of one thing we don’t. What does Navarro know? Later, when Liz runs out of Lund’s room to cope with chaos within the hospital ready space, a sedated Lund sits up from his mattress, pointing and talking on to Navarro. He says, “Howdy, Evangeline, your mom is ready for you. She says, ‘Howdy.’” After issuing the warning, Lund lays again down and seemingly dies. 

Within the closing scene from Half 3, having hacked into Annie’s cellphone, which was present in Clark’s trailer, Navarro and Liz watch a video of Annie in what seems to be an ice cave. Within the video, she whispers, “I discovered it. If something occurs to me…” Annie emits a blood-curdling scream earlier than she will be able to end her sentence, successfully ending the episode.

What did Annie see? And what terrified her a lot that she started screaming into the evening? Additionally, if she was taken and killed simply after this video, how did the cellphone get again to Clark’s trailer? Did Clark kill Annie? 

Greater than that, why is everybody so afraid?