TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY Episode 3 Breakdown! 

The whistle? Hank? Liz & Peter.... Lots of shit is going down in Ennis. Hit me with your theories! My other TRUE DETECTIVE videos below: True Detective: Night Country Episode 1 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f2Md73DDLy8.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 2 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yKnbTpcwQ3Q.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 3 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u0vU8pOU1AI.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 4 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-efEAaRpG9gY.html True Detective: Night Country Episode 5 Breakdown: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lJM49r62UcY.html True Detective Season 4 Ending Explained: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YgNjecXl4sw.html True Detective Season 3 Ending Explained: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VQljeqzppjs.html

Always watch HBO mystery/drama shows with the closed captions on. You will get clues that you'll miss without them. The whistled tune was definitely "Twist And Shout"

Also, when Danvers touches Pete's bruise on his cheek, she says "it's funny, a league hockey champion falling on his face in the ice rink". This was right after she told him the story of the abused girl who went along with the lie (that she fell down the stairs) in order to protect her abuser. And Pete looks down ashamed. So he knows that she knows it was his dad.

I don't think Liz hates indigenous culture so much as she believes that identifying with it is potentially dangerous for Leah because of what happened to Annie and how ingrained Annie was with the indigenous community.

2:30 Hank is becoming darker and darker with each episode as we learn more about him. He seemed harmless in episode 1. Now I think he's a genuinely bad dude.

Hank is the diminutive/nickname of the name Henry. Liz may listen to white noise as a mind-focusing tool while reviewing evidence. The drawing Darwin made is based on his grandmother’s native fairy tales of an Inuit goddess whom in human life rode in a kayak with her parents. A storm suddenly came and the parents believed that she had caused it and they threw her overboard hoping to drown her as a witch or demon. The severed fingers in the drawing are from her parents chopping at her hands while she tried to climb back into the kayak. Legend states that her chopped up fingers became sea creatures and she became a sea goddess who could bring forth famine (the caribou bolting to their deaths before the hunter could bag one as food; the crab shortage; etc.). Perhaps this goddess of the sea & ice has been awakened.

The whistle is Twist and Shout. If you watch with subtitles on it states that outright.

White noise helps to focus, sleep better, and meditate. I think Liz uses it to concentrate while doing her detective work and analyzing evidence.

I really liked the atmosphere and vibes of the new season. Snow, night, big coats, cosy offices, small town etc. makes me feel peaceful and very happy.

The hallucinations and references to Ennis having ghosts may have something to do with the sunless winter. Some people go into pitch black environments for days to meditate and see visions. Apparently when you have less light stimulation, your inner eye makes visions, like dreaming at night. Idk.

She also covers up the fact one of them shot the abuser

There are 3 individual parts in the episode where the Beatles Twist and Shout can definitely be heard. If anyone finds anymore please let us know... - William Wheeler whistles the tune. - Danvers hears it after placing the turkey in the fridge. - Evangealine hears a woman sing it before seeing Holden out on the ice.

I think the “your mother says hello” and “she’s waiting for you” are two different statements. The “she” that is waiting is the one that they woke.up, not Navarro’s mother.

Just a couple of stray observations: Danvers, Massachusetts, is best known as the location of the Salem witch trials. Danvers is also home to Danvers State Hospital, an abandoned mental institution and locale for the movie Session 9.

RE: DANVER, making her daughter wash her face isn't her being prejudice, she doesn't want what happened to Annie to happen to her step daughter, she said as much in in the scene and the it even ends with the close up of Annie dead with the markings clearly visible. she's trying to protect her in her own way. she's

If you watch with captions on, the tune Wheeler is whistling is Twist and Shout. Also, Danvers hears a staticky version of Twist and Shout when she’s leaning into the fridge. Finally, lots of people intentionally listen to white noise to stay focused. It helps tune out distractions. (I have ADHD.)

How the HELL did you already make a video?! I literally just finished watching this episode! 😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Any thoughts on the use of the same color blue throughout the series? Hank is painting a room blue in his house, Darwin’s room is blue, Jules and Annie have blue hair, the blue ice cabin, the blue light from the fishing hole, the blue aquarium in Pete’s living room … 🤔 I think Pete’s wife is going to help with the scientists’ “postmortem”

I appreciated how it started slow in the beginning of this one, creeping ever so slightly, and then gifting us with that hospital room scene. The Art Direction of this stuns me; I feel like I am right there in the dark cold with them. (I mean to be fair I am surrounded by snow where I am but... still) I also GREATLY love the scenes with the Inupiat women as they mourn, pray and sing together. I feel for Leah and hope we find out what happened that Liz is so adamant that she stay clear of her own culture which she clearly needs and wants to be a part of.

The end of the episode with Annie continuously screaming, and the camera backing out of the corridor of the hospital with patients being lead reminded me more of a psychiatric ward than a regular hospital.

So, we're guessing Navarro or Danvers Reggie Ledouxed This Wheeler fellow? Also, in the scenes for next week, that creepy voice that says, " You're all...in the night country now." was eerily similar to Erol Childress telling Rust he was in Carcosa now.

Regarding the 'static' on earbuds, Danvers listens to white noise when she's trying to focus. See episode 1 when she looks at pictures in her house (she has a white noise device)

According to the HBO subtitles, he's whistling Twist & Shout. That also gives more explanation as to why Liz freaks out when she hears the song.

The fact that these Navarro and Danvers covered up a murder one of them committed is a call back to season 1 when Woody Harrelson’s character murdered that suspect who was already cuffed and they had to make it look like a shootout to cover it up.

SEASON 4 EXPLAINED: it ends up to be exactly as i thought... indigineous folklore symbolism and beliefs impacting on people's minds... that only happens due to interference from the mine/ mining... this is what lends it's supernatural themes ... which are founded and ultimately explained by chemistry and physics... as to HOW AND WHY the murders or deaths happen... The series opening scene gave it away... psychosis dellirium induced by a physics/ chemical reasons (e.g. magnetic field, drugs)... impacting one member of the group and then herd follows into the Abyss as the animals did. Well played.

4:35 I was watching the episode with captions on. The song that's whistled in this episode is Twist & Shout by The Beatles. It is also the noise Danvers hears in her fridge.

When Danvers is looking into the fridge at 10:26, Twist and Shout plays amidst the static.

The orange being thrown back reminded me of that scene from ET. They also made a ET reference in the truck scene between Eva and Danvers

According to the subtitles that whistled tune is Twist and Shout by the Beatles

When Danvers and Navarro go to question Oliver at the reservation the man that stops them and asks who they are looking for, looks like the hunter with the Caribou in the first scene of episode 1.

The little boy says, "Tell my mommy" and then you can't hear the rest. My guess is that Navarro is going to say something like, "I saw a vision of your son and he said...." and Danvers is going to say, "How could you know that?" It makes sense since Danvers is a skeptic but Navarro had this vision and whatever she learned must be valuable information. (Unless it's just, "Tell my mommy that I love her" or "Tell my mommy that it wasn't her fault," but I don't think that's the direction they're going in.)

Every season is about 2 opposite characters, who work together first, then have a severe breakup and then come together after many years to repair an unsolved mystery.

That ending was creepy af

I wonder if Annie was a midwife for Damvers at one point? She seemed very uncomfortable going to that stillborn baby’s wake and there seemed to be lots of tension. Not to mention that screaming from Annie at the end sounded exactly like the opening scene with Annie delivering the baby. Maybe Danvers is hiding something about Annie herself. Also Did anybody else notice something in the sky when Navarro was out on the ice? It looked like an image of something I couldn’t make it out but me and my girlfriend both noticed it at the same time

y'all ain't playing with how fast you get these up. There's already 3 other videos breaking down episode 3. love it.

Great video! Analyzing and deciphering the information given, and not getting worked up and bitter that it isn't all some different way you want or expect. You're a true detective

Beast u made it so quick with thorough breakdown

I can see Navarro maybe having head trauma but we saw him sit up during a pan that was out of her field of vision. She only saw him after what the audience saw. Im actually hoping for some magical payoff in the 4th season.

The three lines on her chin are the exact same as Anna-K's. I think Liz asks her to take it off because it is such a hard thing to look at.

Good breakdown and trailer sleuthing at the end!

Thank you for another great breakdown. This show has my brain scrambled! The comments are also quite interesting!

The whistle is twist and shout I think

Also that black thingy at the end of the episode that you said looks like a spiral, it looks like a spine to me with a bird skull at the end, in the opening for this season theres a shot of a male officer drowing in the water while the song lyrics "to kill a son" is basically perfect timed for it which makes me thing that hank will emd up killing peter same as what wheeler did to his girl

The guy is whistling “Twist and Shout”…i put on the subtitles! Great video!!

Thanks for these great breakdowns! I consider myself pretty observant but you pick up on so much

There's a theory about eye-glimmer in John Carpenter's "The Thing" in that individuals displaying it are replicas who have been taken over by the alien.

Great breakdown as always!!!

Awesome job!!

I had CC on during the show and the song wheeler was whistling was Twist and Shout.

The way that dude rose up. It was so creepy! LOVE this season!

I originally thought Liz was making her step daughter wipe off the markings cuz of the culture but I think it might have more so to do with the case file picture we see she's looking at after, in the photo the woman has the same marking, I think Danvers subconsciously connects the marking to bad things happen to said people

Great video. Thanks

The song is Twist and Shout by the Beatles, the song Liz and her husband used to dance to. You pick up a lot watching shows like this with closed captions on. Tells you a lot more.

~~~ I have to mention what a great job this show does integrating SETTING into the story. Season 1 did this with the hinterlands of Louisiana. Breaking Bad did this with the New Mexico desert. This show and FARGO are great at making you feel the desolation and cold. Iceland was the perfect choice for the filming of this series. Will we get a glimpse of the Northern Lights before its over? Certainly hope so. Its the North Country.

Great recap! Consider watching with the subtitles if you’re going to do videos like this. The subtitles clear up a few things like what the murder suicide guy is whistling (Twist and Shout) as well as other instances where that song appears quietly throughout the episode. I feel like there’s gonna be some significance to that song, considering it was playing on the TV at the Tsalal station in episode 1.

I love your videos my friend! And if I can add one more thing. The tune the abuser is whistling after he killed his girlfriend is “twist and shout” by the Beatles. Thats a call back to episode 1 when they first walked into the Tslal Station and Ferris Buellers Day Off was on repeat on the tv with the scene with Matthew Broderick lip syncing to the same song! Thats why Jodie Foster was so distressed when she heard the music playing when she first got to the station!

The dark circles or "Annie's eyes" that Clark drew, are on the wall in Wayne Hays' study in season 3 And on Frank's Ceiling in season 2 And on Marty shirt when they kill Reggie LeDoux in season 1

Holden also said to Navarro to tell His mommy Danvers something but it wasn’t revealed because they chose to distort it like a whisper

The whistle tune is twist and shout…thank you closed captions!

The tune is “twist and shout” from the Ferris bueller clip at tsalsal and the memory of Danvers with her son.

Like a lot of people, I am honestly unsure what is happening this season in terms of it being supernatural. On one hand it would venture really far off from the other seasons of the show by adding that element. Still, what is happening in the show especially with Navarro’s visions at the end makes me wonder since it is so far off from reality. I think they might tie in a spiritual element but I feel like there is still a main killer/cult involved

I had a different take on why Liz is so against Leigh's tattoo. Right after Liz makes her wash it off, Liz picks up a picture of Annie after she's dead and Annie had the exact same tattoo.

The tune is the opening riff to Twist and Shout.

The whistling is the song Twist and Shout, same tune was being played in the flashback with her child, and on the TV at Tsalal.

Maybe the oranges are a safer form of hydration. Not harvested in Alaska so the water in it is clean. Imported from California, Florida, Texas, or Arizona.

Hank is definitely in on the murder of Annie. He's in with the miners and is a rogue cop.

HBO subtitles said the whistling was “Twist and Shout” from the Beatles. It’s a throwback to the first episode

@ThinkStory, so I never write comments but thoroughly enjoying your True Detective recaps and theories. That said, I came across a documentary I watched yesterday and was blown away at the similarities to this season and highly recommend you watch it as there are significant ties to an incident in Russia (Dyatlov Pass incident) and in the US National Park… Vanished on Hulu from 2019. Would love to hear your thoughts and connections to this seasons True Detective! Keep up the great work and hope I was able to help

Rust explains to Marty about tracking deer, not llike sitting in a blind and have the deer sniff gash bait, but stalking it to 30 yards . This is exactly how Hays explains hunting to Roland.

😂 Hank is usually short for Henry I thought.. maybe not 😂

4:20 in the subtitles it's listed as Twist & Shout by the Beatles.

You work fast bro!!!! 7:11 is it just me or there blue dye on the inside of one of those skates he hands his son???? Go back and look🤔 approx 32 min left when watching in the app.

This season has been gritty af. Foster has been great.

The (CC) in the app confirms the whistle to be ♩Twist and Shout♪

Idk if this helps but I watch with subtitles and when he was whistling in that flash back the subtitle read “twist and shout by the Beatles”. Which is interesting bc that was the song stuck playing at the research facility in episode one and Liz managed to turn it off saying she isn’t a Beatles fan.

The Captions on the tv said the song he was whistling was ‘ Twist and shout’.

How the sweet buttery jesus do you have this video out so fast? You're a legend!

There's an orange peel in the water In the opening credits also💦

If you watch with subtitles on it said it was Twist and Shout. I wonder if it was a real flashback or a vision. Danvers could be having them too and could explain her.animosity towards their culture.

3:00 it is extremely expensive to get oranges up North and they're usually rotten by the time they get there. It's a very odd choice, so I def think there's a reason for it. plus the opening sequence.

Navaro may have the same mental illness as the rest of her female family members. The guy in the shack was the same hunter who saw the caribou jump off the cliff.

I wrote on the epi 2 breakdown post about how Inuit cultures believe polar bears are very intelligent or men that can transform and shed their bear skin and return home a human. Is Tagaq, the hunter-nomad, the polar bear? is Danvers’ son the polar bear because he holds one? (Is it a coincidence the police patch of a polar bear looks like a kid’s face with a damaged eye?) Is the Inuit woman with the eye patch the bear? Or is the bear just a spiritual guide/omen? When Rose says the symbol is very old I am reminded of Rust in season 1 said light versus dark is the oldest story. The spiritual aspect I suspect is Sedna (marine life dying, caribou eluding hunter, monster drawing etc)awakening and coming, for revenge, or “The Dark”, while the grounded answers are the mine. “She came for us in the dark” “I found it, its here” Annie says in her video. Were the indigenous people looking for an ancient artifact(Sedna related?) or a way to sabotage the mine? Annie was already excited about the Tsalal location. The fact she doesn’t mention what she found says she’s making the video for someone who already knows they’re looking for something. I think Navarro shot Wheeler like Marty shot the perp in season 1. Danvers is covering for her just like Rust. She thinks Navarro gets too passionate about the cases where women are abused, like her mom was, so that possibly explains why she doesn’t want her as a liability. (Danvers herself obviously crosses the letter of the law too). But it could also be that Navarro had a vision at the crime scene as well, which Danvers obviously doesn’t take too kindly to and makes fun of her for now. Doesn’t a trailer show the Wheeler victim getting up and pointing too? I have to watch again for more, or to flesh these out 😅

4:15 I had my captions on when watching last night. According to the captions he is whistling “Twist and Shout”.

The whistle that the William Wheeler was whistling was Twist and Shout according to my CC on my tv. 🤔 great review tho!! 👍🏻 👌🏻 ✅

The man was whistling twists and shout at least that’s what it said with the subtitles on

I took Liz telling Leah to wipe of the tattoo as a way to keep her safe. Annie was a protestor and had a similar tattoo and was murdered so I think Annie is just trying to keep Leah safe.

What a great quote 3:19. Totally agreed!

The song he whistles is Twist and Shout. This is the third time it's popped up in the show so far.

danvers and navarro finally have some screen chemistry 😹 this was sorely lacking in ep 1 & 2. they should have had a flashback in ep 1 about their previous partnership either in the annie or the wheeler case. this dynamic would have made ep 1 have a better reception especially from the og fans. even the interaction between them including young prior is hilarious and interesting to watch unfold. though i still can't tell exactly what direction this show is going for. the supernatural elements aren't presented as mere hallucinations or the result of grief as even navarro saw danver's dead son. but then again otoh, danvers is being used to tell the audience that there is a rational explanation to everything happening and it's not "magic" 😹

This season of True Detective has been absolutely ridiculous; the only saving Grace has been Jody Foster but even her best efforts can’t save the horrible writing.

The whistle and the the sound playing when she's in the refrigerator is the song Twist and Shout by the Beatles

The thing she notices is twist and shout playing, closed captions brotha, twist and shout plays a bunch of times in the episode in the background

I cant wait till they talk to Oliver again, I bet hes going to drop a juicy secret.

Oranges are an ancient symbol of death. Godfather 1 & 2, Sopranos, American Beauty, Children of Men, and so on and so forth.

I'm SURE someone has posted this already, but he's whistling "Twist and Shout". Nice thing about watching shows with the captions on! :)

I'm from Brazil and I watched it with English subtitles and when the guy whistled it showed like the Beatles' song, twist and shout.

I’m not even watching the show, I just watch your recaps

As much as I am impressed with those who have great recall of the first season (easily the best season thus far & I really liked it), I just really like this season, It’s darn good.

I'm loving this season so far! There's so much to take in and think about, and instead of being an overwhelming chore it's a fascinating thought exercise. My only complaint so far is, why is this season only getting 6 episodes when the first 3 seasons got 8? 😠

Close caption said Beatles Twist and Shout… same as from Ferris Buller in the 1st episode and the flashback with Liz’s son