The penultimate episode of the Jodie Foster-starring Max series ties up some loose ends in dramatic (and bloody) fashion.
Midway through our penultimate installment, the combined investigation of Annie K’s murder and the death of the Tsalal scientists seems to grind to a halt. The forensics team in Anchorage attributes the Tsalal deaths to a “weather event.” And if Ted Connelly isn’t in the pocket of Silver Sky Mining, he’s at least political enough to decide that law-enforcement is not well-served angering big business just to solve the years-old murder of a single Native woman.
That should be that, right? A wholly earthbound explanation for the frozen scientists, and pressure from a higher authority to leave it all alone. But Danvers knows that a weather event couldn’t explain everything that happened, both at Tsalal and out on the ice. And by this point, she and Navarro are so invested in the two cases — and so superhumanly stubborn — that there’s no way they’re letting this go.
But the discovery that Silver Sky has been funding the Tsalal research in exchange for the scientists falsifying environmental impact studies — along with the revelation that Ennis has had nine stillbirths in the past three months as a result of the damage Silver Sky is doing — finally spurs Danvers to action. She agrees to go with Navarro out to the ice caves — the titular Night Country — with the help of Otis Heiss, who insists on a drug fix in order to do the job.
This leads to a brutal climax where an armed Hank comes to Danvers’ house, murders Otis, and is preparing to kill Danvers when Pete comes in at the right moment, his own gun drawn. We know things have long been bad between father and son. Earlier in the episode, Hank recalls the day when nine-year-old Pete fell through the ice while skating, and Hank had to save his life by smashing through the ice with an ax.
It’s an utterly harrowing, awful sequence of events. And while none of it solves the central questions of what happened to the scientists, and who murdered Annie K, it puts our heroes on a path they can no longer get off of until they find answers. While poor Pete has to bury his father’s body in the ice with help from Rose, Danvers and Navarro are heading straight into the Night Country, and into an appropriately nasty blizzard, whatever the hell comes after.
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