Five years after True Detective's critically acclaimed third season, the HBO crime anthology series returns with another dark mystery, this time set in the darkest night. "True Detective: Country of Darkness" tells the story of detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Carly Reiss) investigating the Alaskan town of Ennis. Strange deaths of researchers.
Showrunner Issa López told Vanity Fair that "True Detective: Country of Darkness" was inspired by several real-life unexplained mysteries - the 1952 Dia The Troff Pass Incident and the 1872 disappearance of the Mary Celeste crew. But don't expect these stories to help you figure out the ending, because they're not resolved yet.
Lopez said the show will "lay everything out on the table" so viewers can piece together the answers. That's exactly what fans are doing - some gathering on Reddit with specific theories about who the killer might be.
Is Navarro the murderer?
Reddit user u/4rustybrain believes Navarro is behind the crimes she is investigating, operating under an ego called Sedna.
Sedna is an Inuit ocean goddess who can control sea animals—as a Reddit user pointed out, Navarro's first conversation in the first episode was about the local crab population.
Sedna is mentioned in the first episode, when Peter Pryor's son shows him a painting of a woman with her fingers chopped off. According to legend, Sedna's fingers were chopped off by her father - and Lopez seemed to admit on Instagram that, yes, the painting represents the mythical figure. Navarro himself met a woman with a missing finger, which the fan suggested could be "a sign of Navarro's true identity."
The Reddit user added that other characters have questioned who Navarro is on multiple occasions, which may also lead viewers to question her. According to this theory, the detective may have killed the researcher to avenge Anne's murder, which remains unsolved to this day.
Return of the first season
True Detective has teased killers with pictures before (remember the "Spaghetti Monster" from Season 1?), so it's not hard to imagine the show going a similar route in the Land of Darkness .
According to Vanity Fair, Lopez wants the episode to be the first season of "Black Mirror." But this time, she's making sure all the clues can be found on screen. It sounds like some of them may be hiding in plain sight. The person or character who committed the crime is "right in front of you throughout the series," Lopez said.
This would certainly have something to do with Navarro's involvement in the massacre.
