While the streets of Ennis are decked with holiday lights, Chief Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and her crew are hard at work on this particular Christmas Eve as they look into the deaths of the Tsalal researchers and the unsolved murder of Annie K (Nivi Pedersen) in True Detective season 4 episode 4. While Peter (Finn Bennett) discovers another fascinating piece of information, the video from Annie’s phone provides some insight into where she died.
Family problems also exist elsewhere, where Evangeline Navarro’s (Kali Reis) sister Jules (Aka Niviâna) battles mental illness, Leah (Isabella Star LeBlanc) stands up to her stepmother, and Hank (John Hawkes) is confronted with a disheartening reality.
True Detective Season 4 Episode 4 Recap
Danvers chooses to watch the terrifying Annie K video again since she can’t sleep. Peter eventually calls to let us know that Captain Connelly (Christopher Eccleston) has shown up to supervise the return of the researchers’ remains to Anchorage. Danvers rushes over to the skating rink.
Danvers notices Jules is anxious and just partially dressed when they are driving. Danvers chooses to go to the station rather than the ice rink, which helps to somewhat relax her. When Navarro arrives to pick up her sister, she ensures that Danvers is aware that they need to talk about the case extensively. Jules consents to visit the social service facility Lighthouse. Navarro assures her that it differs from the other accommodations she has been in.
The guys died before they froze, and Danvers, at the station, is determined that Connelly not take the case from her. He says he is going to stay in the city to help her with the protests against the mining and the inquiry. Peter finds a single hit after cross-referencing the researchers’ injuries with historical hospital records.
Due to bite wounds that he had self-inflicted, eardrum ruptures, and corneal burns, Otis Heiss (Klaus Tange) was admitted in 1998. He has been in and out of treatment facilities and run-ins with the law for the past twenty-plus years. Admiring Peter’s efforts, Danvers provides him with a to-do list that will once again take up time away from his family—this time on Christmas Eve, no less.
Hank, Peter’s father, has gone to the airport to wait for his fiancée, Irina, but she never arrives, so family life is not any better for him. Hank appears to have been duped. In the meantime, to assist in locating the Annie K video, Danvers and Navarro pay a visit to Bryce, the geology teacher (Donnie Keshawarz).
The prehistoric-looking bones in the background, according to Bryce, point to nearby ice caves that are off-limits to the public due to their hazard. Otis Heiss was the one who mapped the cave system! Finding the location of Annie’s murder is just one piece of the puzzle.
Jules tries to make herself at home in the Lighthouse, but she is pursued by spirits and cannot get away. When she bends down to look at it, an orange that has rolled out from beneath the bed reveals a scary figure wearing a cross.
