Part 3 (True Detective)

Seven years prior, Navarro (Kali Reis) attempts to arrest Anne for trespassing and destruction of property at the Silver Sky mining factory. However, she allows Anne to continue with her work when the building is revealed to be a makeshift birthing clinic. After a tense delivery, in which Navarro takes part, Anne offers herself up for arrest.

In the present day, Hank (John Hawkes) enlists local hunters to aid in the search for Clark, despite Navarro's hope to take Clark in alive. Danvers (Jodie Foster) is informed that Anders Lund, the Tsalal worker that authorities found alive, had his remaining limb amputated. When Peter (Finn Bennett) once again asks about her past with Navarro, Danvers reveals their final case together involved a man named William Wheeler, a criminal with a violent past who assaulted his girlfriend and killed her. Though Danvers tells Peter that Wheeler committed suicide, a flashback suggests that Danvers and/or Navarro shot and killed Wheeler after arriving on the scene. Despite their past, Danvers has Navarro formally brought into the investigation. Navarro has strange visions while out on the ice during the hunt for Clark.

At the station, Danvers and Navarro investigate the evidence found in Clark's trailer. After finding blue hair dye on a picture of Anne, they question Anne's hairdresser and friend, Susan. She reveals that Anne accompanied her to Tsalal, where Anne bonded with Clark and asked for their relationship to be kept secret. Susan also dated a Tsalal member named Oliver Tagaq, whose name is not mentioned in the company records but resigned right before Anne's death. Susan informs Danvers and Navarro that she told Hank about Anne's relationship with Clark, leading to them confronting Hank over his negligence. Danvers fights with Leah (Isabella Star LaBlanc) after Leah attends an anti-mining rally, while Navarro finds Julia (Aka Niviâna) in the outskirts of the city after a colleague saw her in the midst of a breakdown.

Peter asks his cousin Vince (Vilhelm Neto), a veterinarian, to inspect the bodies. Vince says the six researchers appear to have died before freezing, suggesting fear-induced cardiac arrest. Danvers and Navarro visit Oliver (Lance Kramer) at a nomad camp, but he refuses to cooperate and threatens them with a shotgun after learning of the scientists' deaths. They return to Ennis when they receive word that Lund has awakened. Blind and wailing in fear, he says that they "woke her" and that she hunted them in the dark, claiming she is still there before the nurse sedates him. When Danvers leaves to break up a fight in the hallway, a heavily sedated Lund suddenly rises and addresses Navarro in a demonic voice. Lund says that her mother is waiting for her, and he salutes Navarro before suffering a fatal seizure. Peter tells Danvers and Navarro that he has unlocked Anne's cellphone, containing a video that shows a distraught Anne in an icy cave. Anne says she has found something before she is grabbed by an unseen force and screams.

The episode was written by executive producers Issa López and Alan Page Arriaga, from a story by López, and directed by López. This marked López's third writing credit, Arriaga's first writing credit, and López's third directing credit.^[1]

López felt that it would work better for the story in slowly revealing the past of Danvers and Navarro, particularly in the cases of Anne and William Wheeler. She explained, "There was something yummy about not knowing the past, not seeing it and then discovering it slowly. What really happened there? What's the real story?"^[2] She said that the opening scene went through six different versions before shooting them, also adding "Then in the edit, we discovered that if we show this but don’t show this, and don't reveal this until the end... really, we were playing so much throughout [production]. There were so many ways to decide how much information you keep and how much information you give. It was a luxury that I was able to have because we stuck to the present. It was the right choice."^[2]

For the scene where Lund speaks with Navarro, Kali Reis commented on the prosthetics, "The special effects team, they just did such a great job. Like I knew he didn't have things missing and he wasn't frostbitten, but you could picture how it would smell if somebody had been in the hospital. It was so creepy."^[3]