What really happened to the missing scientists, Annie K., and Navarro?
“Ifshewanted them, she would take them.
If not, their clothes were there for them, they said of the ice.
Jodie Foster in True Detective: Night Country.Michele K. Short/HBO
How did he escape?
ISSA LOPEZ:That’s exactly what happened.
That’s all he has.
And he’s asking to die, for her to let him die.
And so she’s going to give him that.
But another part of her thinks he deserves to die with whatever is outside, number one.
And number two, she needs the video and he’s willing to give it to her.
So he makes the video for her.
He cleans up a little, so he doesn’t look like he’s being tortured.
Should we believe the story the women told?
What happened to them out there after that?
We will never know.
Because maybe they just panicked into delirium induced by hypothermia.
Both work, but I’m not going to tell you.
And what about Annie’s tongue?
We are never told exactly who put it there.
It could be because of freezing or not, we don’t know.
So anyways, the tongue disappears.
And they also find themselves and each other out there.
I think that one goes because she feels the call of whatever is out there.
But that principle for her is not destructive.
Is this going to kill me?
And by instead of running away, running to it, she finds herself out there.
So Danvers goes out to say, hell no, I didn’t actually mean that.
Is that what took the scientists, their own guilt?
I don’t know.
What Danvers is carrying is the death of her child, which is killing her in life.
So she’s brought back to life, too.
And I thought after seeing this episode that was a perfect way to put it.
It’s absolutely true.
You die out there if you’re on your own, if you’re isolated.
So you have to come together.
And it is a love story, these two women.
And a process of “I see you” that they need to go through.
They need to see each other to then see themselves.
Was that real or was that more an imagination of some kind?
That’s also a free interpretation for each person watching the show.
It belongs to the audience.
For me as an audience member, Navarro is alive.
But it is true that no one ever leaves Ennis… or anywhere.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
