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In Ennis, Alaska, they certainly see dead people. In \u201cPart Three\u201d of True Detective: Night Country<\/em>, the plot thickens as we learn more about why things are slightly icy between Danvers (Jodie Foster<\/strong>) and Navarro (Kali Reis<\/strong>). Below, Still Watching<\/em> hosts Hillary Busis<\/strong>, Richard Lawson<\/strong>, and Chris Murphy<\/strong> try to piece together the many mysteries of Ennis, Alaska, from spiral symbols to reappearing oranges. Plus, they chat with Isabella LeBlanc<\/strong>, who shares how she brought Leah Danvers to life.<\/p>\n With Raymond Clark still officially at large, Hank Prior (John Hawkes<\/strong>) enlists a team of men whom Danvers less than affectionately calls his \u201chillbillies\u201d to find the scientist. Hank may have more information about the disappearance of Annie K then he’s letting on, as it’s revealed that he got a call about Raymond and Annie before her death but kept the information to himself. Murphy believes that Hank is \u201chiding something\u201d about Annie K’s death to protect the miners. “It’s becoming clear that it’s white people versus indigenous people in terms of the mine\u2014who wants it and who doesn’t. Obviously, Hank’s on the miner’s side,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n While Hank and his hillbillies are searching for the Tsalal scientists, Navarro is dealing with issues both professional and personal. She gets a call that her sister, Julia, is having another episode, and checks her into the town\u2019s mental hospital, The Lighthouse, against her will. \u00a0At the end of the episode, Navarro visits one of the surviving scientists, Lund, at the hospital, and he rises from his bed to deliver an ominous message. Could Navarro be the next person to succumb to her family’s hereditary mental illness? \u201dThis is a town where people see ghosts, maybe because they’re crazy from the darkness. But that moment, that is pure Exorcist<\/em>, Emily Rose<\/em> kind of thing,” says Lawson. \u201cIf Navarro is hallucinating that, she has worse problems than I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n While the episode ends on a pretty grim note, it\u2019s not all horror. The opening features a flashback of Annie K and a group of indigenous women helping a fellow native woman give birth, and is refreshing in its non-traumatic depiction of childbirth. \u201cAll of the birth scenes that we’ve seen on prestige TV in the past two years especially have been dramatic, and traumatic, and horrible, and scarring,\u201d says Busis\u2014prompting Murphy to name check Prime Video’s Dead Ringers,<\/em> FX’s Fleischman Is in Trouble,<\/em> and HBO’s House of the Dragons<\/em> as examples.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI was so thrilled to see a scene like that where it’s intense, but then the baby is fine and the woman is also fine,\u201d continues Busis. \u201cThere\u2019s been this overcorrection because for too long, we skated past the nasty parts of womanhood and the female body. So now we’re gonna lean way hard in the other direction. We’re gonna show how awful it is all the time.\u201d Night Country<\/em>, though, goes against that grain.<\/p>\n The birth scene is also important because it showcases Annie K’s importance to her community, making her loss all the more painful and Navarro’s urge to avenge her that much stronger. \u201cThis was a really great way to meet Annie K in her element,” says Lawson. \u201cWe’d heard about her as being this kind of antagonizer, a troublemaker. To have her doing this work behind literal closed doors that is so vital, I think, really establishes her as someone who was trying to do good in a place that seems very allergic to good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n