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For the past six weeks , the heroes ofTrue Detective : Night Countryhave feverishly investigated two ongoing mysteries : The late deaths of almost the entire scientific team of the Tsalal Research Station and the old age - old , roughshod execution of Annie Kowtok ( Nivi Pedersen ) .
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In its last instalment , detectives Liz Danvers ( Jodie Foster ) and Evangeline Navarro ( Kali Reis ) end up trapped at Tsalal in the center of a blizzard and experience more than a few odd things there . At the end of it all , though , Liz and Navarro discover precisely what happened to both Annie K. and the seemingly harmless scientist of Tsalal Research Station .
Who killed Annie Kowtok?
After searching through the Methedrine caves around Ennis , Alaska ( i.e. , the Night Country ) , Navarro and Liz discover that they lead back to an belowground lab beneath the Tsalal Research Station . They in the end apprehend Annie K. ’s former young man , Raymond Clark ( Owen McDonnell ) , who had been on the Q.T. hiding off - and - on in Tsalal and its underground research lab ever since his fellow scientists choke . The duo hold fast him to a chair and requirement that he tell them what happened to Annie K. and what go on the night that Tslala ’s scientist were take out to the ice .
In a fit of craze , she loudly destroyed all of the stuff they ’d pile up , which resulted in her being caught and round by Anders Lund ( Þorsteinn Bachmann ) , who jab her multiple metre with a star - pointed puppet from the lab . While Clark briefly tried to save Annie , he eventually yield , watched Lund and the eternal rest of Tsalal ’s scientist brutally assault her , and then ultimately killed her himself . In the wake of their slaying , the scientists asked Silver Sky to clean up their mess for them . In response , Silver Sky sent the late , definitely - not - great Hank Prior ( John Hawkes ) to relocate Annie ’s body .
Who killed the Tsalal scientists?
Raymond Clark believe that his fellow scientists were killed by the spirit of the Night Country itself . He is n’t correct , though . After Navarro and Liz key out a distinctive handprint on the hatching that leads down to the Tsalal hole-and-corner lab , they realise that Blair Hartman ( Kathryn Wilder ) , the woman whom Navarro helped protect from her abusive pardner inNight Country‘s first sequence , may know more about what happened to the place ’s scientist than she ’s let on . When they visit her home , they come face - to - face with not only Blair but also her tearing guardian and co - worker , Bee ( Diane E. Benson ) .
In her dining room , Bee excuse that she find Tsalal ’s belowground lab while she was clean house the place one daylight . When she pass down to inquire , she observe tools able of making the same puncture mark that were found on Annie ’s body . realise that the Tsalal scientists must have had something to do with Annie ’s murder , she and many of Ennis ’ other distaff cleaners and blue - collar worker attacked the place . In a series of flashbacks , we see Bee , Blair , and many of the other woman who have been present in the background of so many scene throughoutNight Countryshut off Tsalal ’s power and load its scientists into the back of a shipping truck at gunpoint .
Bee reveals that it was she and her co - prole who forced the Tsalal humanity to take off their apparel and walk into the icescape surround Ennis . When the man did n’t survive , she surmised that the Night Countrydidwant to take them for what they did to Annie . Liz , in reply to hearing all this , announce that she will be publicly sticking to Ted Connelly ’s ( Christopher Eccleston ) chronicle that the Tsalal scientist were pour down in a freak slab avalanche — free Bee , Blair , and their cobalt - conspirators of any suspicion . When Navarro then asks Bee whether she left Annie ’s severed tongue at Tsalal for the police force to find , she answer that she did n’t . It ’s a small moment , but one that result get to the possibleness that something supernatural really did have an interest in making Navarro and Liz restart their investigation into Annie ’s execution .
What happens to Liz and Navarro?
During their impromptu stop at Tsalal , Liz and Navarro solve the two whodunit that have been chivvy them all season and experience bit of unexpected emotional catharsis as well . Navarro reaches out through her supernatural visions and follow into link with a spirit that seems to volunteer her , more than anything else , the peace that she ’s searched for her entire life . Liz , meanwhile , protrude to come to terms with her son ’s demise yr prior after Navarro gives her a message from his wraith .
In theNight Countryfinale ’s epilogue , viewers learn that Hank ’s body was never witness and that Navarro leave the Ennis police strength and the public eye entirely after she and Liz solved their Tsalal and Annie K. face . When she did , she bequeath Liz a recorded confession by Clark detailing all the damage Tsalal and Silver Sky ’s mine have done to Ennis , which Liz leak to the public . The mine was shut down presently afterward , and a serial of ready shot hint that not only are Peter Prior ’s ( Finn Bennett ) relationships with his wife and son actually cure in the month after their family unit was nearly torn apart , but that Liz ’s adherence with her stepdaughter , Leah ( Isabella LaBlanc ) , has also begun to improve .
True Detective : Night Countrythen finish with Liz responding to questions about Navarro ’s disappearance by comment , “ This is Ennis . No one ever really leaves . ” Her remark is accompany by a snap of her and Navarro enjoying a subdued moment together on a lake . The image bringsNight Country , like so manyTrue Detectiveseasons before it , back one last sentence to the relationship at the gist of its chronicle . Even more significantly , the season ’s conclusion show that even the darkest periods of one ’s lifespan can be make it , so long as they ’re unforced to truly face both themself and their yesteryear .
unfeigned Detective : Night Countryepisodes 1 - 6 are streaming now on Max .
