Review: True Detective: Night Country, "Part 3" | Season 4, Episode 3
"Don't you ever wanna disappear?"
Poor officer Navarro is not having a very good time as of late. Her sister seems to be getting worse, to the point where she’s screaming and running off into the night—not unlike the way their mom’s last episode began. The cop also falls and hits her head on the ice this week, knocking herself out for an unsettling vision of a small child, pleading, “Get my mommy.” She’s continually butting heads with Danvers, gets a shotgun pointed at her by a suspicious Iñupiat man… and on top of all that, she learns that Annie’s murder—the event she still sees as a turning point where her life went off track—looks to have been buried by former chief Hank Prior. (Prior, the former chief; I just got that.) He took her off the case, neglected key info, and essentially sided with—as Danvers notes—the half of the town who wanted that woman dead.
Still, you can’t argue with results, and “Part 3” of Night Country has significant ones, mostly thanks to Navarro, Pete, and some old…