TRUE DETECTIVE Season 4 Episode 6 Ending Explained 

Thanks for tuning into the weekly breakdowns of True Detective Season 4 and the throwback breakdowns of Season 1. 😊 It means a lot. The finale was definitely a mixed bag, but there were some real good moments amongst it. I'm really interested to see what you all thought of the finale. Let me know your thoughts below! 🤓

The next true detective should be about HBO Max's crimes against this beloved series.

Pete Prior was the true detective and my favorite character

It was actually Reggie Ledoux who told Rust time is a flat circle and Rust used it while he was being interrogated.

Is it me or did what happened to Annie not match the video of her supposed last moments whatsoever?

Big LOL when the ladies stormed the lab

We were the victims.

If the Coast Guard could find Julia THAT quickly,Navarro would have been found. I think Navarro pulled a "Rose " and moved away from Ennis,like Rose moved away from her job after finding it pointless.

The only one doing actual detective work was Peter. Without his convenient all seeing internet skills that the CIA would envy this story would have stalled in the first episode.

Was looking forward to the end off this and i got hit with a pie in the face for a finale. Why do I try and watch new things 😢

Death is not the end of it. Death is the gateway to the higher dimension. Theme of parts of S1 and S4

Navarro goes through a strange episode on the ice and her ears bleed - but instead of dying like the other characters she somehow comes back and saves Liz from drowning - and her hearing is just fine....

Why wouldn’t Hank just move Annie’s body out into the sea? Body full of clues vs a disappearance? Seems like an easy choice.

Yes, thank you. Made no sense that Navarro would kill herself by walking out onto the ice. It just didn't feel complete. Her being alive and exploring herself makes more sense. Although Navarro with Liz at the end, I'm not sure if it's liz remembering Navarros spirit or what? It's definitely meant for us to think up Navarros destiny. In my ending, Navarro is alive....

This season finale turn out to be pretty bad & overall the whole season is even more disappointing than season 2 imo. For anyone that looking a far better story with similar setting & themes, I really recommend movie "Wind River" instead & maybe Fargo TV series season 1. The only thing that I missed from my predictions is Raymond Clark being the typical bad guy mad scientist, instead of a disturbed traumatized men who was taking revenge on his own colleagues. Honestly it make no sense for Raymond Clark to even go into hiding from everyone when he didn't even kill the scientists. If anything, he could go to witness protection or maybe being privately secured by Kate (Silver Sky Mining) so they can bury all of their illegal mining stuffs & closing the case permanently on who killed scientists. Everyone suddenly are so dumb somehow, especially in a blizzard. None of that mass psychosis from water poisoning too, just actual supernatural shenanigans. I still don't get how the native ladies came to a conclusion that ALL of the scientists killed Annie K. It was at best purely conjecture from their POVs, just like how they blamed the mine people before it. Annie K found footage also very different with what being shown to us in flashback scenes. She was being grabbed immediately before even destroyed research stuffs. I would argue this lame season is a lame ripoffs of "Wind River" & a bit of "Fargo" too but losing all of its meaningful thematic storytelling IRL problems, especially when it's not grounded & gone supernatural haywire. I would argue it may possibly insulting to the natives too. It's practically a comical storytelling of another female empowerment where all woman are victims (but "strong") while all men are bad or deserve to get shieate on. As expected, the season 1 supposed connections are meaningless baits to attract fandom. I am not even talking about many plot holes & inconsistency of characters behaviors.

Beatrice wasn't referring to Annie K taking the scientists. She was referring to something else much bigger

Well done again!!

They had to have written multiple endings. What happened to the polar bear? I thought the men died before they went out on the ice, why would they look so scared if they just froze to death? Why would they bite themselves? Why would someone write, “we are all dead” on the whiteboard? We have no idea about Navarro‘s mom, why Julia, fold her clothes before walking out onto the ice, even though she was not forced to. So incredibly terrible I have no words. Except those.

I was underwhelmed. It felt too rushed.

I enjoyed season 4 despite some shortcomings. I loved it much more than season 2 or 3 m. Jodie Foster still can act on another level

Imagine were told by the cast and crew that oranges were just cheaper than apples as a random fruit 😂

Loved it all 💙

The coincidences were ridiculous like the crew was like ok do this right on this spot or else the whole show makes no damn sense 😂

I’ve enjoyed these videos, thank you! I agree with pretty much everything you said about the finale. I loved this series up until the last episode, which I felt was a huge letdown with too many unanswered questions. After reading an interview with Issa Lopez, I don’t think she had all the answers either. Half of the mysteries were just random red herrings, and when pressed by the interviewer for more information, she was basically like, “it’s up for interpretation!” Pretty weak.

Evangeline Navarro definitely committed suicide. She had suicidal ideation many times and was constantly saying how people were calling her out there. She walked out onto the ice in a kind of trance at least two times. Once with Rose, another time with Danvers. In the finale, she tells Liz about "no longer being afraid of who was on the other side of the hatch." She's making a reference to what Raymond Clark literally did, but really, it is metaphor for her always trying to survive by clinging so tight to a metaphorical hatch, that serves to shut people out and keep her in isolation. In the finale, Navarro finally feels the calm and bravery it would take for her to simply let go and walk out into the oblivion. Knowing her Indigenous name also gives her the resolution to walk out of the darkness which was her life, towards a place of light and freedom, fully knowing who she is and fully realizing it. She quite literally does what her indigenous name means. The fact that there were sightings of her afterwards is simply because it's a common phenomenon in Ennis, that people see ghosts.

Peter Prior carried the show

Ahh, nice point that Liz and Leah were on holiday. Makes me feel like they went to go visit Navarro. Would suck if she was dead, didn’t believe it but the elusiveness did seem to point to that to me.

Navarro isn't dead. She is either a part of the night country because the ancient history of the ice caves or she is off the grid like the guy the engineer they interviewed who later disappeared again without a trace. She's in on a journey of self-discovery. Denver can not see the dead however she sees representations of the dead. Which, means that Navarro is alive. Also, Navarro’s clothing is colder after the weather changes to spring which may imply she's in the night country because the permafrost does not melt.

The acting was great! Love Jodie in this role & Kali did great. I refused to get bogged down w/comparisons to the first season. The ending wasn’t perfect, it didn’t have to be, it was entertaining & that is all I hoped for. This viewer is happy.

Everyone saying it was rust to say “time is a flat circle” but its was reggie Ledoux talking to rust who first mentions time in a circle

A horrific boss covering for a coworker that commit murder. A police officer kills his father who is also a murderer and police. An old lady who clearly is an expert in dumping corpses. A gang of women who takes the law in their own hands and murder eight scientists. The one thing that makes TD S4 really stand out is the complete abscence of any kind of moral compass, e.i. : kill anyone you like - the law will look away. You gotta love this show!! 😂🤔

When you are constantly rewriting the script in your head while watching, then something is not working.

If by a way of a miracle, we get a season 5 for the love of God, PLEASE do the following: - Dial it back on the supernatural - Bring it back to 8 episodes - Either truly connect to another season or dont. I'd rather they have no connection to any other season, if it means we just get a great story and solid writing. Dont shoehorn it - the numerous plot holes have to go

I think the simpler nitpick is why the hatch in the floor? They could have made it a regular hatch. Who would know anything was wrong about it, it's a research station. If this was about securing it against espionage, a hidden hatch feels both too much and not enough.

6.8? How about 4.3, at best.

What made season 1 and 3 so good was how they developed and REDEEMED Woody Harrison and Stephen Dorff characters from younger version to older (redeemed) version. And it takes 8 EPISODES (not six) to accomplish that.

I would watch season 2 without taking any breaks before I watch that trash again.

I liked it even though there wasn't a perfect ending to the story. I enjoyed it every week and think they gave both a physical killer and a spiritual killer in the end.

Have really enjoyed your reviews this season. Thanks.

I still can’t believe all the haters in all channels getting all worked up about the so-called woke messages…and find it hilarious that they all were hooked and stuck it out until the very end. Mission accomplished. I don’t remember season 1 wrapping every detail in a nice little bow either and some of the mysteries around carcosa (sp?) and yellow king made it all more interesting. This season answered a lot of questions scientifically and intentionally left a lot of super natural ones to our own interpretation… I like films and art that do that. I thoroughly enjoyed this season and all your videos. Thank you.

The ending was powerful for me but for a reason you didn’t mention. There is an ongoing mystery of large numbers Indigenous American women disappearing and being murdered, it’s barely talked about outside of native or women’s rights circles that this Native woman was avenged by other mostly Native women was a cathartic moment for me, I cried.

hmm i dont know how i feel.. seems as if everyone absolutely hated it. but i think i enjoyed it for the most part. some of the dialogue at the the end was insufferable though. 5/10

This finale was absolute dog shit. What a waste of all these episodes just leading to this. Every one murdering and getting away. Wow

The real question is will we get a season 5? And if so will we get better detectives that are more likeable

It was not Annie who is she, it’s Sedna

I think it’s really hurt this show (review wise) with everyone always comparing this show to season 1. And that’s partially the fault of the writers and director on the show by constantly putting in little details that relate in some ways to the villains of that season. But if you just watch this show without feeling like you need to compare it to past seasons, instead of just watching this season and enjoying it for what it is, then you’re inevitably going to compare the two seasons against each other. Which really isn’t fair when as a reviewer, you should be focusing mainly on this season and the things that happens in it. It was a good season, it could’ve used one or two more episodes maybe to explain some of the things that never did get fully explored. I think that is what hurts this season. Not the fact that it doesn’t totally link back to the first season. That really isn’t an important part of the season even. Just a few references coming from the first season were ever mentioned even. Yet most people that watched this season feel like the attachment of Tuttle Industries think that is the main mystery of the season. It’s not though, it wasn’t supposed to be. The spiral drawing and that stuff was just a misdirection mainly. And it clearly worked because most people thought there was going to be something that came out of this that might’ve answered some questions from the first season that never got explained. But if people just watched this season and judged it based on itself and not how it compares or relates to season one then you’re not going to enjoy this season as much as you could have. This season really was pretty good and did have some nice moments that were unexpected and developed the characters and the story in general. It had suspense and mystery and all the detective stuff. Along with a spiritual side that made you question whether this was something mythological. That was cool. I just think of you take it for what it’s supposed to be, a stand alone show, it’s more enjoyable than if you just keep comparing it to season one. You do a disservice to both season by doing that. I enjoyed this review so please don’t think I am being condescending or anything like that. And obviously everyone’s allowed to watch the show and judge it based on whatever they want to. I’m definitely not cutting down this video or how you saw this show. I’m only trying to give another perspective on it and how I feel it should be looked at. My words mean nothing obviously, I’m just making a suggestion on how I feel the show should be scrutinized. Thanks for your review and for the way you saw things! I enjoyed your video and how you saw this episode and season in general. 👍👍

Detective cleaning lady and Evil scientist and Lynch mob of women...this was a stretch all the way around. I could have been so much more...wasted potential of good actors

I really liked this season. I’m not overly attached to the connections to the first season so none of that mattered to me. People who haven’t been to Alaska and don’t understand just how removed from society it is might not think it’s plausible to ignore laws the way Danvers and Navarro do, but it’s more like they’re maintaining balance or order than following the law stringently. To me the season dealt the in tension between feminine and masculine energies. Dealing with birth/death, nature and a priori knowledge instead of a posteriori: intuition vs materialism.

Brilliant! TD reviews, agree 100% - like you, I'm dissapointed with the spiral symbol outcome. Was excited when Navaro & Denver looked up to the spiral in the mine, but alas - no cult links to S1.

When was Clarke's video recorded? Because his jersey had no blood on it and it seems he wasn't under any coercion. So then maybe he made the video himself?

Wife got so mad at me when I said those women were dumb. Could have just used a Tsala truck to stay warm. The very truck they used at the end of the episode to go to the girls house 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

Well that was... disappointing. Who else was hoping for a Cthulu monster sucking people into the darkness and made them delete themselves. I mean what was up with the Deers at the beginning? Bait and switch 😒

Life is random, I totally believed the bucket spill. Surprised it didn’t happen “earlier.” But that’s how life unfolds and that’s one thing I did believe. They def left some gaping holes but that’s what you get with 6 eps. Thanks for the breakdowns!

thanks for a great season of recaps! You hit the nail right on the head about one big flaw - this season really needed to be the full eight episodes - that would have allowed much more exposition about the numerous hanging threads. You also make a couple other great points - if there is going to be a tie-in to Season One then make it clear and make that a valuable part of the series - just throwing in the Tuttle name and the spiral and then NOT expanding on them is a huge flaw.And by just casually adding that to S4 you can't avoid making comparisons to S1 - when, as you point out, it's senseless to do that since they are two entirely different shows. The other issue you brought up: yeah, if it's a show about solving a crime then THAT should be the main focus of the series - way too many tangents in this season, especially with the all the personal relationships - again, if the show was eight episodes then those aspects could have been covered in more detail. It was kinda like, oops, we only have one episode left so we better cram in as much as we can and hope for the best. I have to admit I thought it was a good season - an 8/10 from me and maybe tied with S3. I wish you might have said more about Rose - definitely more going on with her than we were shown. Also, I am a big adherent to the 'Chekhov's Gun' way of fingering the culprit and I have to admit that back in Ep1 when we were shown the missing fingers I knew immediately who the killer was going to be (although getting to the 'how' took until the last episode - I thought she would somehow lure them into the 'crab freezer'). Thanks again for all the great insight!

So the spiral meant nothing? We were edged this entire season

Tongue theory. Annie was exposed to the microorganism when she smashed up the lab, so after she was killed they had to get rid of her body. But they kept the tongue to observe. Not sure how it got on the floor, but there was obviously a lot of confusion after the scientists were overtaken by the women. As for the residue, I think it was the formation of a new tongue, repairing the skin cells left behind.

Great video. Very balanced review. :) The show had a lot of issues, but it was worth watching just to see and experience the setting. I think the setting was my favorite character :). I also really liked Jodi Foster's unlikeable character who you end up caring about a lot. Acting was really great too. Directing as well. But the script and writing and character development needed to be better. The show needed to be longer.

I thought it was really good. I acknowledge the little issues you had with it but they were minor. It’s a TV show and there are always things that happen to drive the plot that may not be realistic or are too convenient or coincidental. I can forgive those things if overall it kept me interested and caring what happens. I thought Jodi Foster was phenomenal. The setting in the darkness and cold was so good, almost like a character unto itself. I didn’t try to compare it to season one. It was a good show all on its own.

I’m so pissed off. Season 2 and 3 were 100x better than this. What a cheap POS the writer was for trying to feed off season 1s greatness.

Also-also-also, now we know where Damian came from. It's a bit between the lines but remember Pete said to Kayla "You never wanted a baby." Not "you never wanted to HAVE a baby." I'm just glad it wasn't Pete that killed Annie. I was afraid that because Hank was looking at Liz when he said he didn't do it, it meant Pete already knew Hank didn't do it.

Oranges is the reference to the Godfather movie: after each orange appearance someone is dying. In True Detective we see the same

So the veterinarian that they get to do the unofficial autopsy says that they didn't die from being frozen because of the pained faces they have and that dying frozen is peaceful... but they did die from being frozen since the ladies forced them out on the ice?? So why are they looking pained and scared? I don't get it...

They shouldn't have attached it to season 1, thats the only reason it had something going for it. If they don't want it compared, don't use the name true Detective

What I got from this video is that you understood the ending even less than I did lol.

Yep - pretty bad when you wrap up a whole miniseries in the last 20 minutes and lose half of the subject matter that has been discussed throughout the series. Why did the hallucinations of Annie K's ghost affect Navarro's sister? Rose's hallucinations of her husband? Tuttle Enterprises is the parent company of the mine and Tsalal. The regenerative DNA experiment that just vanished during the finale. The spiral tattoo that looked like the frozen beast in the ice not to mention the Season 1 appearances. Oranges appearing out of nowhere. The supernatural voices calling to everyone especially Navarro.The mine shutdown because of the leaked video from the scientist admitting to the mine's paying for the illegal pollution generation? No ramifications for the owner of the mine were discussed? The untold story of how the Sheriff's boy died? What's with the polar bear vision other than it was the kids toy? THE FLAT TIME CIRCLE the same quote by the killer in the season 1 said to Rust. The scientist tripping in and out of our dimension and proclaiming, "She is awake". What a horribly written show and one for the all-time list of worst series on TV. The only way to save this shit show was to have Rust get a call from his stepmom, Rose, and tell him about what was going on and have him appear in town to solve it in the last 20 minutes.

So why did they have burned out corneas then?

Here's the ending explained 'It was terrible'..... the ending, middle and beginning.

It was like watching the finale of Lost.

Love the interview. It gave me closure. If May 12 (the interview date) is taking place in 2024, it’s actually Mother’s Day. Interesting. Also! This season was focused on the women to be the hero of the story and men as the “victims”. It’s just a story…..

Everything has an explanation, just like Liz said in one of the conversations with Eve. Navarro was told her native name as a child, supressed memories because of the traumas and just remembered it in the vision. The tongue was not explained, but Clarke wasn't a reliable witness, and even the cleaners, for that matter.

Liz gets to discount Clarks ghost by finding fingerprints, but ends up with her own.

These women are serial killers

I think this whole series was about the development of a shaman (Navarro). Developed by people, spirits and the circumstances of life. The ending was about Navarro realizing she was a traditional Inuit shaman who was required to go out on the ice for her vision quest. A shaman must have deep roots to their ancestors and traditions to have the sustenance to become a true shaman.

HBO will cancel the show after this one.

So the world could have been saved if Annie didn't ruin the research

How did Clark’s shirt get so clean on the confession video?

WE'VE BEEN RANGOOED

I think Pete is a kind of young Rusty, he will be good detective in few years.

Overall very underwhelming ending due to the following reasons: 1. Annie, the midwife, with no formal scientific education, figuring out the top scientistic project details based on some documents. 2. She destroys years of research as if those scientific and valuable documents are not electronically saved on hard drive, cloud or some other digital format !!!! 3. She gets murdered by a group of top world class scientists with PHDs in their fields like they are professional killers. 4. A cleaning lady spills water exactly by the underground hatch opening and gets her other cleaning ladies involved and somehow they put the whole murder case together like professional detectives. 5. The cleaning ladies outsmart the scientists, and this expensive lab that’s owned by powerful and ultra wealthy Tuttle family, does not have one armed security guard! 6. The entire world and millions of cancer patients did not get to use this incredible medical breakthrough drug because of some small town in middle of nowhere wanted to have clean water. Move those hundred people to a new town maybe? 7. The overall story arch was very man hating. All the heroes were women and all the evil doers were men. A feminist extravaganza! 8. What was the deal with the polar bear? Was there a spirit involved? The show did not explain half the weird stuff. This was very much like the show “Lost” where the creators did not explain anything and left us fuming at the end.

Has anyone called out the Ursa Major constellation (Big Dipper) made from pool balls that was on the pool table? It's one more bear reference that is still struggle to see it's relevance to the story.

I think the show left too many unanswered questions. Y did the chain with the cross pendant keep popping up and if it belonged to Navarro's mom then y did Liz pull it out of her hair?? The video on Annie's phone didn't match up with what happened. Plus the lights cutting out was a turning point in the case. Which led to the technician dude that was living in the camp outside of town. And y was he so freaked out after hearing about the death of the scientists especially since he wasn't there when they killed Annie?? Is the spiral a warning for thin ice or a cult symbol or what?? Why after finally learning her name did Navarro just walk out and kill herself after all she went through? And whats with all the ghosts?...there was someone standing behind Navarro when she tried to turn on the generator? Overall i think the show was good enough without the tie ins to season 1 especially to the fact that none of it paid off

What no, Danvers didn’t kill Wheeler.

The scientist died prior to the ice remember guy at rink said fright

I'm a softy. I just wanted to see Navarro and Qavvik together at the end ❤️

I think there is more of a symbolic sign for the oranges I also heard this could about Dante's Inferno

Side note: Imagine being told the cure for cancer was found but a girl destroyed it all because it was polluting a small town in Alaska. Have the government temporarily move the people out of the town so we can cure cancer. 🤷‍♂

When Navarro was riding Qavvik,she held his hands down,put her hand over his mouth...when you look at how Annie fought back when Clark was on top of her,when she awoke from being stabbed,he held her hands down and covered her face...saw that the second time and it was chilling. I wondered why we had to see Navarro on Qaavik like that. And Clark never told Navarro about his overpowering and snuffing out Annie...

Well well well where are all my "not supernatural" people at?

Evangeline was wearing a darker jacket in the final scene darker than the one she wore when she walked out to the ice 😮

Never explained the tongue. Clark's video left for Danvers had him clean without any blood on his face. They never explained the spiral fossilized creature in the caves. The scientists wouldn't have froze in the terrified position.

This ending explanation was waaaaay better than Screen Crush!

I enjoyed this season very much.

I defended this season from the start against haters … but what a flop. They didn’t earn a “grounded” explanation.

I liked the acting of this season, just not the writing. I really wanted to like the writing but just wasn't convinced.

it was decent but I was upset about the undercutting of the spiral symbol from season 1 and a few things were rushed, needed more episodes

The wife fell back in love with him because it reminded her of when she originally fell in love with him. Falling to let a grieving opposing player feel better by scoring the winning goal. She knew whatever he was doing had sacrificial but yet good intentions

I understand your issues with the conveniency of the events of the finale but I didn't take any issue with them. In fact, it might be one of the best parts because we've spent so much time theorizing what was actually going on and things were getting borderline complicated. The resolutions were a great way to tie things together and subvert all the theories at the same time.

Someone on reddit said that Wheeler was whislting Twist and Shout. I'm too lazy to go back and check but it would make sense.

Reminds me of the Annie mae case. I think she stumbled across the montauk project. They took her daughter you know.

13:12 You don't 'get it' cause you are not an Indian Woman. Remember, too that Siqinnaatchiaq's own mother peeled her orange the way she did "all in a continuous stream" as Danver's tried in the end and it left that symbol on the plate. The oranges were symbolic in their own spiritual connections with their mother. Importantly, they LEFT the symbol in the same way as they LEFT the tongue ~ on purpose to connect the deaths to Annie K. in the hopes that Siginnaatchiag (or anybody) 'would make' the connection. It was "a message'. The spiral itself is a magical symbol that has been used for thousands of years by different cultures around the world and maybe too it actually has a specific meaning for the Inupiat tribe.