Talk a couple of blue Christmas. In “Part Four” of True Detective: Night Country, the residents of Ennis, Alaska have the worst Christmas ever, as Danvers loses “the corpsicle” to Anchorage, Hank will get stood up by his Russian girlfriend, and Navarro loses her final remaining member of the family. Still Watching hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy unpack every thing from the arrival of Otis Heiss to Rose’s Christmas feast for one. Plus, Kali Reis drops by the podcast to talk about taking over the function of Evangeline Navarro.
Of all the numerous horrible surprises this episode, Hank (John Hawkes) getting stood up by his mail-order bride after sending her cash was the least surprising. Despite nonetheless believing that Hank is by some means concerned within the season’s homicide plot, Murphy couldn’t assist however really feel unhealthy for the officer, who waited on the tarmac with a teddy bear in hand, solely to search out that his would-be girlfriend was a no-show. “I did feel really bad for Hank with him getting ghosted,” stated Murphy. “Everyone in this town’s getting ghosted in one way or another,” quipped Lawson.
Hank is, after all, not the one denizen of Ennis to endure a loss. After Danvers (Jodie Foster) discovers Navarro’s sister Julia (Aka Niviâna) in the course of an episode, Navarro and Julia agree that it’s time for her to verify into Ennis’s psychological well being facility, the Lighthouse. Although Julia checks in willingly, she rapidly decides to depart, sneaking out, stripping bare, and strolling into the icy ocean to her dying. The lack of Julia is devastating, however not essentially shocking given the way in which she was positioned within the collection. “We didn’t see things going well for Julia, and unfortunately we were actually more correct than I thought we were gonna be,” stated Lawson. Busis agreed, calling Julia “a Beth March ticking time bomb from the beginning… A sister that was having apocalyptic visions—you know she doesn’t get to episode six,” she added. “That’s not how it works.”
While Navarro might have had the worst Christmas Eve of anybody in Ennis, Danvers didn’t have a very cheery one both. Her stepdaughter Leah (Isabella LaBlanc) has abandoned her after their blowup final episode, and a lonely Danvers is hitting the bottle in addition to the case. Her obsession with Annie Okay. and the scientists’ murders leads her to power Peter (Finn Bennett) to work regardless of the vacation, creating an excellent larger rift between Peter and his spouse Kayla (Anna Lambe). Still, Danvers isn’t utterly alone on Christmas Eve—as a result of, as Murphy factors out, she “got zooted and drove on over to her other boyfriend’s house.” There, with Elf paused on the tv, we learn the way Danvers ended up in Ennis, Alaska: She was transferred there by Ted (Christopher Eccleston) after a tragic accident that led to the dying of her son, Holden.
One one that appears to be having a not-terrible Christmas is Rose (Fiona Shaw), who has ready a luxurious feast seemingly for one when Navarro knocks on her door. “She had a cheese plate,” famous Lawson. “Presumably that’s before the entrées.” Rose is ready to dispense each knowledge and care to a grieving Navarro, who’s afraid that she’s starting to expertise her now deceased sister Julia’s apocalyptic visions.
The episode ends with Navarro and Danvers looking for Raymond Clark, after discovering that Annie Okay.’s pink parka has been noticed within the city’s oil refractory. While Clark is nowhere to be discovered, they do discover the pink parka on Otis Heiss, a scientist who suffered the identical accidents because the Tsalal people and apparently has been dwelling within the oil refractory for years. “I do feel like as much as Otis’s arrival feels a bit convenient, I think that that is going to be the sort of the center thing around which a lot of things converge,” says Lawson. “We now have introduced the premise that is suggested by the show’s title, and we’re coming close to the place where Annie K. died—presumably the place where Clark currently still is.”