‘True Detective: Night Country’ Episode 3 Analysis: A Warning, Some Answers and More Questions

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Aramide Tinubu SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses plot points from Episode 3 of “True Detective: Night Country,” titled “Part 3.” In the second episode of “True Detective: Night Country,” Rose (Fiona Shaw), the Ennis resident who led the police to the corpsicle of scientists, warns Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) about getting involved with the investigation.

She says, “Maybe leave this one for someone else, Missy.” Unfortunately, Navarro did not heed Rose’s advice. Drawn to the case and determined to connect it with a six-year-old cold case, the death of Indigenous midwife and activist Annie Kowtok, Navarro has thrust herself headfirst into the inquest, even teaming back up with her arch nemesis, Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster), Ennis’ chief of police.

On the surface, the mystery standing at the center of “True Detective: Night Country” is the eight men who vanished from the local arctic research station in the fictional mining town of Ennis, Alaska.

Annie Kowtok’s tongue was left behind at the station, somehow perfectly preserved in the six years since her murder. In Episode 2, the audience learns that Annie had been carrying on a secret affair with one of the scientists, Raymond Clark (Owen McDonnell), the only man who wasn’t found among the pile of his frozen colleagues.